Doing My Part For Earth Day
This 20-minute talk is informative and passionate about environmental issues and sustainability.
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
At the end of the short video she does explain intervene with our system in crisis by not bumping against limits. If you have having a difficult time conscience consuming then I suggest you take a look at Material World: A Global Family Portrait
This books takes a unique perspective on the amount of Materials we own compared to the “statistically average” families in other country’s. After the photographers spent one week living with each family, learning about their work, their attitudes toward their possessions, and their hopes for the future, they took picture outside the dwelling, surrounded by all their (many or few) material goods.
This book has amazing photographs and is definitely worth taking a look at.
This is all great stuff for Earth Day. Even Google can’t wait for Earth Day. Check out some of the cool features they added to Google Earth 4.3 for Earth Day!
- New Navigation
- More and Faster Rendering 3D Buildings
- Sun Control so you can view Sunrise and Sunset
- Street View
- Displays Imagery Acquisition Date so you know when the picture was taken
- 12 New Languages
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So what are you going to do for Earth Day? Let the world know!
Bernie - “I will convert light bulbs to energy efficients ones, and take cold showers after my runs.”
Google Sites
I recently went to a Google API Workshop (http://googleworkshops.googlemashups.com/) and learned great stuff like Maps API, Google Gadgets, AJAX Search and Feeds. The talks were a little basic for the average programmer (ZZzzzz). The Web Services talk made me want to shoot myself in the head because of all the details left out, but the code on how to use the API was good stuff. Plus they showed us this awesome site to learn google maps by Doug Ricket (http://doug.ricket.com/gdd2007/intro.html) who made his slides in Java Script! You can modify the code inside the slides and watch it work! Great job Doug!
Well it looks like Google has just released a new App, Google Sites.
Google Sites is the latest offering from Google Apps, a suite of
products designed to improve communication and collaboration
amongst employees, students, and groups. Google Sites makes
creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can
quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including
videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets — and
easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their
entire organization, or the world.
This looks like its in direct competition with 37 Signal’s Basecamp (http://www.basecamphq.com/). I love the fact that it supports Google Calendars and other Google Apps. This is where 37 Signals Apps falls short. They are great simple applications, but each one has repeat features. I guess Ruby on Rails framework is great for making ToDo list and contacts because each app 37 Signals provides has one. But I don’t want four different ToDo list, I want one that syncs between all apps with simple labels. Google Sites allows data from different Google Apps inside your Google Site. Good Job!
I wonder if Google will come out with a decent contact manager app like Highrise(http://www.highrisehq.com), with iPhone support of course =)
