Daily Archives: January 9, 2008

What he learns we all learn

January 9, 2008UncategorizedLinuxGreg Laden

… Brings a tear to my eye…

Cameron Sinclair: TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world

January 9, 2008UncategorizedOpenSourceGreg Laden

Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. The motto of his group, Architecture for Humanity, is “Design like you give a damn.” Using a litany of striking examples, he shows how AFH has helped find creative solutions to humanitarian crises all over the globe. Sinclair then outlines his TED Prize wish: to create a global open-source network that will let architects and communities share and build designs to house the world.

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Eleni Gabre-Madhin: Building a commodities market in Ethiopia

January 9, 2008UncategorizedPoliticsGreg Laden

Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize risk for farmers and turn the world’s largest recipient of food aid into a regional food basket. “There is no place in the world and no time in history that small farmers have had to bear the burden of risk that African farmers bear today,” Gabre-Madhin says. “But I’m not here to lament or wring my hands. I’m here to tell you that change is in the air.”

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