Category: Systems Science

  • 10 year old boy starts recycling business

    10 Year-Old Boy Launches His Own Recycling Business, Donates 25% Of Profits To Homeless Children Lana Winter, inhabitots.com “It’s so easy to do nothing. But it’s really good to do something!” This is the philosophy of wise beyond his years Vanis Buckholz, a 10 year-old boy who launched his own recycling business in his home…

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  • Stackable urban beehive

    Stackable Urban Beehive is Perfect for Beginner Beekeepers | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building mrspie, inhabitat.com Seek­ing to help restore the world’s declin­ing honey bee pop­u­la­tion, design­er Rowan Dun­ford has cre­at­ed a sim­ple, stack­able bee­hive that makes it easy for any­one to raise bees. Dun­ford’s … http://flip.it/N2bTd Related articles Inhabitat is…

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  • Visualizing global water risk

    An Incredibly Detailed Map Shows The Potential Of Global Water Risks BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Aqueduct, a new tool from the World Resources Institute, lets you see all the bad things that might stem from water, from droughts to floods and beyond. Remem­ber the drought that hit the U.S. in 2012? It was a big…

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  • Bio mimicry and resilient design

    Creating Resilence By Following Nature’s Lead BY ERIN LEITCH, fastcoexist.com The natural world has found ways to work and live in harmony for a long time. If we want to also survive and create sustainability systems, biomimicry may be the key. The oper­at­ing con­di­tions of life are lit­er­al­ly sym­phon­ic: They are a… RT @cosekoski: “We…

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  • Shipping container hotels

    This Hotel Is Made Entirely Of Shipping Containers BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com Sleeping Around is a traveling boutique lodging that’s so fancy, you won’t even know you’re sleeping in the detritus of the global economy. When future gen­er­a­tions look back on the archi­tec­ture of the early 21st cen­tu­ry, will our time be… RT @FastCompany: This…

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  • The year of car sharing

    Is This The Year We Ditch Our Cars And Start Sharing? Markus Barnikel, fastcoexist.com The CEO of Carpooling.com discusses what’s going to make 2013 a huge year for ridesharing.2012 marked a big year for the sharing economy with new launches, explosive growth rates, and millions spent in venture capital funding. In 2013, the growth ……

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  • Clean tech approaches to ship biofilms

    “Twitching” Material Dislodges Bacteria From Ship Hulls By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Surface changes in the paint-like material can reduce biofilm buildup. When a horse is dis­lodg­ing a pesky fly, it twitch­es a small por­tion of its skin to shake off the unwel­come vis­i­tor. Researchers from Duke Uni­ver­si­ty have devel­oped… http://flip.it/weh3S Related articles Cutting-edge bacteria research…

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  • The world’s best overland expedition vehicles

    (via The world’s best overland expedition vehicles – National RVing | Examiner.com) Related articles Does RVing Always Require a Tow Vehicle? (allstate.com) The Versatility of RVing: Have You Tried RVing Yet? (allstate.com) Pedata RV Center Releases Quick Glossary of RVing Terms for the “New” RVer (prweb.com) 6 Lessons I Learned from a Year of Adventure…

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