You Can Help Save The Planet

Earth – You Can Help Save The Planet | Green Eco Voice
The environmental movement! Mankind continues to struggle with ideas and ways to save the planet. Words like sustainability, eco-friendly, environmentalist, ecosystems, and green are becoming a part of everyday vocabulary. The resounding message that Earths resources are being depleted has become a focus in [...]

Bad aid makes things worse in Sahel

Bad aid makes things worse in Sahel – PSD Blog – The World Bank Group
Sahel_map_2Why has development been unable to break the cycle of poverty in one of the poorest and environmentally damaged regions in Africa? Flawed aid, says a new report:
The short-term nature of many contracts in international development makes [...]

Sustainable Designs for a Living World

10 Awe-Inspiring, Sustainable Designs for a Living World: Showing Now at Cooper Hewitt (Slideshow) : TreeHugger
Not able to hoof it to New York City’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum for the Nature Conservancy’s Design for a Living World”? Fret not, because we’ve brought the exhibit to you through the magic of the Internet.
In our slideshow, you’ll find prominent [...]

Studios and projects in sustainabilities

I want to write a text about the ultimate purpose of sustainability studios offered to industrial Design students. I want to ask the agencies or sustainability organisations who engage with design students – why do you do so? And I will now proceed to answer the question. These agencies offer studios to broaden the field [...]

Designlitics

David Report blog » Designlitics
Designlitics. Meaning to apply design thinking in its genesis to questions of organization, identity, culture and content, in order to help defining possible strategies, from the conceptual to the objective, of addressing the full potential of our contemporaneity.
In short – to politicize (product) designers and accept design as a content producer, [...]

an avatar consumes a bit less energy than a real person

Sustainability considerations relating to the use of Second Life for education « Learn Online
…So an avatar consumes 1,752 kWh per year. By comparison, the average human, on a worldwide basis, consumes 2,436 kWh per year. So there you have it: an avatar consumes a bit less energy than a real person, [...]

Melting Man Challenges Climate Change

Inhabitat » ECO ART ACTIVISM: Melting Man Challenges Climate Change
It appears that global warming has finally created its own version of the Wounded Veteran. Sitting in a puddle of himself in Buenos Aires’ Plaza Francia, a young man from Red Cross Argentina issued pleas to passers-by: not for spare change, but for action against climate [...]

The energy miser who is leaving a tiny carbon footprint

Joan Pick, the energy miser who is leaving a tiny carbon footprint – Times Online
There are tribes in the Amazon rainforests who never use motorised transport, and in wooded Welsh valleys a few bold souls subsist without gas or mains electricity, but Joan Pick is doing it in Croydon.
After 36 years of self-imposed environmental abstinence, [...]

Global warming could make extreme rains stronger

NDTV.com: 42 die in Andhra, Mumbai hit due to rains

Meanwhile, in Maharashtra the rains have come late but it’s a deluge now. The coastal Konkan stretch continues to be lashed by heavy rains. There are reports of flooding from Chiplun, Ratnagiri, Khed and Rajapur. Three rivers Savitri, Arjuna and Vashisht are overflowing.
Pune was also lashed [...]

Recycling becomes profitable

Recyclers are cashing in on the fortune in your bin – Times Online
Householders are missing a chance to share in the results of huge profits generated by the soaring value of recyclable domestic rubbish, The Times has learnt.
The price of recyclable plastic, newspaper and cardboard has doubled in 18 months, giving councils a source of [...]

Extreme Rains to Be Supercharged by Warming

Extreme Rains to Be Supercharged by Warming, Study Says
Extreme Rains to Be Supercharged by Warming, Study Says
Mason Inman
for National Geographic News
August 7, 2008
Global warming could make extreme rains stronger and more frequent than previously forecast, a new study suggests.
Such a scenario could make floods fiercer, damage more crops, and worsen the spread of diseases such [...]

A big Campaign

Campaigns tend to be big and have a tinge of truth about them. Till someone decides to take a look. Cliamte change has come in for a critical inspection in a Channel 4 documentary: The Great Global Warming Swindle.
It will begin to look like sustainability is the in-thng even for this course. That is not [...]