The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” —Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises Exhibition on view National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC through September 6, …
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Panels and keynotes program schedule I was told via email from someone involved in the event that a video will be posted online.I will be posting this over a the Earth Institute blog (especially since it has zero comments for the March 25 event) as a challenge to improve the overall framework of the “State …
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Haiti aid still lacking a month after quake (CBC) Millions of people in Haiti still lack adequate food, shelter and security a month after the massive earthquake, problems sure to be exacerbated by the Caribbean country’s looming rainy season. Food has yet to reach all of the three million people who need it. Infrastructure problems …
Very interesting. Below are a couple of links to top pieces on the scope triangle, search appreciated. A Project Management Primer: Basic Principles – Scope Triangle The “Broken Iron Triangle” Software Development Anti-pattern Phi Beta Iota: The Scope Triangle is desperately out of date. The two new major factors are first: the role that intelligence …
Rammed Earth Construction (Using Tires) In the tire method, a row of used automobile tires is simply laid atop the concrete footing, perhaps centered around steel reinforcing bars that extend out of the footing. The tires are then filled with soil. About 1,000 tires are used to build the walls of a 2,000 sq ft …
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Aid organizations are announcing with great pride that they will feed two million over the new two weeks. What they don’t say is that is 143,000 a day–assuming best case circumstances, sucks for those they don’t reach in the last ten days of those fourteen days—the last day of which will be roughly thirty days …
