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Carrot Mob

2010-04-27T19:10:00.003+02:00

Carrotmob is a type of consumer activism in which businesses compete at how socially responsible they can be, and then a network of consumers spends money to support whichever business makes the strongest offer. We harness consumer power to make it possible for the most socially-responsible business practices to also be the most profitable choices. It’s the opposite of a boycott.Check out their

GARBAGE DREAMS

2010-04-27T14:09:00.002+02:00

The Zabaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”) in Egypt recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect, but now multinational corporations threaten their livelihood. (1:09)Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys born into the Zaballeen's trash trade: 17-year-old Adham, 16-year-old Osama, and 18-year-old Nabil. Laila, a community activist who also teaches the boys at their

2010-04-17T17:15:00.001+02:00

CO2 savings from grounded flights

2010-04-17T14:26:00.003+02:00

Power From The People

2010-04-05T22:38:00.001+02:00

The Machine from mudlevel on Vimeo.

Possum Living: A 1970s case of the radical homemaker/self-sufficient suburban home.

2010-04-05T20:11:00.003+02:00

In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen, and with a seventh grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. Known for its plucky narration and no-nonsense practical advice on how to live frugally while keeping up a middle class facade.

Systems Thinking

2009-12-03T19:47:00.000+01:00

Cellphone Entertainment Takes Off In Rural India

2009-12-02T22:37:00.002+01:00

Despite its rapid modernization, many of India's 750,000 villages remain isolated except for the cellphone reception that now blankets almost the entire country after a decade of rapid expansion by operators. So in villages that don't receive any FM radio stations, people have begun calling a number that has a recording of Bollywood tunes and listening to it on their headsets.

On redefinition and adaptation

2009-10-27T15:22:00.003+01:00

MIT reVamped FEMA trailer

2009-10-17T02:59:00.001+02:00

“The ‘Armadillo’ trailer is the result of a year-long collaborative art project, the MIT FEMA Trailer Project, in which faculty and students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visual Arts Program transformed a surplus FEMA trailer into a ‘green’ mobile composting center with vertical gardens, rainwater catchment system, permaculture library, and indoor multipurpose space. The trailer

Ideas on public space from art practice

2009-10-17T02:43:00.000+02:00

Harmen De Hoop CUP - AMSTERDAM - 1996 A drinking cup placed by a canal side. A public service. SANDBOX - AMSTERDAM - 1996 Paving stones removed with sand and toys added to create a child's play area. Harmen De Hoop LADDER - ROTTERDAM - 2000 Green light bulb removed from traffic lights.