Guatemala City, Starbucks and Banking & An Eight Year Old and Wikipedia

The Lungs of Guatemala City: Architects’ Efforts to Conserve an Urban Ecology

While the architects of Barranco Invertido and their project Jungla Urbana are efforts to conserve and care for the ravines as ecological sites in and of themselves, they are just as much an effort to conserve or reignite a piece of Guatemalan heritage, a shared space and proposition for coalition.

The First Bank of Starbucks

How did an international chain of coffee shops position itself to play a major role in upending not just how payments are made but also the business model of established financial institutions? In a word: technology.

This eight-year-old is inspiring others to edit Wikipedia

Sophia Fairweather is eight years old. She’s an inventor, a startup creator, a mentor, and a proud champion of women in STEM-related fields. She’s also a big advocate of Wikipedia and getting more people to edit the free encyclopedia.