“Provide hope and support for the lives of children! Why not become involved in global medical and food issues through isave?

Through reports and photos, the isave application aims to inform you about serious problems happening around the world as part of such global efforts as medical services, support for children and the removal of mines.

The isave iPhone application allows you to participate in the solution to global problems via well-established Japanese NGOs/NPOs.”

visit: http://itunes.apple.com/app/isave/id365499029?mt=8#

“THIS YEAR I WILL TRY NOT TO was born out of frustration, complacency and laziness. Most designers are seduced by design trends. They’re easy to appropriate, and even easier to imitate. The challenge is to innovate. To be new. We decided the best (and most enjoyable) approach was to identify and document the most common trends we felt we had to avoid. Before long we found ourselves with a checklist of DON’Ts and a new aim: to try to be new. We may fail, but we will try.”

Visit: http://trynotto.com.au/

A project called “This is What Matters to Me”, a cause-inspired collaboration
between 9 designers from around the globe, each supporting a cause/organization personally significant to them. The aim of the project was to bring focus to a few lesser known causes via limited edition prints.

Visit: KHARMA

“Seven films for the satellite operator Astra, covering everything you need to know about the operation of a satellite. The films will be used for education and marketing.”

Visit: This is Real Art

“Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, as Harvard opens its classroom to the world.”

Visit: http://www.justiceharvard.org/

“Give shoes with a smile to children.” SMILE AFRICA project will collect your waste shoes and sending them to the children in Afirca. There are almost 15,000 pairs of shoes has collected so far.

Visit: http://www.sotokoto.net/smileafrica/

cool video taken from “Yurikamome” an automated guideway transit in Tokyo waterfront area. enjoy the ride!!

“Herbman’s entire body is covered with herbs. He travels around the world, using his caf? to teach people the effects of the various herbs growing on his body. The proceeds from the caf? are used to construct playgrounds through the Herbman Fund. Herbman keeps traveling, believing in a world where people and nature are healthy, and children are happy and have enough space to play.

Medical Herbman Caf? Project (MHCP) is a
circular, sustainable program in which we create a human-shaped herb
garden named Herbman, and jointly operate a caf? where we sell tea and
food dishes using the herbs harvested from the garden. The proceeds are
used toward constructing playgrounds in the schoolyards of elementary
schools in developing countries.

It is our goal to spread MHCP across the seas and to a wide range of
people, and we have created a kit of all necessary materials and packed
it into a sea-ready container that we take with us as we develop our
project around the world. Inside the container is a Herbman
construction kit, a simple kitchen, and a caf? unit. We unpack and
assemble the Herbman and caf? on location. The container itself becomes
the caf? space. When the set period for business is over, each item is
once again stored in the container, and carried to the next location.

Herbman carries his trunk (the container) as he travels, bringing good
health and giving dreams to children wherever he goes. This is the
vision of our project.”

Via dezeen
Visit MHCP

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oranguchang/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

“Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon includes two separate, photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope Canyon or The Crack; and Lower Antelope Canyon or The Corkscrew.”

“The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse’ bighanilini, which means “the place where water runs through rocks.” Lower Antelope Canyon is Hasdestwazi, or “spiral rock arches.” Both are located within the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation.”

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope_Canyon]

“In the city of Palenque, in a temple on top of a pyramid, the
archaeologist Albert Lluillier found in 1952 the access to a funerary
cript that houses the sarcophagus of the King Pacal Votan the Great
(615-683 A.D.).”

looks like an illustration of a man in a spaceship, don’t you think?

Via Ancient Treasures

“Over the course of one year, a clever artist captured images from the exact same spot peering out his window.  Gorgeous, fascinating, and nature-inspired – we love it.  seasonsWith a little creativity, some copying and connecting, and a lot of patience, it’s digital art in a true sense of the term.  By combining it all together, artist Eirik Solheim developed a video only forty seconds in length, bringing the viewer through all of the seasons, changes, and movement in a 365-day span.”

Visit eirikso.com
Via Ecoki

Photograph by Joyce McClure, My Shot

“Branches from the sacred lusekwane tree are woven into a bower for Swaziland’s king during Incwala, and only when he eats the first fruit can his people partake of the harvest.”

Visit National Geographic

Photograph from BARM/Fame Pictures

“A massive cave recently uncovered in a remote Vietnamese jungle is the largest single cave passage yet found, a new survey shows. At 262-by-262 feet (80-by-80 meters) in most places, the Son Doong cave beats out the previous world-record holder, Deer Cave in the Malaysian section of the island of Borneo.”

Via National Geographic News