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Whenever I see people thinking outside of the box, I just have to share it… How many music videos have you seen in which the artist is walking mournfully through a windy computer-generated landscape? With the band, “Ok, Go” you will never yawn through another music video again. I offer this to you in the hope [...] Walking the Cerro Alegre, a hill named for its gardens in Valparaiso, Chile, I encountered some impressive graffiti. Of course, graffiti has the potential to be an ugly, destructive act, but this graffiti was art. I was delighted by the creativity and talent that I saw in these works. Some [...] On May 1st, the doors to the World Expo 2010 opened in Shanghai, China. The Expo is intended to facilitate the exchange of ideas and innovations related to the world economy, culture, science and technology. It is a valuable chance for exhibitors to share their accomplishments and to improve international relations between countries. [...]
Food production, once banished to our rural countryside, has re-entered the urban landscape in the form of community gardens that have popped up in vacant lots, parks, and even rooftops. This trend of growing your own food is part of a larger movement to localize food production – an alternative to [...] In today’s era of technologically based environmentalism it’s refreshing to find someone who is looking more closely at those things that we love and that have inspired our environmental inclination– like trees. In her new book, Lives of Trees: An Uncommon History, Diane Wells explores how intertwined we are with these amazing organisms. [...] |
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