Biomimetic Building Material
Product design student Chao Chen has created an innovative building material that can open when it’s sunny and close to offer protection when it rains. Inspired […]
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Leadership: Living Consciously
Do you remember the last time you caught yourself on autopilot? Were you driving? Eating? Speaking? Fred Kofman is the founder of Conscious Business Center International, […]
Continue reading »The Science of Intuition
Using a method called Magnetocardiography, scientists can detect the electromagnetic field of the heart. The heart is involved in our intelligence through intuition, and a study […]
Continue reading »Design Thinking: Big Data Startups
Kyle Fugere of the customer science firm Dunnhumby Ventures recently wrote an excellent article on why design thinking is important for big data startups. His analysis […]
Continue reading »Climate Change, Sustainability, and Biomimicry
Acclaimed environmental writer Andy Revkin recently blogged on his New York Times opinion page, Dot Earth, about a recent conference in Paris: Our Common Future Under […]
Continue reading »California Leads Solar Efforts
Warren E. Buffet’s company Berkshire Hathaway Energy Renewables’ subsidiary, BHE Solar-owned Solar Star, a solar power plant, became operational in June of this year. It is currently […]
Continue reading »Biomimicry Applications
This inspiring list of stellar applications of biomimicry to medicine, transportation and exploration, pollution control, and energy, is good to keep in your back pocket when […]
Continue reading »Employing only the Unemployable
This post is in the category of super refreshing, similar to my posts about gardening and dog training programs in prisons. Sun Cedar is a […]
Continue reading »Inmates Raise Puppies for Blind
Since my experiences with learning nonviolent communication in the SF County Jail, I’ve become more sensitized to the jail and prison system and have been […]
Continue reading »Beyond Design Thinking: Liberating Structures
I recently encountered a website that piqued my interest. The homepage, Introduction to Liberating Structures (LS), inspired me to think about what I always think about – meaningful […]
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