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The Back Story
Worldchanging's Executive Editor Alex Steffen has long touted the benefits of product backstories -- see "Principle 1: The Backstory" or "Spinach, Feedlots and Knowing the Backstory " for examples -- and now The New York Times is getting hip to the idea: The Back Story It's always great to see the spread of Worldchanging ideas!
Plumpy'nut Update
Plumpy'nut is a vitamin-enriched mash that's designed specifically to help malnourished children return to health. It can be made with local ingredients, side-steps problems of using dirty water in powdered milk, and can be provided by mothers without direct medical supervision. In short, as Jamais Cascio wrote five years ago, it's "a simple idea, well-executed, with significantly positive results and opportunities for local empowerment." The New York Times Magazine has an update on the...
Big Green Boxes: A "Hub-and-Spoke Model" for City Farming
Grist has a new series of interviews up on people who are working to change America's food system in inspiring ways. Yesterday they posted an interview with Gene Fredericks that is worth a read; it introduces Fredericks's new venture: Big Green Boxes. Big Green Boxes aims to bring a new, high-tech, and sustainable approach to feeding the city. The main idea is to re-use vacant warehouse spaces and fill them with fish ponds, waterfalls, and edible greens and herbs to provide year-round fresh...
Bia Saldanha: Cultivating Wild Rubber in the Amazon
The Amazon is not just under threat from soy cultivation and cattle ranching, it's the only place on earth where rubber trees grow in a wild state. Bia Saldanha wants to share this amazing fact with the world: "It is a totally different situation from the rubber extracted from huge monoculture plantations, where people often work in really bad conditions and the forests are cleared just to grow rubber trees. Native rubber from the Amazon grows among all sorts of other trees. It's a...
OpenIDEO: A New Collaboration Platform for Designers
by Francisco Noguera This week saw the launch of OpenIDEO, a new collaboration platform where you can literally work with IDEO staff and other design thinkers around the world. OpenIDEO was conceived to encourage collaboration and apply the principles of design thinking to critical social challenges. A catchy video with an accent whose origin I've not yet deciphered (IDEO's take on the "About Us" section) explains in a couple of minutes how you can actually contribute to design-driven...
Improving Food Worker Livelihoods: An Interview with UFWA’s Erik Nicholson
Erik Nicholson, National Vice President of United Farm Workers of America (UFWA), has worked extensively on helping farm workers and their families avoid the damages of pesticide exposure. He has served as one of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's two national farm-worker representatives on its national pesticide advisory committee, the Pesticide Program Dialog Committee, and helped organize the first national guest-worker union contract. The UFWA, founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez, is...
Insects: The Future of Protein?
Insects could be the key to meeting food needs of growing global population. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization is taking seriously the farming of creepy-crawlies as nutritious food. by Damian Carrington A Chinese woman selling scorpions on stick waits for customers at a stall in Beijing, where the delicacy is fried in cooking oil. (Photograph: Claro Cortes/Reuters) Saving the planet one plateful at a time does not mean cutting back on meat, according to new research: the trick may...
Greenaid: Seedbombing for the Modern Guerilla Gardening Movement
The popularity of guerrilla gardening is growing. National Public Radio recently covered two stories on the subject, one on American seed bombing and another on night-time planting in London. We’ve covered guerrilla gardening at Worldchanging before (as well as the related topic of public food foraging and mapping), so we thought you might be interested to know about a new guerrilla gardening tool: tech savvy seed bombs that use biodegradable casings and are available at Etsy shops, ice...
The Aerogenerator: Proposed 10MW Machine Joins Race to Build Gargantuan Offshore Wind Turbines
British designers are developing a new type of offshore wind turbine that rotates on its axis, mimicking the spiral of a sycamore seed, and that stretches nearly 900 feet (275 meters) from tip to tip. The so-called Aerogenerator has two enormous arms that extend from the base of the structure in a V-formation, each equipped with sails along their length that act like aerofoils to generate lift and cause the structure to turn at about three revolutions per minute. Designed by the engineering...
Retail, Roads, and a Rope Pump
Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 Bright Green Retail Alex Steffen explores some of the main components of a better and emerging model of shopping, wherein innovative companies are changing not only their stores, but how the whole experience of shopping works and what it means... 2008 Do Gas Taxes Cover the Costs of Roads? Clark Williams-Derry is surprised to see that the Texas highway department says no, and suggests that there are lessons in this...
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