Reduce, reuse, recycle isn’t enough to stop the plastic pile up from our daily use of household and personal care products.
Every minute a plane spends sitting on the tarmac costs the airlines money, reduces passengers’ goodwill, and has a negative environmental impact. Is there a more efficient way to board a bunch of strangers and get them to sit down and stay there?
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to save the fragile democracy where I live. I may not be an expert, but I am a citizen, voter, resident, neighbor, consumer, client, and human on planet earth. With these relations come responsibilities.
Day after day, we consume the same diet of movies, music, and news, served up by automated recommenders. This leads to content fatigue and ends in disengagement.
We do have technology; let’s use it to break the tedium.
If higher education’s hottest subjects are college closings, student debt, and professor burn out, how can the classroom be a beacon of hope and not just a holding pen for students on the way to some imaginary real world?
Why do airlines charge flyers for the inconvenience of checking luggage, while generally giving away the privilege of carrying a bag on board?
Shouldn’t it be the reverse?
How should an office be? Businesses with more real estate than in-office staff have a chance to rethink lay out in line with how people actually work.
HR departments should report to a board or an independent body. As it is now, reporting to company leadership protects neither the business nor the employee.
What if we created a screening and placement process structured to assimilate people seeking relocation to the US that is tightly linked to fulfilling domestic workforce needs across all major sectors of the economy?
If Americans are reliant on cars, but want to reduce traffic, care for the environment, and start their vacation upon leaving the house, they would benefit from parking the car on a train and not on the highway.
Boys in America today are in trouble. Perhaps more than ever, we need help from the people who had once been boys themselves.
We solve Bill Gates’ dilemma of how to distribute his vast fortune.
Creative agencies can gain efficiencies, increase revenue and ensure quality control by adapting production units to support new technologies and methods.
If childcare arrangements were as flexible and spontaneous as going to the gym, families, businesses and communities would all benefit.
Abandoned office buildings can serve a new type of tenant and redistribute some of the city budgets currently being spent on shelters.
The Metropolitan Museum of New York's obsessive hoarding could benefit others while modernizing the role of museums.
Let’s reduce the daily scourge of package waste produced by our city's weekday lunch takeout.
Making the case for a green neighborhood model that anyone can start locally.