Tag: videos

How to Throw a Community Swap Meet

By Shira Golding

01.24.10, 6:59pm Comments (5)

We all have something to offer and needs to fill. The more we can provide for each other locally, the closer we are to sustainability. Read more »

Hitler vs. The Internet

By Jeremy Adam Smith

01.23.10, 7:40am Comments (0)

It's another Hitler remix! This one is from Critical Commons. Read more »

Open Source Help for Haiti

By Jeremy Adam Smith

01.22.10, 9:35am Comments (0)

Shareable reader Bernice points us to this fascinating, Africa-based project:

The earthquake in Haiti has rallied inspiring international support. Read more »

MIT Reinvents the Wheel

By Neal Gorenflo

01.18.10, 6:38pm Comments (0)

The conventional wisdom is that you shouldn't reinvent the wheel. Leave it to MIT to do just that, and make it worthwhile. MIT's SENSABLE City Lab unvieled their Copenhagen Wheel at COP15 last month to great fanfare. And for good reason. Read more »

Created Equal?

By Jeremy Adam Smith

01.18.10, 7:46am Comments (0)

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The "I Have a Dream" speech verges on historical cliche; we've heard it a million times. But in 2010, I hear it as a challenge. Read more »

The Shareable B-Flat

By Jeremy Adam Smith

01.15.10, 4:58pm Comments (0)

I discovered this beautiful project via Good magazine: In Bb 2.0 is "a collaborative spoken-word and music mosaic that sees a grid of 20 YouTube players on a single page. Read more »

Pavement to Parks

By Jeremy Adam Smith

01.15.10, 9:28am Comments (0)

Absolutely fascinating DIY video (from the New Urbanism series) about neighbors in San Francisco turning a parking lot into a public park. Read more »

Nominate the Net for a Nobel

By Neal Gorenflo

01.08.10, 4:24pm Comments (0)

Go here to nominate the net for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Here's a little background on the Internet for Peace (I4P) campaign, which produced the video. Read more »

The Real Good Chair Experiment

By Jeremy Adam Smith

01.08.10, 12:55pm Comments (3)

Blu Dot Studio put 25 of their chairs on the streets of Manhanttan, and then followed the chairs through a combination of GPS and video surveillance as people picked them up and took them home--which, by the way, the public could follow in real time . Read more »

Girl on Bike

By Sarah Chan

01.08.10, 6:21am Comments (3)

When people think about pretty girls riding bikes in dresses and heels, young families taking their babies to get groceries by bike, or arriving at the opera on a bike… they do not think of the citizens of Edmonton, Alberta (that would be in C. Read more »