February 2012
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“If we’re talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify...”
– -Lavin speaker Alex Steffen, talking to the Utne Reader about strategies for building carbon neutral cities.
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Watch“The new economy is all about collaboration,” says Tonya Surman, the co-founder of The Centre for Social Innovation, and Lavin’s newest exclusive speaker. In this video, shot at Lavin’s Toronto office, she talks about what makes for a successful social enterprise, as well as why she’s “not interested in working with non-profits that are simply going to beg for money.”
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“All writers have roots they draw from — travel, work, family. My roots are in...”
– Alan Lightman explains why science is his inspiration in an interview with The Toronto Star. His new novel, Mr g, tells the story of creation through the eyes of God.
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WatchEducation reform speaker Pedro Noguera talks about a school in the South Bronx where the “culture of the school was more powerful than the culture of the streets.”:
You can take young people—young men—who have been turned off to school, and create a school setting that is so compelling that you can change mindsets about learning.
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WatchEven though it’s known as the world wide web, the internet has a decidedly American and English-language bias, says Virginia Heffernan. Filmed at The Lavin Agency offices in New York City. (Virginia, formerly of The New York Times, is now Yahoo’s new National Correspondent!)
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“Liberals need to be shaken. [They] misunderstand conservatives far more than the...”
– Jonathan Haidt, speaking with The Chronicle of Higher Education. Haidt’s new book, The Righteous Mind, is due in March. He will speak at TED 2012 in February.
January 2012
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WatchA wonderful video. Social entrepreneur Dan Austin talks about his organization, 88bikes—which gives bicycles to children in developing countries—and explains his concept of “joy-based philanthropy.”
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“This is heading into the largest environmental battle of the decade. It is not...”
– -Tzeporah Berman, on the Northern Gateway Pipeline—the latest Alberta tar sands pipeline under scrutiny, in The Vancouver Sun.
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“I was taking them so, daily, I could feel that I accomplished something...”
– Patti Smith, talking to the BBC about the genesis of her current Polaroid photography exhibit, Camera Solo.
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“Can’t we all agree that burning every molecule of fossil fuel we can find...”
– Bill McKibben, in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, in response to a recent speech by the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in which coal, gas, and oil were touted as “the next big thing” in energy.
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“Rather than trying to make people laugh, it eventually morphed into me talking...”
– Neuroscientist David Eagleman, talking to New Scientist, about the year he spent as a stand-up comedian.
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WatchHere’s Jonah Lehrer, neuroscience speaker and author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, performing some “Brain Games” on The Ellen Degeneres Show. His experiments show how easily the brain can be tricked, and just how oblivious of our surroundings we can be on a daily basis.
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WatchCongrats to Lavin speaker Neil Pasricha! His Book of Awesome is the #1 bestselling non-fiction book in Canada for the second year in a row. (It’s also a #1 international bestseller, and has spawned two sequels, The Book of (Even More) Awesome and The Book of (Holiday) Awesome, both of which are also top sellers.) Above is Neil’s TED Talk, which has been viewed over 900,000 times!
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“It allows one to be playful, to get a sense of what is on a lot of people’s...”
– Salman Rushdie, quoted in The New York Times essay “Why Authors Tweet.”
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