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Back to the Roots (BTTR) was founded in 2009 by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora as a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm. It has transformed into a unique company focused on bringing sustainable grow-at-home products into households across the country. Their vision is to serve as a standard bearer of innovation and responsibility in their […]
Tags: 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm, 2010 Hitachi Young Entrepreneur Winners, 2010 Social Venture Network Social Innovation winners, a degree in business administration, Alejandro founded a 1000+ member non-profit & largest student-run organisation at CAL, Alejandro Velez, Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, Back to the Roots, BTTR, business development and operations advisory, BusinessWeek’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs under 25, focused on bringing sustainable grow-at-home products into households, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer survivor, inspire others to work towards a more sustainable future, investment banking and business development with Morgan Stanley and Qualcomm, Legon to setup a campus-wide recycling programme, Nikhil Arora, Nikhil serves on Board of Directors of the Sage Mentorship Project, standard bearers of innovation and responsibility in their community, Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs in America, UCLA’s Opportunity Green Top 25 Green Company Leaders, University of Ghana
Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing when she came away to speak at this conference but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. Hers is a meditation on conscious consumption wrapped in a rainbow of colour and creativity.
Tags: a meditation on conscious consumption, Board member of AIGA/NY, comicStyle, earned a degree in graphic design from the Art Institute of Dallas, favorite colour is rainbow, Featured Content, founder and owner of WORKSHOP, Gail Penney, given guest lectures at NYU, her default answer is YES, her tendency to take the lead and for her extreme can-do attitude, Ideas worth spreading, lifeStyle, main blog, makes a hobby of wearing nothing new (except undies), mindStyle matters, penneylane, penneylaneonline, referred to as 'Coach', she carried out branding for Brooklyn Brewery, She studied fine arts at Mississippi State, She's a perfectionist and an optimist, She’s taught Design Fundamentals at Touro College, Ted Talk, Tomato Records and Lion Brand Yarn, turnStyle, under the direction of Milton Glaser, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
Katie Piper is a courageous young woman, rebuilding her life after surviving a brutal attack in 2008, when sulphuric acid was thrown in her face. She spent seven weeks in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, before beginning a two year stint where she wore a special plastic pressure mask for 23 hours of every day.
Tags: 70 operations, both mentally and physically, burns survivors, CCTV footage of the attack, Centre Ster in Lamalou-les-Bains, comicStyle, Dr Mohammad Jawad FRCS, Featured Content, Gail Penney, Ideas worth spreading, impact on her recovery, Katie Piper, Katie was a model and budding TV presenter, Katie: My Beautiful Face, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, penneylane, penneylaneonline, pioneering treatments that helped save her, progress in regaining control of her life, rebuilding her life after surviving a brutal attack, she wore a special plastic pressure mask, specialist rehabilitation Centre, sulphuric acid thrown in her face, Ted Talk, Tedx, turnStyle, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
Robert Tercek says people are reclaiming their narrative voice, and what they’re discovering in the process is that they don’t need a store bought identity. And they don’t need the easy answers from television. They’re starting to perceive the world in a different way. They’re starting to understand the world as a series of urgent […]
Tags: 7th Level, and educator, artist, broad range of experience as a television director, broadband Internet, comicStyle, created breakthrough entertainment experiences on every digital platform, Creative Director at MTV: Music Television, Creative Visions Foundation, design interactive multimedia products, Digital Media at Sony Pictures Entertainment, expertise spans television, Featured Content, Gail Penney, game consoles, game designer, has served in executive leadership roles at major media companies, Ideas worth spreading, Inc, interactive television, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, mobile networks, named a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, penneylane, penneylaneonline, people are reclaiming their narrative voice, People are starting to understand the world as a series of urgent questions, President of Digital Media at OWN, Robert Tercek, satellite television, starting to perceive the world in a different way, Ted Talk, Tedx, telecommunications and software, The Oprah Winfrey Network, turnStyle, VidStyle, world’s most prolific creators of interactive content, www.penneylaneonline.com
This boardwalk is part of an educational side-trail shortly before arriving at the huts for the end of the first day of the Freedom Walker’s track. “The Milford Track is one of New Zealand’s most popular walks. Interestingly the track can only be walked in one direction, Glade Wharf to Milford Sound, during the booked […]
Tags: a maximum of 40 independent walkers permitted to start the track each day, Beech trees dominate the forest of the lower Clinton, can only be walked in one direction, comicStyle, Featured Content, Ferns, Fiordland National Park, Freedom Walker's track, Gail Penney, Glade Wharf to Milford Sound, higher rainfall and milder temperatures in the lower Arthur Valley, huge valleys, ice-gouged ledges and the hanging valleys of tributary streams, Ideas worth spreading, lifeStyle, main blog, Milford Track, mindStyle matters, mosses and lichens are abundant, one of New Zealand’s most popular walks, penneylane, penneylaneonline, result of glaciation over the last two million years, sub-alpine scrub and into the tussocks and alpine herb communities, Ted Talk, The Milford Track, turnStyle, U-shaped valleys, VidStyle, walking season (late October to late April), www.penneylaneonline.com
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