I recently wrote an article for Under Consideration’s Speak Up on my experience with Project M and my Pay it Forward initiative. Here’s an excerpt from the article.
“I graduated from Syracuse University in 1996 full of excitement to enter the design field. I had the crazy idea that I was going to change the world [...]
The Project M Design Lab in Alabama is now up and running… now all we need are designers to fill it! Please contact John Bielenberg if you are interested in attending a Project M session. And for more information on Project M, go to www.projectmlab.com.
Activist Van Jones is tackling two of our biggest problems—urban poverty and environmental peril—with a fresh, dynamic plan. His vision for providing America’s poor with “green jobs instead of jails” touts a Green Revolution that includes everyone.
Check out his popcast from Pop!Tech
Through helping others. Here’s an interesting book that I found recently — “Rambam’s Ladder: The Eight Steps of Giving.”
The 8 steps of giving are as follows:
8 — Responsibility
At the top of the ladder is the gift of self-reliance. To hand someone a gift or a loan, or to enter into a partnership with him, or [...]
Last June, I spent 4 weeks in Hale County, Alabama with Project M, an intensive summer program designed to inspire designers to show that their work can have a positive and significant impact on society.
After going through the M experience, I’ve realized it’s important that talented designers continue to have the opportunity to attend Project [...]
The Project M Lab website was launched today. For those of you that don’t know, last month I was in Hale County, Alabama working with Project M, an intensive summer program designed to inspire designers to show that their work can have a significant impact on society. We decided to establish a permanent home for [...]
Its been 10 days of sweat, bug bites and cockroach filled streets here in Greensboro, AL. This is truly one of the most rural towns that I’ve ever visited and it makes you wonder if anyone actually lives or wants to be here. The best way to describe it is how one of my fellow [...]
As most of you know, I am in Hale County, Alabama on a wonderful and thoughtful program called Project M. The goal of Project M is to prove that design can have a significant impact on society and communities around the world. Before going on this journey I very much questioned the role and validity [...]
