Slow Bit #14 – A Livable and Lovable SimCity
http://thisbigcity.net/infographic-what-makes-a-liveable-city/ ^For those of you who know me, you’ll know that I absolutely love bright, colourful, compelling infographics! They are great vehicles for...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Liberal Party of Canada
Hey everyone, here are some rough thoughts cobbled together in the form of a letter. Please help me to make it better. ————— Hi Senator Mitchell, Thank you for your emails throughout the election...
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs, Unite for Sight 2011
Aloha, Back in April, I had the great opportunity to attend and present at a really inspiring conference, called the Unite for Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference. Over the next little...
View ArticleSonia Sachs, Millennium Villages Project update, Unite for Sight 2011
Hi. This is a continuation of my last post on the Unite for Sight conference, where I posted up the keynote address by Jeffrey Sachs. Today is the keynote address by Sonia Sachs, Director of Health,...
View ArticleSo, you want to be a social entrepreneur?
Hello, This will be my final post about the Unite for Sight Conference. Today I will present to you some video I took at a panel discussion on ‘Careers in Social Entrepreneurship.’ This panel discusses...
View ArticleA Digraph of Recent Digital Life
^I wanted to map out exactly how each digital tool, network and platform, that I employ and participate in, relates to each other. A bold directed edge illustrates a functionality of one application...
View ArticleCCIS & V-Wing, Old & New
CCIS & V-Wing, new & old, a set on Flickr. I somehow found myself in one of the new lecture halls in CCIS this morning (CCIS is the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science at the...
View ArticleUrgent: East Africa Food Crisis
Severe drought has pushed more than 11 million people in East Africa into a struggle for survival. Conditions are deteriorating rapidly, forcing many families to abandon their homes for refugee camps,...
View ArticleEarth Institute cities and climate change report
http://earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2813 The report, led by researchers at Columbia University and the City University of New York (CUNY), is the most comprehensive study to date detailing the...
View ArticleA Thinning Line
Hi folks, Last week I submitted 3 photos to the UofA International photo contest (a photo contest run by my home university that will appear in some publications if selected). The photos are supposed...
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