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cast your votes! strike a match for fire starter session winners!


♥ CLICK HERE TO VIEW + VOTE FOR THE LOVE MATCHEES ♥ Love Match Week yielded 130 fervent applications from aspiring entrepreneurs from New York to New Zealand. Guidelines for applicants were finicky but open to interpretation. Alexandra and I selected 15 finalists, and now it’s time for the the free world to choose the...

love local: an extra-special message for anyone trying to save the world


Hello, my name is Danielle and I’m a recovering Savior of the World. I used to think that my self-worth depended on my vegetarianism, my activism, futurism, my pro-this and anti-that. Had halo, would preach. Had ‘isms, would teach. I still wrestle with issues of spheres of influence (like one might wrestle a greased boa...

burning questions with nonconformist chris guillebeau


Chris Guillebeau is crazy. The man behind The Art of Nonconformity, Chris is well on his way to visit every country in the world by April 7, 2013. He’s got 117 down out of a list of 192 United Nations members, plus 5 extra entities that are not sovereign but are effectively self-governing. (In case...

i’m loving: bruce mau, gretchen rubin, kira zmuda, charity: water


Ever since I discovered Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth I’ve been smitten with his notions for change and possibility. His mind is like a kaleidoscope of solutions and problems and questions. This promo for the 2010 Denver Biennial of the Americas is a typically elegant and impassioned call to action. I think I need...

Success takes crazy people…


Success takes crazy, passionate people who believe they can change the world. Success doesn’t take “professional” and “proven” people. - Guy Kawasaki, Reality Check