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- What do you do? What's your superpower
- Social Architect
- What type of environment do you work in
- THE MOVEMENT
- Website:
- http://thmvmnt.com
- What issues matter to you?
- sustainability, social justice, networks, community, information, transparency, biking, walking, water, energy, culture, design, economy, diagrams, understanding, people, animals, thought, spiritual investigation, idealism, historic change, experimentation, learning
Patrick Keenan's Blog
New Book: The World Without Us
In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.
In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; what of our everyday stuff may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seam… Continue
Posted on July 21, 2008 at 11:46am — 1 Comment
The Service Economy
Unedited Interview with Alex Steffen from Worldchanging
Posted by Elizabeth Bowie on January 21 at 05:02 PM
About a week ago we posted a videocast of Alex Steffen speaking at PopTech! Alex is the executive editor of Worldchanging.com, a green blog that highlights sustainability, humanitaria… Continue
Posted on July 6, 2008 at 3:09pm —
Sustainable Swag?
http://www.fairware.ca/
I wonder if promotional products are inevitable. Would it be better to have online promotional products. Or promotional carbon credits? I don't know.
Posted on June 3, 2008 at 6:09pm — 2 Comments
Greening the Grocery Store
In 1988, the Society of the Plastics Industry developed a resin identification code — a numbering system from 1 to 7 — categorizing different types of plastic. The code is centered in a triangle made of arrows chasing each other. This mark is commonly misidentified as the recycling symbol. Though the system was instituted to “facilitate the recycling of post-consumer plastics,” the chasing arrows graphic… Continue
Posted on May 25, 2008 at 5:36pm — 5 Comments
A progress report To the Designers Accord community, The Designers Accord was created fewer than 1…
To the Designers Accord community,
The Designers Accord was created fewer than 10 months ago. In that time, we have evolved from a small call to arms for designers to a powerful global movement, the scale and breadth of which has not been experienced before in the creative community.
In the last month, we were pleased to welcome many new design firm adopters from all over the world, as well as dozens o… Continue
Posted on April 19, 2008 at 12:13am —
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I looked on your website, it was quite inspiring! I'm still a student and sometimes it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I have the chance to work with IFFTI ( http://www.iffti.com/ ) with my school, Ryerson, this year. I'm also trying to get the Student Union to engage the student populous (heavily design/communication based) more in sustainable challenges. In fact this term's Student Union has made a promise to have a 'sustainability' office, they just don't know what that means yet. I hope to be involved in creating a medium for students to play with sustainable design.
Do you have any experiences with campuses?
This summit is about sustainability in Design. We're working on integrating it into studio environments, school curriculum, personal lives, and professional organizations.
Its also important for Designers to be rewarded and respected for doing cause-based work. So we're starting a travelling show profiling cause-based design as a great thing for designers to be involved in.
Most importantly, this summit is about talk. We're here to work on these ideas so we can make the world better. That world is yours too, and you definitely can have an effect.
I am interested in this online community, but don't know much about it. What is this summit you talk about?