December 2011
29 posts
“To make the sorts of choices that might actually yield our next and truly...”
– Douglas Rushkoff
“Transition Towns (also known as Transition network or Transition Movement) is a...”
– Transition Towns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Permaculturists maintain that, where vastly differing systems meet, there is an...”
– Permaculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“How would your neighborhood be transformed if the connectivity in your community...”
– the connective
“The proposed Golden Gate placemaking project has two phases. The first is a...”
– Neighbors working to create a sense of place in the Golden Gate District – Oakland North
“What if we sped up local decision-making? What if we made public opinion...”
– Neighborland at PechaKucha
Service Design Repository →
Playcate or Recess? →
joeyjoseph:
I’m opening a new cafe in San Francisco, it’s called Playcate or Recess, it’s an indoor playground system scaled for adults, with knock-your-socks-off organic artisanal versions from your classic school lunch days. There’s an open plan coworking space with the best rates in the city. Wednesday and Saturday nights are local handmade flea markets. Thursdays and Fridays, the kitchen is...
“How might an organisation based around the economic power of unpaid interns...”
– DSG (via banquethall)
isomorphismes:
02:30 If you look carefully at...
“We want volunteering that is sustainable, so that at the end of six months it...”
– Meals on Wheels San Francisco
“Cyclos is a project of the Dutch non profit organization STRO.
Cyclos offers a...”
– Cyclos Project
“Occupy demonstrates that to transform society we must change not only the way we...”
– Shareable: A Home for Occupy
“Offering any kind of investment opportunity is an activity that is highly...”
– Shareable: Crowdfunding and the Law
In Oakland, Awaken Cafe is trying to raise awareness about this very issue, meanwhile still raising money through donations that come with perks over at IndieGogo.
“The passage of benefit corporation legislation is an important and much needed...”
– Shareable: Benefit Corporations To Occupy Wall Street
“What this means is that social learning may have set up a situation in humans...”
– Infinite Stupidity | Conversation | Edge
1000 Words: The Critical Dichotomies of Design -... →
“The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what...”
– New Left Review - David Harvey: The Right to the City
“So what does this mean? This means that open innovation just went nuclear. For...”
– AU 2011: TechShop’s Mark Hatch: Access to the Industrial Revolution for 100 Bucks a Month - Core77
“Looking for needs presupposes that there are things worth fixing, that the world...”
– palojono: Celebratory design, bug-listing and needfinding
“No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25 year olds.”
– Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky (via bb)
“Server farms generate so much heat that they have to run air conditioning year...”
– Heat your home with data - Boing Boing
[an idea proposed by researchers form microsoft and uva. seems like this could work in buildings that house small businesses, too.]