Only drawback I can see is the need for a form to make the box. Otherwise.... CEWL!
posted by Gale Wallis (bareboards2) 1 decade 12 months ago • 854 views • 2:50Ideas for a better world
Updated: 4 years 11 months ago
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It's up to us to rise to the task.
Here are some videos with novel ideas to improve the world we live in.
And a few of the problems that need to be addressed.
Themes (so far) include education, design, society, technology and sustainability.
"The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment." In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon... continue reading
posted by radx 1 decade 1 year ago • 1,037 views • 29:22Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire by Howard Zinn Narrated by Viggo Mortensen Art by Mike Konopacki Video editing by Eric Wold To read more from Howard... continue reading
posted by siftbot 1 decade 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 12,783 views(youtube) To ride the Moscow subway for free, do 30 squats. As part of a Russian campaign to make citizens healthier, riders who buy a ticket at Vystavochnaya station in western Moscow have the option... continue reading
posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 918 views • 2:06(youtube) Malala Yousafzai giving an emotional answer about how she would treat a member of the Taliban if he came to her house. Taken from The Daily Show dated 2013.10.08.
posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 2,062 views • 1:58Wow that's relleay a good thing!!
posted by bjornenlinda 1 decade 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 1,094 views • 2:47Burning Man -- once a small, alternative gathering in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada -- has evolved into America's largest arts festival. Thuy Vu reports on how San Francisco's arts and technology communities... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 867 views • 6:13TED talk on a new approach to removing plastics from our oceans.
posted by kevingrr 1 decade 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,262 views • 11:22Fracking - What it is, how it is done, and its possible problems.
posted by kevingrr 1 decade 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 780 views • 5:04Now women have to learn how to pee standing up.
posted by Gale Wallis (bareboards2) 1 decade 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 556 views • 2:14Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 522 views • 10:47(youtube) Light pollution can be a hazard to our health. Just about every organism on the planet lives its life according to the rhythms of daytime and darkness. Excessive light can cause several human... continue reading
posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago • 318 views • 1:38Allan Savory argued that while livestock may be part of the problem, they can also be an important part of the solution. He has demonstrated time and again in Africa, Australia and North and South America... continue reading
posted by servus 1 decade 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 663 views • 58:30Allan Savory has a likely controversial idea on how to help reverse desertification and climate change by reversing the conventional idea of removing livestock and bringing herding livestock back.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago • 323 views • 22:20"For the past two years, photographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the world, documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images -- miners in the Congo,... continue reading
posted by Hybrid 1 decade 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 960 views • 19:22Recently Grist's Dave Roberts gave a TED talk of his own, essentially discussing that if we don't do something to seriously reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next 5-10 years, we're screwed. "You... continue reading
posted by Peroxide 1 decade 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 4,689 views • 17:44Tim Jahnigen had a vision for a soccer ball that would eliminate the need for the hand-sewn leather balls typically donated by relief agencies. But he needed some help to make it a reality.
posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 1 year 10 months ago • 1,714 views • 3:03Teacher Pete Kaser decided to remove all the brand name toys in his class and replace them with raw materials like cardboard and styrofoam.
posted by messenger 1 decade 2 years 4 weeks ago • 7,596 views • 1:32