A 'Done Wall' in progress. @ewanmcintosh kids finding so useful in organizing thoughts. pic.twitter.com/ZNtH5Tv4
“Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget.”
- Stefan Sagmeister
In.gredients is a new package-free grocery store that is opening in Austin, Texas in the Summer of 2012. Its mission as the US’s first zero-waste, package-free grocery store will support local businesses and farmers, will sell based on seasonal rhythms of farming, will avoid processed foods, will reduce transportation costs and pollution, and will encourage customers to bring their own reusable containers.
Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth.
- Joan Didion
Our Year 12 Graphics students recently had a project to produce plans for a proposed refurbishment of our middle school classrooms. These students have developed the plans on their student laptops using Archicad and Artlantis then produced virtual tours of the proposed spaces for our recent open night. Visitors where able to then see the spaces proposed refurbishment for 2013.
The art of coping with loads of advice: immerse first, synthesise then have your ideas.
At 100, Lee Wesley Gibson is nearly the oldest surviving former Pullman porter. He is one of thousands of African Americans whose lives were transformed by working for Union Pacific Railroad. Gibson was married to his wife, Beatrice, for 76 years until she died in 2004.
Workplaces of the future?
In a series of essays Born Creative brings together the experiences of creative practices in early years education, to show the importance of cultures, environments and networks in the enrichment of the early years learning and interrogates the role of leaders, policy and parents in creating them.
Excellent brief visual notes on the future, technology and innovation
School dinner blog by a pupil