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How Technology is Changing Politics
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2008-06-23 22:31:43
When I told a friend I was going to the Personal Democracy Forum she said, “Whoa.”

Interview with Stephen Colbert at the Y
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2007-10-24 02:57:49
“I love playing a high status idiot.”

Raucous laughter.

It’s hard to tell if Stephen Colbert is being funny when a packed crowd of white people in flip-flops dies laughing at everything he says. Such was the scene at the 92nd Street Y last night where I heard him speak with New York Times columnist Frank Rich.

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Is Christmas Wasteful?
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2007-11-25 23:03:13
The Times' Style section yesterday discussed the newest addition to the Christmas holidays: the green Grinch. This is the environmentally obsessed family member who is "bent on eradicating the wasteful materialism of the holidays." Focusing on the usual Grinch-like grievances of excessive consumption, this person puts an environmental spin on the most negative aspects of the Christmas season:

[The Grinch] is the family member who is the first to point out, over the bountiful Christmas dinner, that the 2.6 billion holiday cards sold each year in the United States could fill a landfill the size of a football field 10 stories high, or that those conventional lights on the Christmas tree contribute up to nine times as much greenhouse-gas emissions as the leaner-burning L.E.D. models; or that some Christmas-tree growers use as many as 40 different pesticides, as well as chemical colorants, on their crops.

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Live Earth - 07/07/2007
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2007-07-03 16:21:50
Live Earth is a music event taking place across 7 continents on July 7, 2007 to make Al Gore look cool and to combat the climate crisis. The event marks the beginning of a multi-year call to action for individuals, corporations and governments, with the goal of driving a critical mass of people to stand up and make the prevention of global warming a priority in their lives.

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N2Y3 2008 Mashup Challenge
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2008-05-27 18:55:54
The N2Y3 2008 Mashup Challenge featured 21 teams competing for funding for initiatives ranging from saving endangered languages to ending genocide. On the first day of the conference each team was permitted two minutes to describe their projects, many of which focused on themes like government transparency and corporate accountability, and all of which rely very heavily on websites and social networking platforms. Mapping proved to be a very popular tool for organizing information.

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