December 2009
11 posts
“When Evan was at Pyra Labs they ran out of money. He laid off the team (actually...”
– Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. | JonBischke.com (via hiten)
“It is estimated that 43 percent of Americans, or 103 million people, will be...”
– TED Blog: TED Prize winner announced!
“In her talk “The Economy of Regions,” she argued for regional economic...”
– davistudio: Jane Jacobs dies at 90 (via gross)
In the US, about 4% of food dollars are spent on organics at the retail level, but only 0.5% of US farmland is certified organic. Organic demand growth has been about 20% per year since 1990, while growth in organic farmland has only averaged 8.5% of the same period. Hence, the need to increase organic imports. You would think this price premium of organics would lead to a faster rate of...
…what happens even on the best factory farms is animals are genetically modified to the point of being unable to reproduce sexually, animals that never see the sun and never touch the earth, animals whose cages are never cleaned. These things are not as shocking and don’t work as well in a video, but they’re something to be concerned with much more because they’re happening...
Reid Hoffman on Philanthropic Movements on the web... →
(starts at ~24min) Surprisingly inspirational talk. Reid’s idea of a public intellectual fits my goals as well.
“The point is simple: assuming only x% of people will become active prosumers...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
Bubblegen posts are like fine wine
(via ethanb)
“More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed since World War II, according...”
– Kristoff - Cancer From the Kitchen? - NYTimes.com