From our friends at Fast Company , “bridging the fuzzy border between design and business.” The accelerating role social media played in the recent uprising in Egypt has gotten a lot of people talking, but urban planning was just as vital in fanning the flames of revolution. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The protests in Libya are continuing and Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is struggling to hold on to power. Major parts of the country are under the control of pro-reform protesters. Many now are fearing a violent showdown. But in a country divided by tribes, alliances and clans, it is difficult to draw the outlines of a future battle. Who exactly are the groups that are holding the future of the country in their hands? And how long can the Libyan leader survive?
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TreeHugger drank the press-release Kool-aid when we wrote Seventh Generation Changes CEOs ; in fact, the New York Times tells us that he resigned in a power struggle over the company’s direction. But he has moved on; Mr. Hollender is trying to make (organic) lemonade of his break with Seventh Generation, spending less time at his home near Burlington, Vt., where the company is, and more back in New York, where, he said, it will be… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly abruptly passed a measure that would strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers. The vote ended three straight days of punishing debate, but the political firestorm is far from over. (Feb. 25)
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Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch Walking through San Francisco yesterday, I noticed a particularly bright patch of something strung across a chainlink fence. When I got closer I realized that it was a little bit of guerrilla gardening let loose in the city. Someone had knit up a pouch, filled it with soil and plants, and sewn it to the fence. It reminds me very much of the small scale guerrilla gardening done in Toronto with old posters in Toronto — only this is more awesome because it combines gardening… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images via One Tonne Life Last month I was lucky enough to visit the One Tonne Life project in Stockholm to meet the Lindell family , who’ve embarked on a low carbon lifestyle experiment to radically reduce their carbon footprints from an average of seven tonnes per year to just one tonne. It’s an ambitious project, but there’s amazing technolo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Naos-Blowin up Curren$y – Audio Dope Lyrics RaaYzR | Ep.1 Firefighters battle blaze at Northeast Portland home | OregonLive.com Firefighters responded to a home in the 1700 block of Northeast Sumner Street about 7:15 pm. and found flames coming from the front of the house. Potential 'Ghost Rider 2? Spoiler: Johnny Blaze's Powers : Movies … Cage reiterated his previous claims that Ghost Rider 2 will be a whole different experience from the first film, and dropped a potential SPOILER about how things will become increasingly difficult for Johnny Blaze this second time … Video: Blueprint to A Rebellion with Just Blaze LATE PASS: The homie Al Lindstrom hit me with this yesterday. In which his crew sits with Just Blaze and parlay about his past, present and future. Dope sh*t! This information was posted on Most Recent Articles from The Source from The … Video: Blueprint to A Rebellion with Just Blaze | TheHipHopWire LATE PASS: The homie Al Lindstrom hit me with this yesterday. In which his crew sits with Just Blaze and parlay about his past, present and future. Dope sh*t! Information Wired from: News from The Source … Hyderabad Gays Protest Anti-Gay Sting | The Bilerico Project Filed by: Alex Blaze . February 25, 2011 7:30 AM. Print. “We are calling for a boycott of the news channel after they telecast a program ‘exposing’ gays in Hyderabad. They logged into a gay dating site after creating a profile and shared … its_brittneyy says: Waiting for my mommy to come in here & blaze me .. lol.
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Image credit: Marion O’Sullivan , used under Creative Commons license. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne has already been named Britain’s greenest city . But that reputation looks set to be cemented as the city begins drilling for geothermal energy in the form of hot water that it will use to heat its new 24-acre Science Centre, as well as a mall and hundreds of shops in the city center. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cruceros en Uruguay.mpg 30 Seconds With Sandy Bassett: Event Management LinkedIn Profile Greeting China Blocks LinkedIn This is pretty crazy: it’s hard to think of a social network less prone to pro-democracy activism than buttoned-down, all-business LinkedIn . There were probably a few people who made status updates with pro-democracy comments but even … LinkedOut: LinkedIn Taken Down by the Great Firewall of China … Internet users in China found in the past day that they are no longer able to log on to [ LinkedIn ](http://au. linkedin .com/), a professional network… How Important is your LinkedIn Profile? | I'm On LinkedIn – Now … This week my friend from Paris emailed a list of colleagues asking for recommendations for service providers for her clients. Bernadette Martin got a number of. LinkedIn is now blocked in China | Penn Olson “We can confirm that access to LinkedIn is being blocked for some in China. This appears to be part of a broader effort in China going on right now, involving other sites as well,” company spokesman Hani Durzy told AFP. … China blocks LinkedIn amid calls for 'jasmine' revolution China blocks LinkedIn amid calls for ‘ja…Attempts from Beijing to reach the LinkedIn websit…Social networking sites were used by activists in …Inspired by those popular uprisings, anonymous int…The Chinese government runs a … tonixlaw says: RT @torontostar : China blocks U.S. ambassador’s name, LinkedIn : China is widening its Internet policing following online calls fo… http://bit.ly/eOS7WS
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