Film and video
My work as a writer and story producer has taken me from a middle school classroom in Baltimore, to a garage-turned-startup incubator in St. Louis, to an 8,000-person village in Chile. Everywhere, I’ve helped filmmakers find and shape stories that move people.
This is how type 1 diabetics and their caregivers are taking charge of their chronic illness.
Making data accessible is fairly simple. Making it useful is harder. This is how coders, potters, and government officials are doing it in Chile.
Since 2000, the cost of college textbooks in the U.S. has risen faster than the cost of childcare, housing, or even health care. This is how open source is helping to drive cost down.
A little water, a little light, a little code: The food computer is a tabletop greenhouse that makes horticulture more high-tech.
In west Baltimore, the Food Computer Program is giving students a new perspective on their food environment.
From urban classrooms to startup incubators, to a snowy farm in Vermont, this is how open source is shaping the future of agriculture.