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 [...]
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: Pop!Tech, Willie Smits, Will Allen, urban agriculture, LEDs, Tapergy, Camden Opera House, Logan Richardson, Zoe Keating, Mark O'Connor, Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Rachel Barenblat, Ethan Zuckerman, Kristen Taylor, Derek Lomas, Playpower Foundation, $12 computer, $10 computer, Dean Ornish, Neri Oxman, Naif Al-Mutawa, The 99, Islam, stereotypes, FLAP bag, Sheila Kenneday, Timbuk2, agroforestry, Daniel Nocera, fuel cells, photosynthesis | 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: Chris Jordan, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic pollution, John Fetterman, Braddock, Pennsylvania, Sheila Kennedy, Erik Hersman, FLAP, Flexible Light and Power, solar power, LEDs, FrontlineSMS: Medic, Hope Phones, One Laptop Per Child, Jason Araburu, Eben Mayer, Emily Pilloton, Project H Design | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 26, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Hope Phones is one of those “Gosh, yes!” ideas: Get people to donate old cell phones to a recycling company Get recycling company to assign each phone a value Use value to trade for refurbished phones Donate refurbished phones to clinics in developing countries to use for sending health-related text messages Good begets good Stanford [...]
Filed under: conflict minerals, eWaste, energy, innovation, mobile devices, recycling | 6 Comments »
