When the fathers retired, the sons were their link to the job, their dinner conversations threaded with stories of projects in the works and newer, bigger machines.
There are many stories of projects hatched by big names in the international community into which millions of donated dollars were poured only to be abandoned because the result was of no use to the Haitian people.
Addressing the natural reluctance of many donor-financed aid projects to discuss failures, sites like Admitting Failure and events like FailFaireDC 2012 have recently attempted to bring together stories of projects gone wrong.
– Damon Darlin Circling the Globe in Rings Wired | The story of Project Loon, Google's quest to bring the Internet everywhere — by balloon.
But behind the bravado, some manufacturers cut costs by introducing fewer new products than usual, and designers swapped sob stories of canceled projects and dwindling royalties.
There have been stories of rival projects, such as mushroom growing in rail tunnels below Oxford Street, although "the ones we've heard of are all conceptual", says Dring. "We are way past the concept stage.
Over the past few months, the Live Better Challenge has brought stories of inspirational projects around the world growing food, managing waste, saving and generating energy in new ways.
(Warner, Tuesday, DVD $24.82; Blu-ray $34.99) CHARLES TAYLOR The Dead (1987) The movies are littered with so many stories of unrealized projects, unfulfilled careers and talent tossed away by the vagaries and cruelties of the business that John Huston's 1987 adaptation of "The Dead" by James Joyce — finally, finally on DVD in the United States — counts as something of a miracle.
I heard horror stories of construction projects going unfinished and contractors disappearing, but Scott, I never dreamt it could happen to us.
In her role as Unmarketing Manager at GlobalGiving, Alison is responsible for engaging the GlobalGiving community, telling the stories of GlobalGiving projects, and training nonprofits to use social media.
These are drawn from the three core strands of a much wider body of work undertaken within the Stories of Change project.
