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An Afterlife for Hotel Soap
I ran into a reference to the Clean the World Foundation a few days before the earthquake in Haiti. The nonprofit grew out of the seemingly petty question that ...
Reimagining a Cold War Icon
A group of companies in Germany has announced plans to produce an electric small family sedan with solar panels providing additional power for accessories such as air conditioning. The ...
Fallout Cubicle
Sofia-based media artist Petko Dourmana recently exhibited the Post Global Warming Survival Kit at SIGGRAPH 2009. Dourmana's work appeared as part of the BioLogic juried ...
A Rather Fickle Memory Hole
Two recent news stories offer quirky challenges to the conventional wisdom that new technologies--especially the Internet--have made it impossible to forget anything. Raising questions about what we remember and how ...
A Self-Powered Sentinel
Massachusetts-based Voltree Power is currently developing a network of sensor nodes that will monitor forest conditions and immediately alert users to wildfires. The system, the Early Wildfire ...
Alternative Currency
A pilot program in some European Union cities encourages residents to explore the connection between personal actions and carbon emissions while rewarding those who make sustainable choices. The NU currency ...
Urban Farms
Michael McKee and Alex Ortolani, writing for Bloomberg.com, recently explored a plan to develop small-scale farming in Detroit. After decades of failed renewal efforts and economic downturns, planners have ...
Heat Sounds
Andrea Polli, a faculty member in the MFA program at Hunter College, created Heat and the Heartbeat of the City to present an aural display of climate data ...
One Square Inch
The November/December 2008 issue of Orion includes an article on Gordon Hempton, whose One Square Inch of Silence campaign seeks to mark areas where human-made sound is absent. ...
Living Graffiti
The blog and website Guerrilla Gardening provides community activists with resources, advice, and discussion space exploring gardening as a tool for protesting urban sprawl and strengthening neighborhoods. Created as ...
The Voyage of the Junk Raft
In an effort to raise public support for legislation limiting the use of disposable plastics, "eco-mariners" Marcus Erikson and Joel Paschal (working with ground support from Anna Cummins) fashioned a ...
Organic Consolidation
Michigan State University Professor Philip Howard has created a series of visualizations and animations exploring the centralization of organic food production and distribution. Arguing that the creation of a ...