Archive - Nov 5, 2009

Cross-posted from Huffington Post.

I didn't even notice my heart pounding until after turning the corner from W 44th street onto Broadway. Displayed on four giant screens -- the hallmark of Times Square -- were the very photos we had just been sorting through and tagging in a dingy, overcrowded campaign office downtown not even an hour earlier. And now they were flashing before thousands of people in Times Square, while Jay-Z's new Empire State of Mind blanketed us in what seemed like a real-life music video.

As the old saying goes, adversity is the mother of invention. With the planet and we who live on it facing some of the greatest adversity ever, it's the perfect time to put the potential of human invention to the test. 1Sky ally Brighter Planet is putting money on the line to get great green ideas going.