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New York’s network infrastructure is a lot like the city itself: messy, sprawling, and at times near-incomprehensible. However, the city’s tendency toward flux is a strange blessing for the infrastructure sightseer: markings and remnants of the network are almost everywhere, once you know how to look for them.
As China turns away previously accepted recyclable waste, container return schemes are offering a new solution. How and where you recycle has never been more important.
Nathan Schneider, jornalista e professor de novas mídias da Universidade de Boulder Colorado, nos Estados Unidos, é uma das pessoas que mais vem estudando e promovendo a ideia do “cooperativismo de plataforma” mundo afora. No final de outubro ele esteve no Brasil para um evento privado organizado pela KES, onde falou da ideia de “user ownership” (em tradução livre, compartilhar a posse da empresa) para uma plateia de empresários, COs e CTOs de startups e empresas como Coca-Cola e Bradesco
> "Um estudo global elaborado por cerca de 11 mil cientistas confirmou as pesquisas que apontam que o mundo está diante de uma emergência climática.
> O estudo (em inglês), baseado em 40 anos de dados obtidos a partir de diferentes medições, aponta que os governos estão fracassando no combate a essa crise e que, sem mudanças profundas e duradouras, estamos diante da perspectiva de 'sofrimento humano inédito'".
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> O estudo (em inglês), baseado em 40 anos de dados obtidos a partir de diferentes medições, aponta que os governos estão fracassando no combate a essa crise e que, sem mudanças profundas e duradouras, estamos diante da perspectiva de 'sofrimento humano inédito'".
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An exhibition of public artworks, installations, meals, performances, urban interventions, and events outdoors in Hyllie, Malmo, from 1 July to 27 August 2017
CycleX designates its 23 acres farmland in Andes, New York as an open space/farm-medialab which will invite artists, cultural workers, inventors, scholars, and farmers from around the world to create, nurture, and grow ideas/food through its residency program.
In her artist talk “Weeds are My Role Model,” artist and activist Candace Thompson shares her Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet (The C.U.R.B.) project which uses the act of urban foraging and the projected "what if" disaster scenarios of climate change to examine critical issues around food and food sovereignty, land access, environmental remediation, multi-species interdependence, and right relationship(s) with the (un)natural world.
People tend to think that we are familiar with waste because we deal with it every day. Yet, this is not the case. Discard studies is central to thinking through and countering the initiative aspects of waste. As more popular, policy, activist, engineering and research attention is drawn to waste it becomes crucial for the…
The meal was bought from the Nordic nation's last McDonald's in 2009 to see if it would ever decay.
Country has changed definition of waste, which campaigners fear could lead to imports of low-grade plastic scraps
These technologists, activists, lawyers, and scientists will spend the next several months supporting a healthier internet, with a focus on more trustworthy AI
Matéria do Estadão sobre escolas de referência no Brasil
Under a six-month trial, Denbighshire County Council in north Wales will fit microchips to food bins at around 600 properties in a bid to increase recycling rates.
The municipality opened its own Reuse Centre in the village of Lammari in 2011, where items such as clothes, footwear, toys, electrical appliances and furniture that are no longer needed but still in good condition can be repaired where necessary and sold to those in need, thereby diverting them from landfill and serving a vital social function.
Resource Work Cooperative is a not-for-profit, self-funding worker’s cooperative based in Hobart, Tasmania. Founded in 1993, we employ 35 local Tasmanians who democratically run our social enterprise. We can supply materials for your next renovation or art project, pick up your reusable goods for free or even sustainably deconstruct entire buildings!
Faced with a digital transition with multiple societal effects for the territories, it is necessary to build community capacity in the area of development and governance of urban data services to make them instruments of the general interest encouraging the energy and ecological transition, the revitalization and accessibility of centers small and medium towns.
Translating the abstraction—and banalities—of the Anthropocene into readable cartography has resulted in many past attempts that often ended up reproducing those same qualities. But, as Brian Holmes asserts in this essay, we seem to have found ourselves in a moment where collaboration, engagement, and new forms of knowledge exchange are breaking that deadlock. Tracing his own involvement with artistic practices that both engage with and attempt to represent a “political ecology,” Holmes explains how the evolving, collaborative cartographic practice that brought the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River map into being simultaneously reveals and interrogates the power structures of Anthropocence society.
Over the past two years, Sidewalk Toronto has brought some important questions about cities – and our collective futures – into sharp focus. Some of those questions are new; others we’ve been asking for a long time. This is a collection of ideas to help build on and continue these discussions.
We asked contributors for a short, standalone description of an idea, policy, strategy, or best practice that might expand this conversation about cities. The people we asked met three basic criteria: a) people that have shown an interest in contributing to the discussion b) people that have a history of participating in public discourse and c) people with an explicit mission of inclusivity in their work. This list of contributors is not comprehensive or complete.
Within the collection there are conflicting ideas and world-views, which is exactly the point: to open up dialogue and create the largest possible tent to discuss what we want to see in our cities and spaces and how we might make those things happen. Our hope is that this convening will make space for more collaboration and conversation in the future.
We asked contributors for a short, standalone description of an idea, policy, strategy, or best practice that might expand this conversation about cities. The people we asked met three basic criteria: a) people that have shown an interest in contributing to the discussion b) people that have a history of participating in public discourse and c) people with an explicit mission of inclusivity in their work. This list of contributors is not comprehensive or complete.
Within the collection there are conflicting ideas and world-views, which is exactly the point: to open up dialogue and create the largest possible tent to discuss what we want to see in our cities and spaces and how we might make those things happen. Our hope is that this convening will make space for more collaboration and conversation in the future.
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The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
By Kate Crawford 1 and Vladan Joler 2
(2018)
By Kate Crawford 1 and Vladan Joler 2
(2018)