Mundo Sustentável — Abrindo espaço na mídia para um planeta em transformação. Advanced Reactor Gets Closer to Reality Eco-Friendly Battery Runs on Old Newspapers. I'll start you guys off with a quote here: In talking about Sony's new battery technology, which uses old cellulose product like newspapers and cardboard to generate electricity, the BBC says: "Their work builds on a previous project in which they used fruit juice to power a Walkman music player.
" Thank you, crazy Sony recycling-engineers. This new tech relies on turning cellulose products (including, lest we forget, the paper greeting cards all you Earth-hating monsters are exchanging this time of year) into glucose sugar. That's done by introducing the old paper products to a solution of water and cellulase, an enzyme found in nature, and, um, shaking it. The cellulase solution decomposes the cellulose to form that necessary glucose, which is in turn combined with oxygen and some other unnamed enzymes, producing electrons and hydrogen ions, the former of which is fed into batteries to charge them. John Cleese on the Origin of Creativity. British actor John Cleese is best known for his comedic talent as one of the founding members of Monty Python, which makes his intellectual insights on the origin of creativity particularly fascinating. This talk from the 2009 Creativity World Forum in Germany is part critique of modernity’s hustle-and-bustle, part handbook for creating the right conditions for creativity.
“We get our ideas from what I’m going to call for a moment our unconscious — the part of our mind that goes on working, for example, when we’re asleep. So what I’m saying is that if you get into the right mood, then your mode of thinking will become much more creative. But if you’re racing around all day, ticking things off a list, looking at your watch, making phone calls and generally just keeping all the balls in the air, you are not going to have any creative ideas.” ~ John Cleese This video permanently resides in Open Culture’s collection of Cultural Icons. Plan / Water / Strategy. Water. Eco-industry park promotes shared vision.
Based on a 25-hectare site in east London, the London Sustainable Industries Park -- as depicted in this CGI image -- hopes to lay the foundations for a cleaner and profitable future for businesses and residents of Dagenham. The design of the park also incorporates tree planting and swales which help mitigate local water and air pollution, as this architect's image shows. Closed Loop Recycling is the only tenant of the park currently, but at least two more are scheduled to arrive in 2012. The London Sustainable Industries Park Sustainable industries park in UK capital encourages green investment Businesses on site to share material by-products, water and energy"Industrial symbiosis" improves the environment while also maximizing profits London (CNN) -- On a brownfield site in east London, not far from the site of the 2012 Olympic Park, a new green vision is emerging from the ashes of the UK capital's dirty industrial past. It's a great site.
"It's a great site," Cliffe said. Sustainable City. Home Page. Por favor, verifique o endereço informado ou use a função de busca dessa página para localizar o que você está procurando. Se você está certo que o endereço informado está correto mas está encontrando um erro, por favor contate o Administração do Site . Obrigado. Você poderia estar procurando por… Home Page por jorge, em 15/07/2009 18:25 Podcasts: Bernardo Toro destaca reformas educativas na América Latina por Redação EcoD, em 15/05/2012 09:23 Quais são os fatores ocultos que afetam os resultados das reformas educativas administradas na América Latina? Ministério do Meio Ambiente - Consumo Consciente por larissa, em 11/10/2011 11:31 O site do Ministério do Meio Ambiente é uma ótima fonte para conhecer o mundo da compra sustentável. Embalagens com conteúdo educativo por Redação EcoD, em 23/01/2012 16:22 Toddynho busca ensinar às crianças educação ambiental por meio de brincadeiras.
Todo o conteúdo do EcoD está disponível no Flipboard por Redação EcoD, em 28/12/2012 13:07. Calcule o impacto de sua reciclagem por meio de nova calculadora. A calculadora vai fornecer uma estimativa do quanto você reduziu em emissão de carbono e em espaço de aterro/Foto:Lúcia Braga Qualquer pessoa pode usar a calculadora, basta entrar no website da EcoRewards, digitar a quantidade de reciclagem que já foi feita na sua casa ou no trabalho e o período de tempo. A ferramenta vai fornecer uma estimativa do quanto você reduziu em emissão de carbono e em espaço de aterro, assim como a quantidade de energia e água poupada por meio da reciclagem. A calculadora utiliza comparações a partir de exemplos concretos, como veículos retirados da estrada ou o número de piscinas olímpicas preenchidas com resíduos que foram reciclados, e não foram despejados em lixões.
Você pode utilizar as porcentagens calculadas em calculadores padrões da quantidade de papel e papelão, vidro, plástico, aço e alumínio, para acrescentar na ferramenta e então obter dados mais completos. Palestra Gil Giardelli na Endeavor-parte1. Green Insulation > Green Products | Green Depot. Unreasonable Institute – International Accelerator and Investor in High-Impact Entrepreneurs. 7 incríveis cidades verdes do futuro - Meio Ambiente e Energia. Eventos climáticos extremos têm deixado milhares de desabrigados em todo o mundo.
Na Tailândia, que enfrenta sua pior inundação em meio século, pelo menos 9 milhões já foram afetados. Se as previsões de elevação dos níveis dos mares se concretizarem, será preciso encontrar um novo lar para os refugiados climáticos. A solução para nos manter a tona vem do visionário arquiteto belga Vicent Callebaut, que criou a cidade flutuante Lilypad. O complexo é formado por arcas, cada uma com capacidade de abrigar até 50 mil pessoas – quantidade semelhante ao número de habitantes da cidade portuária de Constitución, no Chile, que no ano passado foi invadida por uma onda de 8 metros, obrigando os moradores a se retirar para as montanhas.
Meu Site EXAME: um espaço só seu, para armazenar reportagens e seguir seus tópicos favoritos. Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance. Criatividade + Humildade = educação do século XXI #FT_EIE11. Caros amigos este post está em construção.Segue as percepções sobre a discussão global da nova educação no VI Encontro Internacional Educarede 2011 em Madri #FT_EIE11 A palestra de abertura foi de Ferran Adrian e seu centro de inovação Vivemos uma crise de valores morais, a saida é a educação global tudo o que é novo é esquisito por natureza. Lo importante de la idea es conceptualizarla y contextualizarla” Hay que entender la extrañeza para adentrarse en territorios innovadores. Espirito empreendedor, valente e inovador Um viveiro de inovação o primeiro mandamento da inovação é que não lhe compreendam formula para crear e innovar: crear técnicas y contextos cn valenti “Para ser o melhor, temos que compartilhar. Ensinamos os outros a ser melhores” São 3 dias no VI Encontro Internacional Educared 2011, streaming em português encuentro2011.educared.org.
Vaya clase de creatividad e innovación de Ferran Adriá, ¿su fórmula? Home | WGSN. Global Innovation Index 2011. Innovation Cities Global Index 2011 from 2thinknow : City Rankings List » Innovation Cities Index & Program – City data training events from 2THINKNOW for USA Canada America Europe Asia Mid-East Australia. City innovation classifications and rankings, 2011. World’s largest city classification and global ranking with 331 benchmark cities classified, and top 125 cities analyst ranked in 2011. Based on 2thinknow analysis of cities on 162 city indicators from 2thinknow City Benchmarking Data program. Since 2007. View current Media Release + Read the 2011 FAQ Key to index. All cities are graded into award categories based on their band score.
NEXUS: Critical nexus for multiple economic and social innovation segments HUB: Dominance or influence on key economic and social innovation segments , based on global rends NODE: Broad performance across many innovation segments, with key imbalances INFLUENCER: Competitive in some segments, potential or imbalanced UPSTART: Potential steps towards relative future performance in a few innovation segments Regions are defined as follows: AMERICAS: North and South America ASIA: Asia and Oceania (Australia/NZ) EMERGING: Mid-East, Africa, Turkey and Caucasus states. Saiba duas coisas que você tem que fazer antes de reciclar | Greenstyle. Paulínia terá sistema de coleta seletiva mais moderno - Meio Ambiente e Energia. Reprodução Nessa primeira fase serão implantados 25 jogos compostos de duas lixeiras cada, sendo um para resíduos seletivos (papel, plástico, alumínio) e outro orgânicos (alimentos) São Paulo - Paulínia é a primeira cidade do Brasil e da América Latina a implantar a coleta soterrada, um sistema totalmente inovador, que proporciona uma coleta eficiente e rápida, promovendo limpeza, saúde e sustentabilidade, sem ocupar espaço nas vias públicas.
Nessa primeira fase serão implantados 25 jogos compostos de duas lixeiras cada, sendo um para resíduos seletivos (papel, plástico, alumínio) e outro orgânicos (alimentos), ambos com identificação adequada e localizados em pontos estratégicos da cidade como Prefeitura, centro comercial - avenida José Paulino - do cemitério municipal a antiga rodoviária, Hospital Municipal, Centro Geriátrico José Pavan e Complexo Rodoshopping. Cada contêiner tem capacidade para receber até três mil litros de lixo. GREEN NATION. Inovação Verde. Lboliveira.pdf (objeto application/pdf) Design Competition Yields Bikes Of The Future. Oregon Manifest, a nonprofit located in Portland, has been running a competition over the last few months in which students and pro teams work to create a next-generation city bike.
This isn’t about speed (like the McLaren Venge) or concept design (like the Vienna Bike), but rather about creating a bike that provides the maximum amount of utility for someone looking to ditch their automobile. These innovation-from-competition events are really blowing up; there have been lots lately aimed at creating everything from mega-efficient cars to electrically-powered aircraft. This one had 34 entrants who mostly had some variation of a cargo bike with electric assist, but they all varied in execution. I have to agree with the people’s choice, though, a collaboration between IDEO and Rock Lobster (pictured). You can see the other winners here (I like the campus bike and the two-seater), but the Faraday, as the IDEO-Rock Lobster bike is called, really just hit me right in my future bone. Casas e soluções - casa.com.br - Quem mora precisa.
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - What is a social entrepreneur? What is a Social Entrepreneur? Social entrepreneurs drive social innovation and transformation in various fields including education, health, environment and enterprise development. They pursue poverty alleviation goals with entrepreneurial zeal, business methods and the courage to innovate and overcome traditional practices. A social entrepreneur, similar to a business entrepreneur, builds strong and sustainable organizations, which are either set up as not-for-profits or companies. A social entrepreneur is a leader or pragmatic visionary who: Achieves large scale, systemic and sustainable social change through a new invention, a different approach, a more rigorous application of known technologies or strategies, or a combination of these.Focuses first and foremost on the social and/or ecological value creation and tries to optimize the financial value creation.Innovates by finding a new product, a new service, or a new approach to a social problem.
What is Social Entrepreneurship? IDEO | A Design and Innovation Consulting Firm. Links - sixthsense - Places to buy the SixthSense components. - An open source project that allows people to create their own SixthSense Device and augment the current codebase with their own apps.
@casher:Hey buddy,SixthSense? Device is in a concept stage,it is not fully developed.We should appreciate the inventor Pranav who not only developed this but also released as open source.Since it is in an initial or starting stage,pranav and his teams would be on the development side and might be real busy.Some over there in MIT Teams or voluntary documentation team has to be set up to provide documentations and so those people who cannot understand what to do with all the information currently available to them has either wait or learn by themselves,after all invention has already been done ,the oly thing is running it.Do it,make error and do post,people will love to help and also come up with ideas.But some people has lots of question like ....where can i download the code ?
(Even though link is out there) etc...I think this being a software engineering project with a new concept,the people should have some knowledge about computer hardwares like connecting devices,running programs. Hardware - sixthsense - Hardware description of SixthSense. - An open source project that allows people to create their own SixthSense Device and augment the current codebase with their own apps. Jornalista investiga as melhores práticas ambientais | Greenstyle. Greenvana Greenstore - Produtos verdes, ecológicos e sustentáveis na maior loja eco friendly do Brasil.
How to Build a DIY Solar Oven (Video) Top 10 tips for a more sustainable event. Top 10 tips for a more sustainable event Events are all about communication: whatever your message, don’t miss the opportunity to make sure you’re also communicating about sustainability. If your organisation hasn’t traditionally been very good at sustainability, it might seem quite daunting to ‘go green’ all at once. Try adding one or two new sustainable things to each event and you’ll soon find that your environmental impact has been significantly reduced… and it hasn’t been so scary after all!
1. transport encourage people to come to your event by public transport, to walk or cycle… provide plenty of secure bike parking and minimal parking for cars (remember to make provision for people with accessibility needs); if outdoors, you could use bicycle rickshaws for transporting goods around the site and consider using local contractors so you’re not driving marquees all the way across the country just because it might save you a few quid!
Creating Balanced Cities – An Interview with Tia Kansara. Sustainability activist Tia Kansara hopes for a future made up of cities that prioritise people and support nature. I was recently lucky enough to interview Tia on future urbanism, and how African cities can thrive, despite challenging natural conditions. Read on for how cities and rural areas can complement each other, how urban areas can adapt as the climate changes, and more: This Big City: How critical are cities for the future of our planet? Tia Kansara: Cities are growing to unprecedented sizes because people prefer to live in them. They are convenient spaces, which provide the city dwellers with access to a large variety of goods and services. Their growth is proportionately linked to the migration of rural inhabitants away from farms they tilled for hundreds of years.
From their perspective this means more opportunity to move themselves away from poverty, but in the long run it is creating a sink in farming capability. TK: Human beings are innately gregarious. Hands-on and How-to Blog - DIY Projects, Country Skills, Building Advice, DIY Plans. Houses take a lifetime to pay off these days, and even a prosaic shed, barn or coop requires a heavy investment of money, time, skilled labour and imported materials. For thousands of years, though, people around the world used an ancient technique to build homes and other structures quickly, using nothing but local material and simple, easily learned skills.
“Wattle and daub,” as it’s called, takes its name from its two components; a “wattle” was a wicker fence or wall, and the “daub” was the clay plaster – often containing hair and straw -- used to fill in the cracks of the wicker for insulation and privacy, until a smooth wall was created. Even without the daub, wattles were useful by themselves; farmers could make them as modular, lightweight “hurdles” a metre or two high and across, and then uproot them, carry them to a new position, and stamp them into the ground where needed. “As for ‘wattle and daub’ I could wish that it had never been invented,” Vetruvius wrote testily. Cages. Mother Earth News Categories. 8 Easy Projects for Instant Energy Savings. Organic Gardening, Modern Homesteading, Renewable Energy, Green Homes, DIY Projects – MOTHER EARTH NEWS.
Ciclismo gera R$ 7,9 bilhões para a economia britânica - Meio Ambiente e Energia. Nova York terá programa de aluguel de bicicletas públicas - Meio Ambiente e Energia. Sustainability explained through animation. Green Building: Jobs of the Future. Starting a Greenhouse Business. New Nursery implements sustainability Practices. Green Building - Building the Future with Intention. How to Increase Your Likability. A construção civil nos passos da sustentabilidade. Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - Home. Aula Magna - Arquitetura e Sustentabilidade - UNICID, Agosto 2010. Vídeo: O valor que a criatividade agrega a um projeto.