What do you get when you cross a slot machine with a savings bond? A new kind of gambling that replaces short-term harm with long-term benefit for the players.
Worth While Gaming is a new kind of gambling system that replaces the "house" with a long-term saving account (similar to a CD) that holds money that is "lost" by a customer for a set period of time and then returns it to them. This system replaces the short-term harm of traditional gambling with long-term benefit.Read more
How do you plan an urban area so that residents share the positives and negatives of new developments? The NIMBY Game is a tool that can be used by stakeholders to builds skills and develop strategies that lead to better outcomes for everyone.
The NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) Game is board game that challenges players to plan a city in such a way that the quality of life for all players is maximized. Players are forced to make difficult decisions and compromises in order to place a range of urban elements — parks, factories, a casino, a convention center — so that they do not disproportionately affect any one neighborhood. By virtue of the geography of the board game and core objective of the game, the fate of the players is bound together so that self-interest must be balanced by the common good in order for the game to be won.Read more
A simple action and a decentralized organizing model brings 5,000 people from 47 states to hijack Bush's inaugural parade. SNL's Weekend Update and The Onion provide coverage. (Also: the BBC, CNN, and newspapers on every continent except Antarctica.)
A 30-year-old art project in a subway station is repurposed into a tool that reveals hundreds of perspectives on transportation, development, and a changing city.
Twenty-five years ago a new subway stop opened in Somerville, MA. Today, many point to the Davis Square T stop as a major cause of the gentrification of the surrounding neighborhood. As plans are being made to add new stops in Somerville in the next few years, we wanted to drive a conversation about public transportation, artists, and gentrification that included the voices of people who are often left out of urban planning processes, with the ultimate goal of using the experiences of past residents to help current residents create a public transit plan. Read more
Getting Americans to call congress and ask for peaceful negotiations with Iran is good. Getting members of Congress to make direct calls to students in Iran is better.
A standoff between presidents
In 2006, with Presidents Bush and Ahmadinejad making more and more provocative statements about Iran's nuclear program, we decided that we needed an alternative diplomatic system to strengthen the ties between Iranians and Americans and prevent war. We began by talking with Iranian bloggers about a campaign that would allow Americans and Iranians to speak out against war together.
The Enough Fear campaign was launched to create a home for those voices – a website that collected photos of people in both countries telling their leaders to stop and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the crisis. Read more
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Twenty-five years ago a new subway stop opened in Somerville, MA. Today, many point to the Davis Square T stop as a major cause of the gentrification of the surrounding neighborhood. As plans are being made to add new stops in Somerville in the next few years, we wanted to drive a conversation about public transportation, artists, and gentrification that included the voices of people who are often left out of urban planning processes, with the ultimate goal of using the experiences of past residents to help current residents create a public transit plan. 
In 2006, with Presidents Bush and Ahmadinejad making more and more provocative statements about Iran's nuclear program, we decided that we needed an alternative diplomatic system to strengthen the ties between Iranians and Americans and prevent war. We began by talking with Iranian bloggers about a campaign that would allow Americans and Iranians to speak out against war together.
