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On November 17, 2010 over 600 participants gathered at the Grand Hôtel to listen to speakers such as: Banny Banerjee (d.school, Stanford), Bruce Nussbaum (Former Innovation Editor, BusinessWeek), Doug Richard (Former BBC Dragon) and Mikael Schiller (Acne). Good Morning is our annual one day conference gathering speakers and participants from industry, start-ups, academia and student entrepreneurs. The day offers inspiration and innovation from unlikely sources, an invaluable network of different minded individuals and first hand industry insights. See videos below and visit us at Flickr for photos. Trendspotter and Talarforum’s Speaker of the year 2009, Magnus Lindkvist , Pattern Recognition.Appropriate Technology Sourcebook | Village Earth
By Ken Darrow and Mike Saxenian Published by Village Earth Welcome to the online edition of the Appropriate Technology Sourcebook which reviews over 1,150 of the best books on appropriate technology. Most of the books reviewed in the sourcebook are available as a collection in the AT Library on CD-ROM or DVD available for sale from Village Earth. This is the online version of the latest edition guide to practical books on village and small community technology. Over 50,000 print copies of the previous editions have been used in more than 130 countries to find a wide range of published technical information that can be used by individuals and small groups.
More than 4,000 National Academies Press PDFs Now Available to Download for Free | Notes From NAP
June 2, 2011 · by Barb Murphy The National Academies—National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine , and National Research Council —are committed to distributing their reports to as wide an audience as possible. Since 1994 we have offered “Read for Free” options for almost all our titles.
Posted by Emily Chang on Monday, September 17th, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized New online website or web page creator with an emphasis on simplicity. Uses wiki-like editing and has controls for private, public, or open to edit by all. URL: Jottit .
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Biologically-Inspired Robotics
While great strides have recently been made in robotics, robots still cannot get to the same places that people can. They have trouble jumping over gaps, squeezing through tight spaces, climbing ladders, crossing over ponds on top of stepping stones, climbing cluttered stairs, maneuvering over rubble, and getting through dense forests. To achieve this level of maneuverability in robots, researchers at IHMC look toward nature. Inspired by the speed of cheetahs, the endurance of horses, the maneuverability of monkeys, and the versatility of humans, IHMC researchers are on a quest to develop legged robots that are fast, efficient, and graceful, with the mobility required to access many of the same places that humans can.By: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised.
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Three Gorges Dam, China (30°44'18" North, 111°16'27" East), crosses the Yangtze River at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China. The... More »
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This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film introduces us to this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.
Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher by Donald Brittain , Barrie Howells & Douglas Kiefer - NFB
John Ochsendorf , a structural engineer, “fell in love with archaeology” during college. His senior thesis at Cornell involved a 600-year-old Incan suspension bridge made entirely out of grass. Ochsendorf learned that this apparently primitive structure owed its astonishing longevity to regular rebuilds by the locals (during a community festival), and the use of renewable, biodegradable resources. While Cornell’s engineering faculty couldn’t see the point of this research -- “grass bridges over highway overpasses”? -- Ochsendorf realized that historical structures held important lessons for modern building technology.
Engineering for the Ecological Age: Lessons from History | MIT World