François’s posterous

Growth through dissemination 

Meat Consumption and CO2 Emissions

I simply wish to store this chart, mostly for the last column on the amount of CO2 produced by various food products.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/science/earth/04meat.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

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The XO Is So Green

The OLPC's Mary Lou Jepsen gave this fascinating presentation of the XO at the Greener Gadgets conference, in which she focuses on the environmentally-friendly features of the computer. Now, if only every industry behaved in the same fashion.
 
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/20/mary-lou-jepsen-at-greener-gadgets/
 

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Charter for Compassion

Considering how often religion is used as a means by firebrands, this video needs to make the rounds.

http://charterforcompassion.com/

 

 

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A Shared Culture

This is a wonderful video that emphasizes the new culture of sharing that underlies the Creative Commons movement.

http://creativecommons.org/asharedculture

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Manual Art

A very nice collection of hand paintings depicting animals.

http://socioblog.canalblog.com/archives/2007/07/11/5585435.html

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Media Literacy as Literacy for the Information Age

Something I truly believe in:

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Finding the Sweet Spot

A diagram taken from Dave Pollard's book: The Sweet Spot.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/10/09.html#a2259

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ZuiPrezi

"ZuiPrezi is a zooming presentation editor which allows you to easily create stunning presentations. With the help of ZuiPrezi you can create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings."

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This is a spectacular video representation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as much for its beauty and creativity as for the message it conveys. The video was created by Seth Brau.

http://www.humanrightsactioncenter.org/

Source: http://twitter.com/fmeichel/statuses/948178915

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What Can Creativity Do

An inspiring video on the need for creativity, produced by the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Source: http://zecool.blogspot.com/2008/10/la-crativit-en-images.html

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