Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Explorative Distractions 2 of 3

BusinessWeek.com’s Innovation section has some really great articles. I suggest these few from the past month.

IDEA: Design Award Winners, 2008
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0717_idea_winners/index.htm

Special Report Oct.20.08
Voices of Innovation 2008: This year's Voices of Innovation nominees challenge the status quo and represent the true optimistic spirit of innovation”
by Helen Walters,
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2008/id20081020_393399.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_top+stories

Book Review Oct.8.08
Can America Close the ‘Innovation Gap’?” by Matt Vella
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2008/id2008108_987380.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_top+stories

Book Excerpt Sept.8.08 issue
The Numerati” by Stephen Baker
“By building mathematical models of its own employees, IBM aims to improve productivity and automate management.”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_36/b4098032904806.htm

Friday, October 24, 2008

Explorative Distractions 1 of 3

Utne Reader's Nov/Dec issue "50 Visionaries" was extremely interesting. I would like to point out my favorites but I highly suggest getting the issue or checking out their blog, www.utne.com.

Utne Reader is a Minneapolis based digest "of independent ideas and alternative culture. Not right, not left, but forward thinking."


Forward Thinking and Visionary
Ashoka, www.ashoka.org
Applied Research Center, www.arc.org
Nikos Salingaros, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Salingaros
Richard A. Muller, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Muller
Future of Humanity Institute, www.fhi.ox.ac.uk

Science and Sustainability
PowerUp Canada, www.powerupcanada.ca
Green for All (green-collar jobs), www.greenforall.org
Focus the Nation, www.focusthenation.org
Billy Parish (British Columbia), http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/
WattzOn:personalizing energy consumption, www.wattzon.com
Paul Stamets, mushrooms can clean our world?, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets

Community Innitiatives
Sustainable South Bronx, www.ssbx.org
People's Grocery, www.peoplesgrocery.org
Black Mesa Water Coalition, www.blackmesawatercoalition.org
Neighborhoods Partnership Network
U.S. Alliance for Childhood, www.allianceforchildhood.net

Alternative Media
Free Press, www.freepress.net
Center for Independent Media, http://newjournalist.org
Prison Legal News, www.prisonlegalnews.org
The Minnesota Independent, http://minnesotaindependent.com
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, book and website, www.crimesofwar.org/thebook/book.html
Disposable People, book, http://dannyreviews.com/h/Disposable_People.html

Participate!
Allied Media Conference, Detroit 2009, www.alliedmediaconference.org
Instructables "the world's largest show and tell", www.instructables.com
HowToons, www.howtoons.com
Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org