November 24, 2010 – 10:23 am
Image by zeug via Flickr Global Markets spoke with Andrew Frey, creator and founder of DawnTown, Miami’s annual architecture competition. The winner will be awarded next week during Art Basel in Miami. Global Markets: DawnTown, Miami’s annual global architectural competition, is in its third year. How has the competition grown over the past two years? [...]
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Oil & Gas consultant and a sports commentator Adebisi Osunneye writes about his soccer passion and what it means to have the World Cup in Africa. For more of his soccer reflections see: http://nigeria.worldcupblog.org In Football, or soccer as called in the US, the FIFA World Cup which holds every 4 years is the biggest tournament [...]
Author Megha Bahree travels extensively through India reporting on the country’s transformation from a traditional agrarian economy to an industrial one. She is currently a Staff Writer at Forbes magazine, and blogs at megha.me. India is the world’s seventh largest consumer of electricity and is set to overtake countries like Canada and Germany as its [...]
April 28, 2010 – 11:10 am
by Roberto Salas, GrupoNueva’s Chief Executive Office and General Manager of MASISA Nowadays, sustainability in the business environment must be seen as an opportunity for companies. These companies must get involved inside the economic, social and environmental trends offering opportunities through: Business management innovation and efficiency. Commitment and participation inside the social issues that affect our [...]
I’ve been writing a book examining climate change and energy policy from a Christian perspective. The book, Jesus Wants US to Stop Global Warming, relates climate and energy issues to values Christian Americans hold dear: increased national security, personal and national financial prosperity, America’s continued supremacy as a global superpower, and, of course, the teachings [...]
Virlana Tkacz writes: Theatre makes the past present, alive at the moment that you are witnessing it. The characters as well as the texts, poems and songs breathe with new life, and so a new future opens up for them. I am interested in creating theatre that is rooted in little-known or appreciated cultures of [...]
March 19, 2010 – 11:51 am
They are everywhere. They are regular women who do not wait for a government program, crisis or news-breaking story to highlight issues in their communities. (And they are, statistics tell us, more often women than men.) They see a need, and they have the courage and conviction to act. Their hands-on experience gives them the credibility to [...]
February 16, 2010 – 9:25 pm
I am Gualti, a young artist originally from Padua. I moved to Venice in September of 1998 to inaugurate my atelier-galleria following a long, tortuous, and sensitive evolution. I am self-taught, a “material experimenter”, an inventor of decorative forms for the body, who abandoned myself to the creativity that passionately consumes my entire existence. Since childhood, my extreme sensitivity has left me in [...]
February 8, 2010 – 3:06 pm
Mandy Aftel is an authority on natural essences and custom perfumes and can be found at (www.aftelier.com). I create perfume–and people wear it–because beauty and art are a vacation from reality. Beauty brings about a morally valuable state in the mind of the beholder. A well-proportioned and beautiful perfume can make those who smell it [...]