See Change Happen

Oil Visualization

I love these visualizations. This is a map of the world's oil reserves - explains a lot doesn't it?

Communications Planning gone wrong

It is just too easy to loathe the advertising business - even easier when
McDonald's does something stupid like trying to peddle Happy Meals on
kid's report cards.

Green Overload

Interesting Wired story for the jaded green.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/green_websites

Just a run-of-the-mill mansion

Apparently New York mansions don't need any fancy advertising. 

Designing for the dead

Last week, the NYT Magazine did a feature on ideas. I loved the story on biodegradable coffins, called Ecopods. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09_6_coffin.html?_r=2&ref=magazine&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Described as "a 100 percent biodegradable coffin made of recycled paper. The seedpod-shaped coffin is designed to be planted in the ground, dissolve and replenish the earth with its nutrient-rich contents."

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, indeed.

Pictures from space

These photos from a recent space mission are truly amazing.

http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm

What you need may be at bethree.com

Like many, I bought into the whole Eat,Pray, Love phenomenon inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert's book about her year-long journey though Italy, India and Indonesia. The book has become the ultimate self-help guide and source of inspiration for people who feel stuck in their lives. And the proof is in the pudding - watching Gilbert interviewed last month, it was overwhelmingly apparent that through her experiences, she had found an incredibly sincere source of happiness.

After my 6-months of travels last Spring through Central and South America, I moved to New York. And unlike Gilbert, my new life left me feeling anything but zen. Maybe I spent too much of my travels surfing and not enough in a meditation class but whatever the case, New York can be hard. And switching careers, cities, friends, relationships all at once may have been a little much for one person to handle. (Lesson learned.)

The secret to anything difficult, I've learned, is figuring out ways to get through it. The best antidote I've found so far is a site called bethree.com, a sort of Daily Candy-like email update for "your mind, body and soul." It launched a few months ago and is now the saving grace of my morning commute.

So sign up. It's good for you.