cccc’s posterous

2:47 "So when I think about you all, I think about you as the Facebook & the Google generation"

11:27 “You’ll find today is the best chance you have to start being unreasonable, to demand excellence, to drive change, to make everything happen.”

A conversation started by Howard Rheingold in May 2008...
I re-created the conversation as a visual collage to keep a memory of the discussion.

TED Scribe Jane Wulf is an endless source of fantastic online resources. Here are 15 fresh links she compiled of sustainability initiatives. Is there a zeitgeist shift afoot?
Building a Solar Company in a Recession Economy
This is not a reset, where we simply reboot the economy with the same code. This is a rewrite of the code. Our social, emotional, and economic underpinnings are all going through a massive change as we come to grips with a world-wide economic recession AND the background ills that have been festering for over 20 years: healthcare, climate change, real security, peak oil, and unrepentant greed.
http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/05/07/building-a-solar-company-in-a-recession-economy/

Sustainable San Mateo County is preparing the ground for changing society. We can't simply arrive at a sustainable world...we have to co-create and live our way into it together. The Sustainability Hub is SSMC's newest community resource for promoting a healthy economy, environment, and society in San Mateo County. This first-of-its-kind webtool provides the community with an easy way to share and gather trusted solutions and local resources, as well as the first and only Bay Area Green Jobs Board.
http://www.sustainabilityhub.net/

Read more: tedchris.posterous.com

SGLL projectX is a game being developed between the DIT School of Computing, Learning Technology Team and School of Languages for the Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative. The game is to be used to supplement class-work and consolidate what has already been learned-including reading, aural comprehension and written responses. The approach used in this project is to use a series of mini-games linked by a common theme. Each mini-game maps to the curriculum. Languages being used are: Italian, Spanish, German and French.

It's been said that community college is a "halfway school" for losers, a self esteem workshop for newly divorced housewives, and a place where old people go to keep their minds active as they circle the drain of eternity. Well, at Greendale Community College...that's all true. Community focuses on a band of misfits, at the center of which is a fast-talkin' lawyer whose degree has been revoked (Joel McHale, The Soup). They form a study group and, in "Breakfast Club" fashion, end up learning a lot more about themselves than they do about their course work.

A billboard piggyback for a paint recycling campaign.

To highlight the company's paint recuperation program, the billboard was placed directly under an Apple Nanochromatic placement and reads "We collect leftover paint."

music by Eric Satie   ~ Gymnopédies - 1 ~

to test the application http://visibletweets.com

In what absolutely reads like an April Fools joke, Google has a post on its blog today explaining how it has rented a herd of goats to replace the lawnmowers that normally cut the grass in the fields around its headquarters. This is Google’s “low-carbon” approach to maintaining its property.

Google is renting the goats from a company called California Grazing. Apparently, every so often a herder will bring about 200 of them to the campus and they’ll roam around for a week eating the grass. Not only that, these goats with fertilize the land at the same time — yes, that way.