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2011 Echoing Green Fellows
Echoing Green 
June 8th, 2011
Echoing Green is proud to announce the 2011 class of Echoing Green Fellows. From hunger to poverty, to education inequities and global warming, these twenty-two visionaries plan to prove that these problems are no match for their game-changing ideas, ingenuity, and imagination.
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World Savvy
May 25th, 2011
How do you get students to come to school during spring break? It seems that making a music video about sustainability will do the trick. The majority of the class showed up for what was a fun and actually a very relaxed filming session.
Read More (+1 rating) Loading ...Louie Schwartzberg: The Hidden Beauty of Pollination
TED
May 11th, 2011
“Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.” “There is a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.”
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Inside Iran: the art of resistance — The Music
Global Post
April 28th, 2011
On a cold, gray afternoon, the members of a heavy-metal band called The Zax are thrashing out a practice in an industrial warehouse that appears to be a distribution center for smuggled cigarettes on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran.
Read More (+10 rating) Loading ...David Christian Wows TED with Big History
Big History Project
April 14th, 2011
David Christian’s dazzling romp through 13.7 billion years of history won a standing ovation at TED 2011. In just 18 blistering minutes, David explains how the universe gradually built greater and greater complexity.
Read More (+7 rating) Loading ...“Get With It” Roncesvalles, Colombia
Rare Conservation
May 31st, 2011
This is a music video created with the campaign song for the Roncesvalles, Colombia campaign. The song encourages forest conservation to protect the Roncesvalles watershed. Residents are running out of clean water and deforestation is threatening species with extinction.
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The Corsair
May 13th, 2011
By Jennifer Ferrada On Thursday, May 5, an event at Santa Monica College called “Movimiento” served as a focal point for others to see how art is incorporated into messages of activism. The info session took place at the Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery of the Performing Arts Center, where Los Angeles based artists, activists, [...]
Read More (+3 rating) Loading ...John Hunter on the World Peace Game
Ted
April 29th, 2011
A native Virginian and graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, John Hunter is an award-winning gifted teacher and educational consultant who has dedicated his life to helping children realize their full potential. Employing his background as a musician composer and filmmaker during a three-decade career as a teacher, Hunter has combined his gifted teaching and artistic talents to develop unique teaching programs using multimedia software programs in creative writing and film courses.
Read More (+7 rating) Loading ...“Beyond Coal” Underwear Line & Underwear Activism
Planet Save
April 20th, 2011
This Earth Day, the Sierra Club and underwear company PACT have teamed up to fight coal-powered campuses with college student activism… in underwear, of course.
Read More (+2 rating) Loading ...Bilal’s Got Some New Tricks!
Skateistan
April 13th, 2011
Check out this amazing video featuring some of Bilal’s newest tricks at the Skateistan park in Kabul. The star student of Skateistan’s disabled class is looking for other young disabled athletes abroad that are interested in exchanging with him and the rest of his class.
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