by efeinblatt | Jun 17, 2010 | news
Myoo Create, one of David de Rothschild’s Adventure Ecology offshoots, has created a Beat Waste Startup Challenge that we have entered. For better or worse, it’s a popularity contest – though the judges do have final say. The prize fund is $25,000,...
by efeinblatt | May 13, 2010 | engineering, partners, technology
The UWA hotpress is not exactly in action yet – lacking the electrical work and some minor tweaking – but enough is there to see what changes Derek Goad has made to Darko’s original design. Take a look specifically at the counterweight that allows...
by efeinblatt | May 13, 2010 | argentina, partners
Responding to emergency needs in the wake of recent disasters in Haiti and Chile, Carlos Levinton and his group at the CEP (Centro Experimental para la Producción) have been developing architectural + social models that address the ecological and economic disruptions...
by efeinblatt | Apr 27, 2010 | engineering, partners, technology
In conjunction with a winter semester 2010 course being taught by Joshua Pearce at Queens University, MECH 425 – Engineering for Sustainable Development, senior Nate Preston is reviewing, evaluating, and illustrating the Kingston Hotpress design via a public...
by efeinblatt | Mar 24, 2010 | news, partners
Here are links to two recent articles from treehugger and ecouterre about our collaboration with RISD: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/cool-and-easy-to-make-recycled-plastic-bags-rain-boots.php...
by efeinblatt | Mar 13, 2010 | cooperatives, engineering, lesotho
Thimothy, who returned to Lesotho in December to become a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), coordinated the effort to bring a Waste for Life project back to the country where the idea originally...
by efeinblatt | Mar 8, 2010 | argentina, cartoneros, cooperatives, engineering, lesotho
Caroline, Eric, Thimothy, and Emily have just published a book about Waste for Life and the methodology we have honed during the past four years. From the introduction: Engineers can help make the world a better place. We can provide better access to water, health,...
by efeinblatt | Oct 25, 2009 | asides
Silvia Rossi sent us this link http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/22/san-francisco-implements-nations-first-mandatory-composting-law/ to an article about San Francisco’s newest mandatory recycling law. The city is hoping to eliminate all landfill waste by the year...
by efeinblatt | Oct 22, 2009 | asides
October 22, 2009. Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Boston College, is joining our colleagues at RISD this evening for a screening of Cartoneros, his award winning 2006 film about Argentina’s waste pickers....
by efeinblatt | Sep 26, 2009 | asides, engineering
Nasser Saleh sent along a link to Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. Although we take issue with the lopsided implications of the term ‘social responsibility’ which tend to perpetuate social and economic inequalities rather...
