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Weekly inspiration #32: A clear blue sky of ashes

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

While the icelandic volcano continues to spit its ashes, planes are grounded in whole Europe with the exception of Italy, Portugal and Spain. And although KLM and a couple of other companies are currently running independant tests about the impact of the cloud on their machines, the air lockdown is now likely to last until the [...]

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First TEDx Volcano happening in London!

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

With volcanic excitement, we’re thrilled to announce that a team lead by Sandbox member, founder of Assetmap, and co-editor at change.org, Nathaniel Whittemore, has made conference history.  Within 36 hours, Nathaniel rallied support of partners such as Sandbox and Ludic Group to put together a line-up that is undoubtedly fulfilling TED’s standard of thought leadership.  [...]

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SIZE NO LONGER MATTERS

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I had the pleasure to hear Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, speak last week here at the Worldleaders Forum at Columbia University about “Clean Energy and Human Capital: Iceland- The Laboratory”. He spoke about the successful efforts of Iceland to become completely independent of oil and explained how he has turned Iceland (being a [...]

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