http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-03-26–endless-tangents.html
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
Technorati Tags: blog, design, graphicdesign, maps, teaching, socialstudies, tools
http://www.popart.com/news/event-detail.aspx?id=88
$149 to sit from 8am-3pm, listening to the following people talk about sustainability marketing:
Bill Scott, Flexcar
Jason Graham-Nye, gDiapers
Ian Yolles, Nau
Brian Rohter, New Seasons Market
Kierstin De West, Conscientious Innovation
I could see New Seasons & Flexcar, but the rest of those? Am I just being grumpy?
Technorati Tags: business, commercial, nau, pdx, sustainability
http://www.ilea.org/lcas/franklin1990.html
Through a lifecycle energy analysis, plastic is the better bag. At current recycling rates two plastic bags use less energy and produce less solid, atmospheric, and waterborne waste than a single paper bag. Moreover future improvements only increase preference in plastic bags. Increasing recycling rates and reducing the 2-to-1 ratio through proper bagging techniques would […]
== Jane magazine’s guest blog consists of reader-submitted photos and descriptions… ==
http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/05/13452.html
(from kottke.org)
Jane magazine’s guest blog consists of reader-submitted photos and descriptions of their breasts. The results are both unerotic and fascinating. Because of the portrayal of women and men as near-perfect sexual objects in the media, movies, and porn, it’s […]
On the topic of plants and growing things…
Beans growing in a “room divider”
http://coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?from_url=true&sort_by=1&portfolio_id=465120&individual_id=113294
This was definitely an idea I had for my house. I was thinking grass on top of bookshelves originally - because we have a large south-facing window in the living room.
I saw this and a Miele indoor grow system today:
http://www.embryo.ie/miele/
I thought of those […]
Not that any of this will be news to you…
== Confronting Prevailing Wisdom ==
http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2007/05/a_tide_against_.html
(from Evolving Excellence)
Today I had the privilege of participating in the Manufacturing Business Conference, which is an annual event put on by Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. There were three keynoters and four panel discussions on Onshoring, Sustainable Manufacturing, Challenges of Outsourcing […]
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/5/12/02418/8290
The new Harper’s (June 2007) contains a stunning and powerful “Notebook” essay titled “Climate, Class, and Claptrap,” by Garret Keizer — a minister, if I recall correctly. Keizer writes as well as Wendell Berry, but with a kind of righteous anger that the more ponderous Berry tamps down. This essay is about the contradictions inherent […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ex=1327640400&;amp;en=a18a7f35515014c7&;amp;ei=5090&;amp;partner=rssuserland&;amp;emc=rss
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
Technorati Tags: food, nytimes, sustainability
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18621/page3/
“There were three evaluations required at the inception of a product idea: a marketing requirement document, an engineering requirement document, and a user- experience document,” Norman recalls. Rolston elabo rates: “Marketing is what people want; engineering is what we can do; user experience is ‘Here’s how people like to do things.’”
I really like that idea […]
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