Last week I saw the new Warner Brothers movie Dolphin Tale with my kids. Warner Brothers describes the movie as a “heartwarming, fun adventure about the healing bonds of family, both human and animal.” What I saw was a great … Continue reading
What would our world be like if every time we read a news article or watched a news video that really touched our hearts and compelled us to do something, we could link directly to a meaningful opportunity to take … Continue reading
The European Broadcast Union held its annual Eurovision TV Summit in May 2011 at the gorgeous KKL Luzern Culture and Convention Centre in Lucerne, Switzerland. (Photos don’t do it justice!) I was delighted to participate in this year’s program as … Continue reading
I recently watched the video of the Independent Project and caught some of the commentary like this and this from the NYT . I don’t know the back story of the project, but I have to say it made me … Continue reading
It is always gratifying to see ideas put into action and to witness experiments unfold and produce unexpected results. The folks who produced Amplified Leicester just spent the past year in a community-based prototyping project that provided the city of … Continue reading
The release of the PNAS study, “Cognitive control in media multitaskers”, sparked the latest round of debate about whether we are losing ground in a landscape of distractions or entering into a renaissance of attention. The study by Stanford researchers … Continue reading
All the discussions about health care reform have reminded me of a workshop I did with high schools students last summer as part of a youth forecasting project with the KnoweldgeWorks Foundation. I developed a curriculum for teens about key … Continue reading
“What sense does it make to try to reform urban schools while the communities around them stagnate or collapse?” Mark Warren, Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University, asks this fundamental question that is largely unaddressed in the current debates … Continue reading
Daniel Goleman spoke at the beautiful new David Brower Center in Berkeley on August 13th (as part of a seminar hosted by the Center for EcoLiteracy) about his new book Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We … Continue reading
I attended the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City in late June and returned home excited about how social media and web 2.0 tools can help to create a transparent, accountable, and innovative government and a more inclusive and … Continue reading