Orlando is beautiful, yes, but we can always make it better, and taking a back seat in helping our city to realize its full potential is something we're not really about. Let's get up there and shake...
Michael R. Bloomberg's Bloomberg Philanthropies (Website) has launched a new grant program that will fund the creation of ten street murals in cities around the country next year. And we could get one here in Orlando.
"Coffin Club is all about the choices available to you for your end-of-life celebration."
People here in the West don't like to talk about death - more specifically our own deaths. But, if you...
LYNX was founded in May 1972 to serve Orange, Seminole, and Osceola counties. It was known as Tri-County Transit until 1992 when it officially changed its name to LYNX and then to the Central Florida Regional Transportation...
A new Florida-based company called "Beep" just announced a deal with NAVYA (Website), a leader in the autonomous vehicle market to test their driverless vehicles in Lake Nona.
Beep (Website) will lead testing...
Edgewood, Florida, while some may call it Orlando, is really its own City, with a population of roughly 2,500+ people. So as we continue with this #bringtoorlando piece, please bear in mind, we just want this business to move...
UPDATE: Winter Park Public Library cardholders are able to take advantage of a hotspot checkout program - more information HERE.
Boston residents are now able to borrow Wi-Fi Hotspots from their public libraries as part of the City of Boston's...
Downtown Orlando has two public restrooms and they're both located at Lake Eola Park. The result of the poor access to public restrooms means when the bars let out at the end of the night, those heavy drinkers have...
As seen in the viral video above, Mexico City has installed vertical gardens on their highway pillars, not only for aesthetic reasons but also to help the environment.
Via Verde (Website), when completed, will wrap roughly 1,000 highway support pillars...
Netherlands-based urban problem solvers, Social Sofa (Website), are a group that is working to make residential neighborhoods more civil and friendly simply by placing benches in them.
Social Sofa believes that people feel safer in their neighborhoods when they are...
An advisory panel at the Florida State University has recommended the removal of a statue of Francis Eppes from a high profile location in front of the Westcott Building on campus, near one of the main entrances.
The same panel has...
Self-reliance and grassroots economic initiatives are snowballing in communities across the country, and most importantly, those affected by generational poverty and segregation.
Us Lifting Us Economic Development Cooperative is a black-led coop that reinvests black-owned income into black neighborhoods, in...
Chelsea Market (Website) the uber-famous New York City food hall, is looking to open new locations outside of the Big Apple by the end of the year.
Jamestown (Website), the real estate company behind the Market, just sold the building...
A "participatory budget" is a democratic platform tool that allows ordinary people to decide how to allocate part of a municipal budget. This "democratic deliberation" process allows citizens to identify, discuss, and prioritize certain public spending projects and gives...
Plastic Bank (Website) is a Vancouver-based startup that monetizes waste by paying people to collect it from the oceans.
The Canadian concept was launched in 2013 and is based on a model that pays people in developing nations to collect...
A professor at Carnegie Mellon has invented a new smart traffic system called Surtrac (Website) that changes traffic lights based on real-time traffic. In short, Surtrac combines AI with basic traffic theory to allow for less time waiting at stop...
Spacious (Website) is a service that partners with restaurants to rent them out to coworkers during their off-hours.
The innovative start-up connects freelancers and remote workers with otherwise empty venues to hold meetings, presentations, or just to take advantage of...
Cities are hotter than their suburban cousins, that's a fact. And the main culprit is pavement and asphalt. Bitumen, a petroleum-based product, is naturally black and is used in the creation of asphalt as a binder. The result is that...
Mural Arts Philadelphia (Website) is hosting a revolutionary event in the fall of 2017, called Monument Lab; a participatory, city-wide project that asks residents for their vision of a monument that best represents Philadelphia.
In 2015, the Monument Lab team collected over 400...
Rent the Chicken (Website) is a new service that rents everything you need to have backyard chickens, without any of the guess work.
The service provides a portable chicken coop, two to four egg-laying hens, 100-200 pounds of feed, food and...
EDIT: We originally described Brightline as "high-speed" rail, which is incorrect. Brightline is expected to travel at an average speed of 80 miles per hour. The average definition of high speed rail is between 120 to 160 miles per...
Instagram and selfie-culture dictate today's trends, so much so that only the most photogenic can survive. With that said, we want our local bakeries and cupcakeries to hop on this fun new trend; cactus cakes.
The only thing more popular...
This video and project is an effort by Improv Everywhere (Facebook | Website) a group that
Two runners would enter an elevator with an unsuspecting bystander, dressed in marathon gear. When the elevator doors opened at the bottom floor, the...
The Fisher Beacon Project is an effort being spearheaded by MKR City, a group that connects makers and creatives in Detroit, that has resulted in the creation of a pop-up halfpipe in the Fisher Building in Detroit.
The Fisher Halfpipe is bringing...
In November 2016, we wrote a Bring to Orlando column about the Repair Cafe phenomenon popping up around the world, HERE, and now one is coming to the Winter Park Public Library (Website).
A Repair Cafe is a pop-up event...
