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Thirty-seven Picture Shows from around the World
Earlier this year, we started running new collections of photos from prominent and up-and-coming photographers who are exploring the world in interesting ways. We call them Picture Shows, and each Wednesday we feature a new artist’s work. So far we’ve run 37 of these Picture Shows, which have offered visual explorations on a range of topics: the closing of a GM plant in Ohio, the contents of strangers’ refrigerators, and the way of life in…
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Win some funding to help make a positive change in your community!
Do you have a great idea on how to make a positive change in your community? Enter it in the Aviva Community Fund competition and encourage others to vote for it! Aviva is providing a total of $500,000 to fund ideas that will make a positive impact in Canadian communities. A great idea could allow you to make your community a better place!
Your idea is something you think is important. It can be to help…
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The GOOD 100: Cowpooling
Share Your Meat with All Your Friends
Because buying in bulk is always better
by Tamar Adler
Adler is the director of the Bay Area Meat CSA and Meatshare.org, which help hungry people buy wholesale meat directly from local farmers.
Optimizing a whole animal’s value by buying all of its cuts isn’t new—a half century ago, it was commonplace to buy a whole cow or pig from a neighbor and work your way through the meat over a course…
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Vervestock : No Strings Attached Stock Footage
As an independent or an experimental filmmaker you are always frustrated when you need some footage for the film but you have to pay lots of $$$ to acquire that. Creative commons is great but the licenses are quite restrictive in nature and doesn’t give you complete comntrol; . Wish there was one website you can you easily download videos and use it as per your wish. No strings attached. Vervestock is one such effort…
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Collab
Applications for Membership in Collab are now being accepted.
Collab has been created to provide space, technology and manufacturing equipment for Artists, Architects, Painters, Filmmakers, Fashion Designers, Neuroscientists, Writers, Thinkers, Robotic Engineers, Graphic Designers, Environmental Earth Scientists, Musicians, Photographers, and others from a diversity of interdisciplinary pursuits, to work on their ideas while collectively developing socially and environmentally conscious prototypes and solutions for this new era.
Collab is a combination think tank and fabrication laboratory, providing members…
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Toy Dash 2009
It was nearing the end of Ramadan, I had planned a few events called “The Ramalympics” to get people together , and have some good clean fun, you know, paintball, go karting, bowling etc etc…The whole point of these gatherings, was to get good people together, and have them know one another. My plan was to do this once a week throughout the month and end it with something really “GOOD”. As the last week…
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How we celebrate our community, Memphis Music.
Memphis Music at SXSW 2009
Memphis Music had a huge presence at the 2009 SXSW Festival in Austin, TX. The Memphis Music Foundation sponsored two showcases, featuring Two Way Radio, Jump Back Jake, Hill Country Revue, Jack-O and the Tennessee Tearjerkers, River City Tanlines, Free Sol, Al Kapone, Lucero, and the Bar-Kays. Intro by 8Ball.
We sent our guy Brad to Austin on the Memphis Music Foundation sponsored bus and he brought back some great footage that…
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Save the humanity: Making green living relevant in the ‘hood
Those who know me well, know I care more about being people-friendly and quite a bit less about being eco-friendly.
I’ve often participated in debates around why industrialized societies devote so much time and energy to “greening” the world, rather than exhausting the same amount of energy to “peopling” the world.
My overarching question is always, “With so many acts of war, genocide, femicide, rape and other atrocities that occur daily against humankind, why are environmentalist so…
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Vote to Support a Social Enterprise Startup!
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Do you know what your computer is doing when you’re not using it?
Your computer can be working for good when you aren’t using it! Whether you’re on the phone or have stepped away from your desk or you just have a whole lot more computer than you’ll ever use, World Community Grid would love to use the extra processing power for good.
World Community Grid’s mission is to create the world’s largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Public and non-profit organizations are able to use the grid…
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Thirty-seven Picture Shows from around the World
Earlier this year, we started running new collections of photos from prominent and up-and-coming photographers who are exploring the world in interesting ways. We call them Picture Shows, and each Wednesday we feature a new artist’s work. So far we’ve run 37 of these Picture Shows, which have offered visual explorations on a range of topics: the closing of a GM plant in Ohio, the contents of strangers’ refrigerators, and the way of life in…
Read & Discuss
Win some funding to help make a positive change in your community!
Do you have a great idea on how to make a positive change in your community? Enter it in the Aviva Community Fund competition and encourage others to vote for it! Aviva is providing a total of $500,000 to fund ideas that will make a positive impact in Canadian communities. A great idea could allow you to make your community a better place!
Your idea is something you think is important. It can be to help…
Read & Discuss
Vervestock : No Strings Attached Stock Footage
As an independent or an experimental filmmaker you are always frustrated when you need some footage for the film but you have to pay lots of $$$ to acquire that. Creative commons is great but the licenses are quite restrictive in nature and doesn’t give you complete comntrol; . Wish there was one website you can you easily download videos and use it as per your wish. No strings attached. Vervestock is one such effort…
Read & Discuss
Collab
Applications for Membership in Collab are now being accepted.
Collab has been created to provide space, technology and manufacturing equipment for Artists, Architects, Painters, Filmmakers, Fashion Designers, Neuroscientists, Writers, Thinkers, Robotic Engineers, Graphic Designers, Environmental Earth Scientists, Musicians, Photographers, and others from a diversity of interdisciplinary pursuits, to work on their ideas while collectively developing socially and environmentally conscious prototypes and solutions for this new era.
Collab is a combination think tank and fabrication laboratory, providing members…
Read & Discuss
Toy Dash 2009
It was nearing the end of Ramadan, I had planned a few events called “The Ramalympics” to get people together , and have some good clean fun, you know, paintball, go karting, bowling etc etc…The whole point of these gatherings, was to get good people together, and have them know one another. My plan was to do this once a week throughout the month and end it with something really “GOOD”. As the last week…
Read & Discuss
How we celebrate our community, Memphis Music.
Memphis Music at SXSW 2009
Memphis Music had a huge presence at the 2009 SXSW Festival in Austin, TX. The Memphis Music Foundation sponsored two showcases, featuring Two Way Radio, Jump Back Jake, Hill Country Revue, Jack-O and the Tennessee Tearjerkers, River City Tanlines, Free Sol, Al Kapone, Lucero, and the Bar-Kays. Intro by 8Ball.
We sent our guy Brad to Austin on the Memphis Music Foundation sponsored bus and he brought back some great footage that…
Read & Discuss
Save the humanity: Making green living relevant in the ‘hood
Those who know me well, know I care more about being people-friendly and quite a bit less about being eco-friendly.
I’ve often participated in debates around why industrialized societies devote so much time and energy to “greening” the world, rather than exhausting the same amount of energy to “peopling” the world.
My overarching question is always, “With so many acts of war, genocide, femicide, rape and other atrocities that occur daily against humankind, why are environmentalist so…
Read & Discuss
Vote to Support a Social Enterprise Startup!
Read & Discuss
Do you know what your computer is doing when you’re not using it?
Your computer can be working for good when you aren’t using it! Whether you’re on the phone or have stepped away from your desk or you just have a whole lot more computer than you’ll ever use, World Community Grid would love to use the extra processing power for good.
World Community Grid’s mission is to create the world’s largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Public and non-profit organizations are able to use the grid…
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The GOOD 100: Cowpooling
Share Your Meat with All Your Friends
Because buying in bulk is always better
by Tamar Adler
Adler is the director of the Bay Area Meat CSA and Meatshare.org, which help hungry people buy wholesale meat directly from local farmers.
Optimizing a whole animal’s value by buying all of its cuts isn’t new—a half century ago, it was commonplace to buy a whole cow or pig from a neighbor and work your way through the meat over a course…
Read & Discuss
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