by potential | Mar 25, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s Note: This is the first piece in a multi-part series examining the City through the lens of the Green Metropolis, by David Owen] David Owen’s book Green Metropolis has been described as ‘controversial’, yet perhaps ‘counterintuitive’ is a better...
by potential | Mar 24, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Popular protests in Northern Africa have attracted a lot of media attention in the last two months and I would like to bring your attention on one particular aspect of its coverage by western media. Repeatedly, journalists have referred to a “facebook revolution” or...
by potential | Mar 23, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Recap | Welcome to March Sadness! Alex: Whenever any sports enthusiast is asked to explain what makes March Madness so great, they invariably go all misty eyed and say something like, “The kids just want it so bad! The emotion is all right there!” and...
by potential | Mar 22, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
He grew up in urban Bangalore and lives in London as a rickshaw operator. “It’s kind of a busman’s holiday,” he explained in that Londonized Indian accent you sometimes catch in a movie. He smiled a broad, a genuine grin, as he spoke. “The bus driver spends all day...
by potential | Mar 18, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
My wife Katie is named after her great aunt Kate. Or at least that was the justification her parents came up with after watching a MacDonald’s commercial and deciding they liked the name. Yesterday I attended a great workshop by Dr. Bill Turkel on the growing...
