Walk, cycle, take public transit, carpool, telecommute. There are many ways to get where you’re going that pollute less than sitting alone in a car. But if you still need a car, you should get the most fuel-efficient model that meets your needs… And that’s what’s interesting about the Toyota iQ. It can meet the needs of a group of people who didn’t have that many options before: Kid-less urbanites.

you are what you share. a manifesto for changing the way we work. it makes sense. it’s what WE’RE doing.

Domino’s Sugar has just released Carbon Free sugar — Net Zero Carbon.
A brilliant marketing strategy if not a brilliant plan. Especially suitable for Florida.
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I.
el anochecer es mi tiempo de calma
cuando el día se convierte en noche y el aire no se mueve
aves y personas andan en lo suyo
me quedo inmóvil y floto sobre mi cuerpo… en mi espacio etéreo
es una bella mezcla de voces, colores, texturas, olores
todo es claro y rico
un lugar que está aquí y no simultáneamente allá
y un momento en que todos los hilos
de mi cabeza y mi cuerpo se entretejen
este es mi sueño y mi deseo
más allá de cualquier cosa y de todo lo tangible y material
es un sentimiento de inmenso amor
un tiempo largo que sirve como un momento
en que lloro lagrimitas de dicha
y siento el pulso de mi sistema nervioso
este estado de percepción elevada
es un momento de renovación

II.
durante un momento que parece una eternidad
y una eternidad en un momento
deseando sentir profundamente
vivir apasionadamente
navegar por el espacio y el tiempo
moverme y negociar
con cambio y crecimiento
y abrazar el desorden
creando mis propias reglas
una canción de amor para mí misma

III.
sueños
tiempo
flotando
etéreo
maleable
precioso
sentimental
cálido
posesión
esperanza
fuerza
risa
gritos
tacto
sucio
dolor
amor
calidez

On April 6th I will be at UAB to visit the graphic design program — and see the influence of new faculty member Doug Barrett.

I’ll be talking about how we can leverage the potential of design to positively shape the human experience. … “Her work is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and international. All three aspects she finds important in terms of developing innovative solutions to contemporary problems that will benefit society. Her talk at UAB will focus on her recent collaborative design projects—in the US and Mexico—that exemplify her philosophy that everyone deserves good design. In these projects she asks how design processes, strategies, and products can be used and/or transformed for social good. Ultimately, they underscore her belief that to design better allows people to live better. Rogal was awarded the first American Institute of Graphic Arts Faculty Research Grant (2008) to support her design for development projects in Mexico. She received a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar grant (2006–2007) and a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant (2007) to conduct research in the Yucatán region of Mexico and teach design at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (www.uady.mx). During this time she led the development of the identity, information design projects, and comprehensive website for the department of immigration for INDEMAYA (Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Cultura Maya) for Yucatán state. She also formalized the “Design for Development” program at the University of Florida, in collaboration with UAB design professor Doug Barrett. Her writing includes “Mexico: My, Your, Our Fantasy: The Problem of Flatness in Intercultural Representations of Mexicanidad” (International Journal of Intercultural Communication), “Cultural Hybridization in the Visual Vernacular” (European Academy of Design), and “South of the Border…Down Mexico Way” (Visible Language). Her creative design work has appeared in several national and international juried exhibitions in the UK, Hungary, Cuba, and the US. In 2003 she was the recipient of a Fulbright Hays Fellowship to México and Costa Rica.”

Original TBag Designs is a collective of artists who live in an informal settlement in Hout Bay, South Africa. With recycled tea bags as their canvases they are painting themselves out of poverty.

The money earned by the artists helps to support a community of 125 people.

Nomsa, who bought a house with the proceeds from painting tea bags, said, “The most wonderful thing in the world is hearing the rain on the roof and knowing my children are warm and dry.”

http://www.originaltbagdesigns.com/

Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America from EarSay Inc on Vimeo.