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BitSource Web Development #ExportingCode

Last week I was fortunate enough to go to Fast Company’s Meeting of the Most Creative Minds conference in Los Angeles. The conference featured several amazingly innovative companies that I will also write about later but my favorite aspect was the other attendees. Most of these companies were based in LA but a few flew from all over the nation (and some even other parts of the world!) and there is one that I cannot get out of my head. BitSource is a company who is breathing life back into a sleepy town in eastern Kentucky. The economy there had heavily relied on the coal industry and had suffered tremendously in the loss. Two former coal miners founded BitSource with a mission to bring back jobs to Appalachia country. The company offers an array of web development services from programming languages to media and VR design to application development (and much more). The founders knew coal miners to be logic-based thinkers willing to work hard and learn. Afterall, w…

Nature Is Speaking – Flower Conservation International

By Arwa Lodhi Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder. All big celebrities whose films we have all enjoyed at some point or another, but they’re usually acting someone else’s script. For the first time ever, all of these A-listers have joined forces to do their own thing, and have created a beautiful short films to wake us all up to an important fact that should be obvious by now: we need nature to survive. It seems like a basic statement to make, but for centuries, we have been fighting, taming and destroying nature – all to our peril. Below, you’ll hear Julia Roberts making a statement as ‘Mother Nature’ that we all need to hear in a film created with NGO Conservation International. If you love it as much as we do, you can see more about this heavy-hitting celeb project here, or watch a few more of the videos below, in which different celebs take on a different voice of nature. Moving stuff! Wat…

Nature Is Speaking – The Coral Reef Conservation International

By Arwa Lodhi Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder. All big celebrities whose films we have all enjoyed at some point or another, but they’re usually acting someone else’s script. For the first time ever, all of these A-listers have joined forces to do their own thing, and have created a beautiful short films to wake us all up to an important fact that should be obvious by now: we need nature to survive. It seems like a basic statement to make, but for centuries, we have been fighting, taming and destroying nature – all to our peril. Below, you’ll hear Julia Roberts making a statement as ‘Mother Nature’ that we all need to hear in a film created with NGO Conservation International. If you love it as much as we do, you can see more about this heavy-hitting celeb project here, or watch a few more of the videos below, in which different celebs take on a different voice of nature. Moving stuff! Wat…

Nature Is Speaking – The Redwood Conservation International

By Arwa Lodhi Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder. All big celebrities whose films we have all enjoyed at some point or another, but they’re usually acting someone else’s script. For the first time ever, all of these A-listers have joined forces to do their own thing, and have created a beautiful short films to wake us all up to an important fact that should be obvious by now: we need nature to survive. It seems like a basic statement to make, but for centuries, we have been fighting, taming and destroying nature – all to our peril. Below, you’ll hear Julia Roberts making a statement as ‘Mother Nature’ that we all need to hear in a film created with NGO Conservation International. If you love it as much as we do, you can see more about this heavy-hitting celeb project here, or watch a few more of the videos below, in which different celebs take on a different voice of nature. Moving stuff! Wat…

Nature Is Speaking – ICE Conservation International

By Arwa Lodhi Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder. All big celebrities whose films we have all enjoyed at some point or another, but they’re usually acting someone else’s script. For the first time ever, all of these A-listers have joined forces to do their own thing, and have created a beautiful short films to wake us all up to an important fact that should be obvious by now: we need nature to survive. It seems like a basic statement to make, but for centuries, we have been fighting, taming and destroying nature – all to our peril. Below, you’ll hear Julia Roberts making a statement as ‘Mother Nature’ that we all need to hear in a film created with NGO Conservation International. If you love it as much as we do, you can see more about this heavy-hitting celeb project here, or watch a few more of the videos below, in which different celebs take on a different voice of nature. Moving stuff! Wat…

Nature Is Speaking – Home Conservation International

By Arwa Lodhi Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder. All big celebrities whose films we have all enjoyed at some point or another, but they’re usually acting someone else’s script. For the first time ever, all of these A-listers have joined forces to do their own thing, and have created a beautiful short films to wake us all up to an important fact that should be obvious by now: we need nature to survive. It seems like a basic statement to make, but for centuries, we have been fighting, taming and destroying nature – all to our peril. Below, you’ll hear Julia Roberts making a statement as ‘Mother Nature’ that we all need to hear in a film created with NGO Conservation International. If you love it as much as we do, you can see more about this heavy-hitting celeb project here, or watch a few more of the videos below, in which different celebs take on a different voice of nature. Moving stuff! Wat…