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• 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Mobile meets health on the margins

  
  Build it Kenny, and they will come... — Authority: 459
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Engineering: Cellphone Microscope

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 418
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 644
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Our “social mobile” line in the sand

  
  Build it Kenny, and they will come... — Authority: 459
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• “Inappropriate” appropriate technology?

  
  Build it Kenny, and they will come... — Authority: 459
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Global Democracy Equals World Peace

  
  Willie Nelson — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Appropriate Technology Newsletter 006

  
  the Masalai blog — Authority: 116
  By Emmanuel NarokobiSee below index for this 6th edition of Appropriate Technology News from ATproject. Index for this issue:Personal Finance Course a SuccessKokoda UpdateBEDP AND ATprojects INTRODUCE ATLOOS TO ORO PROVINCIAL SCHOOLSUnderstanding One AnotherValue Old Ways – Bilasim Skin Festival in GorokaThe Bag – ...
  3 weeks ago

• CNN on anthropology and innovation

  
  Build it Kenny, and they will come... — Authority: 459
  “As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs with new (or more often tweaked) products and services. In a world in which ever more people are using technology products on a daily basis, such skills ...
  3 weeks ago

• Question from a reader: Fixing water filtration in India

  
  Tworque — Authority: 92
  A simple sand and activated charcoal filter ($10-15) can filter hundreds of gallons of water simply and cheaply. But will this solve Indias (bottled) water issues?? Read on... (photosource: bethechangeinc ) I got the following question in my inbox recently. Its becoming a question of increasing frequency, and I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rockin’ Chair Generates Energy

  
  Sustainable Design Update — Authority: 109
  Murakami Power Chair - Via: DesignBoom In the designer’s own words: I was looking for opportunities to generate energy through activities we naturally do. The final result is a rocking chair that enables the user to experience production and consumption of electricity in a gentle and rewarding way. An ...
  4 weeks ago

• Honda Bicycle Simulator

  
  GotBroken.Com — Authority: 140
  Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced plans to begin Japan-wide sales starting February 2010, of the Honda Bicycle Simulator developed for the purpose of traffic safety education. By safely experiencing the possible risks bicycle riders may face, users will improve their ability to predict risks and increase safety ...
  4 weeks ago

• Electronic Music Brings Much-Needed Solar Power to Africa

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 644
  Electronic band BLVD is using its latest album to support solar power, and along with it poverty alleviation, in Africa.
  6 weeks ago

• Kohler Arts Center Residency

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 121
  Sheboygan, Wisconsin Ene and I ( wowhaus ) have been invited to be artists in residence at the Kohler Arts Center Connecting Communities program over the coming year. We plan to realize a project with focus on human-powered transportation and have been researching the city’s rich past and progressive plans for ...
  8 weeks ago

• Historic Auto Efficiency Rule

  
  Willie Nelson — Authority: 115
  *** BREAKING NEWS *** BREAKING NEWS *** New rules will cut global warming emissions from cars. Send an email supporting these historic new rules . Moments ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed the first national ...
  8 weeks ago

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