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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Creativity' (23)

EVOKATION

1. The Place. My proposal is to make a difference in two places, the first being in Renton, Washington state and the second being in a virtual space that is available globally. Planting the seed in my current local community of Renton will keep costs down for the seed funding while allowing me to easily utilize regional…

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Added by Alexandra Chauran on May 10, 2010 at 10:30pm — 5 Comments

Investigate Week 11

EPISODE 11

USA

“Education is not filling a bucket,

but lighting a fire.” William Butler Yeats

PAGE 1

PANEL A

Inside a suburban American home in the evening. We can see a white, American woman seated at her computer, with stacks of paper piled high around her. She is a high school science teacher breathing a…

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Added by Alexandra Chauran on May 10, 2010 at 9:35pm — No Comments

DarkSite

Added by Alexandra Chauran on May 10, 2010 at 8:52pm — No Comments

KRUEAP ACT 9

Michele Baron and I worked together to create a dark site for the eventual Robot Uprising that will take place in Cambridge Mass at the MIT campus. Check out the link, if you have any information that you would like added to the site just post it as a comment.

http://sites.google.com/site/krueap/home…

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Added by Wintermute on May 7, 2010 at 11:30pm — 8 Comments

Resilient Renton, 2010

Resilient Renton, 2010 - New Rabanco recycling station, shopping areas geothermal heated, bio-diesel airport, solar panels on city hall roof, Cedar River stocked with salmon hatched by school kids, green-roofing on

public library.…

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Added by Alexandra Chauran on April 15, 2010 at 6:31am — No Comments

Clinica Verde

It is 2020, and the donation I made in 2010 to help build an environmentally sustainable clinic to help women in poverty in Nicaragua who have high-risk pregnancies has been completed. One woman, who otherwise would have died due to high blood-pressure during her pregnancy, survived and gave birth to a healthy child. So inspired was she, that she worked hard to become president with a beautiful idea for a perfect health-care model for her country that could then be adopted by other countries… Continue

Added by Alexandra Chauran on April 10, 2010 at 10:20pm — 2 Comments

Charity Bank

Inspired by banks decades ago, that donated small amounts of interest from credit cards or investments to Charity, the World Bank Institute has established the "Charity Bank." Not really a bank itself, the

Charity Bank is more of a brokerage, connecting individuals with their

favourite charities and empowering those charities to have FDI insured

bank departments so that, whenever their benefactors are saving… Continue

Added by Alexandra Chauran on April 5, 2010 at 9:28pm — No Comments

Lyricists and Singers

Lyricists! Here are some tips to help you get in.

1) Lyrics in different languages are encouraged. (african languages are best) So please put the translation (in english) under the foreign lyrics.

2) If you…

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Added by Justin Miyamoto on April 5, 2010 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Musicians and Songwriters

So you want to be a musician or songwriter for The EVOKE Band!!

Musicians! Here are some tips to help ensure that you get…

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Added by Justin Miyamoto on April 5, 2010 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Calling All Musicians, Singers and Lyricists! Let's start an EVOKE BAND!!!

I am an artist.

I believe in the power of art and music to spread awareness and change people's lives for the better. So I'm starting this experiment in online collaboration and creativity. I just created a youtube channel called TheEvokeBand.

I uploaded a video of a song I just started to write inspired by EVOKE.

The problem is all I have are chords and a basic…

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Added by Justin Miyamoto on April 5, 2010 at 6:30am — 18 Comments

A Special News Bulletin: 2020

The object of Water Day is to get the worlds attention, to raise awareness for the need of sanitation and clean water. If I were put in charge of Water Day 2020 I would draw inspiration from the October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells book, War of the Worlds. In case you don't know the story here is the gist.

On Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of radio listeners were shocked when radio news alerts…

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Added by Wintermute on March 30, 2010 at 3:52pm — 2 Comments

Future of Social Innovation

Ten years from today... I could be anywhere. I see myself living in a big city, but a small apartment. Why a small apartment? I would be living in a small apartment because I have master simple space saving living. I would be encouraging others to live the same way, in order to be more energy efficient. I see myself striving to make my lifestyle a life of community, where people are interacting with their neighbor. Everybody is willing to share food, stories, and… Continue

Added by Nicolas Dykstra on March 28, 2010 at 6:43am — No Comments

I'm addicted to Creativity

Creativity rules in my book. Without it, none of the good Ideas would have occurred. I decided that my Evoke mentor would have to be someone who inspires me to be creative. Erwin Raphael McManus is that creative person. He is a writer, poet, activist, and pastor. He sees the world differently, viewing Culture as a wh***, and not as individual enclaves. He strives to see how we can influence culture, and learn from the culture around us. He also… Continue

Added by Nicolas Dykstra on March 28, 2010 at 6:29am — 4 Comments

World Water Day 2020

It is a rainy World Water Day in 2020, but I am excited to be at a special gathering unveiling a project that has taken quite a while to accomplish. While another Social Innovator is unveiling a much anticipated energy-efficient reverse-osmosis device, I've planned something that involved a few more people in its undertaking. It started with my connections with teaching and my local Chamber of Commerce education committee ten years ago, and turned into a stellar talk of mine delivered at the… Continue

Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 26, 2010 at 1:53am — 2 Comments

Renton, Washington Food Security

I am very fortunate that, in my local region, the biggest problem with food security is not currently crop production. I live in a state that is rich with farming opportunities and healthy crops. I am lucky enough to get my fresh, organic produce delivered weekly from sustainable Full Circle Farm, less than an hour away from my home in Renton.

However, people who aren't in my tax bracket aren't so fortunate, even if they live in my… Continue

Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 23, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

Ten Years From Today

In 2020, when I received the call from Alchemy, I was already busy working towards a better future. I was in a room with fifteen incredibly intelligent children from all walks of life who were the latest group selected as forward-thinking individuals to use divination games to discover solutions to problems. Just as the toy store Ouija board is used seriously by some to solemnly attempt contact with the deceased, tarot cards (copyright US Games) have been used for hundreds of years in very real… Continue

Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 22, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Future Meal

My husband has cooked up a vegetarian meal to share with friends. It consists of lentils, rice and soybeans, all of which have been safely genetically modified to increase crop yield so that the crop takes half the acreage of farm land that were once needed to grow the same foods. This allows for more wild lands to flourish without being planted.

The meal was entirely vegetarian, since factory farming is no longer done due to the lack of sustainable practices for keeping and feeding… Continue

Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 22, 2010 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Innovate on Existing Platforms

From the range of ideas on social innovation, innovating on existing platforms is what stood out to me the most.

Using what's available first-hand should be a starting point. It is the person

who combines existing resources which surround them in such a way which is beneficial

and effective, whom I consider the strongest social innovator.

This view somewhat complements Joseph Schumpeter’s stance on an entrepreneurship, in…

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Added by Sean Gavan on March 20, 2010 at 6:43pm — 2 Comments

A little bit of Energy + Collaboration

If you feel that whatever you are doing is not enough, then watch this video where a small action unleashes a lot of energy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w all thanks to the power of Collaboration.

Do something it doesn't have to be big, all of the ideas that changed the world started a very simple step- Like going to the library and picking up a book… Continue

Added by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on March 20, 2010 at 4:07pm — 4 Comments

LEARN1 Tip: "think like a child – children have no limit to their thinking"

One of the tips was "think like a child – children have no limit to their thinking."

This is the secret to my imaginative process. I refuse to stop being a child. Childhood was the best time of my life for one reason and the worst time of my life for another reason.

Childhood was the best time of my life because everything was new and exciting. I could imagine anything so vividly that I could believe I was actually there. Nothing was more exciting than life, and nothing was… Continue

Added by Joseph Charles Goldman on March 20, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments