Exercise and longevity: Worth all the sweat Just why exercise is so good for people is, at last, being understood Jan 21st 2012 | from the print edition ONE sure giveaway...
Exercise and longevity: Worth all the sweat | The EconomistOld Oakland, a historic district in downtown Oakland, California, has long struggled in its quest for vibrancy. It’s not that the neighborhood is in an inconvenient location; it’s close to the Oakland...
Popuphood: How To Revitalize A Struggling Neighborhood In Six Months | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovationThe new George Sim Community Center was built to serve the Glen Elder and Avondale neighborhoods of southeast Sacramento. The design/build team of Brown Construction and Field Paoli won a competition...
A Community Renews its Spirit | George Sim Community Centervia npr.org
One Man's Quest To Capture America's Endangered Zoo Animals (With A Camera) : The Picture Show : NPR
Hiroshi Senju Museum / Ryue Nishizawa | ArchDaily
Bryden House / BVN Architecture + Daniel R. Fox Architects | ArchDaily
“Lebanon Island”; All images: Reuters/Jumana El-Heloueh It would be superfluous to go on about the conceptual and social vacuity of “The World” in Dubai. That much has become the standard, even knee...
Architizer Blog » The Creation of “The World” CommencesAs an architect, I find this completely amazing. Before the Olympics we showed the Ark Hotel erected in six days, but it had nothing on this 170,000 square foot, 30 story hotel that was turnkeyed in...
30 Story Hotel Completely Built and Finished in Fifteen Days, on New Years Eve (Amazing Video) : TreeHuggerInstant Guide The 4 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2011 From neutrinos to new planets, a look at some of the year's most important...
The 4 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2011 - The Weekvia ted.com amazing account of knowledge and skills dissemination through illiterate communities.
Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movementEarly this week, I heard through some e-mail traffic that 10 climate, behavioral and environmental scientists and scholars were meeting with the Dalai Lama to discuss “ecology, ethics and interdependence”...
On Climate, Ethics, Cow Burps and the Dalai Lamavia bbcearth.posterous.com
Amazing animal-inspired inventions! - BBCEarth's Life IsWhat a difference a decade makes. In 2001, when I worked with the Creative Visions Foundation to produce PBS GlobalTribe, the first T.V. series of its kind that showcased people we now refer to as...
Charles Tsai: 'I'm Inspired: Now What?' -- A Beginner's Guide to Social ChangeDear All, Last week I decided to dedicate my weekend to volunteering in building mud houses in a Bedouin village in the Negev desert in Israel. The weekend was organized by an NGO that works in...
a few things I learned about social design - TED FellowsRio de Janeiro – Airport Bicycle Shuttle from Copenhagenize on Vimeo. When Copehagenize founder Mikael Colville-Andersen recently visited Brazil, he had a couple of friends in Rio pick him up from...
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