There really is a scholarship out there for everything. The folks at California Population Awareness are hosting an award contest for students who produce the best material on the state’s “unsustainable population problem.” The contest declares “Think about it. More people mean more cars on the road, so more traffic, longer commutes and more air pollution.” The [...]
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It Takes a Village
How Superstardom Discourages the Cultivation of New Creative Talent. We are both amazingly fortunate, and woefully unfortunate to live this day, in a world where superstardom exists.
Does Car + Bike = A Good Thing?
Besides gaining ultra-buff legs, many ‘part-time’ bike commuters end up with an extra $12,400 at the end of the year. Earlier this month, I wrote a piece about how Rush Hour can Save you Money, it compared a typical Silicon Valley commute using a car, and the same commute using a bicycle. At the end [...]
Eco-Friendly Consumerism
Today’s eco branding is no longer here to better the world, but to exploit consumer demand. But do we need to feel rewarded for consuming?
Artist Pantea Karimi’s Political Mad-Libs
Sociecity sits down for a chat with artist Pantea Karimi in Portola Valley, California to ask about her obsession with newspapers, and find out how this fits into her latest piece titled “Fill in the Blanks.” The piece, part of a group show at Kriewall-Haehl Gallery, asks gallery visitors to be involved and give their input [...]
Why Failure = Success in Tech and Art
A fellow San Jose Arts Commissioner forwarded us a note from the American Association of Museums this afternoon which pointed out a primary need to break down barriers, change mindsets, blah blah blah. What we found most interesting in the note, however, was that the AAM — in reviewing grant applications where $500,000 was being doled out [...]
One: The Road in Front of You
To begin on a path of unlearning all you have been taught seems a frightening undertaking a lonely undertaking an aimless undertaking But it is only these things before you see the road in front of you For the sake of human kind May more of us be temporarily frightened lonely and aimless that [...]
Bea
We met Bea some weeks ago. I was with The Doctor, having one of our clandestine lunches, those lunches that we have when everything around us seems too meaningless or too messy. We were talking, deeply, deeply, oblivious to the madness around us in the middle of Seoul at lunch time. This girl comes and [...]
One: True Self
The true self is in living for your being and allowing others to live for theirs The true society is in caring for others without placing prerequisites on how, when, and to whom that care should be distributed What are we, then, who limit, regulate, and profit from the care of our neighbors? [...]
The Fed: When Congress Gets Lazy
Congress granted its right to create money to the Federal Reserve, and as a result has no direct accountability, and little to no influence over what the Federal Reserve does. What would happen if a few more congressional responsibilities were handed over as well?
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- Week in Western Japan May 16, 2012This week we filmed in Osaka, Nara, and Fukuoka, and each day was full of fresh local food. In Nara, our amazing Japanese interpreter and I spent an extended weekend withYoshikazu Kawaguchi, a natural farmer who runs a free monthly farming class, including free practice farming plots for students; about 300 students were in attendance […]
- Yoshikazu Kawaguchi – Day 1 May 11, 2012We had our first meeting with a Japanese natural farmer today, and it was an amazing one. Yoshikazu Kawaguchi has written several books and is a “natural farming” icon in Japan. Today, he invited us to his home near Nara, Japan, where we talked over tea and the most juicy, crisp, and sweet peas I […]
- Fancy Breakfast from a Rooftop Garden? May 4, 2012We visited the “Blues Guesthouse” in the Segeomjeong neighborhood of Seoul a few days back after hearing about a rooftop vegetable garden they are starting. It’s very early spring here, so the plants are just starting to come up, but it was nice to have a short morning chat with the guesthouse owner, Mina, who […]
