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Scenes from PopTech last week in Camden, ME.

PopTech always has incredible musical performances. It’s where I was first exposed to Reggie Watts, Imogen Heap, and the incredible Rodrigo y Gabriela (chills).

This year’s festivities included Blitz and The Ambassador, and The David Wax Museum, who gave a rousing performance from inside the audience pit. A great live show, especially when it’s music that’s new to me, is one of the best experiences in life. 

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Since Friday, the Social Innovation Fellows training has been taking place at Point Lookout in Lincolnville, Maine. The fifteen Fellows, led by innovators and leaders in their fields, have been meeting for a multi-day intensive program focused on accelerating their projects that address new approaches to the planet’s toughest challenges. The training looks to tools such as branding, media relations, social media, finance, digital storytelling and design to bring these social innovations to scale.

Have a look at more photos of the training from our Flickr stream. And be sure to check out our schedule so you can watch their stage talks at PopTech this coming week, which will also be streamed live starting Thursday, October 20, 2011.

Headed to PopTech tomorrow, and I cannot wait.

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Here’s the bottom line: If we want to end our oil addiction, we, as citizens, need to pony up: bike to work, plant a garden, do something. So again, the oil spill is my fault. I’m sorry. I haven’t done my part.
Thomas L. Friedman includes this quote by Mark Mykleby in his NYT Op-Ed, This Time is Different. When Tom spoke at PopTech in 2006, he claimed that green is the new red, white and blue, and that our current energy crisis is like no other. His talk still rings true today. (via poptech)

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Highlights from Saturday at PopTech, which was my favorite day.

Michael Pollan and Dean Ornish, on why we should learn how to cook, eat food that our great grandmothers would recognize, and make sustainable choices; Alec Ross, the determined senior advisor for innovation in the State Department who makes me hopeful; Will Allen, who alongside John Fetterman, is truly an American hero; the ridiculously brilliant Neri Oxman, and Mark O’Connor, who brought tears to my eyes with his unbelievable talent.

You should watch the video, and you can read more about the conference on the blog. Sorry for gushing.

perfect fall experience: Camden, ME. and PopTech. the burden that follows: Change Your Life.

perfect fall experience: Camden, ME. and PopTech.

the burden that follows: Change Your Life.