Sunday, February 20, 2011

TED Talks: Greening the Ghetto

I'm passing along a video one of my Bike & Build leaders, Tender (well, that's what I call him anyway), sent out. It's a talk about environmentally sustainable housing projects in urban areas (which has a lot of ties to things that Habitat for Humanity is fighting against, like veiled Redlining and White Flight). Majora also explains how awesome affordable/environmentally-conscientious housing is for local economics - so true!

I know this is longer than, say, "Hide Yo Kids", but we make time for the things that are important to us. Plus, she's an amazing speaker. Enjoy!

- Lacy




P.S. Keef and I are in charge of keeping housing staff philanthropically active, so of course one of our service projects is a Habitat build! Exciting stuff. Looking forward to telling you all about it.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

PSA

I failed this so hard (which likely correlates with the attentiveness of my driving).




Watch out for one another.

http://www.startribune.com/local/98931319.html