Recent press
“...One of the goals of PopTech’s Camden event is to create and maintain an active network of cross-disciplinary collaboration that lasts far beyond the event. And not only among its speakers, fellows, or even conference attendees, but anyone interested in joining the conversation–and action.”
- CBS SmartPlanet
“It [PopTech] is not just a three-day conference; the nonprofit organization is actually a year-round think tank, mentoring organization, scientist and social innovators network, and cultivator of problem-solving labs, projects, and initiatives.”
- Stanford Social Innovation Review
“The type of cross-disciplinary approach on display with PeaceTXT confronts that perennial problem in the social sector: there are a lot of folks with a lot of expertise that can be brought to bear on a single idea; but artificial industry boundaries thwart intermingling.”
- Next Billion
More press coverage
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12/28/2012
Q&A: David Eagleman, Director, Initiative on Neuroscience and the Law
Reena Jana, CBS SmartPlanet
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12/6/2012
Fembots Have Feelings Too: An Interview with Amy Purdy
Brian Merchant, VICE Motherboard
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12/5/2012
Socially Contagious: How Microclinic International is Spreading Healthy Behaviors
Grant Tudor, Next Billion
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11/30/2012
New National Parks Feature Humans In Their Natural Habitats
Michael Coren, Fast Company
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11/21/2012
Q&A: Peter Kareiva, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Reena Jana, CBS SmartPlanet
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11/20/2012
First Impressions: The Science of Meeting People
Robert Capps, WIRED
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11/16/2012
An Autonomous Sub Speaks Whale To Explore The Deepest Ocean
Michael Coren, Fast Company
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11/9/2012
The 'Unconventional Collaborations' PopTech Approach: How to turn 'silos of excellence' into a network
Grant Tudor, Next Billion
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11/6/2012
The PeaceTXT Proposition: Stopping violence with an SMS
Grant Tudor, Next Billion
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11/4/2012
Sheila Bair, pro-regulation Republican
Amanda Katz, The Boston Globe
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10/27/2012
To innovate, scientists and engineers find inspiration in the arts
Reena Jana, CBS SmartPlanet
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10/26/2012
Foundation of the Future?
Tamara Straus, Stanford Social Innovation Review
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10/24/2012
Matternet: A Vast Network of Delivery Drones Will One Day Transport Our Stuff
Brian Merchant, Motherboard
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10/23/2012
Like Alien Organs: A Chat with Jason Hackenwerth
Brian Merchant, VICE
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10/23/2012
The Insane Alien Balloon Animals of Jason Hackenwerth
Brian Merchant, Motherboard
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10/22/2012
David DeSteno on the Psychology of Compassion and Resilience
Maria Popova, Brainpickings
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10/18/2012
Defining ‘resilience’ as an innovation strategy
Reena Jana, CBS SmartPlanet
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10/18/2012
PopTech Focus Toward ‘Resilience’
Jenna Lookner, The Courier Gazette/Camden Herald
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10/17/2012
In Which Ideas Goes to PopTech
Amanda Katz, The Boston Globe
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10/5/2012
Q&A: Andrew Zolli, curator and executive director, PopTech
Reena Jana, CBS SmartPlanet
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7/18/2012
Using the Xbox to study locust swarms
John Sutter, CNN
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6/29/2012
PopTech Conference in Reykjavik
Kári Gylfason, Spegillin (Mirror) Radio Program
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6/28/2012
PopTech: On Failure, Jedi Knights and the Edge of Social Change
Sadna Samaranayake, Next Billion
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3/12/2012
A Climate Conference that Ends in Real Action
Ben Jervey, OnEarth
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1/15/2012
A Youngster's Bright Idea Is Something New Under the Sun
Sophia Hollander, Wall Street Journal
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1/4/2012
Do Designers Actually Exploit The Poor While Trying To Do Good? Jan Chipchase Responds
Shoham Arad, Fast Company
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12/9/2012
One Minute Until Impact: Cheryl Heller, Chair, PopTech
Tim Fernholz, GOOD
2011
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12/7/2011
How Iceland Has Turned Misfortune Into Opportunity
Laura Feinstein, PSFK
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11/24/2011
Dragging Global Development Into The Digital Age
Michael Coren, Fast Company
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11/18/2011
Meet a 13-year-old solar panel developer
John Sutter, CNN
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11/15/2011
How Chinese activist Ai Weiwei became an Internet master
John Sutter, CNN
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11/12/2011
Radio interview with Zeb and Haniya
Boyd Matson, National Geographic Weekend Radio
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11/11/2011
Arabic graffiti artist plans mural for Tunisia
John Sutter, CNN
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11/11/2011
Blind man uses his ears to see
John Sutter, CNN
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11/7/2011
Entrepreneurs crowd into social ventures
Alex Goldmark, American Public Media Marketplace
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11/3/2011
Unpacking, Processing and Applying Revelations from PopTech 2011
Kevin Martin, Next Billion
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10/27/2011
'Everyone's a Filmmaker in Egypt'
Doug Bernard, Voice of America
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10/27/2011
Games That Solve Real Problems: Crowdsourcing Biochemistry
Adrienne Burke, Forbes
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10/26/2011
PopTech: A Conference to Break Cynics
Tamara Straus, Stanford Social Innovation Review
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10/26/2011
PopTech 2011: Food for the Mind and the Spirit
Jeffrey Hollender, The Huffington Post
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10/24/2011
What's In A Logo? 4 Insights About Nurturing Innovation, Actually
James Gaddy, Fast Company
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10/24/2011
Iceland's president: Social media turns government into a 'sideshow'
John Sutter, CNN
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10/21/2011
Crowdsourcing Science Promises Hope For Curing Deadly Disease
Michael Coren, Fast Company
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10/21/2011
Rebel With a Cause
Abigail Pesta, The Daily Beast
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10/21/2011
PopTech 2011 Day One: Reframing Interactive Media
Kristina Loring, design mind
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10/20/2011
Ideas Conference Will Stream Live This Week
Nicole Wallace, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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10/20/2011
See the World Rebalancing with PopTech's Data Viz App
Alex Goldmark, GOOD
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10/20/2011
President of Iceland speaks in Camden
Ken Christian, NBC Maine Channel 2
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10/20/2011
"Scientific Facts Will Prevail" Over GOP Climate Denial: Dr. Rajendra Pachauri
Brian Merchant, Treehugger
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10/17/2011
PopTech: You Tell Us
Doug Bernard, Voice of America
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9/13/2011
ARPA-E: Welcome to the Department of Big Dreams
Bryan Walsh, TIME.com
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8/20/2011
Why design is key in haptics innovation
Reena Jana, CBS SmartPlanet
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8/2/2011
What if Scientists Were Like Celebrities?
Alex Goldmark, GOOD
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3/16/2011
Video: Tsunamis are Terrible, What About Rogue Waves?
Alex Goldmark, GOOD
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3/16/2011
Locally-Produced Cars, Biomimicry, and Mushroom-Based Packaging: 8 of the Most Exciting Developments in Material Sustainability
Ariel Schwartz, Fast Company
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2/8/2011
How Not to Save the World, or Why the LifeStraw Is a Stupid Idea
Alex Goldmark, GOOD
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2/8/2011
An Algorithm for Impact: Four Questions Every Venture Should Ask
Scott Anderson, Next Billion
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1/25/2011
Syyn Labs’ Chief East Coast Geek Builds Scrappy Rube Goldberg Machine for PopTech
Chuck Salter, Fast Company
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1/12/2011
Communicating with Patients in a Vegetative State
Tracy Staedter, Discovery News
2010
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11/22/2010
Tanzeem Choudhury Develops Cellphone Apps to Track our Health
Lindsay Patterson, EarthSky
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11/19/2010
High Schoolers Rev Up Science Skills as They Make More Efficient Cars
Adam Balkin, NY1
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11/14/2010
Students Attend Conference to Utilize STEM Skills
Adam Balkin, NY1
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11/8/2010
Pop!Tech Conference
Chelsea Holden Baker , Dwell
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10/28/2010
Novel Ideas, New Approaches Take Spotlight at Pop!Tech Conference
Adam Balkin, NY1
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10/27/2010
Bioplastic Made from Poop, for a Profit
Alex Goldmark, GOOD
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10/26/2010
Edit Your Life and Win a Green Contest
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/26/2010
Water is Africa’s Lifeblood, FLOW Smartphone App Checks the Pressure
Alex Goldmark, Fast Company
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10/26/2010
Top Minds at Pop!Tech Turn World’s Blunders Into Science Boons
Adam Balkin, NY1
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10/26/2010
Why Being Wrong Feels So Right (And What You Can Do About It)
Sarah Green, Harvard Business Review
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10/25/2010
The Education of John Legend
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/25/2010
Ok Go: How to Make a Viral Video
John D. Sutter, CNN
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10/25/2010
An App to Clean the World’s Water?
John D. Sutter, CNN
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10/25/2010
An App to Clean the World’s Water?
John D. Sutter, CNN
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10/25/2010
Sean Gourley: The Mathematics of War
Lindsay Patterson, EarthSky
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10/25/2010
What You Missed at PopTech, Day Three
Peter Smith, GOOD
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10/25/2010
Empowering the Poor to be Breadwinners
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/25/2010
Making it Right in New Orleans
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/24/2010
Leila Janah on Samasource
Leila Janah, Reuters
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10/24/2010
What You Missed at PopTech, Day Two
Peter Smith, GOOD
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10/23/2010
The Gay Social Network — For Straight People
John D. Sutter, CNN
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10/23/2010
The Invisible Gorilla in the Room
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/23/2010
David de Rothschild Rethinks Plastic
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/23/2010
What You Missed at PopTech, Day One
Peter Smith, GOOD
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10/22/2010
PopTech 2010: How Not to Save the World
Harry Roman, Huffington Post
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10/22/2010
Crowdsourcing ‘Violence Interruption’ in Chicago
Sal Gentile, PBS Need to Know
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10/22/2010
Will Tech be the End of Ownership?
John D. Sutter, CNN
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10/22/2010
What Kind of Beetle? This App Knows
John D. Sutter, CNN
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10/22/2010
A ‘Frozen Mouth’ Finds a Voice in the Jungle
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/22/2010
The 8-Word Mission Statement
Eric Hellweg, Harvard Business Review
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10/21/2010
PopTech 2010: Seductive Ideas that Work
Chet Gulland, Huffington Post
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10/21/2010
Celebrating Failure, and Other Novelties, at PopTech
Sal Gentile, PBS Need to Know
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10/21/2010
How to Deal with an #epicfail
John D. Sutter, CNN
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10/21/2010
Meet the 20-cent ‘cloud phone’
John D. Sutter, CNN
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10/21/2010
A New Technology to Monitor Water
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/21/2010
Intro to PopTech 2010: Brilliant Accidents, Improbable Breakthroughs
Brian Merchant, Treehugger
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10/21/2010
Test Driving the 2012 Plug-in Electric Prius
Brian Merchant, Treehugger
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10/20/2010
Can You Help Solve These Social Entrepreneurs’ Challenges?
2010 PopTech Social Innovation Fellows, Harvard Business Review
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10/19/2010
Social/Tech Entrepreneurs’ Identity Crisis
Brian Elliot, Harvard Business Review
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10/19/2010
Does our Economy Make us Happy?
Lisa Gansky, Reuters
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10/19/2010
The Future of Microfinance?
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/18/2010
Social Entrepreneurs’ Tricky Issues of Sustainability and Scale
Nina Dudnik, Harvard Business Review
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10/18/2010
Welcome to PopTech
Katharine Herrup, Reuters
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10/16/2010
Ideas Calendar: Oct. 16-22
Staff, Wall Street Journal
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9/27/2010
Building Science Leaders
Maywa Montenegro, Seed Magazine
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1/27/2010
Steal This Design: The Power of Sharing Best Practices in Moments of Disaster
Alissa Walker, GOOD
2009
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11/24/2009
Does America Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Torture?
Staff, Reuters
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11/24/2009
TWC Launches Million-Minds Initiative
Adam Balkin, NY1
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11/19/2009
New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education
Maria Popova, GOOD
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11/12/2009
Michael Pollan: “What’s in the Beef?”
Adam Pasick, Reuters
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11/9/2009
Nike and PopTech Team up to Find New Low Impact Materials
Danica Real, World Changing
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11/5/2009
Is Listening an Endangered Skill?
Bronwyn Fryer, Harvard Business Review
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11/4/2009
PlayPower: 1980’s Computing for the 21st Century
Bobbie Johnson, Guardian UK
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11/2/2009
A New Way to Think About Sustainability
Jimmy Guterman, MIT Sloan
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11/2/2009
Michael Pollan’s ‘Hummer Driving Vegan’ Claim Debunked
Kyle Cassidy, Huffington Post
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10/29/2009
Inside PopTechs’s Solar Powered Bag-Flap: Shining a Light at Home
Cordelia Newlin De Rojas, Fast Company
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10/29/2009
Michael Pollan’s Prius-Hummer Blunder
Maura Judkis, US News & World Report
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10/29/2009
America, Reimagined
Marcia Stepanek, Stanford Social Innovation Review
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10/26/2009
Crunching the Numbers on a Vegan in a Hummer
Adam Pasick, Reuters
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10/27/2009
PopTech Conference Lets Minds Meet in Maine
Adam Balkin, NY1
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10/24/2009
Nike- The Albatross and Sustainable Design
Adam Pasick, Reuters
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10/24/2009
Kinetic Sculptures
Andrew Price, GOOD
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10/23/2009
What is Work in a Small Town
Sharon Glassman, The Huffington Post
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10/23/2009
Mayor Revives Distressed Ghost Town
Marcia Stepanek, MSNBC
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10/23/2009
Victims of the Pacific Trash Gyre
Adam Pasick, Reuters
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10/23/2009
PopTech ’09: An Opensource Car Company
Andrew Price, GOOD
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10/23/2009
Observed
Staff, Design Observer
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10/23/2009
PopTech ‘09: Praise You Like I Shouldn’t
Andrew Price, GOOD
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10/22/2009
Lab Rats, Michael Jordan, and Wall Street Pay
Adam Pasick, Reuters
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10/22/2009
What is Work?: America Reimagined at PopTech
Sharon Glassman, The Huffington Post
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10/22/2009
PopTech ’09: ’Mo Money, ’Mo Problems
Andrew Price, GOOD
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10/21/2009
Next Billion Returns to PopTech
Francisco Noguera, Next Billion
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10/14/2009
The Elite 8. The exclusive annual conclaves where America’s cognoscenti convene behind closed doors
Mark Lewis, Forbes
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10/11/2009
Inside PopTech’s Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: Joining Forces With the Portable Light Project
Sheila Kennedy, Fast Company
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10/7/2009
Current TV’s Jason Silva and Max Lugavere of Still Up Spotlight PopTech
Jason Silva and Max Lugavere, Current TV
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10/1/2009
Inside PopTech’s Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: Timbuk2 Tackles Durability and Portability
Sheila Kennedy, Fast Company
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9/29/2009
What is Work? Saving the World Without Killing Yourself
Sharon Glassman, The Huffington Post
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9/24/2009
Inside PopTech’s Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: An Introduction
Alissa Walker, Fast Company
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9/11/2009
How to get invited to speak at a conference
Alissa Walker, Core 77
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9/9/2009
PopTech Announces 2009 Social Innovation Fellows
Rob Katz, Next Billion
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8/14/2009
Maker Faire Africa is on!
Carl Alviani, Core 77
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8/7/2009
Afrigadget and the solar FLAP Bag Project
Erik Hersmann, Afrigadget
2008
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12/1/2008
Texts used to tackle South Africa HIV crisis
Stephanie Busari, CNN
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11/25/2008
The Transformative 120: Text Messages Prove a South African HIV Lifeline
Nancy Scola, World Changing
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11/12/2008
Young innovators learn to pitch big ideas
Gregory Lamb, The Christian Science Monitor
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11/1/2008
Paul Polak: 15 Rules for Business Success in Any Market
Carleen Hawn, Gigaom
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10/31/2008
Un millón de SMS diarios contra el SIDA
Staff, El Pais
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10/29/2008
Juan Enriquez : 10 Proposals for the Next President
James Pethokoukis, U.S. News & World Report
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10/28/2008
Mobile Tech Targets AIDS: Pilot Programs in South Africa and the U.S. Use Cell Phones to Deliver Health Care Information
Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News
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10/27/2008
America: The New Venezuela? 10 Commandments for Saving the Economy
Linda Tischler, Fast Company
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10/27/2008
Project Masiluleke taps cell phones in AIDS fight
Leslie Katz, CNET
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10/27/2008
Dispatches from PopTech 2008 – Ideas and reports from the annual innovation incubator
Gregory Lamb, The Christian Science Monitor
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10/25/2008
Letter from Pop!Tech: Tips on Persuasive Branding
Carleen Hawn, The New York Times
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10/24/2008
Texts tackle HIV in South Africa
Jonathan Fildes, BBC
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10/24/2008
Site of the Day: Live stream from PopTech
Wook Kim, Entertainment Weekly
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10/24/2008
PopTech: Day one
Bobbie Johnson, Guardian UK
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10/23/2008
Speaking in tongues — 3,500 fewer, that is
Jordan Lite, Scientific American
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10/21/2008
PopTech: Ending the Conference Bag Arms Race
Linda Tischler, Fast Company
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10/20/2008
In Troubled Times, PopTech’s Stars Talk Tech, Scarcity
Alexis Madrigal, WIRED
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9/16/2008
PopTech Bootcamp for Innovators
Andrew Revkin, The New York Times
2007 and earlier
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11/14/2007
A meeting of minds tackled the big global issues
Kate Bulkley, Guardian UK
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11/12/2007
Inviting everyone to the party to change the world
Ellen Freeman Roth, San Francisco Chronicle
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11/6/2007
We Can’t Say We Don’t Know
Polly LaBarre, The Huffington Post
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10/22/2007
Thinkers Gather to Act on World Problems
Gregory Lamb, The Christian Science Monitor
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10/22/2007
Parley enlists participants for HIV education in Africa
Ellen Freeman Roth, The Boston Globe
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10/22/2007
When World-changers Meet in Maine: The Pop!Tech conference
Gregory Lamb, The Christian Science Monitor
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10/19/2007
Nigerian Space Program Isn’t a 419 Scam
Mark Anderson, WIRED
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10/18/2007
eBay, Pop!Tech Make Buying Carbon Offsets Easy
Mark Anderson, WIRED
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10/18/2007
eBay, Pop!Tech Make Buying Carbon Offsets Easy
Mark Anderson, WIRED
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4/16/2007
PopTech PopCasts
Leonora Oppenheim, CoolHunting
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1/8/2007
PopTech Releases AntiBabel EP
Leonora Oppenheim, Treehugger
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10/22/2005
Visionaries Float Big Ideas
Mark Anderson, WIRED