Nipun Mehta's commencement speech

Nipun Mehta is the founder of ServiceSpace, a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization that leverages technology to inspire greater volunteerism.

His speech for the private school in Silicon Valley is seriously worth reading, it's touching and thoughtful and has some really inspiring anecdotes. I won't copy and paste any here, just encourage you to read it yourself.

Little Free Library

Such a nice idea, I'd love it if they made child sized ones as well.

By Stereotank.

The World We Want

"The World We Want is a platform created by the United Nations and civil society to amplify people's voices in the process of building a global agenda for sustainable development."

Sustainable development got my attention.

Then I looked further and saw the page above. While I was initially disappointed that "protecting forests, rivers and oceans" didn't seem to be a high priority for many, I do understand that it is not that simple and involves health, education and income.

I decided to put in my details and the column to the right reflects a woman living in Denmark between the ages of 35 and 54 (I'm not telling.....) and the top priority was protecting nature.... and I haven't even joined yet and contributed. \0/

the monstore

 

Bit of cheeky self promotion here......  my print store is open, selling all things monster related.

The links are to the right, both my own store and my Etsy store. Enjoy!

Infographic on the world's greenhouse gas emissions

Interesting infographic designed by Ecofys, a consultancy in renewable energy, energy & carbon efficiency, energy systems & markets and energy & climate policy for the World Resources Institute.

Hopefully a visual representation of our emissions will make the problem harder to ignore ......

Via Good.

My inspiration for today

I wish I'd written this but then I wouldn't need to read it every day..... every day that I sit down in front of my computer and waste time...... which, lets face it, is every day.

"It sure is easy to waste time sitting at a computer. I’d list the ways, but you know the ways. Some of that time is required because we’re decompressing. But some of that time is because we’re being lazy, procrastinating, or worse, lacking the self-awareness to even realize we’re burning hours.

I don’t have a solution, but I have one little idea. Every time you sit down at the computer, do at least one thing of significant lasting value. Think through a problem. Write an email that connects with someone. Design something new or iterate a design that needs it. Help someone. Write something intended for publication. Work on the digital empire that is you."

By Chris Coyier on The Pastry Box Project.

Rewilding made simple

Following on from my previous post about George Monbiot's column on rewilding, here is a very nice video on the subject, from the Guardian.

This complements his column called My manifesto for rewilding the world which goes into more detail on the subject. Brilliant, brilliant and completely brilliant.