50 Things We Can Recycle from A to Z!
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
50 Unusual Things We can Recycle from A-Z
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Institute For The Future
- IFTF is hiring - check our Jobs page for details
- Rod Falcon discusses the future of health care and genetic testing in the New Scientist article, "Career into the future"
- The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion map is covered in the Fast Company article "The Battle for Control of Smart Cities"
- Jake Dunagan is quoted in the Mercury News article "Wikileaks cyberbattles signal rise of new powers"
- Click here to read IFTF's Winter Newsletter, which covers upcoming projects and recently released research
- Marina Gorbis is interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio for the podcast "Best and Worst Jobs"
- Jonathan Weber writes about our latest project in the New York Times article "The Future of California, Ready for Discussion"
- BoingBoing covers the release of our map, California Dreaming: Imagining New Futures for the State
- David Pescovitz was interviewed by Technooccult.
- Mike Liebhold writes "Digital Immersion: Augmenting Places with Stories and Information" for Nieman Reports.
- Jake Dunagan and Mike Liebhold are mentioned in the New York Times article "Apple's Biggest News: An Open Standard for Video Calls"
- Jane McGonigal is interviewed by Wired.com in "TED 2010: Reality Is Broken, Game Designers Must Fix It"
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I want a job here.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Auditorium
This is killer online and an app on the Iphone
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David Nichtern: The Ripple Effect of Common Courtesy
From the Buddhist point of view, there is always a relationship between cause and effect; this notion is expressed in various teachings about karma. As we interact with the world, we plant various seeds that will ripen and grow either right away, soon enough or some time in the future.
If we look at nature, small seeds can have big results; for example, the tiny acorn, given the right causes and conditions, can produce the mighty oak tree. In a similar way, in the world of human interaction, small seeds can sometimes come together to produce large-scale results.
This is why, if we want to create a good world for ourselves and others, attention to detail can sometimes trump having a huge vision. In that attention to detail, if we can lean toward courtesy and consideration for others, there is no doubt that we will begin to generate a more positive overall outcome.
If we manifest grasping, aggression and ignorance in the smallest details of our interaction with others, these energies gather power and strength like an avalanche. If we lace our smallest exchanges with awareness, courtesy, consideration and compassion, we can create a ripple effect with a different outcome.
Sometimes this kind of consideration and attention to detail while relating to others is called common courtesy. Respect and concern for the people around us, as well as using good common sense, are the hallmarks of common courtesy.
Each day in our lives is made up of tiny and discrete moments. Every relationship is made of specific and particular interactions. The whole point of developing mindfulness (as in Buddhist training) is to actually begin to pay attention to those discrete moments and interactions so that they don't all just blur together. I believe that mindfulness laced with consideration for others executed at the smallest scale can actually change the world. Usually we tell people to think bigger, but in this case maybe thinking smaller could be very powerful.
Practicing mindfulness and consideration for others often translates to expressing common courtesy and good manners. We might be surprised to find that everything we want to build up from there -- like compassion, decorum, elegance, well-being, peace, harmony --- has these small gestures as its basis.
That's my thought for the day. What's yours?
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What If The Gulf Oil Spill Never Happened?
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Healthy Food for Kids | Nutritional Facts | Kid's Games
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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Green Tunnel on Vimeo
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Who wans to hike the Appalachian Trail? Come on...everyone can spare 5 minutes!
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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Raquel Welch title sequence for Fathom (1967) - Boing Boing
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Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Annual Reduction in U.S. Electricity
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Sugar Consumption
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High-Fructose Corn Syrup Consumption
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. --Chinese Proverb #quote {@HonestTea}
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Monday, April 11, 2011
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"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." ~Eckhart Tolle {@tinybuddha}
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
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"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." ~Eckhart Tolle {@tinybuddha}
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Monday, April 4, 2011
U.S. Obesity Epidemic Now Requiring Fatter Crash Test Dummies - Food - GOOD
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The Internet Wishlist
"I wish there was a website where non-profits could ask for what they need and people could work for them from home."
– @ths1104
Apps wishlist...very nice
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Musician Mashes Up Vids To Create Gorgeous, New Song
Some people play guitar. Some play the keys. Others, well, they play the YouTube. Today’s YouTube Video of the Day is “My Favorite Color,” a song created from a series of videos of amateur musicians rocking out to different jams.
If the quality of this video seems familiar, it’s because it was created by Israel-based producer Ophir Kutiel, a.k.a. Kutiman, who came out with another experiment in musical mashups back in 2009 titled ThruYou.
That project racked up millions of YouTube views and made it onto Time‘s “50 Best Inventions of 2009″ list.
Kutiman’s newest jam is much more jazzy than ThruYou, which was much more funk-oriented, but it’s no less impressive.
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very cool song especially the background music
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