http://brianglanz.net/blog Social Entrepreneur Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:54:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The World is Always Changing" sings a Pike Place Market busker in Seattle, on the market's 100th birthday in 2007. This is a test of displaying video on BrianGlanz.net while it is marked as "private" in my flickr stream. http://brianglanz.net/blog/2008/04/24/flickr-video-test/ Ron Richardson of Seattle keeps counts of American war dead and injured in Iraq on a hand-written sign in his yard. As the count of U.S. Iraq war dead reached 4,000 in March 2008, the sign, Ron Richardson, the count, and the war all received more attention. Mike ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2008/03/31/war-more-perceived-war-more-real/ The Saul & Dayee G. Haas Foundation improves secondary education for those in need in Washington State. Their work involves 600 secondary schools -- that's 53% of the secondary schools in Washington, including both public and private schools. While modernizing the efforts of volunteers and staff, the Foundation ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2008/03/28/the-saul-dayee-g-haas-foundation/ Above: Pike Place Market in Seattle, as filmed in 1969 when fear of losing The Market loomed near. Below: Peter and Victor Steinbrueck promoting the rehabilitation of Pike Place Market, ca. 1969. Courtesy Peter Steinbrueck, from HistoryLink.org. http://brianglanz.net/blog/2008/03/20/pike-place-market-1969/ For all of human history, great conversations, meetings, and celebrations have happened over food. Your daily lunch is probably not often historic, but while wedged into our working lives, lunch done right is a small slice of greater humanity. It can be refreshing and even inspiring to step ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2007/11/05/try-noonhat-to-toss-your-social-salad/ http://brianglanz.net/blog/2007/09/11/stop-the-clash/ Dedicated to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. In 1990, Carl Sagan presented to the world the most distant image yet taken of ourselves, from 4 billion miles. The image was of a pale blue dot, suspended in a sun beam. The original adaptation of Pale Blue Dot ... http://brianglanz.net/blog/2007/03/12/pale-blue-dot/ Three men ran 4,000 miles, the equivalent of 2 marathons per day for 111 days, across the Sahara Desert in Africa, to raise awareness of poverty in Africa. Here is their site from the National Geographic Society. http://brianglanz.net/blog/2006/12/28/running-the-sahara/