Diana Lind on Opportunities for Sustainability
Urban advocate, writer, and Next American City editor Diana Lind spoke with us today about “Disrupting the Status Quo: Opportunities for Sustainability”. She gave us a clear 3-part framework in which to think about the major challenges to urban sustainability, and illustrated them with vivid examples, comparisons, and stories. Below are my visual notes, and above is a map...
Day 1: Fellowship
Last week held the first day of Code for America’s 2012 fellowship. We are more diverse in personal and professional backgrounds (illustrator, designer, developer, urban planner, lawyer-hacker, former freelancers, community organizer, entrepreneur, wilderness youth counselor, Googler, Apple-er, Esri-er, puma trainer), yet more focused in mission, than I could have imagined. Spending the year with these people...
Day 0
A little reading before the first day. Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice by Daniel Lathrop and Lauren Ruma.
Books in Sydney
Last month I had the chance to visit Sydney. The trip was short and focused: for five days I was immersed in the projects we’d been scheming up back in the States. The Harbor City’s bats and laid-back-ness reminded me of Austin, and its glam interiors and water views of Miami. My coworkers boasted a...
Farewell Google
This is the propeller hat that everyone received on their first day. We had to wear them to a company-wide happy hour that Friday and introduce ourselves. A couple of months ago, I sent this email: Hi everyone, I’m writing to let you know that I am leaving Google at the end of November. The...
Elsewhere