When in Roma…On the Way to the Piazza Navona: China, Africa & The Lessons of Leonardo

Dark hair, dark eyes, black jeans, scarf just so, slightly dissatisfied expression and a brisk pace that makes it look like you know where you’re going—expect to be asked for directions early and often on the streets of Rome. As long as I kept the dialog to “buon giorno,” “uno” (when pointing to a particularly [...]

Phone Riff: Hope Phones, Healthy Texting, Conflict Minerals, Ecological Intelligence, Blue Sweaters and Doing the Right Thing

Hope Phones is one of those “Gosh, yes!” ideas: Get people to donate old cell phones to a recycling company Get recycling company to assign each phone a value Use value to trade for refurbished phones Donate refurbished phones to clinics in developing countries to use for sending health-related text messages Good begets good Stanford [...]

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