Things categorized as 'environment'
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- The Media Laboratory, MIT
- Postgenomic Postgenomic collects posts from hundreds of science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data.
- Signal vs. Noise
Destroyed Landscapes
Terranova Vision uses landscape art as a tool for both saving communities affected by large-scale resource extraction or political conflict and creating works that encourage awareness of environmental issues ...
Regenerative Development
Sante Fe-based planning and design consults the Regenesis Group approach sustainable development in a way that fully integrates place into the processes of restoration, growth, and ecologically-friendly use. Rather than viewing ...
Collaborative Water Solutions
Following a cross-country trip and a series of works in which she explored the nature of public space, performance artist Betsy Damon realized the importance of social networks in the creation of art ...
Participatory Urbanism
Interested in the ways in which mobile technology influences social development and the urban landscape, research boutique Urban Atmospheres has built an ongoing project on the belief that cell phones and other ...
Transportation: Piece by Piece
The effects of mobility on life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as concerns about the connection between energy consumption and changing conceptualizations of space and distance, inspired a ...
Esprit de Corps
During my time as a museum director, I came into regular contact with the US Army Corps of Engineers through the agency’s efforts to explore archaeological sites and promote historic preservation in ...
Biomorphology and Water Sustainability
Andrew Parker, a zoology faculty member at the University of Sydney, built his career exploring ways to model optical technology on the evolutionary adaptations seen in the eyes of animals. He has turned his interest in ...
Who’s Minding the Wood?
Good Wood Watch, a coalition of Canadian environmental groups, hopes to use the 2010 Winter Olympics as a model for large scale, sustainable construction. Building on Vancouver's pledge that the games ...
Fallen Fruit
Blending the local food movement, cartographic art, and the idea of the public commons, Fallen Fruit invites participants to map the locations of fruit trees, creating an open project exploring conservation, ...
Going Public
Inspired by the same interface and knowledge-sharing model as Wikipedia, Wikileaks plans to provide an uncensorable, anonymous forum for sharing information about corrupt or immoral actions in the public realm. Wikileaks will make leaked ...
Reconstruction
Before starting a PhD program I worked for a couple of years as a museum director at a site dedicated to river life, agriculture, and the socio-political world of the mid nineteenth ...
Playa Viva
Playa Viva, a resort on the Pacific coast of Mexico, provides models of green business development and ecotourism. The resort's founders realized that their connection to the area would benefit ...
Greening the GI Bill
Green Collar Vets connects veterans with job training and employment opportunities related to sustainable development and alternative energy. The group encourages participants to use GI Bill funding to enroll in vocational ...
Two Ways of Seeing Noise
Two sets of research and art projects catalog the effects of noise pollution in urban areas and public green spaces. An ongoing program of the European Commission relies on extensive research and visual ...
Another Use for Jazz
Years ago, planner Lawrence Halprin experimented with using musical scores and choreographic notation (as well as the hexagrams from the I Ching) to create a common language for artists, designers, ...