Welcome to the WHY THIS WAY blog! Here's a peek at some of the things that we're working on & interesting in.
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Welcome to the WHY THIS WAY blog! Here's a peek at some of the things that we're working on & interesting in.
Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important, said Carl Jung.
The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness, said David Foster Wallace.
We’re all in this alone, said Lily Tomlin. Found via I’m Revolting, that led to a day of thinking. Photo is mine via my iPhone and Instagram.
Imagine the ability to grow a one-acre farm in a 320 square foot box right in the middle of London, New York or Los Angeles, what would this do for restaurateurs?
Well, Kickstarter funded entrepreneurs Brad McNamara and Jon Friedman have made that possible. Freight Farms introduces a scalable farming platform that can be operated anywhere by up-cycling shipping containers into a source for high-yield crop production.
The produce grown in one week is equivalent to what grows on one acre in one year. Containers cost $60,000.
(via group-partners)
EyeEm, The Evolution Mobile Photo Sharing Apps Has Arrived
EyeEm is next generation mobile photo sharing app. The Berlin-based started launched in 2011 (backed by European investment firms Passion Capital and Wellington Partners) with the goal of offering people alternative, relevant images of the world around them, sorted and tailored to their interests and lifestyle through the use of activity and location tags.
With the recent turmoil at Instagram, many companies and platforms have capitalized on possibility of new user acquisition through unique (found in Pheed and EyeEm) and not so creative (new Twitter photo filters) additions or reinventions of their photo sharing features. EyeEm has us hooked with the potential its API could hold, as well as the possibility of greater content relevancy of found in tags based on activity related interests.
- @Macala
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Farmingo Disrupts Agriculture Industry via Technology & Business Model Innovation
California has three major industries that fuel its economy - entertainment, aerospace and agriculture.A new startup known as Farmigo is taking aim at agriculture. The Palo Alto-based company is an online farmers’ market that delivers locally farmed produce and other goods directly to consumers. It launched the service in San Francisco and New York this week and hopes to expand to Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chicago and Philadelphia. Farmigo aims not only to disrupt California, but the U.S. food system as a whole with an emphasis on delivering fresh produce to major cities.
Farmigo says that local food communities at workplaces are “the catalyst” for making the food system work, and it is soliciting customers who want to bring Farmigo to their workplaces, schools, or community centers. Farmingo offers groups locally sourced (within 100 miles) and freshly harvested (under 48 hours) produce, companies that have already signed on include Google, Twitter and Etsy.
Buying food directly from local farms supports the local economy and increases the demand for sustainable farming practices. Selling directly to consumers means the farms reap 80 percent of the sale of the food, versus 9 percent to 20 percent with traditional grocers.
Note: Clean, Staying Healthy With The Seasons and Healing With Whole Foods are all books with nutritional diets plans that make for a healthier individuals in urban and individual areas through eating fresh foods, locally sourced and grown (Meat, Vegetarian and Vegan diets all addressed!). Farmingo’s business model makes them more accessible and adoptable; we hope this innovative startup continues to grow with success.
Read the interview with the founder Benzi Ronen
Post By: @Macala
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Dept. Of Shameless Self Promotion: @BlogWorld names me brilliant influencer of the week. - Thank you.
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Quarterly.Co offers Subscription Services From Influencers That Matter
Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting. We spend so much of our lives connecting with people online that we forget the value of tangible interactions that happen in the real world.
Quarterly wants to bridge that gap by allowing anyone to subscribe to influential contributors and receive physical items in the mail from them. It’s like a magazine, but instead of receiving words on a page, our subscribers receive actual items that tell a compelling story crafted by the contributor. Visit the Site
When an individual is freed from the collective hypnotic spell of not-enoughness, then creativity and innovation break though. Resources are made available, innovation occurs, right employment shows up. Opportunities energetically flow. Then, human ingenuity, powered by a genuine realization that there is more than enough to go around flourishes.
(via group-partners)
The Creative Process via John Caswell
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The past is where you learn the lesson, the future is where you apply it. Via @TheNotebookDoodles
Design For Extreme Affordability, Stanford University’s New Education Program
Over the last decade, 325 Stanford students have participated in Design for Extreme Affordability, a five-month-long course in which the students learn to design, prototype, and build products for some of the world’s poorest people. The students have worked together in teams, traveled to 14 countries and worked on 80 projects in collaboration with 22 global partners. Among the many success stories:
By Macala Wright for Group Partners
Conundrums: It was funny, it was sad. It brought joy quickly followed with sorrow.
Join Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and Neuroscience
Can I just stop you for a minute and note how fucking amazing it is that one of our greatest living cartoonists is not only teaching this class, but she’s letting us all follow along? Incredible.
Love it. Exploring complex ideas visually is why Peter Durand draws during PopTech talks.
(via group-partners)
Weekend Fun: Name That Transit System!
Here’s something a bit different, just for kicks. These extremely abstracted topological diagrams of U.S. rail transit systems were sent to me by Herbie Markwort, who runs the Gateway Streets blog about transportation issues in St. Louis.
Personally, I love the way that these diagrams look. Simplified down to their bare essentials — connecting points and termini — the systems take on an almost runic appearance. As much as possible, the distance between connection points is kept the same in these diagrams, regardless of the length of the lines in real life.
Obviously then, diagram “A” could represent any of the single-line rail systems in the U.S. — Buffalo, Phoenix, Seattle, et al — and diagram “B” represents a system (or systems) with just one branch line extending from a main trunk line. It’s certainly a fascinating way to look at something familiar from a different viewpoint, and had me scratching my head for quite a while before Herbie let me in on the answers.
Let me know what you think they are — reblog, reply, or use the Disqus commenting system to post your answers.
Any guesses?
(via thisbigcity)
