“We don't want Idaho to have a bad reputation. This is our home state. We love our home state. It's beautiful. We pride ourselves on our nature. We pride ourselves on our wildlife. And instead, we are continuing to do things that are… that are sickening.” - Ella Driever In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to central Idaho, and in 2003 a Boise High school called Timberline officially adopted a local wolf pack. Throughout the 2000, students went on wolf tracking trips and in their wolf packs range. But in 2021, Idaho's legislature passed Senate Bill 1211, 1211 allows Idaho hunters to obtain an unlimited number of wolf tags, and it also allows Idaho's Department of Fish and Game to use taxpayer dollars to pay private contractors to kill wolves. That means bounties on wolves, including on public lands. And in 2021, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission expanded the wolf hunting season and hunting and trapping methods. So it's not too surprising to learn that also in 2021, the Timberline pack disappeared. The students, the ones that cared about wolves, at least, were devastated. Last summer I went to D.C. with some of the Species Unite team for a wolf rally on Capitol Hill. While I was there, two young women gave a talk about what happened at Timberline in 2021. Their names are Ella Driver and Sneha Sharma. They both graduated from Timberline High School and were there when their wolf pack disappeared. Please, listen and share.…
Design meets technical reality with opinions and interviews of lead thinkers driving the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Arzu Uyan // @ArzuUyan // 42dp.comArzu Uyan is a trained business engineer, web scientist and an enthusiastic tech explorer. We had the opportunity to talk during DotProcess in Dortmound about project management, the future of tech and Holoship - a holographic game.Di Paul Houghton and Ricardo Brito
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Iskander Smit (@iskander) and Marcel Schouwenaar (@TheIncMac) are the organisers of ThingsCon Amsterdam 2016. (https://www.thingscon.nl/). At the very end of this two amazing days we had an opportunity to catch up about the conference and the whole experience.P.S. - Due to the lack of available rooms this podcast it's a bit noisy.…
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Design Director of Simply Secure, Ame Elliott is passionate about privacy, data protection and how can really small design decisions can have a huge impact on people's behaviour. She joined Simply Secure after eight years at IDEO San Francisco, where she led the discipline of Design Research and delivered human-centered tech strategy projects for c…
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Dr. Oscar Tomico is Assistant Professor of the Designing Quality in Interaction Research Group and part of Wearable Senses at Eindhoven University of Technology. Current projects focus on the textile industry and involve stakeholders during the design process to foster cooperation and reflective practices between participants to frame the design sp…
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