The Realist Idealist

I am very pleased to announce that ADOOGA.com has officially launched the Beta version of its website today!
Why am I pleased you might ask? If you did ask, I might answer that there are two reasons.
1) It’s the brain child of one of my best friends and 2) It’s fun, innovative, and has huge [...]

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Just finished this TIME article
The Clean Energy Scam
Without giving my own personal views yet, I’d really love to know others thoughts on it and get some discussion going.   I know some of you are ardent biofuel supporters.  Some of you have even raised vast sums of money to invest in biofuel infrastructure.
Some of [...]

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Yesterday, I got sent a press release about the Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based organization I’d never heard of dedicated to preserving a record of the Internet and to increasing access to the Internet. This week, the little known organization began offering free internet service to public housing projects at speeds far greater than [...]

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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://shots.snap.com/ss/95f0dc342a26c3da87727767b468a6ff/snap_shots.js”></script> I’ve had a couple different conversations/arguments about Twitter in the last few weeks - both online and off. I will admit, I was once adamantly averse to tweeting as I saw it mostly as a big time waster. Then I went to SXSW.
At SXSW I saw how it could be [...]

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I opened the Times homepage this morning to find this article headlining:
Early Dazzle, Then Tough Times for Governor
That Deval Patrick (the nation’s second black governor) has had a rough go of it in the last year is not new news. That his latest bill was defeated yesterday may be “new” news, but it’s certainly [...]

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Anyone I’ve talked to recently knows that I’ve been touting the virtues of Current Media’s new website and their citizen journalism through the “pods” on their TV station (now in 51 million households!) I don’t believe there is any other company that is (intentionally) democratizing media in the same way - and the potential [...]

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A few months ago before the BSR Conference in San Francisco I wrote a post titled “No More Business Bulls… Please,” and it was oddly one of the most popular things I’ve ever written.  People really don’t want to hear the bs that comes out of all-to-many business/nonprofit persons’ mouths.  (Mine included to be sure!)
Today [...]

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That David Brooks would write an article about social entrepreneurship and more or less delineate the exact path that many of my friends have taken in recent years (graduate from top 20 US university –> Year of Service program like TfA –> grad school –> software/business/corporation –> launch social enterprise) was surprising to me.
NYT: Thoroughly [...]

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I just learned about this unusual day - PARK(ing) Day - that takes place annually in San Fracisco as a project of the Rebar Group.
(thanks, Meg!)
Pretty awesome. A great example of thinking a bit (or far) outside the box and making something (actually) happen around it.
http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parking/index.html

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Another great 5 Minutes of Caring this morning from CoolPeopleCare:

“Tomorrow is World Water Day, and while it’s a time to realize the dire need for clean water around the world, it’s also a time to take a look at our own consumption. Do you know how much water is in that coffee [...]

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