From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

“Short Sighted” celebrates the underappreciated medium of short films. Between scripted, documentary and animated films highlighted each week, host Jason Yachanin visits off-the-beaten-path establishments and interviews their owners, as well as writers, directors, distributors, actors and other ...

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Our planet is a fragile ecosystem. To keep it in balance, we’ll have to figure out how to harness nature to generate clean, affordable energy. Catapult Design in San Francisco has one answer. Their turbines are cheap and practical.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Miranda Magagnini is co-CEO of IceStone, a Cradle-to-Cradle certified manufacturer of high-quality countertops made from recycled glass and concrete.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Famed storyteller Faye Lane walks through the fundamentals of a great story.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

To keep our cities in harmony, we’ll have to figure out a better system for urban waste collection. The people at BigBelly Solar already have one solution.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Our planet is a fragile ecosystem. To keep it in balance, we must figure out how to improve our urban transportation. B-Cycle in Denver, Colorado offers a unique and sustainable solution for how we can move through our cities.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Jason Salfi is co-founder and president of Comet Skateboards. Comet uses soy-based resin, water-based paints, and sustainably harvested maple in their decks.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

In rural Mali, teachers also face classrooms without electricity and books weathered by the punishing desert climate. Enter the Kinkajou Projector, a fusion of high and low technology that makes teaching night literacy classes as easy as ABC.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

In rural Africa, women spend 26% of their time getting water,That’s time that could be spent going to school, working outside the home, or teaching their children. The Hippo Water eases the burden by allowing women to transport water with less effort

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

RIKEN, is trying to make marketable products from these gelatinous monsters. They’re exploring everything from artificial gastric fluids made from jellyfish mucin to a jellyfish-based ice cream topping.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Artists Kenichi Okada and Chris Woebken have created three devices designed to give children a chance to experience heightened animal senses.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Cambodia has one of the highest proportions of people disabled by land mines in the world. The country’s only professional sports league is a network of volleyball teams whose players once fought against each other in times of civil war.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Since arriving in America in 1994, Australian-born artist and engineer Dr. Natalie Jeremijenko, has been producing work that harnesses technology to make people’s interactions with the natural world more interactive

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Scientists in Denmark have developed a plant that turns red when it comes into contact with trace amounts of TNT. If sowed over an area contaminated by landmines, these plants would form a botanical, color-coded map that would alert us to landmines

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Business can be a powerful catalyst for social change. Julius Walls Jr., president and CEO of Greyston Bakery, proves that through his socially responsible business that provides a fair wage, health care, and affordable housing to its employees

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Hybrid cars are great, but they’re often delivered on cargo ships and trucks that use the same old fossil fuels. We need to find better kinds of bulk transportation. The Auriga Leader is showing the way.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

With an area about the size of New Jersey, Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flat is known as the flattest place on earth. So when NASA needs to calibrate the satellite it uses to measure the shrinking of the polar ice caps, they point its laser at it!

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Lugging huge bags of coffee through the unpaved hills of Rwanda to a processing plant was back-breaking work for the Karaba coffee co-op.Karaba and an Oregon, coffee roaster has solved that problem, boosted production, and given birth to a Non-Profit

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:14 PM

Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we’re going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare, and all those omega-3 fatty acids, we may have to rely on aquaculture.

From: Halogen on Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:13 PM

NYC may or may not be the center of the world, but NYChildren, a new photo series, is providing documentary evidence that the Big Apple sits at the world’s crossroads. There are 192 countries&this project aims to capture an image of a child from each