The United States and China: Partners of a Different Kind
Date: Monday March 10, 2008
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Kennedy School of Government, Arco Forum, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Speaker:
JOHN HOWARD: Prime Minister of Australia (1996-2007)
Month: February 2008
Event: The Power of Unreasonable People @ KSG
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing the World
Date: Monday March 3, 2008
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Kennedy School of Government, Arco Forum, 79 JFK St, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Speakers:
STACEY CHILDRESS
Lecturer and senior researcher, Harvard Business School
LESLIE CRUTCHFIELD
Managing Director, Ashoka Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship
Author, Forces for Good
PAMELA HARTIGAN
Managing Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Co-author, The Power of Unreasonable People
VANESSA KIRSCH
President and Founder,New Profit Inc.
DAVID GERGEN
Director, Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership
CHRISTOPHER GERGEN (MODERATOR)
Visiting Lecturer, Duke University; Founding Partner, New Mountain Ventures
Author, Life Entrepreneurs
Related Post:
Quote of the Week by George Bernard Shaw + 2 books by/for/about social entrepreneurs
Video: 25 Years of AIDS in Haiti: Experiences of the GHESKIO Center
Duration: 56min 36sec
The UCSD Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) presents a series of lectures from international experts on the latest worldwide HIV research. In this program, Jean William Pape, M.D., Director of GHESKIO (the largest health care organization in Haiti), discusses 25 years of AIDS in Haiti. Special focus is placed on research as a key to improving medical care in resource limited settings. In addition to his work at GHESKIO, Dr. Pape is a Professor of Medicine at Cornell and a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Event: 2008 TED Prize Live Webcast 2/28/08
The 2008 TED conference is happening now in Monterrey, CA. They are offering a live webcast of the TED Prize Thursday February 28 at 5:15pm.
Event: Bentley Leadership Forum 2008 – The Global Imperative to Serve the Public Good
Bentley Leadership Forum 2008- The Global Imperative to Serve the Public Good
Date: March 27, 2008
Time:8:00 to 1:15pm
Location: Bentley College, 175 Forest St., Waltham, MA 02452 Directions
Register: http://www.bentley.edu/celebrate/register.cfm
Speakers
Patty Stonesifer, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Romesh Ratnesar, deputy managing editor of TIME magazine
Carol Cone, chairman, Cone Communications
Ambassador Swanee Hunt, director of the Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Ambassador Charles R. Stith, director of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center
Anthony Buono, Bentley professor and coordinator of the Bentley Alliance for Social Responsibility
Description:
The 2008 Bentley Leadership Forum will continue last year’s highly successful focus on “The Business of Healing Our World,” this time with an examination of “The Global Imperative to Serve the Public Good.”
Join leaders from a wide range of organizations to examine how bold ideas can transform our society and our world.
8:00 to 8:30 a.m. Admission and light refreshments
8:30 a.m. WELCOME and INTRODUCTION
8:55 to 10:00 a.m.
A conversation with Patty Stonesifer, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Romesh Ratnesar, deputy managing editor of TIME magazine
10:00 to 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 to 11:45 a.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Carol Cone, chairman, Cone Communications
Ambassador Swanee Hunt, director of the Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Ambassador Charles R. Stith, director of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center
Moderator: Anthony Buono, Bentley professor and coordinator of the Bentley Alliance for Social Responsibility
11:45 a.m. to noon Break
Noon to 1:15 p.m. LUNCHEON in honor of Tomorrow25 Winners
Keynote speaker: Michael Brown, Founder and CEO of City Year
Related Posts:
Bentley Leadership Forum 2007
Bentley Leadership Forum Part I: Keynote by Jeff Sachs
Bentley Leadership Forum Part III: Keynote by Jeff Swartz
Bentley Leadership Forum Part IV: Keynote by Nicholas Negroponte
Video: Into Africa – Innovation for Developing Regions [DEMO Conference]
http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/980795693
Duration: 36min 34sec
Duration: 36min 34sec
On stage:
Erik Hershman of White African and Afrigadget
Juliana Rotich of Afromusing, also the environmental editor of Global Voices and contributing editor to AfriGadget
Mike Stopforth of Afrigator (Africa’s social media aggregator)
[I didn’t catch the moderator’s name]
via White African
A bit about the DEMO conference:
DEMO was there when the seeds of Web 2.0 were planted in a platform called .NET, exploring some of the first Web services before we even had buzz words to describe them. We have stayed true to our mission: to find great innovation wherever it occurs, identify market trends through the lens of the products coming to market, and expose you to new ideas and opportunities.
Video: Hymini Portable Wind Powered Charger
I just posted on the Solio, hybrid solar gadget charger the other day. Here is the Hymini, a portable wind powered charger that was featured at the NYC Greener Gadgets Conference.
They are currently selling for $50.00 [store].
Related Links:
Hymini
Greener Gadgets Conference
via Inhabitat
Video: Mark Frauenfelder – Rice Demographics [BoingBoing TV]
http://p.castfire.com/Xu7m0/video/5248/bbtv_2008-01-28-162814.flv
Duration: 2min 33sec
Duration: 2min 33sec
Mark from Boing Boing:
I saw you at the Skirball Center over the weekend. Well, not you exactly. I saw a single grain of rice that represented you. In fact, there was one grain of rice for every person in the Americas there, arranged in categorized piles: the number of people who eat at McDonalds every day; the number of millionaires in the United States; the number of Billionaires; the number of people in South America who live on less than $2 a day, etc..
It was an exhibit by the London-based theatre company Stan’s Cafe, called “Of All the People In The World: The Americas.” They created it to help people understand hard-to-visualize statistics, such as the number of people who live in gated communities in the United States, the number of people who have been killed by tasers, and the number of people with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
Exhibition: Stan’s Cafe in Of All The People In All The World: The Americas
Related Posts:
Nothing like data visualization to put things into perspective
Update:
Cool Data Viz Blog: Flowing Data
via White African’s Twitterstream
Link of the Day 022508: San Diego solution to cross border pollution
San Diego aims to fix a pollution problem by helping a Tijuana slum from Christian Science Monitor:
When it rains in Tijuana, it pours in San Diego. Runoff crosses the international border in gushes of floodwater, clogging everything in its path with dirt and debris.
A river, a wildlife-filled estuary, and the sea [plus nearby beaches] are all victims of this rainy-season menace, the product of a sprawling Mexican city where the poor often live without paved streets, running water, or sanitation.
Now, a cross-border team hopes to stem the tide of US-Mexican tensions and turn a Tijuana slum into an example of environmental activism. Their goal: Convince the community to devote its own time and effort to pave the roads in San Bernardo, a bustling neighborhood that becomes a bleak, muddy lake during heavy rains.
The story also includes a nice short audio segment.
Video: Wind Turbine Failure
Duration: 40 sec
The braking mechanism on this windmill [in Hornslet near Aarhus] that is supposed to slow the blades in high winds seems to have failed.
via Treehugger
I couldn’t find video on how correctly functioning brakes work on large commercial windmills, but here is an example of a homebrew windmill furling in high wind.
Duration: 21sec
A bit of video of otherpower.coms homemade 20′ diameter wind turbine on a breezy day. During this video you can just see it starting to furl – it’s generating between 2 – 3KW most of the time. This is the machine that powers our off-grid home and shop.
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