Urban Farming is growing edible walls in downtown Los Angeles!  So rad!

BeEnergeticThenHibernate

I read an article by him in The Economist about three years ago and it changed my thinking.  He is amazing AND the keynote speaker at the Sarasota International Design Summit this year.  Alissa Walker will be there too.  We’ll have more updates soon.

This series is pretty wonderful, I am a huge fan of Oliver Munday.

Urban Farming is growing edible walls in downtown Los Angeles!  So rad!

BeEnergeticThenHibernate

I read an article by him in The Economist about three years ago and it changed my thinking.  He is amazing AND the keynote speaker at the Sarasota International Design Summit this year.  Alissa Walker will be there too.  We’ll have more updates soon.

This series is pretty wonderful, I am a huge fan of Oliver Munday.

nope, i’m johnny cash and aretha franklin

Thanks for covering this Morgan.  This is very personal for me as my mom lives and works in Galveston.  Ike was intense, as you can see in picture 7 there literally were tigers roaming the island.  The photo above does represent a portion of Galveston — the portion primarily owned by wealthy Texans who could afford to rebuild their part-time vacation homes within a year.  In truth, something close to 30% of the population has not been able to return because they have nowhere to live.  I was there exactly one year after the storm (just a few weeks ago) and there are still trucks stranded on piers, demolished buildings, trash piles outside of homes, places of worship closing, water marks spray painted on vacant stores and a drastically impacted University.I would love to see what could come out of us adopting a National Coastal Preservation plan taking lessons from the Dutch.

They just screened it in LA on Sunday.  Next up Crude.

I found the question concerning the bite in the apple to be the most interesting.  I had the supposition that it was representative of Eve taking a bite.  

My mother recently traveled to Argentina where, as part of an occupational therapy program, she and a group of students finished a multiple year project for a rural, community sustained health clinic.  While there, a number of women came into the clinic with back and neck pain.  In order to develop a better understanding of the cause of these ailments, they “shadowed” the women throughout their day.  This  qualitative study resulted in small changes that could help reduce chronic pain.  An example of a solution found through observation was raising the rocks upon which the women washed their clothes, thus reducing the degree the women had to bend and stress to their back and neck.  Interestingly and understandably, the women were less likely to listen or believe a small group of foreign academic practitioners.  What was discovered (and similar to what many marketers in the States call the “nagging factor”) was that educating teenagers who in turn would advise their parents ended up being the best course for preventative care.

In my experience, reflection has been a key component to innovation. Often the perceived pace of innovation rushes the evaluation process.  Pausing to assess what has been done, what has successfully been measured and the relationships between dependent and independent variables opens opportunity for experimentation. Selecting a shared set of priorities is central as well.  I stumbled across a six-step process from the Association of Community Health Improvement that places evaluation at the center of its tactics and speaks to this well:1.    Establish the assessment infrastructure2.    Defining the purpose and scope3.    Collecting and analyzing data4.    Selecting priorities5.    Documenting and communicating results6.    Planning for action and monitoring