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2012/09/18

Koko: Cities are Jungles – Fruit Should Grow in Jungles

Koko like. Fruitful disobedience: Guerrilla Grafters grow undercover orchards A secret operation in San Francisco disregards city regulations and grafts fruit branches onto non fruit-bearing public trees, hiding farm-fresh produce in an urban environment. Officials have banned fruit trees from the city sidewalks in the hopes that it will help keep urban areas clean and …

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2012/09/172012/09/17

Koko: 2 Billion Jobs Gone – 5 Billion New Jobs?

Koko: Smart human – in the jungle we only work part-time. 2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030 Yesterday I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the TEDxReset Conference in Istanbul, Turkey where I predicted that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030. Since my 18-minute talk was about the …

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2012/08/112012/08/12

Koko: Serial Entrepreneur Damon Horowitz Says “Quit Your Tech Job and Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities”

Koko: A smart human. Serial Entrepreneur Damon Horowitz Says “Quit Your Tech Job and Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities” Damon Horowitz, a philosophy professor and “serial entrepreneur,” recently joined Google as an In-House Philosopher/Director of Engineering. Prior to his work at Google, Horowitz co-founded Aardvark, Perspecta, and a number of other tech companies. In …

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2012/05/24

Koko: Canadian Tar Sands Up Close and Personal

Koko sad. The Canadian Oil Sand Mines Refused Us Access, So We Rented This Plane To See What They Were Up To Robert Johnson Business Insider, 18 May 2012 When reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month, I thought all of them mined oil the same way — …

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2012/05/05

Koko: Universities, iTunes, Learning, and Open Source Everything

Are universities reluctant to use iTunes U? By Charlie Osborne | May 5, 2012, 7:30am PDT zdnet iGeneration Summary: Is iTunes U a viable platform for school systems to implement? Many of us remember Steve Jobs and his wish to ‘revolutionize education’, but how many universities and colleges are taking advantage of the learning-based tools …

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2012/03/042012/03/04

Koko: Iowa passes outrageous law demanding total secrecy over factory meat filth and cruelty practices

Iowa passes outrageous law demanding total secrecy over factory meat filth and cruelty practices Ethan A. Huff Natural News, 4 March 2012 (NaturalNews) Capturing undercover footage of extreme animal abuse at factory farms is soon to be illegal in Iowa, thanks to the passage of a new bill that squelches First Amendment protections for agricultural …

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2012/02/242012/02/24

Koko: Boston Charles River Swimmable – 46 Year Goal, Last 20 Years a Blend of Citizen – Corporate – Government Intelligence with Integrity

Clean and Clear Derrick Z. Jackson Boston Globe, 11 October 2011 IT WAS unthinkable 20 years ago that the Charles River would ever be clean enough to win the world’s leading environmental prize for river restoration. Back then, human feces lapped at the Museum of Science. It was a river with “belly-up fish and algal …

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