Amsterdam is not a country. No matter where I am in the world, I’ll run into someone who is confused about the location I’m talking about. Germany? Denmark? The Netherlands? Holland? What? Where are you...
San Francisco's Cowell Theatre at the Fort Mason Center is presenting the U.S. Premier of Harlekin starting today and playing through this Saturday, May 22, 2010. Tickets can be purchased online.
Since its founding, DEREVO has...
If you are traveling to South Africa to attend the World Cup, your flight safety demonstration will be supplemented by a request from the host country to conserve electricity during your stay. In January of...
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...
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...
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