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		<title>Prizes Targeting Forestry and Environment in Emerging Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for ideas, examples, and specific opportunities around ways to leverage prizes and competitions to advance the state of the art in several forestry-related areas, including: Change incentives around inefficient use of fuel wood and biomass. A lot of the approaches out there center on cook stoves. Who is addressing the broader challenge through prize/challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity in the Hills Survey Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During February I floated a survey as part of my efforts to understand our creative economy a little better in Vermont. 51 respondents completed the survey from nearly two dozen locations across the state. I learned at least three things from this effort: Vermont creatives tend to be highly entrepreneurial, working across an average of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentives to Innovate, from Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Bornstein, globetrotting documentarian of the &#8220;social entrepreneurship&#8221; school of development, has an opinion piece in today&#8217;s New York Times introducing recent White House efforts to leverage prizes as a mechanisms to &#8220;pull&#8221; innovation into government. It is hard to escape the fact that the examples of &#8220;tangibles&#8221; (non-software and data based inventions) cited are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing [blank] Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About six years ago I had the opportunity to attend a conference in Botswana focused on governance reform and civil society. At the time there was a lot of excitement about the countries progressive environmental stand, the role of women, and youth engagement. I was especially happy to have met young activists from Pioneers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Population Media + STEM + Makers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: MakerFaireAfrica2012 Make for a great weekend of learning and creativity. This Thursday the Population Institute and Vermont-based Population Media Center will host the 32nd annual Global Media Awards in New York City. &#8220;Each year PI honors journalists, filmmakers, radio and television show hosts, and editorial cartoonists from around the world who write about population [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Creative Economy in Vermont</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development recently announced that the former Vermont film commission head would be tapped to lead the recently created Office of the Creative Economy in a shuffling of the deck. The shuttered film commission had been under fire from quarters in Vermont&#8217;s film community in 2011. The year ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRIT: A Tape-art Installation at KIPP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times will publish on Sunday a great series on education in America. Featured will be a brilliant commissioned piece of taped graphic art by Stephen Doyle, posted here. The photography really draws it together. I found myself really liking the textured wrinkes and scrunches of tape along the floor. Follow the link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Grim Toe Becomes His Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports today on the incredible surgery by which a man&#8217;s toe became his lost thumb &#8211; much less disabling, life without a big toe than a thumb, especially for a man in his line of work &#8211; a plant operator. Asked, &#8220;Does a toe make a good thumb?&#8221; Mr Byrne replied, &#8220;Yes, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Makeshift (mkshft) Mag</title>
		<link>http://mixedmedia.us/lhtorres/collage/introducing-makeshift-mkshft-mag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhtorres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a great new effort underway to document the everyday fabricators, makers, crafters, and artists at the heart of today&#8217;s DIY movement. Its called Makeshift Magazine: A Journal of Hidden Creativity and their first issue is out. If you support their launch by contributing to their Kickstarter campaign, you&#8217;ll get a copy! While the magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thrill of a Lovely Letter is Safe in Buffalo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhtorres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a brief family holiday along the Erie Canal last week, I had the pleasure of stopping in at the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative. What a thrill! Why? Several reasons:  Its a bright open physical space in the heart of a city ready for a rebound. Artists know what that feeling is like: [...]]]></description>
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