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• Riders gear up for Tour d’Afrique 2010 – 12,000 km from Cairo to Cape Town

  
  Travelwires.com — Authority: 481
  Riders from all over the world, including six South Africans, will soon be testing their limits on Tour d’Afrique, the world’s most spectacular annual bicycle event. Traversing the length of Africa... Send your news worthy industry press releases for publication today to muzi at travelwires dot com.
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• The Open Source House Project, Sharing Eco-Affordable Housing Solutions (Video)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 653
  Affordable and sustainable housing for urban, low-income areas is much needed all around the world. In order to improve the overall quality of life in these places, architect Vincent van der Meulen together with Enviu , the Dutch organisation behind the Read the full story on TreeHugger
  2 weeks ago

• Space Chairs for Becoming Independent

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 121
  three of eight Space Chairs for Becoming Independent, ready for finishing I’ve really enjoyed collaborating with artists with developmental disabilities in the design of my Space Chairs for the new playroom at Becoming Independent (BI) in Santa Rosa. The eight chairs are made from locally-milled Monterey ...
  2 weeks ago

• Permaculture the Schools

  
  Agroblogger — Authority: 394
  The clock is still ticking, and collapse continues unabated. Most are oblivious to the true nature of the progression, what it means, why its happening, and most importantly, what we should do about it.  But the answer is simple, and its right in front of us. Its so simple, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Change Your World

  
  Sustainable Design Update — Authority: 109
  Embrace Infant Warmer It is great to see my Alma Mater, the University of Michigan so thoroughly embrace design for low income “Base of Pyramid” people. This class or  Social Venture Creation Course provides an opportunity for students who have ideas for designs for low income people in developing parts of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dieter Rams and His Design Ethos at the Design Museum

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 653
  KF 20 Coffee Machine, 1972 "Question everything generally thought to be obvious." Thats the motto of Dieter Rams. You may not know his name but you have probably owned something that he designed--he was the former head of design at Braun for forty years.Considered one of the most influential industrial designers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dieter Rams and His Design Ethos at the Design Museum

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 653
  KF 20 Coffee Machine, 1972 "Question everything generally thought to be obvious." Thats the motto of Dieter Rams. You may not know his name but you have probably owned something that he designed--he was the former head of design at Braun for forty years.Considered one of the most influential industrial designers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kohler Arts Dispatch

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 121
  Between meetings I strolled down from the Kohler Arts Center to the lakefront for some fresh air and was happy to find a handful of surfers negotiating the lumpy break of an offshore blow. I look forward to having the students of Ecole School investigate the surf culture of the region as part of our project with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mobile meets health on the margins

  
  Build it Kenny, and they will come... — Authority: 115
  The timing of this article could not have been better, given the discussions last week on the merits of mobile-based “cloud computing” and the clarification of our position a couple of days later. Despite advances in mobile devices and data connectivity, the need for mobile tools to also be able ...
  4 weeks ago

• Engineering: Cellphone Microscope

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 124
  UCLA Professor Aydogan Ozcan ’s invention (LUCAS) enables rapid counting and imaging of cells without using any lenses even within a working cell phone device. He placed cells directly on the imaging sensor of a cell phone. The imaging sensor captures a holographic image of the cells containing more information ...
  4 weeks ago

• Meet Robyn Nietert of the Womens Microfinance Initiative: Building Businesses, and Lives, One Loan At a Time

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 620
  Robyn Nietert started the Womens Microfinance Initiative with a trial run of 20 loans, none more than $150, that women in rural Uganda would use to start their own businesses. In less than two years, the organization has not had a single default, and is now up to a total of 680 loans to 329 borrowers. Next projects ...
  4 weeks ago

• Our “social mobile” line in the sand

  
  Build it Kenny, and they will come... — Authority: 115
  The depth and range of discussion generated by  my last post on  “the cloud” and “appropriate technology” may have come as something of a surprise, but one thing is clear. There’s a great deal of misunderstanding around the topic, particularly with people who are either developing or promoting tools ...
  5 weeks ago

• “Inappropriate” appropriate technology?

  
  Build it Kenny, and they will come... — Authority: 115
  For some time things have been hotting up in the mobile for development space, and new tools are emerging all the time. But while these solutions extend all the way across the technological spectrum, almost all claim to be “appropriate” in one way or another. Clearly something isn’t right. For a while it ...
  5 weeks ago

• Global Democracy Equals World Peace

  
  Willie Nelson — Authority: 116
  The real conditions that confront the project of world peace at first may seem daunting. Now with the Cold War well behind us and the first experiments with global order completed , we can look at a larger picture. We cannot help but recognize our planet as a sick body with the global crisis of peaceful ...
  6 weeks ago

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