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luminous:sampler [2008-07-24 09:26] 203.92.93.66luminous:sampler [2008-07-26 05:11] nik
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 Actually, the party’s just beginning. It’s just a different kind of party, but it’s one that will be no less fun. Building a whole new kind of world, seeing how you can live well and put out less carbon, well what’s cooler than that? Lots of opportunities to think outside the box, and many of them a lot of people are going to make a lot of money out of as well. Like maybe heat pumps for home heating. They exist, but the creative engineering on them has just barely begun. Actually, the party’s just beginning. It’s just a different kind of party, but it’s one that will be no less fun. Building a whole new kind of world, seeing how you can live well and put out less carbon, well what’s cooler than that? Lots of opportunities to think outside the box, and many of them a lot of people are going to make a lot of money out of as well. Like maybe heat pumps for home heating. They exist, but the creative engineering on them has just barely begun.
 --raypierre --raypierre
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 +There should be a gallery that collects, displays, and sifts such works over centuries and millennia, and develops ways to preserve them. That is exactly Burtynsky's plan - a 10,000-year Gallery to accompany the 10,000-year Clock. -- http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
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 +a photovoltaic panel manufacturing plant can be made energy-independent by using energy derived from its own roof using its own panels. Such a plant becomes not only energy self-sufficient but a major supplier of new energy, hence the name solar breeder.
 +Lindmayer J. The solar breeder. Proceedings of the photovoltaic solar energy conference 1977 p. 825–35.
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 +Objections to [Al Gore's idea to Make All US Electricity From Renewable Sources] cannot be framed as support of a status quo, because the status quo doesn't exist.  Nor can it be framed as against a free market, as OPEC is a cartel. It needs be to be framed as the costs of doing something as opposed to the population-crushing costs of doing nothing. [...] Ozone Man has taken on the vaporous, smoky
 +proportions of Banquo's Ghost.
 +--Bruce Sterling
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 +Old categories need to collapse before we can begin to create a different dialogue on aesthetics in a sustainable culture.  We will need a new aesthetic to embrace the three categories of object, participation, and action without privileging the conventional formal characteristics of objects.  In this aesthetic, the distinctions between art, design, and architecture will blur as critics discover new relations between the value of form and the value of use. (...)  Imagination is an artist’s greatest asset. It can produce bold visions of what a sustainable future might be like. People can be moved and aroused by powerful environments, innovative designs, and practical demonstrations of active engagement. With open minds and a willingness to collaborate, those who seek a place in the culture of sustainability must move forward. The problem of “ecological aesthetics” will solve itself.
 +--Victor Margolin
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 +The new American energy moguls. The dot-greenies. Could they be any worse than oil sheiks, Nigerians and Russians?  As a Viridian, I dare to hope that they might have better aesthetic taste than Moscow blingbling and Dubai skyscraper fever.  Maybe this latest crop of Silicon Valley zillionaires will flaunt their millions with stuff like Ross Lovegrove "Tech Nouveau" furniture.
 +--Bruce Sterling
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   * The 'Princeton Wedges" and Carbon Mitigation Initiative > http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/news/CMIinBrief.pdf   * The 'Princeton Wedges" and Carbon Mitigation Initiative > http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/news/CMIinBrief.pdf
   * The "Keeling Graph" > [[wp>Keeling_Curve]]   * The "Keeling Graph" > [[wp>Keeling_Curve]]
 +  * http://www.viridiandesign.org/
  
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   * http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hawk_small.html   * http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hawk_small.html
   * http://carbonnation.org/   * http://carbonnation.org/
-  * http://biopresence.com+  * http://biopresence.com
 +  * http://www.bbc.co.uk/bloom/ 
 +  * http://malooflab.openwetware.org/ 
 +  * http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_bldgblog_archive.html 
 +  * http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/BioChem_p013.shtml 
 +  * BioModd http://www.wmmna.com/archives/2007/10/angelo-vermeule.php 
 +  * Makrolab http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/  
 +  * http://www.nokia.com/environment 
 +  * http://www.consumergadget.net/ 
 +  * http://www.fairtracing.org/ 
 +  * http://extranet.vatt.fi/climatebonus/ 
 +  * GORI.NODE Garden http://www.gorigardeners.net/intro.php 
 +  * 'ART at WORK' http://www.art-at-work.org/en/index.html 
 +  * 'The Earth House' a documentary by Cho Hyunkyoung  
 +  * 'Ympäristötaidetta' http://www.environmentalart.net/pernu/ 
 +  * The essays in 'Small Tech' investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hawk_small.html 
 +  * 'Wonder Grass' is a young social enterprise to encourage the use of Bamboo in the construction industry. http://www.wondergrass.in/ 
 +  * Daily Dump  is a service and product to promote home composting in and around Bangalore City. http://dailydump.org/ 
 +  * 'Eco Cooker' is a product which saves up to 75% of the fuel consumed by normal cooking in individual pans. http://ecocooker.org/  
 +  * PetPuja (CitySpinning) is a set of interventions in public spaces which examine different layers of urban food systems. It seeks to demonstrate the possibility of a network of freely accessible community-grown food in cities. http://cityspinning.org/category/petpuja/  
 +  * Free Soil, The Learning Group and People Powered.
  
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