In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature John Jeavons, Executive Director of Ecology Action and Jake Blehm, Assistant Executive Director at Ecology Action in Willits,...
Hard Hat – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
While on a cyclo ride in HCMC, I encountered this guy hanging out of a little motorized tuk tuk in HCMC. I found his choice of helmet funny...
The Longsword Winery in the Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon, was the first winery that hosted us for a night
under the Harvest Hosts program. For a $20 membership you receive access to a growing number...
Yesterday the Daily Graphic - the Ghana newspaper that is something of a mouthpiece for the govt - had an article that Ghanaians up north were crossing the border into Togo to flee ethnic violence. ...
This is the last post of a three part series on overcoming self-imposed obstacles to independent travel. Catch up on the first and second posts of the series– Banking the Benjamins and Fear and Loathing...
Willow Garage hosted the first robots graduation in history last night in their Menlo Park offices on Willow Road, the same road where Google was birthed.
CEO Steve Cousins and founder Scott Hassan gave an emotional...
Last night, I had the pleasure (and it was a pleasure) of dancing with a PR2 robot at Willow Garage, the same PR2 that will go off to UPENN next week with the UPENN recipient...
The suicides at Foxconn have highlighted the issue of highly stressful working conditions in the global electronics industry. Foxconn has responded with psychologists, punch bags, swimming pools, and asking employees to promise not to kill...
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