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Oil Spill Emergency Response System
Check out the A Channel video clip of the work CloverPoint and Coastal and Oceans Resources Inc. are doing on the US Government's ShoreZone project. It's a nice piece and relevant to what's happening in the Gulf right now.
Don’t Build It. Print Your House. Celebrate Earth Day
Image by Joe Shlabotnik via Flickr I have on occasion wondered why we're still building houses out of wood. And on this Earth Day I'm still wondering. We should be at the beach building sandcastle homes. No, for real. Given the poor environmental conditions we find ourselves in these days one wonders why legislation doesn't outlaw wood [...]
We Have to Save the Whales AGAIN
So this isn't about technology, it is about the slaughter of our friends in the sea. Help them. Within days, a proposal will be unveiled that could legalize commercial whale hunting for the first time in 24 years. Once the proposal becomes public, member countries of the International Whaling Commission will make a decision to support [...]
Malcolm Gladwell and Social Media and F5 Expo
I recently went to the F5-Expo in Vancouver as a lifeasahuman reporter. And as this is a venue for supposed new technologies that will transform business, I thought it might be worthwhile to point to my post at lifeasahuman. In my ongoing personal quest as a photographer and a student of inner space, I’m always on the outlook for the next big [...]
LifeAsAHuman Valentine’s Day Special
Image via Wikipedia Hey all you lovers check out www.lifeasahuman.com for their Valentines day special. Very sweet. You might also check out Al Cram's article about his experiences in Afghanistan unloading his helicopter off a Russian transport plane. If the crazy is not for you, you might want to move further East and check out fantasy [...]
Compassion Charter
Image by h de c via Flickr In a world where the richest 2% in the world possess over half of all "household wealth", where the climate is rapidly changing to our detriment, where war is still ravaging and killing thousands, where the weapons industry is more profitable than food and the world's religious fundamentalists would like to [...]
Computer-Guided Nanoparticle Therapy Destroys Tumors
Here's a very interesting article on how nano technology is fighting disease and the hope for the very near future for cancer cures. This is amazing stuff and if we could only take this type of thinking into the social realm and deal with the causes of homelessness, mental illness, drug addiction, depression and crime... we'd be rocking. All in [...]
Infinite Power
So here's a story I just have to share. Nokia has invented a phone system that can recharge cell batteries through pulling random radio waves "out of the air", i.e, all that ambient radio frequency stuff bombarding us has some use after all... check out the story by Christopher Null... Pardon the cliche, but it's one of the holiest of Holy [...]
Data Standards for Nonprofit Reporting?
Below is a post I wrote in 2006. I was hoping by now, things might have changed, but I haven't seen a lot of movement in this field. With the global economy still in a free fall, more and more people are turning to social services for help. The Obama administration recognizes this sector probably more that the previous administration and that's [...]
