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- PopTech 2009: America Reimagined
The Opera House
Wednesday, October 21 at 2:00pm - Pop!Tech 2008: Scarcity and Ab...
Camden Opera House
Wednesday, October 22 at 2:00pm
Pop!Tech Why a NYC group handed out free pb + banana sandwiches today (and a recipe): http://bit.ly/4oz3eG #awareness #music
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This afternoon in New York City, free fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches were handed out to commemorate Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday, while The King’s greatest hits were sung by a group ...
Pop!Tech A house can create more energy than it consumes: http://bit.ly/4CNuoE ("this is truly affordable housing") #energy #green
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Editor’s note: With cold weather in the U.S. affecting even Florida, where frozen iguanas are dropping from trees and strawberry crops are in peril, this is a moment to evaluate the sustainability of current energy needs. ...
Pop!Tech VIDEO: Luis von Ahn (founder of CAPTCHA) on big groups, small amounts of time, and social good: http://bit.ly/4ObaAR
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Computer scientist Luis von Ahn’s programs harness the human brainpower to solve complex problems. von Ahn invented ReCaptcha, a program that uses squiggly characters that humans easily decipher but blocks spambots – and helps digitize millions of old texts. ...
Pop!Tech APPLY NOW for the Global Social Benefit Incubator #GSBI for #SocEnt http://bit.ly/gsbi10 $25K Scholarship
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The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™), a program developed by Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society, assists social benefit entrepreneurs in developing business plans that enable their organizations to reach increasing numbers of beneficiaries. ...
Pop!Tech How B Corp @BWBooks raises $ for global literacy w/ used books and why they party with librarians: http://bit.ly/5HsfEF #socent
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While in Atlanta over the holidays, I asked Xavier Helgesen, Co-Founder of Better World Books, a few questions about what the social enterprise book company does—how they find used library books, ...
Pop!Tech New mp3s and video from @zeeavi @john_forte @zoecello: http://bit.ly/5GvaVw from #poptech 2009!
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This week, new videos and the accompanying mp3s from Zee Avi, John Forté, and Zoë Keating, three of the talented musicians who graced the PopTech 2009 stage in October. Find out their upcoming tour dates and how to support their music with the links below.
Pop!Tech From PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Jason Aramburu of re:char: The #future of #biochar in a post #COP15 world? Inherent Profitability: http://bit.ly/6Zmu3M
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There was much hope leading up to this year’s Copenhagen Climate Meetings that World Leaders would finally wake up to the impending global crisis of climate change. Expectations ranged from the passing ...
Pop!Tech New #poptech post: "Co-working for Social Good" from PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Heather Fleming (CEO, Catapult Design): http://bit.ly/8Sb6hu
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Editor’s note: Heather Fleming is a 2008 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and the CEO of Catapult Design, an organization that develops “human-centered products” for BoP (bottom of the pyramid). ...
Pop!Tech Should you invest in people as you would a company? http://bit.ly/6DGyKz @ashnimohnot deliberates #socent business models.
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Editor’s note: PopTech Fellow Kushal Chakrabarti of Vittana has a similar project to Ashni’s Enzi, that she discusses below. Find Vittana gift certificates here.
Pop!Tech VIDEO from @GOOD Design NY: http://bit.ly/7f1oLX Designers on societal issues, moderators: @gelatobaby @scottstowell
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Two weeks ago, GOOD and CEOs for Cities held a Manhattan event where Alissa Walker, a design writer, and Scott Stowell (of NY design agency Open) moderated six design teams proposing solutions to New York societal problems.
Pop!Tech Great @treehugger interview: http://bit.ly/4J3V7E with @portablelight about #FLAP bag (http://poptech.org/flap) & @whiteafrican
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Not your typical architecture firm, Sheila Kennedy and her cohorts at KVA MATx are stripping apart the built environment and reassembling it with an eye for flexibility. Her vision: a world of distributed power in which solar potential is
Pop!Tech RT @socialentrprnr PopTech @poptech featured as lead example of Top Trend 2010 #3: Sector Blending http://bit.ly/8G41nt
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I predict that in 2010, the sector blending that is remixing the idea of social entrepreneurship through the lens of design, technology, and other fields will continue, adding shape, context, and s... read more of this post, Top Trend 2010 #3: Sector Blending, at Change.org.
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Alternative ways to think about climate change with three new #poptech 2009 videos from Dan Nocera, Laura Kurgan, and Nicole Kuepper:
http://bit.ly/8KITEq #cop15
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“You’ve got to start from the bottom and work up. And if you don’t, I guarantee it will always be too costly.” Dan Nocera, PopTech 2009
Pop!Tech Remember Gideon's talk about @ChunkyMove dancers playing with coded light? Interview with the programmer: http://bit.ly/6PsVO9
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This year at PopTech, choreographer Gideon Obarzanek, who directs Chunky Move (an Australian dance company) spoke about designing movements for dancers that play with light.
Pop!Tech Snow Day in Camden, Maine yesterday; here's a little video we made from the #poptech office there: http://bit.ly/7lfh73
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Editor’s note: Beth Cohen is PopTech’s Director of Media Production. She made the below video to give everyone a taste of winter in Camden, Maine, where PopTech holds its annual ideas summit and where one of the PopTech offices is located. ...
