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Today being the World Water Day seems to be a good time to revisit The Virtual Water Project by Creative Consultant Raureif who is actually giving a talk here in Copenhagen at CIID on the 17th of april.
The future is not to be predicted, it is to be created.
The Plan is a movie premiering today at Massive Change Network Global Design Seminars.
This is on my wishlist for Christmas. Glad to see it coming out, but very saddened to hear that World Changing can’t find the resources to continue their inspirational effort. I had the chance to hear and talk with Alex a few time, and it has always been very inspirational, and I know his ‘Bright Green’ thoughts and approach is making a difference many places.
The international Design Camp is running this week at Designskolen Kolding and today Michael Braungart from EPEA gave his inspirational Cradle to Cradle speak. By now I have heard it a couple of times, and the gospel is still the same. Still very inspiring message:
“I am not talking about sustainability. Sustainability is boring. You don’t call your relation with your girlfriend sustainable.
Let’s not talk about ethics. Let’s talk about design. Let’s talk about beauty. Let’s talk about quality.”
Afterwards Cordy Swope from Ideo gave a short talk on ‘behavior design’ and guided the following workshop on ‘New Ways of Transportation”
Great idea “”reclaiming forgotten space”. Bus Roots by NYU graduate student, interaction designer Marco Castro Cosio
Replenish: Rethink the Bottle for cleaning fluids
What a brilliant idea. With a C2C approach this start up is using 90% less plastic, 90% less oil and 90% less CO2 than the old comparable system while giving the customer 50% more cleaner. Watch the video to get the full info or visit their nice and simple website. They even have a tumblr blog using the same theme as mine. What’s not to like?
The Green Products Innovation Institute extends the success of the Cradle to Cradle™ framework to protect millions of people from toxic chemicals and unleash a wave of business innovation. We are helping the State of California create the world’s first sustainable economy and fostering a new generation of sustainable products worldwide.
Interesting! Worth keeping an eye on.
While the world was sliding into recession LG increased their design budget to US $ 100 milion and now Samsung is investing $20.6 billion in green technologies
Some time ago I stumbled upon this beautiful poster by Matt Appleton depicting all the elements of an epson stylus photo 1270 ink jet printer and comparing it to a pencil. I found out that this is a poster was made in relation to a documentary investigating the impact of electronic waste on the global community which Matt made in 2005, when he was still a student at Royal College of Art.
You can download and watch the 10 minute film here. (hope it’s ok I share Matt?)
A sustainable collaboration
The first issue of the new magazine ‘CSR – Inspiration and knowledge for the management of the sustainable company’ was just released this January. And MOVE was featured in it with a 2 page write up of our work with creating a sustainable laptop and service system for Zepto Computers.
