Austerity vs. Public Transportation
Barcelona’s Bicing bike sharing program is one of the world’s most successful and famous programs. Started in 2007, it uses a membership system that allows anyone with Barcelona residency, for a small...
View ArticleVesting students as co-owners of schools – Miiu.org
In many public schools, learning has been paralyzed by a combination of poor teaching, peer pressures that undercut academic success, and outright disruption of classrooms. More than half of the...
View ArticleWhat’s real social enterprise?
Snippets: “We have to shift to a new paradigm. This means shifting focus from the relatively small number of social enterprises that happen to fit an official definition, or can be used to forward a...
View ArticleResponsible Business – The Change We Seek
In October 2010, Global Contribution Corporation became one of the first Benefit Corporations in the world. A year later, California, one of 6 with 7 states forthcoming, passed AB-361, allowing for...
View ArticleMusic’s Effects on the Mind Remain Mysterious
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=musics-effects-on-the-min Wynne Parry – LiveScience 18 Dec 2012 www.scientificamerican.com Creativity Music Neuroscience Music elicits “a splash” of...
View ArticleForget New York City, This City is Where All the Artists Are Moving To
Lisbon, Portugal: The city investing in art in the middle of a financial crisis. . . . This creative renaissance, it turns out, is not spontaneous, but rather the product of opportunistic public...
View ArticleWhen Truth Emerges – Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom
As civilization decomposes new questions arise. Might the collaborative wisdom of communities help us answer “what’s next?” Amplify’d from co-intelligence.org Can communities be wise? Interestingly, a...
View ArticleTogether – The Future of Online Socializing
Pew Research suggests that the majority consider Internet a positive force in their lives. Amplify’d 02 Jul 2010 pewresearch.org social networks, and other online tools offer “low friction”...
View ArticleCreativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
This is review of Clay Shirky’s new book by the above title, according to Shirky; ““Creating the most value from a tool involves not master plans or great leaps forward but constant trial and error....
View ArticleScience of Prayer – Proximity Could be Key to Success of Healing Prayer
When the faithful gather and lend their healing hands to one another then science gets a little less “scientific”. What do you think of using prayer? Are you a believer? Amplify’d from www.newswise.com...
View ArticlePamojaConnect – Connecting the web, SMS, twitter, Googla Map for Villagers in...
Amplify’d from digitalafrica.blogspot.com PamojaConnect (Pamoja means together in Kiswahili) is a new project intending to connect the web and SMS: It connects on the web and through mobile-sms...
View ArticleToil and trouble – Another bubble? Some tech start-ups look over-valued...
Amplify’d from www.economist.com For the first time since 2000, internet and technology entrepreneurs can raise seed capital with little more than a half-formed idea and a dozen PowerPoint slides....
View ArticleA Network of Networks
Craig Newmark has just started “CraigConnects” to support nonprofits and public service organizations that get stuff done on a sustainable basis Amplify’d from www.bethkanter.org [14Mar11] [youtube...
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