Category: Systems Science

  • Big consulting firms are acquiring design firms for creative inspiration

    Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves Nathan Hurst, wired.com Accenture announced yesterday it will acquire design firm Fjord, making the consulting firm one of a growing list of multi-faceted companies that are integrating design into their product by buying whole studios. Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves http://flip.it/a6kUX http://flip.it/mzOoo Related articles…

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  • Replace the GDP with the social progress measure

    Forget GDP: The Social Progress Index Measures National Well-Being BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com What’s the best way to tell how a country is doing (and serving its citizens)? It’s not just a measure of economic output, that’s for sure. This new index tracks everything from opportunity to health to sustainability. Guess where the U.S.… Forget…

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  • Anthropological bed bug solution: kidney beans

    A New Solution For Bedbugs: Kidney Bean Leaves BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com It’s actually an old solution, which was mostly lost when bedbugs were eradicated. Now that they’re back, this natural remedy might be better than any pesticides we’ve thrown at them. It only takes one infes­ta­tion with bed bugs to make you an… http://flip.it/olFwT…

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  • The best states to be a locavore

    The Top Locavore States In The U.S. BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com You might think you know the capitals of eating local, but this list will prove you wrong. These days, it’s hard to find a food­ie who doesn’t also claim to be a loca­vore, or some­one who eats locally-produced food. But it’s a lot eas­i­er…

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  • How airplane toilets flush

    How Airplane Toilets Flush core77.com While I’ve always suspected that this is what happens when you flush the toilet on a plane……but apparently it’s a little more complicated than that. Zodiac Aerospace (remember their “recline forward” airplane seats?) has their own Water and Wa… http://flip.it/TdgcK

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  • Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into weird loners

    sarahpetersmiller1969, grist.org WikimediaAll by myself. I don’t need anyone at all. I know I’ll survive. I know I’ll stay alive. Perch are shy. They like to band together for protection, swimming together in schools the way nerds all share the nerd table in the high-school… Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into…

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  • Eco mart: Etsy for Eco

    Eco Market is like Etsy for Eco Chris Tackett, treehugger.com Eco Market is bringing together organic and natural product producers in what has been called an “Etsy for Eco” model. http://flip.it/pUD6b Related articles [Etsy Treasury] Etsy team “Let’s support and promote each other” bundle of treasuries (funkyboxstudio.wordpress.com)

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  • For the price of the Iraq war we could have built a renewable energy system

    For the price of the Iraq War, the U.S. could have gotten halfway to a renewable power system David Roberts, grist.org Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers — the needed investments to transition to a fully renewable energy system are in the hundreds of billions. The brain sort…

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  • Yikebike electric bikes

    Yikebike EV announces lighter models with 50 percent greater range Mike Hanlon, gizmag.com With big changes likely in the global transport infrastructure, the race is on to create the missing link – the smallest, lightest man-packable form of motorized transport yet known. Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, BMW and Nissan have all shown vehicle… Yikebike EV announces…

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  • Oil eating bacteria fixed the Gulf disaster but might not save you next time

    Oil-Eating Bacteria Fixed The Deepwater Horizon Disaster, But They May Not Help Next Time BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com It turned out the Gulf was filled with bacteria that loved to chow down on exactly what was spilling out of BP’s destroyed oil well. How fortuitous! But hoping that hungry bacteria will help in the next…

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