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Newspaper Wood: From Tree to Paper to Wood
Alison Killing reports on an exciting new closed loop paper-to-wood product. Kranthout ("newspaper wood" in Dutch) is a new product that has been developed by Mieke Meijer for design company vij5 (here is a [PDF] of their design). As the name suggests, this is 'wood' made from newspaper. The individual pages are rolled together using a specially developed machine to produce tabloid sized 'logs', which can then be milled into planks, drilled and sanded just as real wood might. Neatly, the...
Emily Pilloton: Letter from the Aftermath of Tropical Storm Nicole
Editor’s Note: Below, Worldchanging ally Emily Pilloton of Project H, shares her first-hand account of the flooding in Bertie County, North Carolina as a result of Tropical Storm Nicole. Pilloton’s Studio H program is based in Bertie County. While the Studio H shop and studio (where the high school design/build program is taught) survived major damage, many of the students' and Pilloton’s colleagues' homes, along with the majority of downtown Windsor, were flooded or destroyed. If...
Interaction Design, Cap and Trade, and Biodiesel
Looking back one, two and five years ago today (give or take!) on Worldchanging: 2009 Worldchanging Interview: Vinay Venkatraman on Interaction Design Julia Levitt interviews Vinay Venkatraman, a partner at Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design (CIID)... 2008 Cap and Trade 101 This post from Sightline is a great primer on Cap and Trade policy... 2005 Biodiesel 101 Jamais Cascio puts together a primer on biodiesel... Other recent "look backs": September 16 September 17 September 20
Two Calls for Change in Product Design
Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 Nothing for today! 2008 The Designers Accord Makes a Statement As a call to arms for designers to reduce their trades’ negative impact, Valarie Casey founded The Designers Accord... 2005 Designs that Are Dawn Danby links to two articles that mull over the idea of "designs that are" versus "designs that seem"; a very interesting conceptual framework for product design... Other recent "look backs": June 2 June 3 June 4
Life-Cycle Study: Burials
Background As the old saying goes, the only things guaranteed in life are death and taxes. Burial rites have become increasingly involved over time, particularly for those who can afford it - as the Great Pyramids testify. Today, in the United States, a US$25-billion death-care industry oversees 1.8 million burials a year, with the average funeral costing about $6,000. As millions of baby boomers are expected to die by 2040, the market will only expand. Funerary options vary widely around...
Green Innovation, Cow Grass, and BGI
Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 Greener By Design 2009 Jeremy Faludi reports on some of green innovations showcased at the 2009 Greener By Design conference, including Method's life cycle assessment of laundry detergent packaging and Frito Lay's new compostable chip bags... 2008 Extra Cheese, Hold the Methane Julia Levitt reports on a genetically modified grass that is more easily digested by cows, which allows them to graze without producing so much...
Resilience and Ruggedness: Why Faster, Bigger and More Complex May Be Better
This started as a few notes, became a rant, then tripped over some ideas which will be more fully articulated in coming work. Rough writing: read at your own risk. There are some obvious problems with this as a piece I don't have time to fix. Intelligent, engaged, constructive feedback welcome. There's a really cool event happening in Berkeley today, Design 4 Resilience: Thriving in an Uncertain World. It's an open space, unconferency sort of show, not unlike the miniconference we held...
Why Greenpeace is Wrong about the iPad
Greenpeace has launched a new campaign warning about "Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change." The cloud is growing at a time when climate change and reducing emissions from energy use is of paramount concern. With the growth of the cloud, however, comes an increasing demand for energy. For all of this content to be delivered to us in real time, virtual mountains of video, pictures and other data must be stored somewhere and be available for almost instantaneous access. That...
The Lifecycle of the Post-it Note
The modern office seems incomplete without guidance from three-inch squares of yellow paper. Placed on telephones, refrigerators, and wherever the eye may wander, the ubiquitous self-stick note has aided millions of forgetful minds. While also minimizing much face-to-face dialogue, for better or worse, the notes have left an indelible mark on the history of communication. They began in 1980, when a St. Paul, Minnesota, choir member's hymnal bookmarks kept falling to the floor. Chorist Arthur...
Why Our Bright Green Futures Will Be Weirder Than We Think
I've been thinking about how weird the future is getting. One of the most creatively interesting aspects of zero impact as a goal is the way in which it transforms our understanding of many of the "solutions" now on the table. When we see our goal as eliminating our ecological impact -- or at least eliminating any impact beyond a globally equitable share of the total impact the planet can absorb (for climate, that appears to work out to about one metric ton of CO2 per person per year, for...
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