March 2012
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Watchvia Fast Company blog
“This video accompanies one of our April [2011] feature stories about Transforming Sustainable Energy in Afghanistan. It really makes you think about how living, literally off the grid for so long can be turned into an opportunity to bypass the step we are all trying to make now (in transforming our wasteful daily ways) and go straight to sustainable living and using...
October 2011
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March 2011
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle
February 2011
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November 2010
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August 2010
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WatchThe Geneographic Project-Human Migration,
Population Genetics, Maps, DNA
The Geneographic Project is a study of our human ancestry. As Geonographic Project Director states, “I want it to draw people together to make people realize that we are all part of an extended family and that our DNA connects all of us into a very tight-knit group”.
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Fascinating Opportunities in the Pacific Garbage...
Wow. Check this out. We know that there’s a huge pile of garbage in the pacific. A famous quote I’ve heard many times says “life constantly presents us with opportunities disguised as unsolvable problems.”
With that attitude I think this article I read about building an island and processing center in the middle is pretty cool:
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June 2010
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The Grand Challenges of Engineering Should Also Be...
Post By Elmer Atienza
I recently discovered this website and webpage (http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9221.aspx) that describes the “Grand Challenges of Engineering” as pronounced by the National Academy of Engineering (of the National Academies). The Grand Challenges of Engineering are, in the order of their poll results:
Make solar energy economical.
Provide energy...
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WatchA 23-year-old Kenyan’s solar-powered LED lantern helps light rural homes
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — The villagers’ faces light up as Evans Wadongo arrives. Men, women and children sing and gather around as he shows how his invention — a solar-powered LED lantern — will soon light up their homes.
“These families, they are so poor. They don’t have...
Post by: Samantha Morgan Logan
Passion….it’s what it’s about-
MONDO Information Source
Had to comment about this site called inhabitat that I found today. Saw 3 really interesting articles amid some more mundane stuff ALL posted today. Think you would love it.
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WatchThe WHY versus the WHAT
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price)...
April 2010
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WatchCore 77’s Allan Chochinov showcases some really interesting socially driven graphic design work here from his SVA grads at a lecture at IDxA conference Interaction 10 in Savannah, GA…
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February 2010
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Tips for Learning and Listening
While doing research on Dr. Richard Farson, I stumbled across this write up in, of all places, a site for ski lessons. WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! I was skeptical too, but there are actually some really good tips here that we could all learn from…I mean, he does quote Farson.
Ten Instructional Paradoxes: Learning does not entirely come from the teacher, but from within. The student, too, has an...
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Fish can improve our ability to extract power from...
Posted by Thomas Gal:
I read an awesome post, which plugs indirectly, for biomimicry yet again! I read that the emulating the pattern in which swim could squeeze more power out of wind farms using vertical rotors. There are limitations to the caltech study (it is 2D) but it shows potential.
Fish can help consume waste, grow vegetables, AND produce more power with wind. Next thing I’m gonna...
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Technology Vs. Design--What is the Source of... →
As students, in many ways the newest to the field of design, I am curious to hear your take on the subject.
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WatchBruce Mau on Design
“Now that we can do anything, what will we do?”
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January 2010
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playUP Savannah
Posted by Leslie Martickle
another quarter has commenced at SCAD. group projects emerge, and design thinking takes center stage. this winter, a group of fellow design management grad students and I, have developed a concept we believe has a lot of potential. playUP savannah is the result of creative brainstorming with endless opportunities for success within the savannah community. our mission...
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Text donations changing face of charity
Text donations changing face of charity | Marketplace From American Public Media
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The viral success of text donations to the relief effort in Haiti has helped raise over $3 million so far. Sam Eaton explores why the campaign has been so successful and potential caveats to the giving strategy.
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/81368972.html →
Rice and Water Drive for Haiti
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December 2009
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Creative Adaptation in Graphic Design: Systems...
Courtney E. Hurst: A Thesis Submitted to the Graphic Design Department for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts at The Savannah College of Art and Design
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Abstract In the 21st century, shifts in the large scope of the design industry demonstrate the need for graphic designers to adapt to an ecocentric model of creating systems before artifacts. Simultaneously, the significant environmental...
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Sometimes a little information, and maybe shame is...
By Thomas Gal
I just wrote an interesting post about an oft overlooked way to help the environment. I read a really good op-ed in the NY Times which got me thinking: Isn’t information, and maybe a little shame just as effective as fancy carbon prices, laws, and other top down methods?
Practical Prototyping Tips →
wireframes:
I saw Todd Warfel speak in August at DELVE UI. I was so inspired by his approach that I changed the way we work. We have now moved away from large decks of wireframes and interaction notes- and embraced the 70% rule. We design 70% then build a prototype.