Energy and Self Reliance
The solutions wont come from ineffective legislation or meaningless UN conventions, it will come from someone’s garage. We are on our own.
Posts Tagged ‘Social Change’
Creating a New Conscience aka Keeping Tabs on Ourselves
We need to develop a platform where we can quickly and easily set up a site to track data, events and feelings on any issue. This platform could act as a sort of social conscience for a group. Not to get too political but most recently I have been pondering the Cash for Clunkers program. [...]
Paper or Plastic? A Review of Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, by Nathan Shedroff.
This is not a book about environmentalism. It will not tell you to use soy ink and CFLs to make your studio green. This is a book about sustainability, a distinction of utmost importance. This distinction takes us down the road of environmentalism but also brings along it’s siblings social and financial change. These tag-alongs [...]
ReThinking Sustainable Housing
The annual U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a “competition to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house”. Twenty universities from around the world are competing to help determine the future of sustainable housing. Most of the houses meet the second requirement, they run on solar power during the day [...]
Democratizing Power of the Internet or How to Start a Revolution
The recent events of the Iranian elections have shown the true power of the internet as a communication medium and more important the power this system can have in changing the world. Clay Shirky in the Ted talk talks about how this medium not only makes the others obsolete but fundamentally changes the way the [...]
Charitable Giving
Interesting study on websites for charities/non-profits. While I usually rail against anything Jakob Nielson says (mostly because he presents his findings as hard and fast rules rather than guidelines, and rarely accounts for surrounding circumstances, but back to the subject of this post) I think there is a lot of good info here. The study [...]
Change is a comin’
Let me start out by saying I am a child of the digital age. While I am a member of what is the last generation able to remember schools without computers, I have spent the majority of my life around them (thanks to forward thinking parents). I have fully embraced the digital age and all [...]
Election Interactions
Ever four years (yes I know they’ll start on the new one in about a week) elections enter our lives bringing with them many things including constant tv, radio, newspaper ads and bitter family debates. Most of the election baggage is annoying but for designers there is one huge bonus, a slew of beautiful well [...]
It’s That Time Again
The design of ballots has become one of the most famous examples of design’s impact on the world. Since the butterfly ballot, there has been much talk of improving the ballots, but little progress. This year’s ballots in North Carolina are not much better. The question I have is when are they going to let [...]
May Those Who Help The Most Win
About the Project Q: What is Project 10100? A: Project 10100 (pronounced “Project 10 to the 100th”) is a call for ideas to change the world, in the hope of helping as many people as possible. Q: Why is Google doing this? A: The short answer is that we think helping people is a good [...]