Archive of the category: "Why don’t we have that at home?"
Everything is better with a Pool, especially this one.
Sandboxer Archie Lee Coates IV is involved with an amazing project, and we want to get the word out! + Pool is an initiative by a group of architects and designers to build a floating pool in the rivers of New York City. A swimming pool like no other, it is for everyone to use. [...]
Sebastian Lindstrom crossing Africa
Sandboxer Sebastian Lindstrom, chairman of an NGO called Light for Children-Ghana and co-founder of a movement – the famous What Took You So Long Foundation – is currently crossing Africa as the locals do together with other young travelers, in search of people who are making a difference to young people in need. Witness their [...]
stories, people, links: what inspired us this week
At Sandbox we spend hours, days and often many nights looking at interesting stuff out there on the web, content that you guys created or talk about. Many of your stories inspire us and we want to share more and more of our findings with everyone on a regular basis. Be part of it: if [...]
Oriental Night at Kenza
25 Sandboxers, potential members, and some special guests met at London’s Kenza Restaurant to celebrate an oriental night around good food and brilliant people. The topics were wide-spread, as it were the people. Fraser Doherty, Global Student Entrepreneur 2007, gave interesting insights into “storytelling”, a topic which was curiously debated by both practitioners and academics [...]
From eco-clubbing to eco-working
With its powerful sound-system, its numerous lights, its heating and cooling system, a nightclub is an energy glutton. Trying to address this issue, the first eco-club of the world re-injects into the main circuit the energy produced by its customers shaking their bodies on the dance floor.
WHY DON’T WE HAVE THAT AT HOME? – FROM THE COMMENTS
A couple of weeks back, I wrote about the small but cool innovations I encountered in Finland, and asked readers to share their travel discoveries of things we would like to have at home in the comments. I’ve decided to re-publish all those inputs from the comments in this post, to make sure that everybody [...]
WHY DON’T WE HAVE THAT AT HOME? – FINLAND EDITION
The best innovations can be very small, but they improve the quality of your life in a certain way. And very often, those innovations are already being used somewhere – they just haven’t made it to your home place. That’s why traveling is so great: You discover a lot of those small but useful innovations. [...]
