Category: Sustainable Design

The office of the future lets you grow your own lunch

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Sustainable Design

TreeHugger.

Getting nowhere fast: How having more stuff is eating up all the gains from being more efficient | MNN – Mother Nature Network

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Sustainable Design

Getting nowhere fast: How having more stuff is eating up all the gains from being more efficient | MNN - Mother Nature Network.

You can make $13,000 a year by selling your poop

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Network Science, Sustainable Design

You can make $13,000 a year by selling your poop | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building.

New Technology And Big Data Help You Breathe Fresh Air | TechCrunch

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Sustainable Design

New Technology And Big Data Help You Breathe Fresh Air | TechCrunch.

Radical mycology: applying traditional wisdom to modern problems

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Metadata Masterdata, Network Science, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

This guy thinks mushrooms can save the planet and he’s not even tripping | Grist.

This is what London’s night sky would look like if all the lights went out – ScienceAlert

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Ethnographic Methods, Sustainable Design

WATCH: This is what London’s night sky would look like if all the lights went out - ScienceAlert.

Four Reasons Broadway and Andrew Square in South Boston are becoming tech hot spots « NAI Hunneman

by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Sustainable Design

Four Reasons Broadway and Andrew Square in South Boston are becoming tech hot spots « NAI Hunneman.

Flocks of airborne camera drones will change journalism — & spying | VentureBeat | Media | by Barry Levine

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy, Sustainable Design

  Flocks of airborne camera drones will change journalism -- & spying | VentureBeat | Media | by Barry Levine.

Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

  Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com.

Data Informed’s Map of University Programs in Big Data Analytics

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy, Sustainable Design

  Data Informed's Map of University Programs in Big Data Analytics.

Global international migration flows | Wittgenstein Centre

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Sustainable Design

  Global international migration flows | Wittgenstein Centre.

Ocean pollution is making fish anxious

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

Scientists Find That Polluted Oceans Could Make Fish Anxious Svati Kirsten Narula, theatlantic.com We’ve known for a while that the ocean is rapid­ly becom­ing too acidic for some forms of marine life to sur­vive. We know that this is caused by con­tin­ued ris­ing emis­sions of car­bon diox­ide, which dis­solves from the atmos­phere into the oc… … Continue reading Ocean pollution is making fish anxious

Visualizing the wealth of America by zip code

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Mapping The Wealth Of U.S. ZIP Codes Shows The Haves Hiding From The Have-Nots fastcoexist.com This interactive graphic, which lets you see the economic stats for every ZIP code in the country, shows the emergence of “Super ZIPs”—communities where nearly everyone is wealthy. The Har­vard philoso­pher Michael Sandel calls it the… http://flip.it/lf9p8 Related articles Mapping … Continue reading Visualizing the wealth of America by zip code

Evolutionary medicine: cold temps increases cancer growth in mice

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice Ars Staff, arstechnica.com Flickr user Duncan HillAt low temperatures, the human body has a hard time. As the cold sets in, blood vessels constrict to maintain heat, and some body parts—like fingers and toes—begin to suffer. Metabolism ramps up to fight the cold and shiveri… http://flip.it/Trhjf Related articles … Continue reading Evolutionary medicine: cold temps increases cancer growth in mice

Nomadic camper van travel in Australia

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

King of the Road: A Guide to Buying your Own Wheels in Australia admin, bootsnall.com Australia: Vast expanses of red earth, broken and furrowed by the constant hammering of an unforgiving sun. Images of engulfing waves that funnel around tall blokes bent over multi-colored surfboards. A dense tropical rain forest populated by stra… http://flip.it/I5ssX

New Yorkers sleep in RVs to avoid high rents

by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design

People in New York are living in RVs to get around astronomical rents slaskow, grist.org In New York City, car owners complain all the time about parking. (Like, bike lanes are making for less of it, boo hoo!) And while there is a fair bit of competition for these public and often free resources, it … Continue reading New Yorkers sleep in RVs to avoid high rents

Turn your wifi laptop, iPad or iPod into a GPS with Bad Elf

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

(via Bad Elf GPS for Lightning Connector brings precise location to devices without GPS | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Related articles Bad Elf Dongle Adds GPS to Your Wi-Fi iOS Device (iClarified.com) EU Could Force Apple To Alter Its Lightning Connector For iDevices (appadvice.com) Reversible connectors for all; next-gen USB to get all … Continue reading Turn your wifi laptop, iPad or iPod into a GPS with Bad Elf

Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design

New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki in Fin­land have devel­oped algo­rithms they say are the best yet for deter­min­ing how mobile phone users are get­ting around town — walk­ing, dri­ving, tak­ing the sub­way or oth­er­wise — by… http://flip.it/hxozG … Continue reading Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

Mygola startup improves travel planning

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Mygola could (at last) be the startup to make your travel planning dreams come true Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com Tick­ets On Sale Now We wait all year to take a vaca­tion and jet off some­place exot­ic for a week or two of glo­ri­ous relax­ation and adven­ture. Unfor­tu­nate­ly the process of plan­ning a trip sucks. Trav­el start­up … Continue reading Mygola startup improves travel planning

Places with the most lethal air quality

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution John Metcalfe, grist.org Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow … Continue reading Places with the most lethal air quality

Google street view shows dead people

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

You can use Google Street View to see the dead Jess Zimmerman, grist.org Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests… … Continue reading Google street view shows dead people

New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents John Upton, grist.org ShutterstockNew Yorkers can eat all the organics that they want — but that won’t be enough to protect them from the Big Apple’s stubborn pesticide problem.Despite living in a dense city with only tiny patches of agriculture (much of it organic,… http://flip.it/inoiQ Related … Continue reading New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents

Modern VW bus campers

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

The fast and the furnished: A tour of modern Volkswagen bus campers C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com With the original Volkswagen T2 Microbus set for extinction, the days of VW bread loaf camper conversions appear numbered unless something like the Bulli concept comes to fruition. As Gizmag learned at the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon, however, the VW… http://flip.it/ylYYF … Continue reading Modern VW bus campers