Emily Davidow

Turning Rivers Into Playgrounds – New York Times Fun along the NYC waterfront, including kayaking! (Picture at right is from my own kayaking on the Hudson adventures.) (tags: nyc kayak hudsonriver hudsonriverpark pier63) New American Dream – Conscious Consumer information to make informed choices in the marketplace to protect the environment, enhance quality of life [...]

The Dalai Lama’s Many Auras, at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles – New York Times This exhibition looks interesting. It will be in NYC March 3, 2007 – September 4, 2007 at the Rubin Museum of Art. Especially intrigued by Laurie Anderson‘s installation which sounds like a physical manifestation of one of my favorite [...]

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David Korten excerpt from book that looks interesting in Yes! Magazine (tags: book excerpt empire economy environment society change) “Everyone’s Rooting for You” by Sondre Lerche (on myspace) What a great pick-me-up theme song! Actually, the whole “Duper Sessions” record is joyful vocal jazz with positive [...]

Nina Planck’s new Real Foods markets to open in lower Manhattan next month.

…Appreciative intelligence can be defined as the capability of perceiving the inherent generative potential within a situation at hand.

Nike+iPod Sports Kit ($29) to access distance, time, pace and calories burned on the screen of a nano version of the iPod via a sensor inside the shoes that communicates with the ipod. They also plan to offer a sport music section on iTunes.Did you know Nike already offers free 30 minute workout mixes (updated monthly) on NikeWomen?

Simran Sethi brings us all things energetic on Treehugger TV’s exciting news debut. In addition, she writes and hosts Ethical Markets and raises energy and consciousness on Monday nights in her hatha kundalini fusion yoga class at Equinox, the only context I’m aware of where “breath of fire” is something you want to cultivate. Gayla [...]

Most women I know have been making unauthorized fragrance and makeup mashups since they began playing with these transformative compounds without concern for intellectual property issues. As wise Helen explains in Kissing Jessica Stein, “You gotta blend.” Le Labo is the first perfume company I’m aware of to embrace a Creative Commons philosophy for their [...]

Hilarious little article in the NYT today on type anachronisms in film, “Good Film, Shame About the Helvetica,” featuring link to Mark Simonson’s Typecasting article. (Note also the ongoing notebook of sightings.*) As one who can’t help recognizing and calling out the name of the typefaces in the world around me, I’m not ashamed to [...]

Oh, rapturous joy! It’s seems to be e.e. cummings week. For the past few days, lines from e.e. cummings poems i hardly knew i remembered have been bubbling up through me. here’s to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap and to your (in my arms flowering so new) self whose eyes smell of [...]