"In a first, Al Jazeera English is airing a war documentary filmed entirely on an iPhone. Syria: Songs of Defiance, which premiered on the People and Power program this week, consists of iPhone footage smuggled out of the war-torn country.
"Now that Apple is the richest company in the world, it has an historic opportunity to redefine the role a corporation can play, and if Apple leads others will follow. When Steve Jobs recruited Pepsi president John Scully to jump to Apple, he asked, "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life?
In order to read this you've powered up a computer, likely turned on a light, maybe you're also charging your phone or brewing a cup of coffee. Every one of these actions is a small sip of energy that you take for granted. "In fact, you probably struggle to remember how many times and ways you use energy in a day," notes Hugh Whalan, the co-founder of Energy In Common.
The Tides Foundation is now accepting nominations for this year’s Pizzigati Prize. The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually awards a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.
