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Reads tagged with “activism”

Curation with a Conscience: The Working Proof
Curation with a Conscience: The Working Proof

How to cover your causes and your walls, all at the same time.

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Actions Speak Loudest
Actions Speak Loudest

What Jimmy Carter and Mia Hamm have in common, or how to kick-start a decade of betterment.

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Gift Guide: Kids & The Eternal Kid
Gift Guide: Kids & The Eternal Kid

From thinking to tinkering, by way of color, music and photography.

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World AIDS Day Spotlight: Interview with Travis McCoy
World AIDS Day Spotlight: Interview with Travis McCoy

What a pair of sneakers has to do with a bridge in Manila and mobile cinema in South Africa.

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Social Justice with a Twist: Ctrl.Alt.Shift
Social Justice with a Twist: Ctrl.Alt.Shift

Blurring the boundaries between activism, advertisement, and art, or how you can get hand grenades to hang on your Christmas tree.

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100 Places to Remember
100 Places to Remember

What the world’s best photographers have to do with nipping carbon emissions.

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DoGooder: Do Nothing, Change Everything
DoGooder: Do Nothing, Change Everything

How to bypass annoyance with slick design and serious dogoodness.

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Gift Guide Part One: Books
Gift Guide Part One: Books

How to be a cool and cultured polyglot of a friend and friend of the polyglot.

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The Wall In My Head: Words & Art from the Fall of the Iron Curtain
The Wall In My Head: Words & Art from the Fall of the Iron Curtain

What fallen checkpoints have to do with a generation of artists.

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Instant Classic: Whole Earth Discipline
Instant Classic: Whole Earth Discipline

Ecopragmatism, or how to stop doing what we’re doing in order to avoid going where we’re going.

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