I’ve recently seen this ad on TV and YouTube: The ad was made by Americans Against Food Taxes, an interest group that includes some big agro-businesses and industrial fast food producers who are opposed to a proposed tax on soft drinks and juice drinks, in other words, beverages that contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). [...]

Here is a summer reading/viewing list of books and documentaries relating to my internship at Creative Commons and to my ongoing personal interests.  It’s a self-assigned curriculum for summer self-improvement if you will.  The general themes include technology, the internet, copyright, culture, creativity, and food.  I haven’t actually read all the books yet, but I [...]

This written by an Iranian alum of an American university. He/she asked us to re-post this message. /// Dear all, My other email is down by the gov. hence I have been able to hack into this unsuspecting email account. Things are turning very violent here for Iranians – last night at least 90 were [...]

Ignite Phoenix 4 16 June 2009 at the Tempe Center for the Arts Let’s Grow Up! : Food Security in Urban Phoenix Nicholas DiBiase (@hepnova on Twitter) is a producer for Hepnova. Description: The upshot : Improve food and nutritional security for Phoenix through radically simplified urban agronomy. Let’s promote community health and self-reliance by [...]

  From my colleague Enrique Piraces at Human Rights Watch: I want to share with you our submission to the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge.  The project is great and we have an opportunity to get some attention and further develop the idea.  Voting will take place between March 23 and March 27, 2009 [...]