This year I’m celebrating Mother’s Day with a mashup about Julia Ward Howe a founding mother of U.S. Mother’s Day, and the astonishing Hissa Hilal,…
This Mothers’ Day I would like to pay special tribute to (you Mom, of course), but also to the women known as Las Madres de…
James Rojas is an urban planner who devotes a lot of his time to translating the impenetrable maps and language of land use planning into…
Beautiful, bankrupt, volcano-spewing, Iceland should win the magical realism award of the century. Iceland is a tiny country. It is physically the size of Kentucky,…
When thinking about urban environmental repair, there is perhaps no better place to start than in what may seem to be the most unlikely of…
The next bubble is bound to be green. Stock markets will rise and fall based on how people relate to new energy technologies. So why…
This Saturday, April 17, in honor of Earth Day, there will be activities in South L.A. This is a good thing, of course, as all…
poster Seth Tobocman While health insurance and bank lobbies vie for the comic-book-villain-of-the-year award, there is nothing more insidious than the invisible health threats that…
Banks or families? This is the false choice that big banks and the American Bankers Association are offering Congress as they move to eviscerate the…
Here’s another little Havana/L.A. mashup about art and redevelopment. One of my other favorite places in Havana is the Callejón de Hamel, a small alley…
Last month I had the privilege and rare opportunity to visit Cuba, traveling along with the FourStory crew, friends, and family. A dozen or so…
Plan for London Olympics 2012 Village Photo: ecofriend.org In 2012, London will be hosting the Summer Olympics, “the greenest games to date” according to the…
This is a followup to January’s DIT video and article on How to Make a Storyboard. This time I’ll give deeper instructions by going into…
For a general introduction to the theory and practice of restorative justice, check out: Restorative Justice online. I sat next to an astrophysicist on the…
I recently attended a public lecture given by Andrew Simms, the Policy Director of the new economics foundation, a UK-based think tank that develops new…
As mentioned in my previous post – back to the future of dystopia – with an emphasis on re-zoning sci-fi style. I can’t cite the…
Democracy is basically a system that lets people make decisions together
Storyboards are a way to present the elements of a story in a sequence. They are used a lot by people who make movies and…