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Blu never ceases to amaze and delight us. His latest wall animation left us speechless. It was done in Buenos Aires and Baden took months to paint, film and edit.

Once again Blu takes "the bar" and raises it to an even higher level...

Milan 08: designer Tord Boontje launched Rain, an outdoor collection for Moroso, at the Little Wild Garden of Love exhibition at Moroso’s showroom on Via Pontaccio in Milan. (more…)

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Unless you've been living under a rock, you'd be hard-pressed to miss the continuous stream of news stories describing the threat posed by the world's dwindling reserves of freshwater. With some talking up the potential for water becoming the next "oil," it has become imperative for international NGOs and governments to focus their energy on forestalling a global crisis that could devastate developing countries. Fortunately, the WWF and Nature Conservancy have developed a handy new resource...

Solar rooftop installations just got a lot easier: Lumeta, a subsidiary of construction heavyweight DRI, has developed a solar panel sticker -- the Power-Ply 380. The company says its convenient peel-and-stick solar technology allows it to be installed almost twice as fast as regular rack-mounted panels -- a claim put to the test in the above video...

Fewer and fewer Samis live the nomadic life these days. Photo courtesy wiki commons

Reindeer herding is no piece-of-cake job - the hours are long and the weather mostly crummy. But at least ten percent of the indigenous Sami people (also called Lapplanders, or Lapps) in Europe's far north have herding as their traditional occupation. Though they've over time been encroached upon by different assimilation pressures and have been shifting to stationary reindeer farming over nomadic herding, a rapidly-warming Arctic climate is the latest serious threat to their livelihood.

Traditionally Sami reindeer herders traveled over ice roads - b...

The essence of branding is developing a clear identity for the messenger -- as opposed to marketing, which merely focuses on the message. However, in the non-profit sector, branding frequently falls by the wayside. My theory is that when your messages are as serious as saving the planet, it's hard to look beyond them. (It should also be noted that many non-profit communications are the result pro-bono work, often completed by different agencies - which can make it hard to maintain consistency across campaigns.)

I've already removed myself from junk mail lists thanks to Green...