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Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/2 MIT engineer Amy Smith (video)] details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for converting farm waste into cleaner-burning fuel. | Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/2 MIT engineer Amy Smith (video)] details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for converting farm waste into cleaner-burning fuel. | ||
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[http://www.earthshipbiotecture.com/ building with recycled materials] Michael Reynolds, Earthship Biotechture | [http://www.earthshipbiotecture.com/ building with recycled materials] Michael Reynolds, Earthship Biotechture | ||
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| + | http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/54 Cameron Sinclair,] after training as an architect, (then age 24) joined Kate Stohr to found Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that helps architects apply their skills to humanitarian efforts. Starting with just $700 and a simple web site in 1999, AFH has grown into an international hub for humanitarian design, offering innovative solutions to housing problems in all corners of the globe. | ||
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| + | Whether rebuilding earthquake-ravaged Bam in Iran, designing a soccer field doubling as an HIV/AIDS clinic in Africa, housing refugees on the Afghan border, or helping Katrina victims rebuild, Architecture for Humanity works by Sinclair's mantra: "Design like you give a damn." (Sinclair and Stohr cowrote a book by the same name, released in 2006.) | ||
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[http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/104 William McDonough ](co-author of ''Cradle to Cradle'') TEDTalk video ''' ***''' | [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/104 William McDonough ](co-author of ''Cradle to Cradle'') TEDTalk video ''' ***''' | ||
[http://www.parc.com/cms/get_article.php?id=667 Terry Swack], Founder & CEO, Clean Culture. PARC talk on Sustainable Product Desig | [http://www.parc.com/cms/get_article.php?id=667 Terry Swack], Founder & CEO, Clean Culture. PARC talk on Sustainable Product Desig | ||
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[http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/18 Janine Benyus (TEDtalk video) ]provides fascinating examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, by definition, those that can survive without destroying the environment. | [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/18 Janine Benyus (TEDtalk video) ]provides fascinating examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, by definition, those that can survive without destroying the environment. | ||
Revision as of 16:43, 24 February 2008
What kind of solutions can we implement?
Appropriate Technology
Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith (video) details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for converting farm waste into cleaner-burning fuel.
In this five minute TEDTalk, William Kamkwamba, a 14 year old African discusses how he built windmill video
Tech Museum of Innovation gives awards for great uses of technology to solve problems
Green Design
Architecture
building with recycled materials Michael Reynolds, Earthship Biotechture
http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/54 Cameron Sinclair,] after training as an architect, (then age 24) joined Kate Stohr to found Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that helps architects apply their skills to humanitarian efforts. Starting with just $700 and a simple web site in 1999, AFH has grown into an international hub for humanitarian design, offering innovative solutions to housing problems in all corners of the globe.
Whether rebuilding earthquake-ravaged Bam in Iran, designing a soccer field doubling as an HIV/AIDS clinic in Africa, housing refugees on the Afghan border, or helping Katrina victims rebuild, Architecture for Humanity works by Sinclair's mantra: "Design like you give a damn." (Sinclair and Stohr cowrote a book by the same name, released in 2006.)
Cameron Sinclair is a regular contributor to the sustainability blog [1]
Manufacturing
William McDonough (co-author of Cradle to Cradle) TEDTalk video ***
Terry Swack, Founder & CEO, Clean Culture. PARC talk on Sustainable Product Desig
Janine Benyus (TEDtalk video) provides fascinating examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, by definition, those that can survive without destroying the environment.
Articles in category "Sustainability"
The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
