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 [...]

My ITP classmate, Catherine White, has set up a community on Ning to discuss her ongoing project.  In her own words: My research is primarily focused on how we work together in groups, particularly how to make collaboration more fruitful, and efficient (and less painful – because it sometimes is). Specifically, I am looking at [...]

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 [...]

Photo by Poppa-D’s Evil Alter Ego Hepnova‘s Nicholas DiBiase mentioned in the Phoenix New Times for his Ignite talk on Food Security. Video of Nicholas’ Ignite talk coming soon! Stay tuned at the Ignite Phoenix website. Photo by azchrislee