Tag: Appropriate Technology - Page 2
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Milan Furniture Fair 2011 - Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant by Martà Guixé
Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that
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Proto Home's Flexible Spaces and Efficient Core
In the "sleepy neighborhood" of Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles, a modern Proto Home sits among a mix of single-family dwellings from over the last few
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Red Cross Uses Solar-Powered Pumps to Increase Water Access in Sudan
However the referendum in South Sudan turns out, one thing will not go away quickly: the lack of water in the region. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, is at work on a project that will mitigate that
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AWESOME: Global Village Construction Set - All You Need to Build a Civilization (Video)
Jaymi has already raved about 11 open source projects that make free information rock, and we know that open data can vastly improve public transportation. But imagine an open source construction
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Ferran Adrià 's elBulli Restaurant Aims for Zero Emissions with Architect Enric Ruiz-Geli's Smartgrid
Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed
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Any ideas for a more sustainable mobile telecom industry? (Video)
Here's a challenge for the new year: Help co-design solutions for mobile phones to improve sustainability. Imagine a phone that does not need to be charged, one that measures the drinking water quality in remote areas,
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Free2Work Phone App Spots Child Labor in Products While You Shop
Ethical shopping is no easy task. It's often hard to know which companies use child or forced labor, and which stick to paying adequate wages and other fair labor policies. But a newly released phone app helps
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Call for Ideas: Unreasonable Institute Seeking Applicants Who Can Save the Planet
The Unreasonable Institute is actually totally reasonable: they're looking for people with great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. No big deal, huh? If this description
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Exclusive Preview: Urbikes Trapper, the First Intelligent Electric Public Bicycle Sharing Systems
What characteristics should the perfect public bicycle have? A minimum of mechanical maintenance, maintenance-free shaft transmission, solid tires to avoid punctures, a theft-free design and an
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"Pay As You Plant" Insurance Helps African Farmers Recover from Climate-Induced Crop Loss
Micro-insurance might be the latest in a string of technology applications that have brought exciting developments to perhaps one of the most surprising regions, rural Africa.
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Steve Daniels on Remarkable Innovation in Kenya's Informal Economy (Podcast)
In the US, do-it-yourself culture is counter culture, a playful middle finger to the silos of cookie-cutter consumerism (just look at Maker Faire). But in Africa, nearly everyone's a DIY-er to some degree. Steve Daniels became fascinated with the Jua
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: Designs For Dementia Make It Easier To Eat (Photos)
Around 700,000 people in the UK have dementia, over a third of which live in care
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: D-Lab's 4 Designs Against Poverty (Photos + Videos)
At today's lecture "Facing New Challenges Through Design" as part of Barcelona Design Week, I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab, presented by Victor Grau Serrat from
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El Patio 77: Mexico City's First Eco Bed & Breakfast
A stray dog scampers by on the search for food. I get an apprehensive sideways glance, her belly straining against her unborn pups. The sun leaves behind beams of light in the haze as it retreats behind the crumbling façade of
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Andrew Heintzman on the New Green Entrepreneurs (Podcast)
All over the world, inspired, creative, (and often obsessed) entrepreneurs are tightening bolts and swirling beakers, inventing the next generation of green technology. Andrew Heintzman is a venture capitalist with the aim of finding and funding these
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London Design Festival 2010: Sebastian Cox, Sustainable Craftsmanship from Britain (Photos)
We met a charming young designer at Tent London this year, who also makes unique beautiful wooden furniture. Sebastian Cox is a furniture designer-maker based in Lincoln, who
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Fix Our Horizontal Farms Before We Go Vertical
Duncan Graham-Rowe of the Guardian looks at the issue of vertical farms and finds that it grows on him. He calls it a "beguilingly simple idea: make maximum use of a small amount of space by filling glass houses with
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In With The Old: Fixing What We've Got Comes Before Re-imagining What Might Be
Over 40% of our energy consumption goes into powering our buildings, and we all know that we have to cut that Godzilla-sized footprint. But it seems that most of our efforts go to looking at new stuff rather than fixing the
