We’re intrigued to say the least by the recent 60 Minutes spot on Bloom Energy. Cautiously optimistic, we headed over to TreeHugger to get their take on the latest Next Big Thing.

“The Global Lives Project is a collaboration of filmmakers, photographers, artists and everyday people working together to create a video library of human life experience.” Featuring ten 24-hour videos of daily life from around the planet, this installation is on exhibit now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Nokia’s Calling All Innovators project was one the most interesting things we saw at CES this year. Check out the contest categories, and enter your mobile applications by May 18th.

Seattle-based artist Chris Jordan “looks at American culture through the austere lens of statistics” in a fascinating and revelatory series.

Regional winner of the History Channel’s “City of the Future” contest, this futuristic vision of the SF Bay Area by architecture firm IwamotoScott includes an underground traffic network for algae powered hover-cars and a system of aquifers and geothermal power sources for collecting, storing, and distributing water.

These national flags repurposed as socially-conscious infographics by Brazilian artist Icaro Doria are nothing short of brilliant. Grande Reportagem is a Portuguese news magazine known for its investigative journalism. The “Meet the World” campaign won the 2005 Epica D’Or print award.

“One billion people live in abject poverty. Four billion live in fragile but growing economies. One in seven people live in slum settlements. By 2020 it will be one in three. We don’t need to choose between architecture or revolution. What we need is an architectural revolution.” We couldn’t have said it better. Visit Open Architecture and join the revolution.

This beautifully designed site makes it easy to find and donate to organizations working for social and environmental justice around the world. Send gifts as well as funds, and track the progress of the projects you support.

“Each year a distinguished jury will award a single $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth’s ecological integrity.” Enter the BFI Challenge, and change the world.

“Our current version of capitalism… is rapidly squandering our shared inheritances… Peter Barnes offers a solution: protect the commons by giving it property rights and strong institutional managers.” Capitalism 3.0, by Peter Barnes.