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Please Do As You Say

Andre — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:48:50 +0000

Thank you, Severn Suzuki.

A little integrity would be nice, no?

Jamie Oliver on Transforming our Food Culture

Andre — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:16:25 +0000

Remember, you are made of what you eat (and stars)!

Perspective Shift

Andre — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:06:10 +0000

Stepping “behind the camera” often creates a feeling of immunity and separation from what’s happening right in front of us.

What are YOU avoiding when you step behind the camera? Or remain in the moving car? Or stand behind the window? In front of the TV?

It is not enough to just know about it. Not anymore.

Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

Andre — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:48:59 +0000

For some, adulthood comes with full amnesia of what felt like fun during childhood and a full investment in preventing anything risky from happening. Not for this man and not for us, right?

What are the “dangerous” things you avoid playing with?

Schools and Creativity

Andre — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:37:49 +0000

Shakespeare was once a child, and he was in somebody’s English class, right? How annoying!

Your fear is the only thing between you and creativity.

Anthony and the teaching authority

Andre — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:20:41 +0000

“All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words — Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple–or more difficult. Difficult, because to trust children we must trust ourselves–and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.”

John Holt, from the preface of How Children Learn

What would you do today if you trusted yourself?

Believe in your children

Andre — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:50:03 +0000

Believe in your children. Support them in discovering what THEY love and support them in doing it. All the knowledge in the world is at their fingertips. Give them your support and love and faith and just watch the miracle unfold.

Just the facts:

12-year-old William Yuan’s invention of a highly-efficient, three-dimensional nanotube solar cell for visible and ultraviolet light has won him an award and a $25,000 scholarship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. ‘Current solar cells are flat and can only absorb visible light’” Yuan said. ‘I came up with an innovative solar cell that absorbs both visible and UV light. My project focused on finding the optimum solar cell to further increase the light absorption and efficiency and design a nanotube for light-electricity conversion efficiency.’ Solar panels with his 3D cells would provide 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than cutting-edge 3D solar cells. ‘My next step is to talk to manufacturers to see if they will build a working prototype,’ Yuan said. “If the design works in a real test stage, I want to find a company to manufacture and market it.