The first time this movie was screened it was on the back wall of Tijeras church for the East Mountains of New Mexico’s centennial celebration. Ten minutes before the start of the show the entire ...
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In the Shadow of the Hot Sun: Aid Effectiveness & Informal Economies in the Digital Era
The shortcomings of foreign assistance, the potential of new technologies, and what the First World could learn from the Third. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O56AXbm2CzU] The Price of Assistance Even with the stopover in Switzerland, the ride from ...
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Blending In: VS Naipaul’s Masks and Those Who Wear Them
One should never judge a book by its cover, but I chose to read V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River because I liked the photograph on the front of the man wearing a mask. ...
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Developing Dictators: The Problem with Foreign Aid in Uganda
Searching for Sustainability Uganda, an East African country about the size of Oregon, has often been referred to as the poster child of Sub-Saharan development, but lately this title has been questioned. In the 1980s, ...
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Of Crime and Camels
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkSwrGHorfY&w=425&h=349; float=”left”] A few days ago, in the late afternoon, two men stopped a taxi driver at a junction in Soweto East, Kibera. They were thieves running from a crime and needed a ...
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There’s a Hole in the Bucket
I’m sitting in a ramshackle compound in Silanga village, one of the deepest and most neglected areas of Kibera slum, with an impossible task. As one of the Water and Sanitation health workers on this ...
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Slumming it in Kibera
A year later and I’m back in East Africa. This time I’m working on Water Sanitation and Hygiene research for my University in Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Kibera is one of the largest slums in the ...
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Acequia
"When the developer was unable to access the water it thwarted his plans. The community wanted to see that the cultural and natural resources were protected." - Colleen Langan, Bernalillo County Open Space
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Meme, Myself, and I: The origins of Dr. Arthur Pastor
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhHKWtrGggA&w=480&h=390] Water on the Brain One night in December 2007, I was hanging out with two of my friends and we were bored. On television two news pundits were debating whether or not ...
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What Twitter Looks Like During a Revolution
This is a fascinating info-graphic depicting Egypt’s social media organization and uprising. Kovas Boguta, the creator of this map, describes the connections between Twitter users on his blog. He does a great job at explaining ...
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