This site's a compendium of people, places, ideas and things I love (at least noticed) and want to share. About Emily
Links for 2008-09-09: Friendly Invaders
Friendly Invaders When Europeans began arriving in New Zealand, they brought with them alien plants — crops, garden plants and stowaway weeds. Today, 22,000 non-native plants grow in New Zealand. Most of them can survive only with the loving care of gardeners and farmers. But 2,069 have become naturalized: they have spread out across the [...]
Read more →Links for 2008-09-05: 3D Printing
Shapeways | passionate about creating Print-on-demand fabbing service where you can upload or create 3D designs and order plastic printouts of them. (tags: design art technology community diy tools service 3d manufacturing fabricating prototyping rapidprototyping sculpture fabrication models printing crowdsourcing)
Read more →Links for 2008-08-31: Open Things
littleBits ittleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, [...]
Read more →Enjoying Calliflower with Peter Senge
A recent live talk with Peter Senge through Calliflower introduced me both to this great tool for conference calls and webinars and Senge’s compelling new book, The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World. Calliflower impressed me with sophisticated features for managing and participating in calls with an [...]
Read more →Book Notes from New Zealand
On Monday, I visited the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington for a discussion on ‘first fictions’ with the writers of two of last year’s most highly praised debut novels here. Mary McCallum (The Blue ) and Susan Pearce (Acts of Love) explored the themes and process of creating their books with Kate Duignan, [...]
Read more →Greetings from the Antipodes
Hello from Down Under. I am proceeding as a global nomad for the time being. Antipodes map by Daryl Cockburn.
Read more →What does the Global Climate Crisis have in common with the Loch Ness Monster ?
A. Both are fictional. Or at least highly speculative. No. We’ve already established that. B. Both indicate danger, especially around bodies of water. Sure, but we’re looking for a more specific answer. C. How about tree-fitty. Exactly! Tree-fitty. What’s tree-fitty? Loch Ness Monster: $3.50 Global Climate Crisis: 350 is the red line for human beings, [...]
Read more →Saga Dawa at Mt Kailash, Tibet
Today you can see this photo I took of Robert Thurman standing in front of Mt. Kailash in the San Francisco Chronicle, accompanying a great interview with Robert by David Ian Miller, “Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman on Why the Dalai Lama Matters,” about his new book, Why the Dalai Lama Matters. In the picture, Robert [...]
Read more →Links for 2008-05-26: Greening the Grocery Store
Greening the Grocery Store Our throw-away society functions on a presumption: somebody else is taking care of this waste. Investigation suggests otherwise. The landfill is a flawed design. Even recycling, in its current mode, is deficient. Only when people become aware of facts, no (tags: design recycling sustainability graphicdesign graphics green plastic supermarket retail shopping [...]
Read more →Links for 2008-05-23
2008 World Science Festival in NYC Fantastic lineup of interesting events for World Science Festival May 28-June 1, 2008 New York City. Only wish I could go to more than one scheduled at the same time. (tags: science festival events)
Read more →Links for 2008-05-14: Neural Buddhists
The Neural Buddhists In unexpected ways, science and mysticism are joining hands and reinforcing each other. We’re in the middle of a scientific revolution. It’s going to have big cultural effects. (tags: consciousness buddhism science mind brain materialism spirituality)
Read more →Why the Dalai Lama Matters
Digital Elements is delighted be working with Robert Thurman, launching dalailamamatters.com to coincide with the release of his new book, Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet and the World.
This inspiring and powerful book shows why Tibet matters for everyone and shares a positive and pragmatic [...]
Links for 2008-05-06: Quinoa and Fungi
mmm… quinoa for breakfast. with cinnamon, berries and nuts Thanks Heidi, hadn’t thought of that before. Book (ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine) looks great too. Can’t wait to try this with blueberries and walnuts. (Quinoa also cooks beautifully in a rice cooker ) (tags: 101cookbooks breakfast berries cereal wholegrain) Mushrooms will blow your mind [...]
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