Monthly Archives: March 2008

I’m through with white girls

March 4, 2008 – 5:39 pm

OK, I admit I just wanted to write that. But the movie actually looks pretty good! Here’s hoping for a film festival showing in Mumbai…or a torrent.

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Envisioning the future of Bombay’s slums

March 4, 2008 – 3:31 pm

Urban Typhoon is a participatory urban planning workshop on the future of the Koliwada region of Dharavi, Mumbai’s staggeringly large and impossibly dense million-resident slum.
The objective is to produce creative alternatives for the future of a neighborhood threatened by a redevelopment plan of the government as well as a multimedia testimony to the unique [...]

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Transforming transportation

March 4, 2008 – 1:36 pm

Shai Agassi is an entrepreneur who has struck a multi-million dollar deal with Renault/Nissan and the Israeli government to bring electric cars to Israel (and eventually the world…) through his startup Better Place.
Pete Leyden from the New Politics Institute outlines Agassi’s transformative vision and announces that Agassi will be speaking at an upcoming NPI [...]

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