Sanitation Commons Wiki | Sanitation Hackathon. Akvopedia is a community-created water and sanitation resource. You are invited to log in, edit and create content to contribute to this shared resource center. This portal describes sanitation technologies which can be applied from the household level to the village level. A complete sanitation system does not consist of only one technology, but rather a chain of technologies, each taking care of a specific function, such as the toilet, transportation, and treatment. Each technology below is dedicated to one particular function in this chain. An example is given at the end of this page. Below, sanitation technologies are presented in different functional groups: User interface (Toilets, urinals, handwashing), Collection and Storage / Local Treatment, Conveyance, (semi-) Centralized Treatment, and Use of products / disposal.
Jump to more Sanitation links and resources below. Field experiences Sanitation links and resources Sanitation systems Example... Acknowledgements. Sanitation Commons Wiki | Sanitation Hackathon. OBA Milestones / Completed projects. The Future Of UX Design: Tiny, Humanizing Details. Dan Saffer, like many designers, likes to quote Charles Eames. But unlike many designers, Saffer—Director of Interaction Design at Smart Design—wrote a whole book inspired by one of his favorite Eames quotes: "The details are not the details. They make the design. " Saffer’s book, titled Microinteractions, takes Eames’s maxim to heart and then some. "For the last decade or so, designers have been encouraged to tackle 'wicked problems’ and to address systems," he tells Co.Design.
"But when you’re working on such a macro scale, the details sometimes get lost, and it’s the details that make systems feel more human, and more humane. So I wanted to write a book that took a look, almost at the atomic level of design, of what makes details work. " So what is a "microinteraction," anyway? These atomic design moments, Saffer argues, are what whole products, and even whole systems and "wicked problems," ultimately boil down to. [Read more about Microinteractions here] Escape the City Do something different. Design for self reliance - Sustainable housing and living.
Design for self reliance - Sustainable housing and living. Constructed wetlands constructed wetlands design and construction design and build ECOFYT. Over ons ECOFYT is ontstaan in 1992.Het is het eerste Nederlandse bedrijf dat zich geheel gespecialiseerd heeft in helofytenfilters,de zeer natuurlijke wijze van waterzuivering. We houden ons bezig met zowel oppervlaktewater (beken, vijvers) als afvalwater (huishoudelijk, agrarisch of industrieel).En wij verzorgen het ontwerpen en het aanleggen van deze rietbed zuiveringen. Tot het assortiment behoren: * infiltratievoorzieningen, * vloeivelden, * horizontaal doorstroomde helofytenfilters en vooral: * verticaal doorstroomde helofytenfilters.
Over hoeveel water hebben we het? Trends De laatste jaren worden we vaker gevraagd om grotere projecten te ontwikkelen. Een andere trend is dat we meer voor de echt ingewikkelde projecten worden uitgenodigd. Maar ook internationaal wordt er een beroep gedaan op onze kennis. PrijzenMet hetzelfde team deden we in 2010 mee aan een ontwerpwedstrijd, uitgeschreven door Amsterdam Oost-Watergraafsmeer. En voor U? Wij hopen dat u onze website kunt waarderen. Ecovillage - ecology, spirituality, community building. Op deze website kun je informatie vinden over de Vereniging Ecodorp, haar projecten en de initiatieven van haar leden.
Bovendien functioneert de website als interactief kanaal waarlangs belangstellenden en leden met elkaar kunnen communiceren (via het prikbord) over ecodorpen, waarbij het gaat om de combinatie van ecologie, spritualiteit en gemeenschapsvorming. Momenteel (2011) is er geen ecodorp-project in uitvoering waar wij als vereniging direct bij betrokken zijn. Er zijn een paar initiatieven afgerond (klik op ‘Projecten’) en we hebben wat ijzers in het vuur voor toekomstige locaties. Tevens is er, of wordt er gezocht naar, samenwerking met organisaties met overeenkomstige doelstellingen. Op de laatste algemene ledenvergadering is besloten om de vereniging een relatief sluimerend bestaan te gunnen. De leden en meer dan 1.500 belangstellenden van de Vereniging Ecodorp ontvangen de Nieuwsbrief. Heb je belangstelling en wil je graag de nieuwsbrief ontvangen Klik dan op Aanmelden . Www.localwise.nl.
| Education about Technology Serving Human Nature. Contact | About us | PWN Technologies. Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. We focus our grantmaking in five complementary areas: transformative technologies, urban sanitation markets, building demand for sanitation, policy and advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation. Transformative Technologies A key part of our effort to radically improve sanitation in the developing world is our Reinvent the Toilet Challenge (RTTC). We are funding research to develop truly aspirational “next-generation” toilets that do not require a sewer or water connection or electricity, cost less than 5 cents per user per day, and are designed to meet people’s needs. Most of the projects use chemical engineering processes for energy and resource recovery from human waste. A prototype toilet designed by Loughborough University researchers that extracts biological charcoal, minerals, and clean water from human waste.
Since 2011, we have awarded 16 RTTC grants to research organizations around the world. In 2013, we launched two country-specific RTTC programs in India and China. Outline | Policy Simulation for City & State Governments.
People | OPAi | oneplanetarchitecture institute. Thomas Rau, founder and director of RAU architects “Attitude determines the consequence of our actions. Fourty years ago, as we could see for the first time in its entirety, beauty and fragility the planet we are living on, it became clear to us that we need to consider the global consequences of our actions. We need to build structures that nurture the planet. That’s sustainability. At OPAi, we strongly believe that this sustainability in buildings and organisations stems from a highly interactive, creative dialogue of an inter-disciplinary team. That’s how you get to the integral, co-operative approach we need. To be able to facilitate and manage such processes, we have established a new platform: ‘the oneplanetarchitecture institute’.” Douwe Jan Joustra, managing partner Douwe Jan Joustra is managing sustainable development processes in the fields of urban development, construction and housing.
Using Netvizz & Gephi to Analyze a Facebook Network | persuasion. This post was originally featured on published on May 6th, 2010. Since the website will be relaunched and the post removed, I have relocated the tutorial to my personal page so that the Gephi community can continue to benefit from it. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a graph must be worth a thousand spreadsheet rows, right? A Facebook network rendered in Gephi Okay, maybe not, but for practitioners and researchers alike, data visualization can reveal insights that aren’t always obvious from looking at the raw data, no matter how well organized it may be. When we’re talking about social network, data visualization takes the form of a “social graph,” and it can be a powerful tool to discover deeper meanings and applications behind the relationships and communities within a network.
The Alternatives Facebook: Twitter: Mention Map The great thing about these apps is that they do most of the work for you. Two quick notes about Netvizz: Like this:
MySQL Tutorial. Features. APPLICATION frameworks. Language. Algorythm. Segment.io | Segment.io is the simple analytics API — Segment.io. CircuitHub. DBMS. DATABASE. API and platforms. Start-ups. Indicators/Measures. Metabolic Lab presentations. Julien Horvath. #38 – How to pitch an idea. By Scott Berkun, February 2005 Coming up with good ideas is hard enough, but convincing others to do something with them is even harder. In many fields the task of bringing an idea to someone with the power to do something with it is called a pitch: software feature ideas, implementation strategies, movie screenplays, organizational changes, and business plans, are all pitched from one person to another. And although the fields or industries may differ, the basic skill of pitching ideas is largely the same.
This essay provides a primer on idea pitches, and although most of my experience is in the tech-sector, I pitch to you that the advice here will be relevant to pitching business plans, yourself (e.g. job interviews), screenplays, or anything else. The nature of ideas Ideas demand change. By definition, the application of an idea means that something different will take place in the universe. Healthy and progressive organizations make change easier than stinky evil organizations do. Fab lab inventory. Kyberia mapping project. The goal of this project is creating a graphical representation of Kyberia.sk node tree. This is the the basic structure of Kyberia universe - it looks like universe, doesn't it? In the center, there is a node number 101, which is a root of all nodes. If you follow parent of any node long enough, you'll eventually get to node number 101 (except for anomalies that will leed to an infinite cycle:).
The nodes in lighter colors have more good Karma (called K!). Most of the nodes are not accessible from the Internet without logging in and have different permissions, they are red. Orientation in this universe is pretty complex. The second picture shows pretty large forum with a lot of branches. There are dark corners on the internet :) It would be a pity if I did not show probably the most visited node category -- "Sex and more...
". The second row shows a different view, on the right you can see the sinful images forum. The last row shows "the sexiest gals (of kyberia)" forum. 13 energy data startups to watch in 2013. Dozens of startups building analytics that can collect and analyze energy data emerged or grew their businesses in 2012. It was a hot trend for a variety of reasons including the development of big data technologies as a massive and growing business, the notion that energy analytics are a more attractive capital-lite business than smart grid hardware, and the reality that utilities need to digitize their power grids to provide better service in the modern age. Here’s a list of 13 startups that we covered last year that I would keep an eye on in 2013. A couple of these, like Opower and Nest, I also included on my list last year: 1).
Stem: Formerly called Powergetics and founded in 2009, Stem ‘s software tracks and analyzes energy use in buildings and helps companies predict and control their energy budgets. In addition, the company helps buildings owners tap into installed battery farms to use stored energy when grid electricity is expensive. 2). 3). 4). 5). 6). 7). 8). 9). 10). 11). Cradle to Cradle – William McDonough and Michael Braungart « Design Thinking @ Haas. Posted by sunderraj3 in Design Thinking, Uncategorized.
Trackback “Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.” -William Mc Donough, TED 2005 conference “We do not want sustainability, because that is not enough. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, an architect and Michael Braungart, a chemist is a seemingly utopian concept that challenges our current design principles and the ‘cradle to grave’ manufacturing models. The physical book design in itself quite novel. The book starts off with a critique of the current design and manufacturing guidelines that have their underpinnings in the Industrial Revolution.
I could see three underlying principles that drive the C2C methodology: Waste Equals Food: This is a principle borrowed from nature where everything has a purpose and is a nutrient for something else. References Like this: Similar Experts of Gerald A. Paccione, Jr. - Albert Einstein College of Medicine - SciVal Experts 4.2. Gerald A. Paccione, Jr. - Albert Einstein College of Medicine - SciVal Experts 4.2. Home. PUBLICATIONS - vitaliypopov. About IFTTT.
Gallery. THAILAND: Mapping urban farming | Thailand | Early Warning | Food Security. A Geographical Information System (GIS) is being used to map vegetable production in the greater Bangkok region, seat of Thailand’s capital, to analyse how urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) contribute to food security in the city of more than 14 million. “UPA produces around one-fifth of world’s food, with 800 million people involved in it. Our project aims at giving decision-makers more elements to harness this potential,” Yingyong Paisooksantivatana, the associate dean of the agriculture faculty at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, told IRIN. The V-GIS (vegetable-GIS, or “veggies”,) project is a computerized information system that analyses data gathered on the ground and via satellite about crop species, production, land surface and workforce, launched in April 2012 by Kasetsart University and the German University of Freiburg, with funding from the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). sb/pt/he.
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The only catch? Kaggle is a San Francisco-based startup that hosts data science competitions, typically for large companies and nonprofits like the Hewlett Foundation, AllState, and GE. Related: Read more about cool Kaggle competitions here. Kaggle’s CEO Anthony Goldbloom told me he realized that fast-growing tech startups are storing vast volumes of consumer data but often don’t know what to do with it. “I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle,” said Goldbloom in an interview. » Ideas. Why you should treat 1 million people the same as 1 person. Education Materials. Video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2012G/None/DonTapscott_2012G.mp4.
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Talent Constellations « Brenda Vos. Recent publication: The Moral Field – Constellations work from a moral perspective Talent Development Talent development implies that it is possible to attain an authentic stance in life: every human being has original potential that allows him or her to make a difference. Talent as such can be considered as the psychological capital of a person, as the expression of somebody’s most profound self, with his options, passions and ambitions. Development of talent does not solely deal with acquiring cognitive competencies and training of skills, it encompasses the development of the whole person. This enables to draw on deeper layers of the personality: qualities, convictions, identity and sincere involvement.
Qualities manifest themselves in what you can do, convictions in your beliefs, identity in your self image and involvement in what drives you to do something in the first place. All these layers influence behaviour, but they don’t always collaborate constructively. About Brenda Vos. PlaNYC 2030 - About - Who We Are.
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