Updates
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UPDATE – POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 26 Early-stage sustainable innovations face distinct challenges long before questions of scale arise. Moving from ideation and research into real-world use requires access to the right resources, partners, and pathways for adoption. In this session, Ashwathi Iyer will explore how innovators navigate this transition, drawing on concrete case studies that
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Some houseplants thrive no matter what you do to ’em. My mother-in-law’s tongue seems to fall into that category. It’s an African perennial herb, Sansevieria trifasciata, and it has absolutely thrived under my regime of inattention. I toss it onto the porch in summer, toss it into the study in winter. I forget to water
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So, it is nearing Christmas, and I am remembering my intention to purchase gifts mindfully. I haven’t been able to arrange charity exchanges with everyone, but I have got a few takers, and that’s good. A colleague at work told me about one laptop per child, an organization that is providing rugged laptops to third
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We drove north to take out the lake pump (it runs over the beach so is subject to freezing) and move my car from the airfield to the garage. We half succeeded. The Jeep, which seemed just fine when we used it in late September, squealed loudly on starting, smelled like burning, emitted lots of
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So, a bunch of us at work took the PersonalDNA online personality test. They seem to do it right, not asking for personal information up front, providing an interesting experience (not too many questions, not totally superficial, sliders, multi-way sliders, 2-D charts). The results were interesting, grouping us differently than I might have predicted. Surprisingly,
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Earlier this year, I took a week’s vacation and came back with a realization. I went to Austria with my husband and friends in March. I left behind my cell phone, my laptop, email, IM, everything. Just before I left, I feared my family was about to bust apart (stepmother and sister and I were in
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There were wonderful planes today at the Ann Arbor Airport (KARB). The Stearman was out, but Chris is often there with it. He was offering flights in it as a fundraiser for Great Commission Air. Perhaps the jets were there for the same reason? We went for a joyride to Marshall and back, and on