MPowerD’s delightfully simple Luci is an inflatable, waterproof, solar-powered lantern consisting of ten LEDs and a single lithium polymer battery. MPowerD, short for Micro Power Design, is a brand new solar start-up based in New York City, which developed Luci to reduce what they call energy poverty. According to MPowerD, energy poverty means living with […]
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I took my first plane flight when I was six weeks old. I flew with my mum from Auckland, New Zealand to Santiago in Chile. In my old passport photo I look like any other newborn with a down of jet-black hair on my head, freckle-free olive skin and pinched-shut eyes. My irises had not […]
Carbon neutral cupcakes at the Obama Victory Fund event at Little Cupcake Bakeshop, co-host by Massimo LoBuglio and Arden Wohl It was a quaint idea for a big city event: a Manhattan bake sale to raise money for the Obama campaign. But Massimo LoBuglio, one of four Brooklyn-born LoBuglio brothers who opened the Little Cupcake […]
“May your camel spit nothing but dates” – Max Clinger, M*A*S*H I tried to find a table in Starbucks at City Center Mall in Doha. For Friday lunchtime, this was almost impossible. The coffee shop occupied the corner spot on the second floor of the mall and overlooked the balcony above the ice skating rink […]
Renato Seabra had a pretty sweet life: a paid vacation to New York City, shopping for designer clothes, dining at expensive restaurant, gambling and kick starting a modeling career. But on January 7th, 2011 Seabra’s life options narrowed drastically. Seabra (pronounced See-ah-bruh), then 21, beat, bludgeoned and bashed his boyfriend, 65 year-old Carlos Castro, a […]
Eight stories up on the spa patio, jutted out like a cliff ledge on the side of SoHo’s Trump Tower, Fashion’s Night Out (FNO) kicked off September 6th and signaled the start of New York Fashion Week. Waves from the spa’s plunge pool splashed against the opalescent powder blue tile siding, champagne flutes filled with […]
Every October in downtown Toronto transforms its streets into a giant art gallery for one night, Nuit Blanche. Last year I braved the cold and explored the exhibits throughout the city from 9pm until 3am in the name of journalism (article here). The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) opened its doors for free, parks transformed into […]
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