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This is my favorite feature yet: leveling up animations! As users express their opinions via Quick Rate and other Do Good Quick areas of bilumi.org, Munin drops pebbles into a water bottle. Contributors can watch the water level rise with every pebble until they reach the next level… and Munin takes a drink! (more…)

Madeline Ashby has published the first installment of Boyfriend, a story about a girl from the future preparing for prom. How does she prepare? By pillow talking with an artificial intelligence program that helps her find out the supply chain history of the dresses she’s choosing. (more…)

Ravens (our metaphor for tools that help us share socially responsible product information) that are prevented from retrieving a bit of food can direct others how to get it. New research shows that they can also remember which humans are threats using facial cues. They even teach their neighbors which faces are potentially threatening. (more…)

Have you noticed how much information is now available on our main site about chocolate? Sure, there are gaps, but we now have data on everything from Kosher scores to labor practices. Many people shared their research with our community to get us this far. Here are three of them. (more…)

Click on the ravens to see Aaron Donovan’s full sized image of us passing out pamphlets. Or click on the Bicycle Band to see more Somerville Arts Fest photos.

Cool, I was worried that no one would send pictures. Thanks, Aaron!

What do comic books have to do with consumer education? Does this seem strange to anyone? Are we taking crazy pills?

A lot of different kinds of people are involved in launching bilumi. Open source technologists are certainly needed. Artistic vision is another must. (more…)

Vote for our next logo. We still need more feedback so please vote today!

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Curious about which sections of Boston could be underwater as the ocean level rises? Show up wearing blue or dressed as a shark at the Parade for the Future on Sun, June 15th, 4:00-5:30 PM and find out. Meet outside Park Street Station under the giant blue wave.

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Thanks to popular demand the name of this project is now “BuyItLikeYouMeanIt” (I’m still not sure if there are spaces in that when it’s typed). To help us decide on this new name we opened the process up to an online survey. Did you miss your chance to vote? Email me to be added to our announcements list. Then you won’t miss out when we… redesign our logo!

Here is a concept sketch that Catie is working on. Nicole and Raj are both hard at work as well. But that is by no means the end of the process! On June 3rd we’ll ask for public comment on logo choices! So email me your own logo images by June 1st and you might win the prize!

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Our newly feathered raven puppets took the subway to a sustainability expo this weekend. The event focused on companies who are responding to consumer demand for sustainability.

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Announcing ThoughtAndMemory.org the comic book! You can now view the entire comic book online. Follow the adventures of Hugin and Munin as their story unfolds.

Are you a comic book artist? Email us to help with our next issue.

As history accumulates, science finds rational perspectives with which to interpret the natural world. Today we find less and less need for perspectives shared through stories of gods and the heroes of old. But such stories persist and are often rewritten. Sometimes need of a story reemerges. Such a story’s telling can unexpectedly be rewoven with strands of contemporary life. If you will bear with me, there is a story of Odin’s ravens which is now worth retelling.

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