Sustaining Attention

Top 20 I just learned that the p2173/JustMeans cross-post, “The Customer is always Right” was picked up as a top 20 blog post. ———– Here is my most recent post, “Sustaining Attention,” from All Things Reconsidered, the JustMeans blog (Save yourself a click or two):Sustaining attention I was at a meeting earlier this week with [...]

Design sustainability in

This post on IF: BOOK discusses the possibility for designing the future of the book with deliberate attention to sustainability. Its not enough to be networked, but to be sustainable. Here is another example of how sustainability is moving into the design of many things – from the Green Skeptic on designing greener gadgets. This [...]

Green and black

I’m on my way to a discussion with Majora Carter, creator of Sustainable South Bronx and the woman who taught my seven year old how to take action against environmental racism. Here’s a clip of Carter speaking at the New School: I also just found this essay by Marcellus Andrews, an economist, on being Black [...]

Wiser Earth

Paul Hawken and the Natural Capital Institute are setting out to apply good old fashioned crowd-sourced and open-sourced technologies to bring together what he calls the largest movement ever on earth – the sustainability movement. This will happen through WiserEarth. The lead technologist on the project (Oz Basarir) will be speaking in San Francisco on [...]

Media, Flickr, JPG (or new, newer, newest)

A new online magazine takes the photo sharing of Flickr one step farther. 8020 Publishing has launched JPG, a hybrid online photo magazine that seeks photos from anyone, anywhere. Halsey Minor, founder of C/NET is behind the venture. So what for philanthropy?The principle at work here is “user-generated content” or “crowd sourcing.” Its a step [...]

Sustainability as reality TV

The BBC ran an 8 part series called “No Waste Like Home,” which focused on unsustainable practices in regular homes. Along those lines, I’ve often wondered how many of these disposable coffee cups get thrown away each day. I didn’t find the answer to that question, but E Magazine (Nov/Dec 05) reports that a daily [...]