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Honda: The Power of Dreams Series post by: M80

Jason — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:19:29 +0000

Honda and award-winning director, Derek Cianfrance, developed a collection of fascinating short stories(mini documentaries) told by audacious movers and shakers in various industries.

Failure. The mere thought can paralyze even the most heroic thinkers and keep great ideas off the drawing board. But is failing really that bad? We get an inside look at the mishaps of Honda racers, designers and engineers to learn how they draw upon failure to motivate them to succeed. From poor color choices to blown race engines, these risk-taking individuals provide an honest look at what most people fear most. Watch the film and discover the upside of failure.

View more stories after the jump.

Mobility 2088:

Ever since the dawn of man, mobility has been central to our growth and freedom as a civilization. There have always been places to go and people to see, greener pastures, bluer skies and undiscovered lands. But what about the future of mobility? We ask some of the great thinkers of our generation how people will get around in 80 years. From the hope of hydrogen to the dream of space exploration, these futurists, scientists, artists and forward-thinkers ponder the possibilities of future transportation. Watch and see if youre ready for the surprises the experts are predicting.

Kick Out the Ladder:

Honda invites you to discover this inspirational metaphor that has helped impossible dreams come true. Join our cinematic journey and unearth this unique way of advancing—from Honda associates who have kicked out the ladder, as well as those who have achieved success as a result of it. Watch this Honda philosophy in action, and learn the meaning behind it.

You can view these videos in full screen, high-resolution quality on Honda’s official site: dreams.honda.com.

Original Post by: m80_nicole at http://www.m80im.com/

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Ted Talks: Andy Hobsbawm shows off a Green Ad

Jason — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:43:11 +0000

This quick little ad shared by Andy Hobsbawm who is the European chair of Agency.com gets a point across. It’s pretty funny and enjoyable check it out.

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Inspiring Video: Janine Benyus on 12 Sustainable Design Ideas

Jason — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:40:08 +0000

Janine Benyus gives us a good look inside nature to show that some of our most challenging and dangerous problems can be solved by just paying attention to nature. Organisms have found ways to manufacture, recycle, and destroy in ways that are simple and use much less energy then our current ways. I was very entertained with this video I hope you enjoy it and take away as much inspiration as I did.

Source: TED Speech by Janine Benyus

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A look at just how inane our news media is.

Jason — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:55:57 +0000

This short video(4.5 minutes) is from the TED2008 conference and gives us an amazing albeit scary look at how absolutely full of crap our current news media is. Take a look I think you’ll be quite surprised as I was.

Those of you who are thinking “Well, HA! Jason I get my news from Google” or some other online news outlet you’re gonna love the last minute or so of this video. Basically the whole premise boils down to it is cheaper to cover Britney Spears then put news headquarters in third world countries.

Why am I writing about this? Well I guess you could say this is something that keeps me up at night. Our country is deeply under feed when it comes to world news and the tidbits we get are picked and chosen for us. It’s one of the reasons I decided to start blogging here and in general. We have to start learning about whats going on around the world because as Thomas L. Friedman says, “The world is flat” by that I believe he means we’re absolutely connected and things that happen in other countries they don’t take long to have an effect on us.

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Inspiring video: Paul Stamets on how mushrooms could help save the earth.

Jason — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:39:48 +0000

I’ve never knew how powerful mushrooms were until this video by Paul Stamets at TED 2008. I mean I’ve heard they’ve found that some mushrooms or even some bacteria will eat away nuclear waste, but besides that these life forms can actually help reverse some of the damage we’ve done to the planet. They’ve actually got a lot more to do with life in the forest then we previously knew and with that knowledge I think regeneration can happen a lot faster and easier then before.

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Jay Leno’s green garage

Jason — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:51:43 +0000

Jay Leno’s green renovation of his garage has come a long way. He’s added some new parts washers, replaced some aerosol cans and big solar array. Leno even talks about adding more solar panels even though he generates more power then the garage needs to operate during the day.

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Ernest Madu talks about the Heart Institute of the Caribbean

Jason — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:14:08 +0000

Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean and has built the institute with open standards, smart design and great technical choices. They run the Heart Institute at 1/10th the cost of what similar facilities run in the United States and best of all they don’t turn anyone away. Dr. Madu welcomes those at TED and I’m sure anyone watching with the means to follow him to Africa to continue building facilities like these.

This man and his group of outside of the box thinkers are going to create great change. I cannot wait to see what they do in Africa for the people who so deserve it.

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Norway using green living to rehabilitate prisoners

Jason — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:44:54 +0000

I hope you take the time to watch the video above it is a great look into a successful program going on in Norway to reconnect inmates with life and respect. The prison governor is a very intelligent man and realized if you give the prisoners a good way to earn respect and treat them like people they tend it is much easier for them to integrate back into society. He has successfully rehabilitated inmates which most of the American worlds prisons fail to do everyday by giving his prisoners a way to work and connect with animals as well as create their own food these prisoners are learning to respect life, gain trust and a sense of living.

Everybody needs a sense of pride and programs like this give these men the sense that it can be earned by honest means. We truly need more programs like this in the world because it is abundantly clear that keeping men and women in over crowded cages is not a good way to make an honest person out of them.

Of course to me the fact that they are going about this in an eco-friendly way gives me hope that these men are being taught to respect their surrounding as well as the people around them. The solar power generation is a great step for prisons and I think more and more tax payer supported facilities should be implementing solar or wind power if the location allows for it. The money savings would be huge and the money saved could be directed at running these types of programs.

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Al Gore’s TED 2008 speech on the climate crisis

Jason — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:33:39 +0000

Al Gore who was once Vice President of the United States is more well known these days for his work promoting "The Inconvenient Truth" a great movie he and a talented group of people put together to highlight the problems we are having with the environment. He shows amazing passion and personality in all his presentations including the one I hope to share with you. This was recorded at the TED 2008 conference in Monterey, California and I really enjoyed it. So, much that I had to share it with you.

Be sure to visit TED.com

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David Eggers TED 2008 wish

Jason — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:14 +0000

The folks at TED are busy getting video from previous years up online while working on the video from this years conference. They’re doing a great job and just the other day posted this video which introduced me to David Eggers. I felt absolutely inspired by his talk at TED and by him as a person. I hope you enjoy and are inspire by him and his wish as much as I was. He created 826 Valencia in San Fransisco which has become a great success tutoring kids 1 on 1 between the ages 6-18. In the 25 minute talk that he gives you will not once feel its a waste of your time.

TED link Once upon a school – This is the site that was set up for people to participate in David Eggers TED wish. Here you can read stories of success and even submit your own if you participate in his wish.

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Joseph Lekuton is an amazing man from Kenya

Jason — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:34:17 +0000

This is an amazing man named Joseph Lekuton was born to the Maasai tribe in Northern Kenya and is now a teacher, writer, and member of the Kenya parliment. Mr. Lekuton is also a great inspiration to me and I’m glad to share his video with you. The story that he has been part of is something us in many parts of the world would never have had the chance to experience and I’m glad that he has because with that story he is doing good for many others. Take a six minute break and watch this video it won’t disappoint.

If you would like to learn more about Joseph Lekuton and what he’s doing please by all means follow the link below.Source: TED Talks Joseph Lekuton 2007

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Chrysler getting greener?

Jason — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:41:37 +0000

At Chrysler’s St. Louis Assembly Plant in Missouri Chrysler is putting paint over spray to work in an innovative and green way. The paint over spray is collected by a pool of water under the paint booth. The water is then drained leaving behind mush of paint over spray that is loaded into a truck and taken down to the nearby power plant to be mixed with coal to be burned to create power. This process offsets about 570 tons of coal a year and another cool byproduct of the mixture is that the titanium oxide used in the paint rids the coal of the trace amounts of mercury that would other wise be released into the air.

Source: St. Louis Assembly Plant: From Paint to Power Chrysler’s Environmental Responsibility site

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Bill Clinton’s TED Prize Update

Jason — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:04:02 +0000

Bill Clinton made a great wish in front of the TED conference and that wish was for help developing, “high quality rural health system for the whole country” of Rwanda. Well, AMD, Nokia, and SUN Microsystems stepped up and joined the Clinton Foundation, Partners In Health, and the Rwanda Government to make this wish a reality. Money was raised, technology was and is being developed, and the dream is on its way to fruition. Congratulations to the Government of Rwanda, the Clinton Foundation, AMD, Nokia, and SUN Microsystems for setting out and making great steps towards an amazing goal. I think the TED Conference deserves a great big congratulations as well for putting people who care and have the resolve to get these kind of projects started and moving in the right direction.

This is a link to the video of his TED Prize speech and wish: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/85Source: William Jefferson Clinton TED Prize Wish Update

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Windmill Gone Wild: Overseas Edition!

Jason — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:59:00 +0000

An amazing show of just how powerful wind can be. Nature had the last laugh in this video as the brakes on the Windmill failed and the power generator was destroyed in a quite spectacular manor. I hope they can salvage some parts those Windmills don’t come cheap.

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