I first wrote this for Care2 Causes but wanted to share it here as well. I remember years ago hearing Wayne Roberts give a talk on his efforts to green Toronto’s roofs. He approached the city and corporations in a way that worked: He talked money. A green roof can actually cut a building’s...
He’s in my cohort, but Don Tapscott has a mind that floats freely, not tethered by age, time or space. He looks at the generation that has Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World and likes what he sees. While some worry about the impact of technology, Tapscott sees its...
The saga continues, and I figure I’m pretty lucky. By the time United gives up on our flights and sends about 375 of us off to hotels, we are pretty much going to bed in the time zone we hope eventually to reach. Last night it was 3:30 a.m. before I hit the bed,...
We know intuitively that kindness makes the world brighter. Now science is confirming what we know in our hearts. University of Maryland Assistant Professor Kurt Gray asks a lot of interesting questions as head of the Mind Perception and Morality Lab. In his talk for TED, Gray starts with the story of Bruce Anderson....
Frithjof Petscheleit told me to check out Glenda Watson Hyatt’s Web site, and I’m glad he did. This smart, gutsy woman will give anyone worrying about having the right stuff a kick in the patoot. With her oxygen supply cut off at birth, Hyatt started her life with an extra mountain to climb: cerebral...
When I was living in the States, I was a fan of National Public Radio. In Rochester, New York, radio woke me with a half hour of bird song from around the world. It was so much gentler than a raucous alarm. Later, during my years in Seattle, Washington, radio kept me informed and...
I never dreamed that at 65 I would be so excited about technology. But I just acquired an iPad and feel as if a whole new world is opening. It’s too new for me to know where this gift is going to take me, but I have a keen sense of anticipation. Roger McNamee...
I hear it so often among my cohort (and, OK, we’re old): Kids are turning into tech-addicted mush brains. I don’t believe it. Those well past childhoods and adolescences will always worry about whatever the young are up to, whatever technological advances they’re embracing. I remember being skeptical about computers when they downsized and...
Franke James introduced me to LoudSauce. I’d never heard of these terrific folks until they gave her a great idea for responding to the Harper Government. Turns out the Prime Minister has thin skin. In one of her visual essays, Franke took him to task for Canada’s abysmal environmental record. He was not...
Listening to the stories, seeing the faces and hands of the 117 people who shared them, I was struck by a sense of creative limitlessness. Jonathan Harris is an artist and a storyteller. His medium is the Internet, and he uses it in ways that are fresh. He wakes me up. Check out We...
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