Recent Press





9/13/2011
ARPA-E: Welcome to the Department of Big Dreams
(Bryan Walsh) TIME.com

8/20/2011
Why design is key in haptics innovation
(Reena Jana) SmartPlanet

8/2/2011
What if Scientists Were Like Celebrities?
(Alex Goldmark) GOOD

4/11/2011
On the Front Lines of the Ivorian Crisis with PopTech Fellow Dr. Raj Panjabi
Forbes Blog

4/8/2011
Documentary Filmmaker Ian Cheney Explores Light Pollution
Forbes Blog

3/16/2011
Video: Tsunamis are Terrible, What About Rogue Waves?
(Alex Goldmark) GOOD

3/14/2011
Locally-Produced Cars, Biomimicry, and Mushroom-Based Packaging: 8 of the Most Exciting Developments in Material Sustainability
(Ariel Schwartz) Fast Company

2/8/2011
How Not to Save the World, or Why the LifeStraw Is a Stupid Idea
(Alex Goldmark) GOOD

2/8/2011
An Algorithm for Impact: Four Questions Every Venture Should Ask
(Chuck Salter) Fast Company

1/25/2011
Syyn Labs’ Chief East Coast Geek Builds Scrappy Rube Goldberg Machine for PopTech
(Chuck Salter) Fast Company
1/12/2011
Communicating with Patients in a Vegetative State
(Tracy Staedter) Discovery News
11/22/2010
Tanzeem Choudhury Develops Cellphone Apps to Track our Health
(Lindsay Patterson) EarthSky
11/19/2010
High Schoolers Rev Up Science Skills as They Make More Efficient Cars
(Adam Balkin) NY1
11/14/2010
Students Attend Conference to Utilize STEM Skills
(Adam Balkin) NY1
11/8/2010
Pop!Tech Conference
(Chelsea Holden Baker) Dwell
10/28/2010
Novel Ideas, New Approaches Take Spotlight at Pop!Tech Conference
(Adam Balkin) NY1
10/28/2010
The Best Things in Life Aren’t Things
(Ford Cochran) National Geographic
10/27/2010
Bioplastic Made from Poop, for a Profit
(Alex Goldmark) Good
10/27/2010
Climate Certainties, Climate Confusion: Kim Cobb at PopTech
(Ford Cochran) National Geographic
10/26/2010
Edit Your Life and Win a Green Contest
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/26/2010
Water is Africa’s Lifeblood, FLOW Smartphone App Checks the Pressure
(Alex Goldmark) Fast Company
10/26/2010
Top Minds at Pop!Tech Turn World’s Blunders Into Science Boons
(Adam Balkin) NY1
10/26/2010
Why Being Wrong Feels So Right (And What You Can Do About It)
(Sarah Green) Harvard Business Review
10/25/2010
The Education of John Legend
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/25/2010
Ok Go: How to Make a Viral Video
(John D. Sutter) CNN
10/25/2010
An App to Clean the World’s Water?
(John D. Sutter) CNN
10/25/2010
Sean Gourley: The Mathematics of War
(Lindsay Patterson) EarthSky
10/25/2010
What You Missed at PopTech, Day Three
(Peter Smith) Good
10/24/2010
Empowering the Poor to be Breadwinners
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/24/2010
Leila Janah on Samasource
(Leila Janah) Reuters
10/24/2010
Making it Right in New Orleans
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/24/2010
What You Missed at PopTech, Day Two
(Peter Smith) Good
10/23/2010
Searching for the Next Generation of Tech Innovators
(Gabriel Perna) International Business Times
10/23/2010
The Gay Social Network — For Straight People
(John D. Sutter) CNN
10/23/2010
Adventures in Unconventional Collaboration
(Nathaniel Whittemore) Change.org
10/23/2010
The Invisible Gorilla in the Room
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/23/2010
David de Rothschild Rethinks Plastic
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/23/2010
What You Missed at PopTech, Day One
(Peter Smith) Good
10/22/2010
PopTech 2010: How Not to Save the World
(Harry Roman) Huffington Post
10/22/2010
Crowdsourcing ‘Violence Interruption’ in Chicago
(Sal Gentile) PBS
10/22/2010
Will Tech be the End of Ownership?
(John D. Sutter) CNN
10/22/2010
What Kind of Beetle? This App Knows
(John D. Sutter) CNN
10/22/2010
How to Change the World: PopTech’s School for Social Entrepreneurs
(Ford Cochran) National Geographic
10/22/2010
A ‘Frozen Mouth’ Finds a Voice in the Jungle
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/22/2010
The Eight-Word Mission Statement
(Eric Hellweg) Harvard Business Review
10/21/2010
PopTech 2010: Seductive Ideas that Work
(Chet Gulland) Huffington Post
10/21/2010
Celebrating Failure, and Other Novelties, at Pop Tech
(Sal Gentile) PBS
10/21/2010
How to Deal with an #epicfail
(John D. Sutter) CNN
10/21/2010
Meet the 20-cent ‘cloud phone’
(John D. Sutter) CNN
10/21/2010
Building a Health Care Network in a Ravaged Land
(Ford Cochran) National Geographic
10/21/2010
A New Technology to Monitor Water
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/21/2010
Intro to PopTech 2010: Brilliant Accidents, Improbable Breakthroughs
(Brian Merchant) Treehugger
10/21/2010
Test Driving the 2012 Plug-in Electric Prius
(Brian Merchant) Treehugger
10/20/2010
Can You Help Solve These Social Entrepreneurs’ Challenges?
(2010 PopTech Social Innovation Fellows) Harvard Business Review
10/19/2010
Social/Tech Entrepreneurs’ Identity Crisis
(Brian Elliot) Harvard Business Review
10/19/2010
Does our Economy Make us Happy?
(Lisa Gansky) Reuters
10/19/2010
The Future of Microfinance?
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/18/2010
Social Entrepreneurs’ Tricky Issues of Sustainability and Scale
(Nina Dudnik) Harvard Business Review
10/18/2010
Welcome to PopTech
(Katharine Herrup) Reuters
10/16/2010
Ideas Calendar: Oct. 16-22
(Staff) Wall Street Journal
9/27/2010
Building Science Leaders
(Maywa Montenegro) Seed Magazine

9/10/2010
From Micro Insurance to Violence Prevention, PopTech Announces 2010 Fellows
(Nathaniel Whittemore) Change.org
1/27/2010
Steal This Design: The Power of Sharing Best Practices in Moments of Disaster
(Alissa Walker) Fast Company

2009

11/24/2009
Does America Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Torture?
Reuters
11/24/2009
TWC Launches Million-Minds Initiative
(Adam Balkin) NY1
11/19/2009
New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education
(Maria Popova) Good
11/12/2009
Michael Pollan: “What’s in the Beef?”
(Adam Pasick) Reuters
11/09/2009
Nike and PopTech Team up to Find New Low Impact Materials
(Danica Real) World Changing
11/09/2009
How Can Government Spark Innovation
(Alec Ross) for Business Week Innovation of the Week
11/05/2009
Is Listening an Endangered Skill?
(Bronwyn Fryer) Harvard Business Review
11/04/2009
PlayPower: 1980’s Computing for the 21st Century
(Bobbie Johnson) guardian.co.uk
11/02/2009
A New Way to Think About Sustainability
(Jimmy Guterman) MIT Sloan
11/02/2009
Michael Pollan’s ‘Hummer Driving Vegan’ Claim Debunked
(Kyle Cassidy) Huffingtonpost
10/29/2009
Inside PopTechs’s Solar Powered Bag-Flap: Shining a Light at Home
(Cordelia Newlin De Rojas) Fast Company
10/29/2009
Michael Pollan’s Prius-Hummer Blunder
(Maura Judkis) US News
10/29/2009
America, Reimagined
(Marcia Stepanek) SSI Review
10/27/2009
5 Questions for…
Business Week
10/27/2009
Crunching the Numbers on a Vegan in a Hummer
(Adam Pasick) Reuters
10/27/2009
PopTech Conference Lets Minds Meet in Maine
(Adam Balkin) NY1
10/24/2009
Nike- The Albatross and Sustainable Design
Adam Pasick (Reuters)
10/24/2009
Kinetic Sculptures
(Andrew Price) Good Blog
10/23/2009
What is Work in a Small Town
(Sharon Glassman) Huffington Post
10/23/2009
Mayor Revives Distressed Ghost Town
(Marcia Stepanek) MSNBC
10/23/2009

10/23/2009
Victims of the Pacific Trash Gyre
(Adam Pasick) Reuters
10/23/2009
PopTech ’09: An Opensource Car Company
(Andrew Price) Good Blog
10/23/2009
Observed
Design Observer
10/23/2009
PopTech ‘09: Praise You Like I Shouldn’t
(Andrew Price) Good
10/22/2009
Lab Rats, Michael Jordan, and Wall Street Pay
(Adam Pasick) Reuters
10/22/2009
What is Work?: America Reimagined at PopTech
(Sharon Glassman) Huffingtonpost
10/21/2009
Next Billion Returns to Poptech
(Francisco Noguera) Next Billion
10/22/2009
PopTech ’09: ’Mo Money, ’Mo Problems
(Andrew Price) Good Blog

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10/14/2009
The Elite Eight. The exclusive annual conclaves where America’s cognoscenti convene behind closed doors
(Mark Lewis) Forbes
10/12/2009
Inside PopTech’s Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: Joining Forces With the Portable Light Project
(Alissa Walker) Fast Company
10/2/2009
Inside PopTech’s Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: Timbuk2 Tackles Durability and Portability
(Alissa Walker) Fast Company
9/29/2009
What is Work? Saving the World Without Killing Yourself
(Sharon Glassman) Huffington Post
9/25/2009
Inside PopTech’s Solar-Powered Bag FLAP: An Introduction
(Alissa Walker) Fast Company
9/11/2009
How to get invited to speak at a conference (Alissa Walker) Core77
(Alissa Walker) Core77
9/09/2009
Social Innovation Fellows – Class of 2009 Announced on Change.Org
Nathaniel Whittemore
09/09/2009
PopTech Announces 2009 Social Innovation Fellows
by Rob Katz
8/14/2009
Mention of the FLAP bags on Core77 – reviewing Maker Faire Africa
    8/18/2009
Afrigadget and the solar FLAP Bag Project
by Erik Hersmann

2008


   

12/1/2008
Pop!Tech Gives Social Innovators a Boost
by Jessie Scanlon
   
12/1/2008
Texts used to tackle South Africa HIV crisis
by Stephanie Busari
 
11/25/2008
The Transformative 120: Text Messages Prove a South African HIV Lifeline
by Nancy Scola
    
11/12/2008
Young innovators learn to pitch big ideas
by Gregory M. Lamb
  
11/10/2008
R U Positive? South Africa tries a novel method to promote HIV testing
by Jesse Ellison
 
11/9/2008
Geek Pop Star
by Jason Zengerle
  
11/1/2008
Paul Polak: 15 Rules for Business Success in Any Market
by Carleen Hawn
    
10/31/2008
Un millón de SMS diarios contra el SIDA
   
10/29/2008
Juan Enriquez : 10 Proposals for the Next President
by James Pethokoukis
    
10/28/2008
Mobile Tech Targets AIDS: Pilot Programs in South Africa and the U.S. Use Cell Phones to Deliver Health Care Information
by Ki Mae Heussner
   
10/28/2008
America: The New Venezuela? 10 Commandments for Saving the Economy
by Linda Tischler
         
10/27/2008
Project Masiluleke taps cell phones in AIDS fight
by Leslie Katz
   
10/27/2008
Dispatches from PopTech 2008 – Ideas and reports from the annual innovation incubator
by Greg Lamb
  
10/25/2008
Pop!Tech Launches Digital Hub
by Jessie Scanlon
 
10/25/2008
Letter from Pop!Tech: Tips on Persuasive Branding
by Carleen Hawn
    
10/24/2008
Texts tackle HIV in South Africa
by Jonathan Fildis
    
10/24/2008
Site of the Day: Live stream from Pop!Tech
by Wook Kim
    
10/24/2008
Pop!Tech: Day one
by Bobbie Johnson
  
10/23/2008
Speaking in tongues — 3,500 fewer, that is
by Jordan Lite
   
10/22/2008
Pop!Tech: Ending the Conference Bag Arms Race
by Linda Tischler
     
10/22/2008
Pop!Tech ’08: Welcome to Camden
by Andrew Price
   
10/20/2008
In Troubled Times, Pop!Tech’s Stars Talk Tech, Scarcity
by Alexis Madrigal
 
09/16/2008
Pop!Tech Bootcamp for Innovators
by Andrew Revkin

2007 AND EARLIER


   

 11/26/2007
A meeting of minds tackled the big global issues
by Kate Bulkley
  11/12/2007
Inviting everyone to the party to change the world
by Ellen Freeman Roth
  11/06/2007
We Can’t Say We Don’t Know
by Polly LaBarre
  10/24/2007
Pop!Tech Outgrows Its Toys
by Jessie Scanlon
  10/22/2007
Thinkers Gather to Act on World Problems
by Greg Lamb
  10/22/2007
Parley enlists participants for HIV education in Africa
by Ellen Freeman Roth
  10/22/2007
Web Site Lets Consumers Offset Personal Carbon
by Morning Edition
  10/19/2007
Tapioca and the Nigerian Space Agency
by Nicole Dyer
  10/19/2007
When World-changers Meet in Maine: The Pop!Tech conference
by Greg Lamb
  10/19/2007
Nigerian Space Program Isn’t a 419 Scam
by Mark Anderson
  10/18/2007
eBay, Pop!Tech Make Buying Carbon Offsets Easy
by Mark Anderson
  10/12/2007
Translating the Web
by Ernest Beck
  04/16/2007
Ideas That Change the World
by Lisa LaMotta
  04/16/2007
Pop!Tech Pop!Casts
by Leonora Oppenheim
  01/08/2007
Pop!Tech Releases AntiBabel EP
by Leonora Oppenheim
  11/01/2006
Pop! Till You Drop
by Anya Kamanetz
  10/23/2006
Will Wright’s Dangerous Idea
by Jessie Scanlon
  10.06
Live from Pop!Tech
by Greg Lamb
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“Alive from Pop!Tech” Preview on NPR’s Morning Edition(.rm)
by Brenda Jorrett
  10/28/2005
Wanna Start a Revolution? Play Videogames!
by David Kirkpatrick
  10/22/2005
Visionaries Float Big Ideas
by Mark Anderson
  11/07/2005
The Sharpest Image & PopSci at Pop!Tech
by Tom Vanderbilt
  11.05
Inspiration: Pop!Tech
by Sandor Hatvany