The Beat Waste Startup Challenge

Myoo Create, one of David de Rothschild’s Adventure Ecology offshoots, has created a Beat Waste Startup Challenge that we have entered. For better or worse, it’s a popularity contest – though the judges do have final say. The prize fund is $25,000,...

Hotpress Innovation

The UWA hotpress is not exactly in action yet – lacking the electrical work and some minor tweaking – but enough is there to see what changes Derek Goad has made to Darko’s original design. Take a look specifically at the counterweight that allows...

Survival Architecture

Responding to emergency needs in the wake of recent disasters in Haiti and Chile, Carlos Levinton and his group at the CEP (Centro Experimental para la Producción) have been developing architectural + social models that address the ecological and economic disruptions...

Building Upon What’s Been Built

In conjunction with a winter semester 2010 course being taught by Joshua Pearce at Queens University, MECH 425 – Engineering for Sustainable Development, senior Nate Preston is reviewing, evaluating, and illustrating the Kingston Hotpress design via a public...

San Francisco Mandates Compulsory Composting

Silvia Rossi sent us this link http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/22/san-francisco-implements-nations-first-mandatory-composting-law/ to an article about San Francisco’s newest mandatory recycling law. The city is hoping to eliminate all landfill waste by the year...

Cartoneros Film Screening

October 22, 2009. Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Boston College, is joining our colleagues at RISD this evening for a screening of Cartoneros, his award winning 2006 film about Argentina’s waste pickers....

Citizen Engineer

Nasser Saleh sent along a link to Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. Although we take issue with the lopsided implications of the term ‘social responsibility’ which tend to perpetuate social and economic inequalities rather...