Posted on December 15, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Leave it to an 8 year-old. Specifically, the 8 year-old son of Jim Warner, managing director of design consultancy Brandimage, who took one look at a plastic bottle his dad had helped create and said, “Oh. You make trash.”
Once the sting of that nasty little unvarnished truth wore off, Warner set to work to make [...]
Filed under: climate change, innovation, oil, recycling, water | Tagged: 360 paper bottle, albatross, Bisphenol A, Brandimage, Chris Jordan, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Jim Warner, Message from the Gyre, plastic bottle | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 27, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
It was a wonderful little bubble while it lasted. Getting up before dawn. Dressing in easy-to-peel layers for whatever the day might bring. Walking over to Boynton-McKay, a diner of rare perfection, where the wi-fi was as reliably good as the pancakes (a boon in connectivity-challenged Camden…) Ascending the stairs and more stairs of the [...]
Filed under: agriculture, climate change, disease surveillance, energy, food, forests, innovation, lighting, maps, oil, rain forests, rapid diagnostics, recycling, reforestation, solar, transportation, visualization, water | Tagged: $10 computer, $12 computer, agroforestry, Camden Opera House, Daniel Nocera, Dean Ornish, Derek Lomas, Ethan Zuckerman, FLAP bag, fuel cells, Islam, Kristen Taylor, LEDs, Logan Richardson, Mark O'Connor, Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Naif Al-Mutawa, Neri Oxman, photosynthesis, Playpower Foundation, Pop!Tech, Rachel Barenblat, Sheila Kenneday, stereotypes, Tapergy, The 99, Timbuk2, urban agriculture, Will Allen, Willie Smits, Zoe Keating | 3 Comments »
Posted on November 23, 2008 by J.A. Ginsburg
When the Great Somali Pirate story broke into the headlines last week, the media’s first reaction was to make a joke of it. Pirates are Jack Sparrow, popcorn, a night on the couch for a cable-movie marathon and one of the best film scores ever. Piracy is a fake Fendi. Yes, buckles are swashed (if [...]
Filed under: InSTEDD, TrackerNews, energy, maps, natural gas, oil | Tagged: Amory Lovins, InSTEDD, L.Hunter Lovins, oil, Pirates, Somalia, TrackerNews, UNOSAT | Leave a Comment »
