by efeinblatt | Oct 25, 2009 | asides
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...
by efeinblatt | Oct 22, 2009 | asides
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....
by efeinblatt | Sep 26, 2009 | asides, engineering
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...
by efeinblatt | Sep 23, 2009 | asides
Here’s a link to the first publication about the Cartonero BackFlip Chair: http://yatzer.com/1900_the_back-flip_project_by_mut-architecture
