Kalundborg Symbiosis How to Host a Great Sharing Event Reading about exciting things happening in the sharing arena can be inspiring, but the real fun is getting out and connecting with people in-person. Time and time again, members of Shareable's community have expressed an interest in hosting and attending sharing events, so we decided to ask sharing community leaders for their top event organizing tips. Whether your event includes guest speakers, a swap, a Jelly, a mixer, a brainstorm, a group meal or anything else, our panel has valuable tips and tools to help make your sharing event great. Note: Pro tips are tips that were repeatedly mentioned as important. Pro Tips: Encourage participation in the design of the event, find partners and sponsors, take photos and video, get good volunteers, offer food and drink, make it fun and interactive, have someone in charge of audio and video. Melissa O’Young - Founder of Let’s Collaborate! Benita Matofska - Chief Sharer of The People Who Share - We use a format devised by the Art of Hosting.
Fundación Centro Experimental Las Gaviotas Un Nuevo Renacimiento en el Trópico Por: Paolo LugariDirector GeneralFundación Centro Las Gaviotas “Todo viene de todo, todo está hecho de todo y todo regresa a todo”Leonardo Da Vinci En Gaviotas, empezamos nuestros ensayos, diciendo que un texto sin contexto, es un pretexto. Pongámonos, pues, en contexto: Gaviotas nació por casualidad, pasando de la utopía a la topía, es decir del sueño a la realidad, disfrutando la belleza de la extrema dificultad. Siempre que disertamos sobre el microcosmos de Gaviotas, asentado en la altillanura cálida colombiana, aquende el Soberbio Río Orinoco, como lo llamara ese suspirador de futuros, Julio Verne, es como si pronunciáramos una conferencia diferente para cada asistente, quien la interpreta de acuerdo a su manera de pensar. El hombre en su arrogancia le escribe las leyes a la naturaleza, la clasifica en reinos, con cierta nostalgia monárquica. Pasemos a explicar, en lo posible, nuestra forma de pensar: En lo que respecta a biocombustibles, proponemos:
Crowdfunding Italia > Il Primo Portale per il Crowdfunding dedicato ai progetti italiani!Crowdfunding Italia > Il Primo Portale per il Crowdfunding dedicato ai progetti italiani! This Mexico City Building Eats Smog For Lunch There are plenty of architects these days who are doing their best to design buildings that are energy efficient and utilize green technology. And then there’s Allison Dring and Daniel Schwaag of the Berlin-based firm Elegant Embellishments. For Torre de Especialidades, a hospital with a new tower currently under construction in Mexico City, the duo has developed a tile called proSolve370e, which will cover the façade of the building. Yes, that’s right, this building will literally eat pollution. Dring tells TakePart that Elegant Embellishments was formed in 2006 as a kind of architectural start-up to self-initiate projects that incorporate new and often invisible technologies. She adds that, “A common thread in our work is the visual articulation of technologies that have the potential to alleviate the ecological impact of cities but often require a reexamination of current practices. What’s even more cool about Dring and Schwaag’s tile is that it’s actually quite beautiful.
Germany Breaks Monthly Solar Generation Record, ~6.5 Times More Than US Best Clean Power Published on August 19th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan I live in Poland, which (for the geographically indifferent) is right next to Germany. It was just reported the other day that Germany has broken its monthly solar power generation record yet again. That actually beats the 5 TWh of electricity from wind turbines that the country logged in January (it’s also a wind power leader, in case you weren’t aware). More emphatically, that crushes the 0.764 TWh of electricity solar PV and solar thermal systems produced in the US in May 2013 (the latest month for which we have data) as well as the 0.522 TWh produced in the US in July 2012. If we assume the US got the same amount of sunshine in July 2013 as in July 2012, and that solar power capacity grew by the same proportion between May 2013 and July 2013 as between May 2012 and July 2012, the US net generation total for solar PV and solar thermal in July 2013 should equal about 0.780 TWh. About the Author
Transition Culture Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet In an effort to buck the expensive rates of unreliable corporate telecom companies, a community in Athens, Greece, has created its own private Internet. Built from a network of wireless rooftop antennas, the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) now has more than 1,000 members. Data moves “through” the AWMN mesh up to 30 times faster than it does on the telecom-provided Internet. According to Mother Jones, this off-the-grid community has become so popular in Athens and on nearby islands that it has developed its own Craigslist-esque classifieds service as well as blogs and an internal search engine. "It's like a whole other Web," AWMN user Joseph Bonicioli told the magazine. "It's our network, but it's also a playground." The AWMN began in 2002 in response to the poor Internet service provided by traditional telecommunications companies in Athens. As the Internet has become a ubiquitous presence in day-to-day life, governments around the world have sought to control it.
Forget Wall-E—Make Room for ERO, the Concrete-Eating Robot The robot revolution has begun—and it is going to save Earth. Omer Haciomeroglu, an innovator at Sweden’s Umea Institute of Design, has constructed what is called a hydro-demolition robot, or “ERO,” which uses water to take down concrete walls and structures. If it wasn’t already awesome enough that the bot uses water rather than disruptive and debris-producing force to dismantle concrete, ERO also recycles what it levels. The demolition droid does the duty by blasting concrete with water at high pressure, a technique referred to as “hydro-demolition,” to break down and strip the concrete from its reinforcing structure. ERO’s unique design also does not create violent vibrations that could damage different sections of a building and doesn’t destroy the fortifying rebar structures. Still not cool enough, you say? Haciomeroglu writes that once a fleet is plunked down within a doomed construction, “they scan the surroundings and determine a route with which they will execute the operation.
Economia della decrescita: Serge Latouche spiegato in un minuto Smog-Eating Sidewalks, They Do a Body Good The eco-makeover of urban surfaces continues. First came white roofs. Then so-called cool pavement. Yup, sidewalks with a taste for filthy air. Eindhoven University of Technology scientists have installed air-purifying cement onto a city block in Hengelo, Netherlands, and published the results, which found that it reduced nitrogen oxide air pollution up to 45 percent in ideal weather conditions. The concrete, dubbed “photocatalytic,” is made with run-of-the-mill cement sprayed with a chemical—titanium oxide—that neutralizes air pollutants, the researchers’ abstract states. “[The concrete] could be a very feasible solution for inner city areas where they have a problem with air pollution,” said researcher Jos Brouwers in 2010 to CNN, when the pavement was in its early stages. So, what’s the world waiting for? Well, like most public work projects, it all comes down to cost.
Petrolio addio! Nelle Marche la prima casa off-grid autonoma e scollegata dalle reti E' stata inaugurata la prima casa off grid d'Italia che ha definitivamente detto addio al petrolio perché autosufficiente e staccata da luce e gas. È stata realizzata a Monsano, in provincia di Ancona, ed è la prima casa italiana completamente indipendente da fonti fossili inquinanti, scollegata dalla rete elettrica nazionale e dalla tradizionale fornitura di gas. A far diventare realtà ciò che fino a poco tempo sembrava impossibile è stata la Energy Resources, un'azienda marchigiana particolarmente attenta al problema dell'impatto ambientale e al risparmio energetico, capitanata dal lungimirante Enrico Cappanera. Grazie alle tecnologie green sviluppate negli ultimi anni, l'azienda è riuscita a mettere a punto un progetto rivoluzionario: realizzare abitazioni che non siano più dipendenti dal petrolio! "Ha ragione Moody's – ha commentato Cappanera - ora le multinazionali possono realmente preoccuparsi, è finita l'era del petrolio. Il risultato? Verdiana Amorosi Potrebbe interessarti anche: