Emily Davidow

Ted Ames smiling and sailing on Penobscot Bay, off the coast from Camden, Maine. (Photo by Emily Davidow; more photos from Pop!Tech 2007) Sailing from Camden through Penobscot Bay on the Appledore schooner, Ted Ames, the only lobsterman to receive a MacArthur Genius Grant, shared insights on the waters he knows so well with a [...]

This week, I’m excited to participate in Pop!Tech (October 17-20 in Camden, Maine), exploring some of the many ways human beings impact — and are impacted by — the world and each other. The lineup looks phenomenal. The other exciting news is that you can participate wherever you are, as it’s being webcast live. If [...]

It started as a stream. A stream of images on flickr featuring women in water, jeans mysteriously falling off them.

Mighty Foods – Video: The Joy of Bees Taste3 presentation by Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Pennsylvania based apiarist, celebrating enthusiasm about bees and examining the most up-to-date theories on colony collapse disorder. (tags: bees video) Who killed the honeybees? | Salon News A round table of experts answer all our pressing questions about the sudden death of [...]

Four Sobering Facts About Women and Money:

1. 50% of single women ages 21 to 34 report that “at this time in their lives money is for spending not saving”
2. 55% agreed with the statement that “they were more likely to accumulate 30 pairs of shoes than $30,000 in retirement savings.”
3. Thirty million of America’s 40 million-plus boomer women will not be able to afford to retire, will fall below the poverty line, and will experience poorer health in their later years with limited aid from traditional safety nets.
4. The average age of widowhood in America is 55. Four out of five widows
   living below the poverty line had not been poor before their husbands died.

Four Empowering Insights About Money:

1. Most people don’t have a clue about money.
2. Things aren’t always what they seem.
3. Literally millions of people are intimidated by money matters.
4. After reading this book, you’ll know more than the vast majority of
   Americans.

George of DiPaola Turkey Farms explains the benefits of local, free-range, humanely raised, antibiotic free turkeys to Cosmo at the Abingdon Square Greenmarket in New York City. Photo by Emily Davidow.[all the juicy stuff will soon be pasted in here.

Debbie Millman interviews Maira Kalman for Design Matters.

To think that we can “solve” climate change without addressing poverty, human rights, democratization, conflict, epidemic disease, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, food issues and the like is to suffer from carbon blindness.

…cool tool allows you to create free live talk shows via phone/web with simultaneous text chat that then become podcasts.

http://www.cbsacny.org/article.html?aid=413 Andrew Winston is founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and co-author of Green to Gold   Catching the Green Wave: Creating “Eco-Advantage” that Pays Off for your Business presented by Smith College Club of New York City and the Columbia Business School Club/NY Event Date: Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 at 6:00pm Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:00- [...]

Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 7:00 – 9pm Location: Rolling Press (15 Denton Place, Brooklyn NY 11215 – See map below) Are you a graphic designer wanting to make the green transition? Have you always wanted to convince your clients to take a sustainable communications strategy, but lack knowledge about the process? Please join us [...]

(Check out his newest bad-ass camera recently profiled in the New Yorker.)In the evocative photo series Imaginary Encounters of the Dodo and Mauritius Island, Harri Kallio places carefully constructed models of adorable and extinct dodo birds back into their natural habitat, staging dramatic re-enactment of their lives based on eyewitness accounts, pictorial sources and physical evidence in museum.Mitch Epstein's haunting power plant looming over pastoral Raymond, West Virginia.The postapocalyptic global nomad fashions of Mary MattinglyDoug Aitken's FedEx mega-metropolis Plateau. (Which is presumably furnished with FedEx Furniture .)International Center of Photography1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd StreetNew York, NY 10036Map Phone: (212) 857-0000Artists featured include: Robert Adams, Doug Aitken, Allora & Calzadilla, Wout Berger, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Patrick Brown, Catherine Chalmers, Stéphane Couturier, Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak, Yannick Demmerle, Goran Dević, Mark Dion, Sam Easterson, Mitch Epstein, Joan Fontcuberta, Noriko Furunishi, Marine Hugonnier, Francesco Jodice, Harri Kallio, Vincent Laforet, Christopher LaMarca, An-My Lê, David Maisel, Mary Mattingly, Gilles Mingasson, Simon Norfolk, The Otolith Group, Sophie Ristelhueber, Clifford Ross, Thomas Ruff, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Victor Schrager, Simon Starling, Kim Stringfellow, Diana Thater and Wang QingsongMore to exploreEcotopia: The Second Icp Triennial of Photography And Video exhibition catalog by Brian Wallis, Edward Earle, Christopher Phillips, Carol Squiers and Joanna Lehan (Editor).Multimedia tour with curator Brian Wallace and review: “The Natural World, in Peril and in Its Full Glory” in the New York Times.

Chandler Burr translates scent into words so powerfully i just want to close my eyes and inhale his prose…. 5″ left me with more questions and a slightly wan aftertaste.