The Pixel Painter

The Pixel Painter from The Pixel Painter on Vimeo.

Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. His family introduced him to the computer and Microsoft Paint long after he retired.

Now, Grandpa spends ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. His work is a blend of pointillism and 8-Bit art.

Meet 98-year-old Hal Lasko, The Pixel Painter.

To Learn More: Hal Lasko

World's largest solar powered hospital opens in Haiti

The world's largest solar powered hospital has just opened its doors in Haiti and boasts over 1800 solar panels on its elegant and otherwise, stark, white rooftop.

Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais will provide primary care services to about 185,000 people in Mirebalais and two nearby communities. But patients from a much wider area—all of central Haiti and areas in and around Port-au-Prince—also will be able to receive secondary and tertiary care. We anticipate seeing as many as 500 patients every day in our ambulatory clinics when the hospital is fully operational.

To Learn More: designboom

Surreal Time-Lapse View of Yosemite Rim Fire

Published on Aug 29, 2013

This (public-domain) National Park Service time-lapse imagery (edited by NPS's Jonathan Byers) compiles various views of the 2013 Rim Fire as seen from Yosemite National Park.

To Learn More: Tom Yulsman at Imageo blog

Canada's Great Bear Rainforest

Grizzly Monitoring in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest

William Housty, head of the Coastwatch Grizzly Monitoring Project of the Heiltsuk First Nation, describes the process of capturing DNA samples from Grizzly Bears along the Koeye River in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest. The Nature Conservancy provides financial and technical support to this and other Coastwatch initiatives.

To Learn More: The Nature Conservancy

Growing a Rooftop Revolution: Joost Bakker

Can you grow food, essentially farm, if you live in the city?

Dutch-born Joost Bakker is the creator of hospitality venues Greenhouse by Joost and Silo By Joost, as well as the building company Built By Joost. Over the last two decades he has worked on a multitude of concepts and products that have encompassed sustainable design practices.

Driven by making a difference to the world, Joost's innovations in building materials, waste treatment and nutrition are attracting global interest. Living in a time where there are many challenges and uncertainties regarding resources and the state of the environment, people are welcoming Joost's pioneering ideas and thinking. Joost is regularly invited to share the principles behind what he does, in order to inspire others to contribute to a better future.

To Learn More: Built By Joost

Stroke changes lives. Help change them back.

Experience the powerful first-hand story of 35-year-old Nikki Martyn-Capobianco as she recounts the impact stroke had on her life and her young family. And learn about how research funded by The Heart and Stroke Foundation has helped her emerge from the shadow of stroke to reclaim her life.

To Learn More: Make Health Last, Give Back

Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."

To Learn More: Ron Finley Bio

This is Me to We

It started as a book, it became a social enterprise, and now it's a movement.  Me to We offers better choices for a better world.

To Learn More: Me to We 

Charity: Water September Campaign

September Campaign 2013 - India from charity: water on Vimeo.

This September Campaign is about change for people in Orissa, India. It's about social equality within the caste system. It's about health, dignity and better futures for families. It's about empowered women and stronger communities. It's about clean water for 100 villages in India. And you can help. Start a fundraising campaign.

To Learn More: charity: water

Making Simply Beautiful Photographs

National Geographic photographers describe the moments behind the shots, and editor Annie Griffiths explains the concept behind the new National Geographic book, Simply Beautiful Photographs. This video features stories by David Doubilet, Jodi Cobb, Michael Melford, Sisse Brimberg, and Jim Blair. 

To Learn More: Eco Preservation Society