Posted on February 10, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg
On link between environmental health & public health; Rebuilding Haiti from the soil microbes up; A humanitarian aid petri dish; Jared Diamond’s checklist for collapse & Haiti as vision what could be in store for the rest of us; Charcoal cartels, Amy Smith’s better answer & Nicholas Kristof’s compost toilet tour
Five years ago, in a [...]
Filed under: Diaster relief, Haiti, agriculture, charcoal, earthquake, forests, innovation, reforestation, soil health | Tagged: "Haiti Timber Re-Introduction Project", "Hopital Albert Schweitzer", charcoal, compost toilets, Crisis Commons, CrisisMappers, deforestation, Haiti, Haiti Rewired, HTRIP, Jared Diamond, reforestation, SOIL, urban farming, Will Allen | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 23, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
The last-minute, cobbled-together, non-binding, specifics-lite COP15 “accord” managed to unify almost everyone in disappointment, though perhaps not in surprise. Many, including climatologist James Hansen and economist Jeffrey Sachs, have for months called the drawn-out politically-driven process “broken.” When there was no time to waste, time was wasted. The representative from the fast-sinking island of Tuvalu [...]
Filed under: climate change, energy, innovation | Tagged: " climate refugees, "Father Greed, climate change, COP15, James Hansen, Jeffrey Sachs, Storms of My Grandchildren, Thomas Friedman, Tuvalu | Leave a Comment »
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 October 23, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Blame it on the birds. And the elephants, lions, biochar, Indonesian agroforestry, dirt batteries, mechanical caterpillar waves, global maps, messenger bag-cum-lighting systems, a cyber-dance experience and one very lovely essay about migration. But not too far into the first day of PopTech, the conference’s “Reimagining America” theme disappeared. Which was fine. It seemed too limited [...]
Filed under: agriculture, charcoal, climate change, eWaste, energy, food, forests, innovation, lighting, mobile devices, rain forests, recycling, reforestation, solar, traffic, visualization, water | Tagged: Braddock, Chris Jordan, Eben Mayer, Emily Pilloton, Erik Hersman, FLAP, Flexible Light and Power, FrontlineSMS: Medic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Hope Phones, Jason Araburu, John Fetterman, LEDs, One Laptop Per Child, Pennsylvania, plastic pollution, Project H Design, Sheila Kennedy, solar power | Leave a Comment »
