Tag Archives: Sustainability
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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