Nov 22, 09
Cause & Affect: Magnifying Impact for Social Action
During my stint at Participant Productions (An Inconvenient Truth), I had the honor and pleasure of working with Meredith Blake, and I would like to award a grant to her new venture, Cause & Affect. Cause & Affect is an innovative agency that partners with corporations, film and television producers, philanthropic organizations and influential individuals to create effective social action campaigns on a wide variety of issues. Among several projects, Meredith's team is currently working...
Netsquared Mashup Challenge
Netsquared is an organization devoted to connecting nonprofit organizations with Web 2.0 technologies to help them better achieve their goals. We've featured the work of Netsquared here on Worldchanging many times. We can hardly believe it ourselves but the third annual Netsquared conference (N2Y3) is almost upon us. In preparation for this year's event, Netsquared is inviting social innovators to share their ideas in The Netsquared Mashup Challenge. What do you need to participate? Just an...
Micro-Collaborative Movie Making for Social Change: "The 1 Second Film"
Can 24 frames of film change the world? It can if animator Nirvan Mullick has anything to say about it. Nirvan has spent the last six years working on a very short film with a very big purpose: to raise one million dollars for the Global Fund for Women, as well as setting the course for a long term project that utilizes collaborative art and social networking to address social issues. Nirvan began the project in 2001 as a student at California Institute of the Arts, with relatively small...
What One Star's Fate Doesn't Mean for the Future of Online Media
If you're at all involved in digital media, you've probably heard of Amanda Congdon: in November 2006, she was the first videoblogger to cross over to a mainstream network when she was hired to host a weekly show on ABCnews.com. Last week, however, it was announced that that Amanda would be leaving her ABC position. As host on the popular and cutting-edge videoblog Rocketboom, Amanda became the first famous videoblogger. Her transition to a major network was heralded as a validation of...
Wired NextFest 2007
Space shuttles, Brain Computer Interfaces, and Robots, oh my! The Wired NextFest took place in Los Angeles this past weekend, transforming the LA Convention Center into A Worldchanger's fantasy playground. Exhibits included new technologies in all the hottest fields - from security and exploration to communication and green living. Needless to say, some of the technologies were more impressive than others but there was a nice balance between gadgets chosen for their cool factor and those with...
The Green Man
Tens of thousands of people are packing up their camping gear, putting the last touches on their art projects and costumes and planning their journeys to the Nevada desert for a week of unmitigated self-expression and revelry. Burning Man has long been the world’s largest Leave No Trace event. While there’s no denying the fundamental unsustainability of erecting a temporary city in the desert for one week each year and then burning much of it to the ground, the culture of the...
BoGo Lights: Help Light the World
BoGo means "Buy One, Give One." For each of these solar-powered flashlights you purchase, one is donated to an organization that will distribute it in the developing world. BoGo lights use standard rechargable AA batteries that last 750-1000 cycles of charge/discarge or up to two years. The batteries are charged by the onboard solar panel which lasts for up to 20 years, charges in 8 hours and provides 4-5 hours of illumination. 6 LEDs provide enough light to read at night. BoGo lights are...
The 11th Hour Generation "Gets to Completely Change This World"
What would it look like if Worldchanging made a movie? It might look a lot like The 11th Hour. That is, if we had talented producers like those at Tree Media and Leonardo DiCaprio to narrate. The film’s title might suggest it paints a bleak picture. And it does. The filmmakers don’t pull any punches in stating that every natural system on Earth is deteriorating evermore rapidly and that the confluence of all these pressures has brought us to the brink of environmental disaster. But...
Micki Krimmel teaches the UK about online video
For those of you in the UK, I've got a little article featured in the next issue of .Net Magazine, hitting the shelves on Tuesday. It's featured in the "Expert Advice" section and outlines some quick strategies for building online community with video. The US version of the magazine is called Practical Web Design and will be available in a couple months. I must admit, I'm not entirely sure why anyone would read internet news on paper with the long lead times and all the paper waste but I...
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