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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I wanted to write about journaling in the old days, before weblogs, micro-blogs, and Facebook. I want to write about old school journals, with pen and paper, specifically bound books of paper. I will share with you the reasons why I keep a journal, and how blogging has affected but not replaced my interest in
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In honor of Earth Day, I want to celebrate my new discovery – a store called Muji. I encountered it when we visited London, but it apparently is all over the globe (including a few stores in the New York City area). The store stocks practical no-nonsense items with minimal packaging. I walked out with
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Ever wanted to know how to renovate your home the green way? For the DIY earth friendly homeowner, the folks at Greenovation.TV want to show you how. It’s a website and a media channel, launching Earth Day April 22. They’re available online 24/7. What’s even cooler is they’re local here in Ann Arbor, in my
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To celebrate Ada Lovelace day, today, March 24, bloggers around the globe are celebrating by publishing posts about women in technology they admire. I mulled this over for a long time, and I just couldn’t choose. So, I’m going to list off several women and how they have inspired me. Jennifer Baird of Accuri Cytometers
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As I sit here drinking my lovely cup of organic Shui Xian Oolong tea I can feel like I’m also doing a little thing for the environment. At least, if compared to the impact I’d make for the same amount of coffee. I saw an amazing chart in the February 28-March 6 edition of the
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So, this fall I experimented with canning and freezing some of the local yummies. I canned tomato sauce and drunken fig jam, and I froze peaches (as well as excess hot peppers from the farm share). I wanted to save these items past the fall, to meter them out so I had summer yummies through