This Week in PopTech: Sustainable Development, Aquaponics and Speaking Human
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Friday, August 13, 2010 UTC
Happenings:
- This week PopTech contributor Joshua J. Friedman interviewed Water For People’s Ned Breslin about why it’s important to shift from short-term to long-term thinking — and move from charity work to sustainable development.
- Designer and typographer Marian Bantjes has designed the wildest graphically enhanced sailboat we’ve ever seen. You might remember the special poster Marian created for the attendees of our 2008 conference, which was inspired by the theme, ”Scarcity and Abundance.”
- Do you “speak human” at work? Provocateur Daniel Pink makes a case for ditching ‘professionalese.’
- Will Allen started a food revolution by creating new urban farmers across the country. State of the Re:Union explores one of those farms in Milwaukee called Sweet Water Organics. Check out their incredible process which utilizes aquaponics and hydroponics, as well as their philosophy on taking another step to fighting the phenomena known as food deserts.
- Friend of PopTech and designer Joey Roth has a great new poster out — are you a Charlatan, Martyr or Hustler?
- Failure quote of the week: ""Hint: there is no category of: ‘does risky exploration, never fails.’" – Seth Godin
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