Pilot Whales and Sea Turtle

When we get rushed during the holidays it is great to sit back and relax with the glorious creatures of the ocean.  Here is some fabulous footage taken in December of a pod of pilot whales and sea turtle sent from a friend in Spain.  amazing
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Building Futures

Meet Dorothy Stoneman. After graduating from Harvard, Dorothy Stoneman joined the civil rights movement and lived in Harlem for 20 years. Seeing abandoned buildings, homeless people and idle youths moved her to start YouthBuild to create a positive future for low-income young people.

Being Perfect Just the Way You Are

For dog lovers-    Sometimes the path you need to take is not always the one you planned (even in a dog's life)

Google Goggles

Google seems to be an endless source of innovation.  In their latest search engine,  Google Goggles  you don't have to type or speak into your phone.  You just take a picture of it and the search begins.
Truly amazing

Octopus using Tools- Home Sweet Home

These veined octopuses (Amphioctopus marginatus) were filmed between 1999 and 2008 off the coasts of Northern Sulawesi and Bali in Indonesia.   Underwater footage reveals that the octopuses scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters. Clever

 Watch the octopuses.

I have seen the slow motion water drops on water but this video brings it to a new level.  This video is slowed down 2000 times and you can see water droplets bounce and then spit three different times before it actually joins the water.  Video is an amazing way to actually see science. Fabulous

Watch slow motion water drop.

Anonomous online Hope

The Burkes started an online anonomous site to donate to neighbors or family in need.
Watch Video
inspiring

The World's Deepest Bin

Here is another of Volkswagen's "Fun Theory".  Trying to change people's behavior through fun.
The World's Deepest Bin  Fun

Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.  Amazing

Space Based Solar Energy

Space Based Solar Energy is an idea by Peter Glasser.  One space based solar plant could provide as much energy as 10 nuclear power plants.  New technology may make this possible in 30 years. interesting

Watch Space Based Energy

A Nike Ad in the Netherlands

This is for sports fans only. 

Leading up to the World Cup Draw, Nike Netherlands and W+K Amsterdam sent out a group of football fans to create a draw schedule on the asphalt of Amsterdam's Dam Square out of nothing but 6000 meters of white and orange tape. The orange path demarcates the much hoped for path to glory for the Dutch, and culminates with the word "Bezet," which means "Taken," in the winning slot. The stunt takes inspiration from Dutch Queens Day celebrations, in which people stake their claim on street market spaces with tape the night before and mark their territory with the word "Bezet." interesting

Employers Working to Help Small Towns

Putting employees to work until the economy turns around.  inspiring

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Apps are Everywhere

In this Benjamin Moore App on iPhone, you take a picture, open the free Ben app, click into photo library and choose the picture you just took, touch any color within the photo and you will get the equivilant of the Benjamin Moore colors.  If you want you can then enter your zip code and get the name, addresses and phone numbers of the closest stores. What a great way to get the perfect color without dragging all the paint chips home and never ending experimenting.  Clever

Why are we Happy?

Dan Gilbert tells about our brain that has tripled increased in size and how it simulates experiences.
Amazing, jaw dropping research

Secrets for Living Longer

The Blue Zones are areas where people are 10 times more likely to reach 100 than the rest of us.  Examples of Blue Zone are:  Sardinia, Okinawa- Japan, Nicoya- Costa Rica, Akari-Greece, and Loma Linda- California.                                                          

Watch Video about the locations

March in Copenhagen

This reminds me of the Civil Rights movement in the 60's.  However, this generation is about Sustainable Living and Climate Change.  On December 12, 2009, thousands of people representing a broad coalition of climate and environmental organizations, activists, and other civil society organizations marched from Christiansborg Palace Square to the Bella Center.

The goal of the march was "to work towards a strong, binding climate agreement that is both fair and effective to minimize the dangerous climate change." motivating

Recycling hotel soap

The Global Soap Project recovers and recycles soap from American hotels. The discarded soap is sanitized, melted and remolded into new bars, then distributed to refugee camps in Africa. We figure, with 4.6-million hotel rooms in the United States, an estimated 2.6-million soap bars are discarded every day. Once this soap has been sanitized and remolded into new soap, it greatly improves the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of refugees, one bar at a time.
Global Soap Project

Scottish Ad

Who said ads couldn't be amusing?  Here is a funny Toyota ad from Scotland.

Rethinking Healthcare

Here is one solution for the health care problem.  The numbers seem to work for everyone.  Watch Video

Ecological Bell

Jeff Clapp collected over 120 oxygen tanks from Everest and is recycling them and making them into bells.              Watch Video

Google Earth/Maps mashes with Hollywood

Ever wonder where a film was made?  Filmaps combines Google Earth/Maps with Hollywood to show you where the actual locations of 1129 films were made.  Interesting

 Filmaps

The Pink Glove Dance

A cute upbeat way to promote breast cancer awareness.  Nice job Emily (MacInnes) Somers who is from Providence St. Vincent Hospital in Portland Oregon.  Clever

 

Affordable Housing in a Fabulous Way

Getting affordable housing by using one social problem to solve another.  Build new homes with discarded construction material.  Amazing creativity

              

Rats Doing Good Deeds

Have you heard of the Apopo Rats that have been trained to sniff out and detect land mines and TB?  What if we captured the young rats in the cities and put them to good use instead of being pests? They train them to sniff out TNT and reward them with a clicker and food.

See a rat in action                                                                               Rat Detecting TB

The New Sports Illustrated

Many of the  magazines as we know them are gone.  Here is Sports Illustrated idea of their new 2010 magazine.  Awesome

Weird and Wacky Meeting

Here is a Nokia viral ad that is awesome.  Shocking special effects.  You have to watch it until the end.  Crazy

Statistics in Action

Hans Rosling teaches his students about Global Development with a new unbelieveable way to show statistics in action.  This is even amazing if you have no interest in Math.  jaw-dropping

Orbit's: Clean it Up

Orbit's put out an interesting animated viral ad about the environment.  Interesting

Social Entrepreneurs

Social Entrepeneurs

Social Entrepreneurs are all around the world saving lives and improving the world one piece at a time.  This video does a great job explaining what a Social Entrepreneur is.   Inspiring