These are great pieces of advice illustrated by Tad Carpenter for MTV. Not sure how they’re living up to the first one.
Spiraling Bamboo Science Tower To Observe Amazon Rainforest - Whoa.
Skillshare + COMMON Pitch NYC: Startup Bootcamp -
Skillshare is excited to announce that we’re a proud partner of COMMON Pitch NYC! We’re teaming up to host COMMON’s Mentor Day at the School of Visual Arts. On February 14th, COMMON is hosting a full day startup bootcamp at SVA. The day will include a series interactive lectures on the science of startups - everything from communications to legal complexities to things some famous founders wish they knew before launching their own startup.
Communication Design: Why You Won’t Succeed Without It
Startups, Profit and Purpose: Legal Structures for Entrepreneurs
How to Catch an Angel: Everything You Need to Know About Funding
With a Little Help From Our Friends: Successful Crowdfunding
Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting my Startup
Come out and learn from the best!
(Source: beautiful-wonderful-world, via theohpioneer)
This is just sweet.
Boston.com’s The Big Picture has a shocking set of photos showing the coal industry in all its so-called “clean” glory:
Mining for coal is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. While deadliest in China, where thousands of miners die annually, the profession is still hazardous in the West and other regions as well. Our mining and use of coal accounts for a variety of environmental hazards, including the production of more CO2 than any other source. Other concerns include acid rain, groundwater contamination, respiratory issues, and the waste products which contain heavy metals.
While abundant, the truth is that coal is never clean and its hazardous health impacts are far from cheap. We’re not likely to get completely off coal anytime soon, but we must demand accountability for its external costs. While the coal industry claims to be safe, they lobby hard against any kind of regulations to clean up their act. The only way to move towards cleaner forms of energy is for industries to pay the true costs of doing business.
The ultimate in agricultural nerding. Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers and engineers that has been creating an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
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Dan Sturges writes in MIT’s Technology Review about how new advances in technology are allowing people to ditch their cars in favor of a more efficient, more connected system:
I think any transition would have to start with the roughly 70 million commuters in the United States. The recipe for making car ownership less necessary for them requires three main ingredients. First, we need express “trunk line” transit services (trains, buses, vans, or carpools) from residential neighborhoods to areas where people work. Next, people will need local, short-distance transportation in the form of a bike, low-cost taxi, shuttle, or small personal vehicle to get to and from the trunk line service. Finally, car-sharing services—like Zipcar or peer-to-peer services like Getaround or RelayRides—need to be available near both work and home so people can have access to a car when they need one.
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