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Untitled. Bruno Latour. Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. Bruno Latour (Beaune, 22 de junho de 1947 – Paris, 9 de outubro de 2022)[2][3] foi um antropólogo, sociólogo e filósofo da ciência francês. Biografia[editar | editar código-fonte] Conhecido pelos seus livros que descrevem o processo de pesquisa científica, dentro da perspectiva pós-construtivista que privilegia a interação entre o discurso científico e a sociedade, os de maior destaque são: Jamais Fomos Modernos, Ciência em Ação e Reagregando o Social.

Esta posição é crítica tanto ao "internalismo" quanto ao "externalismo" na explicação das práticas científicas, portanto procura uma alternativa ao construtivismo e realismo.[5] Latour foi doutor em filosofia e professor do Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Linhas de pesquisa[editar | editar código-fonte] Realizou estudos etnográficos na África e na América, mas sua etnografia mais conhecida foi feita no Laboratório de Neuroendocrinologia do Instituto Salk, na Califórnia. Referências. Acontecimentos. Estudantes criam parede que promete substituir ar condicionado. Fonte: Olhar Digital A hidrocerâmica é composta de bolhas de hidrogel que são capazes de reter até 400 vezes o seu volume em água.

Aparelhos de refrigeração e climatização são comuns em muitas casas em empresas. Estes equipamentos, que ajudam a amenizar o desconforto das altas temperaturas, são responsáveis por grande parte do consumo de energia elétrica, além de contribuírem para a chamada “pegada de carbono”, que mede a quantidade de CO2 produzida diariamente por cada pessoa.

Pensando nisso, estudantes do Instituto de Arquitetura (IAAC), na Espanha, criaram um protótipo de parede que promete resfriar o ambiente sem a necessidade destes eletrodomésticos. Fonte: Domusweb O protótipo do material foi criado no Instituto de Arquitetura (IAAC), na Espanha. O material recebeu o nome de hydroceramics (hidrocerâmica) e é composto de bolhas de hidrogel que são capazes de reter até 400 vezes o seu volume em água. Confira no vídeo o conceito do novo produto: Smart panels connect you to energy savings. Smart Distribution Panel. Compostaggio: i 13 sistemi più innovativi. Vi abbiamo parlato spesso del compostaggio, e cioè di quel particolare processo mediante il quale è possibile ricavare dei fertilizzanti 100% naturali e di altissima qualità, attraverso la decomposizione dei rifiuti organici, scarti alimentari e vegetali.

Oggi attraverso questa operazione di riciclo è possibile ottenere un compost prezioso, molto importante per l’agricoltura biologica ma anche per il nostro giardino. I sistemi che abbiamo a disposizione sono molteplici e adatti a ogni esigenza: esistono compostiere sia da interni che da esterni, manuali o automatiche, adatte al compostaggio domestico o addirittura a quello comunitario. Ma vediamo quali sono le ultime novità del momento. 1) Sistema di compostaggio Biophyllic Questo sistema di compostaggio, progettato dalla Cooler Solutions Inc., deve il suo nome al concetto di biofilia, e cioè il legame istintivo tra gli esseri umani e gli altri esseri viventi. 2) Il secchio di Bokashi 3) La compostiera Can-O-Worms 4) Bidoni Worm Wigwam.

Old Red Goes Green: Recycled Wall Brick Built to Save Water. It might look like your typical old red clay house-building brick on one side, but turn it over and there is a shift that hints at a deeper design change – one that is eco-friendly but also expressive in a way that most walls or brick are not. Designed by Jin-young Yoon to be made from recycled plastic and decomposed leaves, this brick is green from the ground up (so to speak). More than just its composite materials, however, built-in grooves are designed to funnel water for gardening or even long-term underground storage. In a world where water is becoming the next hot-button resource destined to become scarce, it seems like a good time to start thinking about our most basic building materials and structures (such as bricks and walls) and see how they might shift to accommodate an ever-growing need for homes to have access to nature’s most vital resource.

Energia solar financia melhorias em condomínios do Minha Casa Minha Vida. Micro-usina de energia solar tem com potencial para abastecer 3,6 mil domicílios em um anoFoto: Agência Caixa Centro comunitário, sala de informática, parada de ônibus, sinalização de trânsito e atendimentos médicos semanais. Essas e outras melhorias foram implementadas devido à economia de energia nos residenciais vizinhos, Praia do Rodeadouro e Morada do Salitre, em Juazeiro, no sertão baiano, onde moram quase 5 mil pessoas.

Com 9.144 placas fotovoltaicas instaladas nos telhados dos blocos com quatro ou seis apartamentos, os conjuntos do Minha Casa Minha Vida para famílias de baixa renda se transformaram na maior micro-usina de energia solar do País, com potencial para produzir 2,1 Mega Watts (MW), o suficiente para abastecer 3,6 mil domicílios em um ano. A energia vendida à distribuidora local rendeu, líquido, R$ 1,89 milhão entre fevereiro de 2014 e junho. O objetivo é tornar o projeto uma fonte de renda e empregos nos condomínios onde as placas fotovoltaicas estão instaladas.

NO.V.A - Nós Vivemos o Amanhã. Enel Brasil apresenta primeira casa do futuro feita por crowdsourcing | vivagreen. A casa, construída como parte do projeto NO.V.A., também será a primeira moradia do futuro que funcionará como um “living lab”, com pessoas vivendo no ambiente por um tempo e testando as soluções inovadoras diariamente A construção da casa do futuro começará antes do fim de 2015 e está programada para terminar antes do início dos Jogos Olímpicos do Rio, em 2016 A casa pode tomar decisões de forma autônoma graças a um conjunto de sensores e equipamentos telecomandados A construção vai reduzir em até 85% o volume de resíduos e em 80% a emissão de carbono em comparação com uma casa do mesmo tamanho A casa será autossuficiente em água e energia e contará com medição e exibição em tempo real do consumo de água, energia e gás por meio de um equipamento de medição inteligente. A casa também terá aparelhos elétricos inteligentes e uma horta orgânica para produção de alimentos cobrindo uma área de até 1.000 m².

A construção da casa deve terminar antes dos Jogos Olímpicos do Rio em 2016. This Ingenious $20 Lamp Gets All Its Energy From Gravity. The ingenious GravityLight—a light that gets all its energy from its own weight—first appeared about three years ago. We wrote about it as it was launching on Indiegogo and went on to raise $399,590. It provides free light (after you've bought it). It's cheap. And it has none of the environmental or health side-effects as do other light alternatives in the developing world. But even all those things aren't necessarily enough if it's to reach its potential.

Thankfully the company seems to have most of the questions answered, as least so far. The light has a gear-train and DC generator. After the first campaign, GravityLight sent the device to organizations and individuals in 26 countries. "The SatLights have really revolutionized the experience," says commercial director Caroline Angus. With the proceeds from a second Indiegogo campaign, GravityLight is now setting up an assembly line in Kenya. It certainly sounds like GravityLight has answers to the big questions. Conheça a primeira creche sustentável do Brasil. Sustentabilidade tem que ser ensinada e estimulada desde cedo, não é verdade? A Prefeitura de Florianópolis, em Santa Catarina, concorda com isso e até já inaugurou uma creche sustentável, a primeira em todo o Brasil.

Localizada em Costeira do Pirajubé, a unidade de ensino batizada de Hassis está adequada ao padrão internacional de sustentabilidade e teve um investimento na casa dos R$ 4,4 milhões do Ministério da Educação e do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento. Inaugurada em abril deste ano, a Creche Hassis ocupa um terreno de quase 12 mil metros quadrados, cedido pela Secretaria do Patrimônio da União (SPU). A construção de 1.182 m² possui 10 salas com varandas pergoladas feitas de madeira certificada, pátio coberto, refeitório com varanda, banheiros e outros espaços com acessibilidade. Mas afinal, o que classifica esta creche como sustentável? Creating Roads From Sand and Bacteria Instead of Oil. Improving America’s infrastructure has been a major priority for the Obama Administration, with a lot of money going into repairing the country’s roads and bridges.

The problem is that currently most roads are constructed from asphalt, a material made from oil that increases national fossil fuel usage, is expensive, and is damaging to the environment. However designers Thomas Kosbau and Andrew Wetzler have come with a plan for a greener alternative — a “biologically treated and processed paving material” that uses a common microbe to transform loose grains of stand into stable, road-worthy sandstone. The plan, called ‘Sand.Stone.Road‘ recently won the grand prize in the Korean green design ‘Iida Awards 2010‘, which were organized by Designboom in collaboration with Incheon Metropolitan City.

In the designers’ own words, “The world is suffering from a material found outside of every doorway. Asphalt has been used as the conventional paving material for the last 80 years. Couple Lives Off-the-Grid in Incredible Floating, Self-Sustainable Home. Since 1992, husband and wife Wayne Adams and Catherine King have lived completely off-the-grid in a floating home made of 12 platforms in Cypress Bay, British Columbia. The Canadian couple and their two kids are completely self-sustaining, eating whatever King grows in her garden as well as the seafood that Adams catches fresh from the ocean. With electricity powered by solar panels and photovoltaic generators, and water from rainfall and the nearby waterfall, the family has created an utterly unique, green lifestyle. In addition to being environmentally friendly, their home—called Freedom Cove is an incredible work of architecture, design, and pure fun.

Painted turquoise and magenta, the floating abode includes a dance floor, an art gallery, a guest lighthouse, five greenhouses, and a studio where the family lives. During their free time, Adams, 66, carves and sells sculptures, while King, 59, focuses on painting, dancing, music, and writing. La Educación Prohibida - Película Completa HD.

ORBITAL SYSTEMS | Shower of the Future. Shower of the Future | by ORBITAL SYSTEMS. NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Aerial Walkway in Cape Town Allows Visitors to Take a Surreal Stroll Above the Trees. This surreal walkway recently installed in Cape Town, South Africa, creates a meandering, aerial path that allows visitors to stroll through the treetops. The steel-and-pinewood Kirstenbosch Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway begins on the forest floor, gradually sloping upward and eventually elevating guests to a spectacular vantage point above the canopy.

From the heights, guests can witness the South African forest in all its glory — and in all kinds of weather. Sometimes, visitors must bring umbrellas to walk through the clouds and fog engulfing the lofty canopy. Benches placed periodically along the walkway offer ideal spots to take in the beauty of a sunrise or sunset while suspended in the atmosphere. The snaking bridge, inspired by the shape of a snake skeleton, measures 130 meters long — the equivalent of about 1.5 football fields. Kirstenbosch Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway website via [Twisted Sifter] GCR - Innovation - A cute, concrete-eating deconstruction robot? Why not? 31 July 2013 Imagine a robot that thoughtfully munches away at structures, digesting the concrete and efficiently excreting clean, reusable aggregate and cement. As Rod Sweet reports, somebody has. It would keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfill and leave smooth, exposed rebar to be snipped and taken away.

It would transform our current, energy and water intensive approach to demolition. Like Leonardo Da Vinci’s helicopter, proposed in the 1480s, the concrete-eating deconstruction robot is just an idea at this stage, but its inventor believes the real thing is only a few years away. Turkish designer Omer Haciomeroglu’s concept has won a gold medal in America, while its development has been supported by construction equipment manufacturer Atlas Copco Rockdrills AB. The “ERO” (for “eroder”) first emerged as a thesis topic while Mr Haciomeroglu pursued a Master’s degree at Sweden’s Umeå Institute of Design. The way it would work is reminiscent of the hit film, WALL-E. A model of ERO. ERO Concrete De-Construction Robot Can Eat Entire Buildings.

Demolishing buildings the traditional way - with dynamite and wrecking balls - is undoubtedly fun, but a touch messy and impractical. Now a California State University graduate, Omer Haciomeroglu, may have come up with a beautifully elegant solution: the ERO Concrete De-Construction Robot. Rather than simply smash down concrete buildings, Haciomeroglu's device uses high pressure water to break down concrete which it then sucks up.

The ERO Concrete De-Construction Robot The water is re-used while the waste concrete is packaged and sent off to be re-used as building material. The technique has numerous advantages. It uses less water, the concrete is more readily re-usable and it practically eliminates dust and pollution associated with regular building destruction. Haciomeroglu envisages fleets of autonomous robots being set to work to strip a building and pretty much left to get on with it. Concrete Eating Robots Could Recycle Entire Buildings. The Ero concept could aid in building a new structure directly out of an old one. The cost of demolishing an existing old building can sometimes rival what is spent on building a new structure. Today, there is an established industry of building recyclers that reprocess concrete, metal, glass and wood for use in new ways.

But it is a complicated, time consuming and messy job sometimes involving hazardous materials. Designer Omer Haciomeroglu saw the problem and set out to develop a solution that was more efficient, cleaner and safer for workers. ERO is a Concrete Deconstruction Robot concept designed to disassemble reinforced concrete structures and enable the building materials to be re-used for new pre-fabricated concrete buildings.

Today, operators manually control different sized demolition machines to smash and crash the concrete structure into dusty bits within the demolition location. Omer Haciomeroglu. 10 Reasons Why EarthShips Are F!#%ing Awesome. Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap to build and awesome to live in. They offer amenities like no other sustainable building style you have come across. For the reasons that follow, I believe Earthships can actually change the world. See for yourself! 1) Sustainable does not mean primitive When people hear about sustainable, off-the-grid living, they usually picture primitive homes divorced from the comforts of the 21st century. 2) Free Food Each Earthship is outfitted with one or two greenhouses that grow crops year-round, no matter the climate. 3) Brilliant Water Recycling Even the most arid of climates can provide enough water for daily use through only a rain-harvesting system. 4) Warmth & Shelter The most brilliant piece of engineering in the Earthship is their ability to sustain comfortable temperatures year round.

The large greenhouse windows at the front of the house always face south to allow the sun to heat up the thermal mass throughout the daytime. 5) Energy. Ten Things Learned Living Off-grid in Canada. BIG architects chosen to design europacity, france. World's Coolest Offices of the Future. Stylish Eco-Friendly Villas Renew More Than They Consume. Smart city, smart planet: Sensity is creating a billion-node network of global sensors — in street lights. The 3D Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours | Technology. Moss Graffiti. Tec - Tecnologia de ponta ajuda cidades inteligentes a melhorar dia a dia de habitantes - 01/07.