We’ve all heard the phrase, attributed to peace activist Anne Herbert, “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.”  So here’s a question: Have you done any lately?  Seen any?  I suspect that among you are many perpetrators of such acts, we’d love to gather them to show how kindness is the rule,…

A friend just sent me this amazingly simple, fun tone matrix, and I can’t stop playing with it!  You start with a blank slate, and boxes light up as you click.  A “sound wave” travels across the box, and your lit boxes produce sounds, harmonic, dissonant, repetitive – whatever you want to arrange.  Just press…

Early spring is a great time to think about light.  Light is back after the long winter, it is finally warming to our bodies and the earth.  I caught this moment in my garden in the afternoon when the crocus blooms were positively luminous. Please share: Where do you most notice spring light?  And click…

Wow, just wow.  Have you seen the news about the “Kyoto Box,” a solar-powered oven made from nothing more than two cardboard boxes, black paint, aluminum foil, and the rays of the sun?  The box was just awarded first prize in a green invention contest sponsored by the Forum for the Future.  It’s sustainable, scalable,…

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