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 »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
If no other statistic about climate change gives you pause, this one should: 1/4 of the world’s population – an estimated 1.4 billion people – rely on water from rivers that source in the Himalayas. As glaciers retreat, snow packs shrink and spring thaws occur earlier and earlier, the precious gift of a well-timed water [...]
Filed under: agriculture, air pollution, climate change, drought, forests, reforestation, soil health, water | Tagged: climate change, Kenya, Mexico, deforestation, Nepal, Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, GLOF, melting glaciers, Extreme Ice Survey, James Balog, TED, Sharon Begley, aquifers, nomads, hippos, IPCC, Copenhagen, COP-10, urban heat islands, biotic pumps, The Age of Stupid | Leave a Comment »
