Welcome to my month of March..

A Video Diary

OK, I am delving more into the world of shoddy video shot on my iPhone and I thought a good thing to start doing would be to keep a video diary of sorts.  The loose theme of the videos will be a series of monthly challenges to which I will subject myself (and anyone else who wants to join in.)

Public Accountability

I figure that the fairly public accountability will force me to take this seriously. Each challenge will be designed to bring about some kind of self-improvement, to enable me and you, my wonderful readers to live out the CultureMutt tagline of savvy, global do-gooding.

Challenge #1 – Juice to Lose Weight

The first monthly challenge is basically about being healthy and losing weight so I don’t look like my sister’s chubby brother in all the pictures of her wedding which is coming up in England in just over three weeks.  Here’s a clip with me explaining things a little further….

Jammie and I went shopping and got all of the items above for about $40.  I borrowed the juicer so no cost there…

Luckily, it was super easy to use.  Here’s a quick clip on the basic mechanics…

How does the juice taste? Well, let’s find out…

OK, so the juicer recipes will need a lot of fine-tuning. For now, I am happy that this whole thing is not exhausting me. I feel really alert… one of the early benefits of juicing I guess.

The video updates for this challenge will be posted as often as possible with a minimum of three times a week. Each post will include at least one video and once a week I’ll have a progress (or lack thereof) pic with some stats like the below:

Day # 1 in First Monthly Challenge (Yesterday)

Date: March 4, 2012

Weight: 195 lbs

Ideal Weight:  170 lbs

Feeling:  Hungry

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Bjorn Karlman

The Moving Problem

I stumbled across an idea I thought was potential genius recently. It’s called bring.BUDDY and its the love child of a student team at the School of Design Thinking, Potsdam and the DHL Innovation Center. The idea is to harness commuters in transporting packages from location to location in future metropolitan areas where energy is expensive, emissions have to be cut and car access has to be kept to a minimum.

A Green Way to Fix It

The commute routes of a web of urbanites is analyzed and participants in the program are given parcels that need delivery to destinations that fall along their daily routes.  This eliminates some of the need for delivery vans and is a more organic way for parcels to travel through a city with individual commuters.  The video makes things cheerfully clear:)  Perks for the participants include creative forms of credit such as public transport credit and the fun of competition with others taking part in the experiment.

An Imperfect Yet Buzz-Worthy Solution

Obviously there are some trust and reliability issues to work out here  but the concept should not be written off just because it has kinks.  The idea’s creators would like to target “Especially cities like Copenhagen or London where administrations are actively trying to change the behaviour and attitude of their citizens towards transportation and mobility. Initial target users of bring.BUDDY are generally young, creative, internet savvy urbanites who want to be part of a social change and want to start it locally.”

An Example to Follow

As much as I like they idea behind bring.BUDDY, what I appreciate even more is the focus on innovation for savvy do-gooding.  The options to achieve positive, noteworthy things are limitless when we are able to challenge assumptions and re-think processes.

Bjorn Karlman

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