by efeinblatt | Mar 24, 2010 | news, partners
Here are links to two recent articles from treehugger and ecouterre about our collaboration with RISD: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/cool-and-easy-to-make-recycled-plastic-bags-rain-boots.php...
by efeinblatt | Mar 13, 2010 | cooperatives, engineering, lesotho
Thimothy, who returned to Lesotho in December to become a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), coordinated the effort to bring a Waste for Life project back to the country where the idea originally...
by efeinblatt | Mar 8, 2010 | argentina, cartoneros, cooperatives, engineering, lesotho
Caroline, Eric, Thimothy, and Emily have just published a book about Waste for Life and the methodology we have honed during the past four years. From the introduction: Engineers can help make the world a better place. We can provide better access to water, health,...
by | Feb 8, 2010 | design, partners, technology
Students at RISD have done a significant amount of material investigation many of which are collected in a set on the RISD-Waste4Life Flickr site. And attached are recipes of some of the most salient experiments. RISD-W4L Recipes [flickr-gallery...
by teach12 | Nov 6, 2009 | engineering, technology
Making the composite step-by-step
by teach12 | Nov 5, 2009 | cooperatives, lesotho, partners
Some members of our team in Lesotho, Australia, Italy, United States and Canada have been working to put together a proposal to the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Program GEF-SGP administered by UNDP Lesotho. The project proposal is in the final stages and...
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 | featured, partners
The 2010 Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace Conference has been scheduled for August 4-6, 2010 at the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacture in London, UK. The conference will be co-hosted with the RSA Design and Society project. Please go to the ESJP website...
