- blood-powered lamp
This lamp makes you bleed for your light. We often just assume that energy to power our TVs, computers, cell phones, and other electronics will always be readily available. But the earth’s resources are scarce – a reality that designer Mike Thompson wants to illustrate (somewhat painfully) with his blood-powered lamp. The single-use lamp forces users to think about where every drop of their energy is coming from–literally.
Article taken from inhabitat.
- interspecies collaboration
Making art with animals. Making art with animals? Not animals tacked on walls. Not animals stuffed with cotton. Animals as co-creators, as collaborators. Really? Interspecies says: Yes. It’s a series of exhibitions, performances, lectures and workshops examining the human/non-human relationship, and it is happening October 2-4 at A Foundation in London. There will be naps with pigs, playtime with monkeys, communications with fish, and the general exploding of the species barrier.
Kira O’Reilly, for instance, sleeps with pigs. Not in the naughty way, though some of her previous performances stare that crime in the face. For Interspecies, she’ll be hanging out with a round nuzzly buddy, and at some point, they will collaboratively take a nap.
- personal biospheres
Vaughn Bell, a Seattle-based artist, created these biosphere boxes suspended from the ceiling. The artist had a box up at Bumbershoot, in Seattle, that I saw in-person. It feels like a different world when you stick your head in, especially in the two-person. He calls the installation “Village Green”. More from inhabitat.
- EEML – environmental coding…
Together with pachube, a service to onnect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world, you can write xml or “EEML” to link information between buildings sensors and devices. Cool, but i like the idea of simply a green code, whatever that means;.)“EEML supports installations, buildings, devices and events that collect environmental data and enables people to share this resource in realtime either within their own organizations or with the world as a whole via an internet connection or mobile network access. It can enable buildings to “talk”, sharing remote environmental sensor data across the network in order to make local decisions based on wider, global perspectives. The EEML protocol supports datastream sources that respond to and exchange data with other installations, buildings, devices and events through data stream tagging. “
- poo toilet toilet poo
A toilet made of horse dung. But better yet, it’s a waterless, composting toilet for urban use.
” The composting toilet is molded from 90% horse dung, and features a biodegradable lining that stores excrement in a sealed, odor-free container. Once the toilet is full, the user takes the poo package to an outdoor biodigestor, which in exchange provides a free source of biofuel for cooking.” from inhabitat.
- Gosling gets bionic leg.
Worlds first bionic goose. But how does it grow and adapt with size?
- architecture thriving on pollution.
A building designed t0 grow a coat of ‘fur’ (comprised of airborne dust) on it’s outer surfaces via static electricity.
don’t sneeze:
“Dusty Relief, an edifice under construction in Bangkok which is surrounded by electrically charged wire that “grows fur” by statically attracting airborne filth. He has also conceived stealth habitats, hypothetical communities hidden from regulators and critics by vast sheets of camo netting. Architects are supposed to draw up plans, erect structures, and finish on time and under budget. Roche is exploring what happens when the usual constraints are allowed to fall away and things get wild and loose.”
from wired
- Plastic agriculture…
In the June 15th issue of the journal Science, researchers at PNNL have been able to convert glucose found in plant cellulose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a basic building block for fuel, polyesters, and other petroleum-based chemicals. The main problem in creating this building block is that it is quite expensive to do, and the process yield are quite low. Furthermore, the final HMF product is laced with impurities, making it difficult to use.
from inhabitat
- Rage of Nature Trailer
RAGE OF NATURE TRAILER from JOSHFOX on Vimeo.
The film the Rage of Nature follows director Josh Fox on his odyssey out West, as he encounters natural gas drilling activists, advocates & victims. Then we return with him back East, as he tries to stop the oncoming tide of natural gas drilling from slamming Pennsylvania and New York. We can’t let natural gas interests hijack our transition to clean energy, while drilling continues to go unchecked
