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Manufacturing Materials @ RISD
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 mode="photoset"...
Making composites: A simple step-by-step approach in pictures
Making the composite step-by-step
Funding Cooperatives in Lesotho
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...
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 2020!
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. http://www.cartonerosdoc.com...
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 than disrupt them