LIFESTYLE - The Feast.


Are a you creative, passionate, innovative, environmentally-conscious entrepreneur? Probably. But you're probably not as creative, passionate and innovative as the environmentally-conscious entrepreneurs being gathered together to finally put an end to all this bad stuff in the world at The Feast conference 2010. 


With its vague mission statement saying it's a "a cross-disciplinary series of programs addressing social innovation and new ways to make the world a better place," which could as easily be from the website of any liberal arts college or Ben and Jerry's flavor label, The Feast sets out to open a much needed dialogue between the world's most important creative types, thinkers, and takers of action about just what's to be done about keeping Earth alive these days. 


Worry not, potential conference attendee, it is called a feast not just because of it's feast-like quality where the hungriest thought-eaters come to dine on the tastiest ideas, but also because there will be a huge dinner of local and organic proportions, so even if you don't turn your blog into world-changing action, you'll still get a good meal and meet some awesome people you'll forever be inspired by and jealous of.  Such people include the predictably dreadlocked Dr. Mitchell Joachim, inventor of MIT's Compacted Car and probably most noted as a guest on the Colbert Report; Adam Braun, who is listened to a poor Indian boy who, when asked what he wanted most, misguidedly answered "a pencil" instead of, like, a million dollars, and Braun's international project "Pencils of Promise" was born; author Rachel Botsman, a leader in changing the world's mind about sharing with "Collaborative Consumption"; and the co-founder of Foursquare, Naveen Selvadurai, for some reason. 


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