Dalia Labadi from OneVoice Palestine and Itamar Cohen from OneVoice Israel did a great job representing OneVoice in Tulsa Oklahoma, on campuses and community centers, as well as on this TV interview.
Here is a link to the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship where I participated: http://www.socialedge.org/features/skoll-world-forum Click on Opening Plenary video Panel discussion starts around minute 36-ends around min 79. Entire plenary agenda below: Musical Performance – Taiko Meantime, An enthralling show combining traditional Japanese rythms and techniques with eclectic, original [...]
Seeing the sugar lobby take up the Corn Refiners Association is amusing. Each peddles empty calories in the form of sugar or high fructose corn syrup. HFCS should be appropriately avoided as it’s artificial construct and introduction in the early 80s correlates too closely to the rise of obesity and the diabetis epidemic. It is [...]
Here is an article about a neat re-discovery of a "Miracle Fruit" that makes sour things sweet, and alters the taste buds to make things seem far sweeter. It could have applications for cancer patients to regain appetite, for dieting, or just for fun. Miracle fruit’ turns sour things sweet By Madison Park CNN http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/25/miracle.berries.weightloss/index.html?eref=rss_topstories [...]
Often in life I am sure you wonder if you had met a person before. Have our lives crossed paths before a more recent episode? When was the first time we met? Where we together in a particular place – whether at school, or at a conference, or talk, or during our childhoods? Could you [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder at an interview about PeaceWorks. This is HILARIOUS – I don’t understand it, but I love the part when they start poking fun at all our mistakes. As well as when the guy shows up with the title "Non Style." What is that? Definitely lost in translation! Change-Maker [...]
Roger Martin, Dean at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, gave an interesting presentation at the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum today: Whether or not Barack Obama is your President or, as is the case for me, another country’s leader, most of you, I suspect, watched the President’s inauguration speech [...]
Jon Stewart’s interview of Jim Cramer earlier tonight was a stunning indictment of the financial sector, the insider chicaneries of Wall Street, the complicity of financial networks like CNBC, and the overall sad state of affairs of corporate America. See art. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Jim Cramer Interview [...]
Tom Friedman wrote a provocative article about how we have been living our lives and running our economy at the expense of the next generations – and how the environment and the planet will not bail us out. Peter Thum, the co-founder of Ethos Water (later sold to Starbucks) and I had a conversation a [...]
Bill Mahr’s documentary about the excesses and idiocies of organized religion was not exhaustive. The Vatican recently excommunicated the Mother and Doctors of a 9 year old who had been raped and received an abortion. The doctors "fear[ed] that the 80-pound girl would not survive a full-term pregnancy". But that was apparently not enough suffering [...]