Danielle Nierenberg is blogging everyday from across Africa for the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet blog. She is also writing with her partner Bernard Pollack at her personal blog: BorderJumpers.
We love the energy of Maputo....
Bangkok and the Skytrain in more peaceful times. (Photo by R. Paul Herman)
Just two months ago, I was in Bangkok, zipping around on the Skytrain - often passing through the Siam area or headed for...
The at once loose-knit but tightly networked Bay Area songwriter community can attribute much of its origin to an unassuming cafe in San Francisco's Richmond District named The Bazaar Cafe. The cafe has been the...
Anchors. "Indispensable principal supports that serve to hold an object firmly."
Different anchors for different people - so how is it that we occasionally forget that some "things", a favorite and cherished book, a...
Over the past few months I’ve read somewhere around 200 academic papers related to transparency, accountability, and e-governance. Over that time I’ve reached several conclusions, all of which I am documenting in a series of...
The Notorious B.I.G once said, "If I got to choose a coast I got to choose the East, I live out there, so don't go there." I say, I'm with you Biggie, except DO go...
Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack, aka BorderJumpers, are traveling to nearly every country on the continent of Africa (there’s 54 of them) and blogging everyday from www.BorderJumpers.org.
Bugs. When I remember of Zambia, I think of...
It’s too efficient. It’s too clean. It’s too stable, too fast, too damn everything. It’s just too bloody sanitized. Where’s the romance of it? The grit, the grime and the inevitable screw-ups. The human element...
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