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07/24/2013

Vote! **First Descents** They're on an incredible and worthy journey..

www.thenorthface.com

01/09/2013

Here's to another year of bad-ass women skiers!

90 local women are taking to the mountain and finding their inner DIVAS. This specialty adult clinic combines great instruction with motivation & big fun.

01/08/2013

A sensory approach to our world around us...
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/mapping

Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.

12/04/2012

Unlock your creative potential

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_kelley_how_to_build_your_creative_confidence.html

TED Talks Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create... (Fr…

11/25/2012

Source: New Yorker

11/17/2012

A great resource for policymakers, researchers, development practitioners, funding organizations, and switched on individuals.
http://capacity.org/capacity/opencms/en/index.html

Welcome to Capacity.org, a resource portal for the practice of capacity development and the home of Capacity.org journal, published two to three times a year. Building on the topics covered in the journal, this website aims to facilitate access to a broad range of related online resources that pract...

11/16/2012

For the adrenaline junkies out there... What happens to our brains during a cliff jump? How do wingsuits work? And does time really slow down when we're scared?

http://sciencefriday.com/video/10/26/2012/plunge-into-the-science-of-base-jumping.html

BASE stands for the objects the practitioners of the sport jump from: buildings, antennas, spans, earth. We look into the physics and neuroscience of the sport.

11/09/2012

Check out these amazing photographs of BUGS(!) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Can you figure out who is the observer and who is the observed?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/02/magazine/mozambique-bugs.html?hp

Judgmental insects in Mozambique.

11/01/2012

Where does the US stand globally?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/11/01/should_the_us_be_ranked_number_2_in_the_world_on_health.html

As anyone who has every tried to create a foolproof system for anything will tell you, the perfect machine – the flawless economic model – simply does not exist. Ask the boys at Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund of the 1990s led by two Nobel winning economists that...

10/24/2012

How will the upcoming election impact America's energy future? Find out here...

http://burnanenergyjournal.com/burn-radio-special-the-power-of-one/

BURN Radio Special: The Power of One | The Public Radio Energy Project

10/19/2012

Catch a meteor shower this weekend!

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-meteor-shower-2012

The 2012 Draconid meteor shower, earlier in October, held some surprises. What will happen at this year's Orionid shower, which peaks on the morning of October 21?

10/17/2012

Are we destroying one of the country's greatest food resources? How do we build a sustainable system of farming?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/californias-central-valley-land-of-a-billion-vegetables.html?hpw

California’s Central Valley is our greatest food resource. So why are we treating it so badly?

10/10/2012

Interested in direct social impact? Check out Kiva...

Make a loan to an entrepreneur across the globe for as little as $25. Kiva is the world's first online lending platform connecting online lenders to entrepreneurs across the globe.

10/04/2012

Das Incredible Vimon Alpine Skiers (D.I.V.A.S.!) Get Ready!

10/03/2012

New ideas and networks for switched on individuals!

GOOD is a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward. Since 2006 we've offered a website, magazine, videos, and events for people who give a damn.

09/27/2012

It's time to sign up!

A pan-Indian adventuring extravaganza in vehicles designed for going nowhere

09/12/2012

Interested in learning more about Bhutan? PBS is a great resource.
http://www.pbs.org/edens/bhutan/Bhu_dragon.htm

In particular, the Himalayas are noteworthy for their biological richness. Since the Himalayas' geologically recent origin less than 25 million years ago, they have molded the region's fauna and flora by limiting Indian species from moving northward, and Tibetan species from moving southward. ...

09/09/2012

Join Anna Levesque from Girls at Play and Natalie Spencer from PACE INC. for an epic women's journey...