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“The YikeBike is a statement about using smart technology to solve the problems of our increasingly congested, polluted, stressful cities. It is the first commercial expression of the mini-farthing concept, created by a bunch of successful entrepreneurs, engineers and dreamers. Grant Ryan’s goal is that one day his electric bike will be the most commonly […]
Tags: battery-powered, Best Brainwave Award, bicycle, Canterbury Development Corporation, clean transport solutions, comicStyle, commercial, content-rich sites, Dilbert, Dilbert satirical comic strips, e-commerce, ecological economics, electric bike, entrepreneur, Environment, Eurekster, Foundation for Research Science and Technology, Gail Penney, Global Brain, Grant Ryan, ideas, innovation, innovative design, intelligence, intelligent search, International Gadget Fair 2010, internet search technology, inventor, kiwi, kiwi kristmas magic, lifeStyle, main blog, mechanical engineering, mechanics, mindStyle matters, mini-farthing concept, minimal carbon footprint, navigation services, New Zealand, New Zealander, on-demand, penneylane, penneylaneonline, Scott Adams, Shaun Ryan, SLI Systems, smart technology, Time Magazine, top inventions of 2009, turnStyle, Venture Investment Fund, www.penneylaneonline.com, YikeBike
“Around the world, women face some of the greatest obstacles YET also represent tremendous opportunity for lasting social and economic development. As a result of war and conflict, women and girls often lose everything that ever mattered to them, including their sense of self. Their voices are silenced. And even if they were to speak, […]
Tags: Afghanistan, Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam, build civil society, building a foundation, comicStyle, community, comprehensive education programme, daughters, direct financial aid, donation, economic, emotional support, encouragement, enforced prostitution, Exchanging letters, exploitation, financial assistance, Gail Penney, grassroots humanitarian and development organisation, HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention training, investment counseling, lack of food, leadership, lifeStyle, literacy training, main blog, medicine, Micro-cedit, mindStyle matters, mutilation, Nigeria, penneylane, penneylaneonline, political participation, rape, reconstruction of their communities, recovery and rehabilitation, result of war and conflict, rights awareness, Rwanda, sexual slavery, social, sponsoring a woman, Sponsorship Programme, stability, start businesses, The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope, the role of women in society, they become active citizens who can help to establish lasting peace, torture, train other women and serve as role models, training, turnStyle, UN, UNIFEM, violence, war-torn region, water, window of opportunity, women and girls, Women for Women, Women for Women International, www.penneylaneonline.com, Zainab Salbi
“Seeding Labs connect talented individuals to the tools they need to help themselves and their communities. They have always had, at its heart, a single core belief that scientists with a lot of resources have a responsibility to share them with their colleagues in the developing world. Seeding Labs is a non profit organisation that […]
Tags: academic partners, africa, application process, asia, biotechnology companies, comicStyle, donate, equipment, equipment donations, functional lab, Gail Penney, Harvard University, hospitals, labs, Latin America, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, Nina Dudnik, non profit organisation, penneylane, penneylaneonline, procurement list, reclaims and refurbishes laboratory equipment, research institutions, researchers, resource-poor nations, salvageable equipment, Scientific Consultants, scientific equipment, Seeding Labs, student volunteers, supplies, turnStyle, universities, updating technology, usable scientific equipment, www.penneylaneonline.com
“Is a youth led peace initiative that primarily seeks to create space for young people to reconcile and become agents of reconciliation to their respective communities. Two years after Kenya’s worst election violence that left 1,500 dead and hundreds of thousands internally displaced, Kenya is a nation in search of its identity again. Purpose Picha […]
Tags: Boniface Mwangi, chief, comicStyle, Communities, community healing, creation of livelihoods, Dr.Ozonnia Ojielo, Eldoret, election violence, Gail Penney, George Gachara, Kenya, Kisumu, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, mitigation, Nairobi, Nakuru, peace building, Peace Building and Conflict Prevention (UNDP), penneylane, penneylaneonline, personal reflection, Picha Mtaani, promote peaceful co-existence, reconciliation, reconstruction process, rural centres, turnStyle, UN Senior Peace and Development Advisor, urban centres, violence prevention, www.penneylaneonline.com, youth led peace initiative
When they buried our friend Haami Moeke Snr QSM, it was entirely fitting that he should be taken to his final resting place in his aging diesel van. We friends, Juliet and I stood next to each other watching as the pallbearers carried him between a garland of fierce young warriors performing the haka.
Tags: Baden Batt, Baden Batt's Marae, carving tutors, comicStyle, Gail Penney, Haami Moeke Snr QSM, John Hadfield, kaupapa, Kohupatiki Marae, lifeStyle, main blog, Māori world-view or cosmology, Matahiwi Marae, Matua, Matua: Tippy Haeres of a Principal Carver, mindStyle matters, mokopuna (grandchildren), Napier, penneylane, penneylaneonline, Taradale, Te Poho o Tangiianui Marae, tikanga Maori, tikanga whakaairo, traditional Māori ways, turnStyle, waka, www.penneylaneonline.com
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