Projects tagged
Environment
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Trash Tycoon: A Game about “Upcycling”
Read more: Trash Tycoon: A Game about “Upcycling”Trash Tycoon is an upcycling social network game developed by Guerillapps. The game applies traditional social gameplay features to highlight real-world issues such as waste, water, and “green” activities. Gameplay includes cleaning trash, recycling, and constructing products and decorations out…
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8 Extraordinary Greens
Read more: 8 Extraordinary Greens“Jenna has designed an efficient, sub-irrigated system for growing energy-packed plants (microgreens) in small, urban spaces. Her aim: to provide healthy greens to extraordinary people with ordinary incomes. As an urban agricultural design project, she envisions a way to grow…
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Read more: EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a “game for change”? EVOKE is what happens. In this “game” players from all over the world are immersed in a…
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Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart Project
Read more: Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart ProjectThis is a project about bushmeat: the hunting of wild meat in the forests of sub-Saharan Africa, for our purposes specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo. This bushmeat food-cart serves up information and interpretations of the history and present of…
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Miss Rockaway Armada
Read more: Miss Rockaway ArmadaThe Miss Rockaway Armada is both a collection of individuals and an idea. At its most basic, the idea is this: we’re going to float down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans on rafts that we built ourselves.…
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Finally, OWS gets police to arrest the people in suits
Read more: Finally, OWS gets police to arrest the people in suitsSometimes justice requires a little imagination. On Saturday, when much of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York was loudly denouncing police violence against minorities and protesters, a small group of environmentalists dreamed up a way to get the…
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Green Map UAE
Read more: Green Map UAEGreen Map UAE is a place to pin, share, and quite literally, map out locations or events that are unique ecologically, culturally and considered civic resources near home or while traveling within the UAE. This portal, apart of a larger…
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Greenpeace Protests Apple’s Energy Practices By Releasing Balloons
Read more: Greenpeace Protests Apple’s Energy Practices By Releasing BalloonsBy C.J. HUGHESThe skies over the glass cube that serves as the entrance to the Apple store on Fifth Avenue turned a bit dark on Tuesday afternoon, at least for some shoppers inside. And a passing storm had nothing to…
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From a Universe of Trash
Read more: From a Universe of TrashFrom a Universe of Trash, Recycling Art and Hope By STEPHEN HOLDEN “We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s…
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Color-Cycling
Read more: Color-CyclingCiclo-Color February 7, 2012, www.mastamagazine.net Having a bike as vehicle and paint as a tool, “Bici-Brochas” brings new colourful lines to the asphalt and, according to the chosen route, leaves a hint of colour that breaks up with the sobriety…