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The good, the bad and the ugly of #walktoworkday, by executive director of @WalkSanDiego1

Official: 2014 BMW 5 Series diesel costs $4,800 less than ActiveHybrid in US #green

Meet the awesome people organizing the Dallas chapter of #GOODLocal @GOOD_DallasTX

The Dickcissel found yesterday, May 23, was not observed at Negri-Nepote Native Grassland Preserve today. A Semipalmated Plover continues in the pond. A Blue Grosbeak was found on the wires near the yellow and purple trails (Andrew Lucas). ————— Sourland Mountain Preserve in Hillsborough Twp. had Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Swainson’s Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, and Worm-eating, Blue-winged, Blackpoll and Pine Warblers (Jeff Ellerbsuch).

Spy Shots: Next-gen Toyota Prius spied inside and out #green

A floor lamp, bedside lamp and reading lamp all in one, S7 is a versatile new lighting design by Structures. Founded by sailor turned designer Nicolas Pichelin, Structures developed the fascinating and flexible LED lamp to have an interchangeable head which can be rotated 360 degrees. This ultra versatile lamp is being sold by Ameico is one of our green picks from New York Design Week this year. Read the rest of Structures Showcases Its Snakelike S7 LED Lamp at New York Design Week Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", Flexible LED Lamp, green lighting, ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Modular Lamp, new york design week, New York Design Week 2013, Nicolas Pichelin, S7 LED Lamp, S7 Push and Play Lamp, Snakelike LED Lamp, Structures

Dallas, TX. It's the biggest little city that could—with the most amazing little-known facts, like having the largest arts district in the country, a park we built out of thin air, a neighborhood with the world's largest collection of art deco architecture, art and sculpture, and a giant river that we physically moved more than eight decades back that's now on its way to being an unrivaled urban oasis. It's a city with a giant creative culture—where nothing is impossible. Dallas is a metropolis of big ideas with small town hearts. It's where optimism and opportunity meet. Where steady industry, boundless creativity and effective philanthropy come together to build on the work of the city's past do-gooders and the initiative and moxie of present good-doers—to engage each other in events and activities designed to fuel a new renaissance of positive change in Dallas. Join us in the excitement of moving Dallas forward even further. Stay updated on all the good going on in Dallas by following the Dallas hub and joining the GOOD Dallas mailing list. Meet the Team Mark Lea Doing Good And Taking Names I'm a third-generation Dallasite, and the stories my grandparents told me are what developed my love for the city. I studied Finance, Economics, and Real Estate at Emory University in Atlanta, graduating in 2009. After college, I went into commercial real estate finance, working for the real estate arm of hedge-fund, but my volunteer work was where my passion was—most notably my involvement in the revitalization of Elmwood, Oak Cliff (my grandparents' first neighborhood together). While still heavily involved with Elmwood, I now work as a Community Designer at bcWORKSHOP, a local nonprofit that uses public design to empower neighborhoods in Dallas. I am a member of Leadership DISD's Class of 2013 and a volunteer with countless other organizations, including in leadership roles with Preservation Dallas's young professionals group—Urban Armadillos—and the DFW Emory Alumni Chapter. Patrick McDonnell City Future Memory Hi! I'm the Co-founder and Creative Director of Revolutionary Pants, a nonprofit dedicated to DIY urbanism, creative-placemaking, re-thinking the human habitat, and havin’ fun. From going the legit route to tactical urbanism, we demonstrate and teach people how to use the city to improve their quality of life. I LOVE what I do! This past year, I was named to the Next City Vanguard class of 2012, as one of the top 40 under 40 urban leaders across the country. In December, I was named the Vice President of the Association for Community Design. I am also a contributing writer to Next City and GOOD. I love making videos, taking pictures, designing, urbanism, learning about new cities and meeting everyone! Nice to meet you, let’s be friends! Frances Yllana In Love With Awesome I'm an artist, agency Creative Director, writer, VP of AIGA DFW, former full-time (and sometimes adjunct) design professor, yogini and student of life. I graduated cum laude from the University of North Texas with a BFA in Communication Design in 2001, and since then have been working for some of Dallas’s most reputable design & ad firms on projects ranging from print design to social media. My day job is fueled and inspired by my participation in forward-moving organizations like D Magazine’s Leadership Academy, Big Read Dallas 2013, the Dallas Parks Foundation, Art Conspiracy 2011, AIGA DFW + its Design For Good projects, mentoring programs and 2012 and 2013 Design Weeks as well as my very own Good For Grasshopper—a nonprofit organization and website for design students and new graduates making the transition into the “real world.” I was incredibly inspired by the enthusiasm I saw when I helped lead and orchestrate Dallas's GOOD Ideas For Cities project in 2012, and I look forward to bringing more GOOD to light in Dallas. Say

This summer, my plan is to walk 2,400 miles from the Texas Gulf Coast to Seattle, exploring transit development at the local level and producing a 50-minute video at journey’s end. I'm calling the project Walk the West. In May 2011, I was in the midst of a 4,000-mile walk from Turkey to Scotland. On the evening I crossed the border from Serbia into Croatia, I met an elderly Serbian villager who was walking home along the roadside and had lived most of her life in Chicago. There was no longer a local bus service after the breakup of Yugoslavia and the only nearby bridge across the Danube was in Croatia. By the time I had passed the border checkpoint and reached the nearest town, night had fallen and I was desperately searching for a guesthouse. Suddenly a car swerved to a stop across the street, and the driver jumped out waving his wallet. It was the border police. He called in backup, and when his colleagues confirmed that my newly-stamped passport was genuine, he apologized for detaining me. Seeing my backpack in the dark, he’d thought I was an illegal immigrant from Afghanistan or Tunisia. The next morning, I got to talking with a local woman whose family had lived in the area for six hundred years. I told her I was from Hawaii, and she looked at me with pity in her eyes. “In America,” she told me, “you play cards—freedom, democracy—but you are not free. You are always moving.” Walking across a continent, you learn surprising things about the ways people get around and think about home. The world is supposedly getting smaller, but the changes brought on by accelerating transportation and communication are often disorienting. They affect our sense of place, from our sense of the world to our sense of the neighborhoods where we live; and because transit technology is constantly evolving, it can be hard for individuals and communities to keep up. The very ease and ubiquity of transit between distant places makes it easier to overlook the people and places in between, as well as the enormous amount of work it actually takes to keep modern transportation and communication systems running. This summer, I want to explore these issues in the American West, where long-distance transit is the stuff of legend and an essential part of daily life. For more than 100 days, I'll be walking more than two thousand miles to film a video combining my own traveling experiences with tales from Western transit history and conversations with Westerners who help to move people, goods, and ideas across the region—from airport staff to radio technicians, and from car mechanics to horse packers. Along the way, I’ll face fundamental challenges of terrain and weather that continue to influence transit across the West. I’ll use a handcart to carry water, and contend with scorching mid-day temperatures. Every day will end with a race to find a place to sleep. I want to measure the work it takes to keep the West moving against the raw, basic experience of traveling on foot, and it’s going to be tough. If the project sounds interesting, I’ve put up a preliminary site with more information here. If you’d like to help set my journey in motion, please consider checking out the project on Kickstarter. I look forward to being in touch with you down the road. This project will be featured in GOOD's Saturday series Push For Good—our guide to crowdfunding creative progress.

News story about beginning farmers in Iowa, May 2013 Iowa beginning farmers were featured in a story in the DesMoines Register on May 21. The focus of the article is on a purported flourishing interest in Iowa agriculture, as well as an explication of some of the challenges faced by beginning farmers. Next Generation, a [...]

This designer quit his job to create the ultimate, awesome electric #bike #Goodstreets