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• India’s Barefoot Solar Engineers Are Building a Brighter Future

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 742
  Throughout India there are many rural villages that are completely removed from the grid. With no source of power for cooking, light, and heating they currently must rely on firewood, kerosene or diesel for fuel. Now green jobs are blossoming throughout these remote areas as the Orissa Tribal Empowerment & ...
  2 days ago

• Stunning Open Air Library Pops Up in East Germany

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 742
  What began as an assemblage of 1,000 empty beer cartons pulled together by residents in East Germany has now evolved into an incredible open air public library. Designed by Karo Architekten in collaboration with local residents, the grassroots project revitalizes a post-industrial district in Magdeburg, Germany by ...
  1 week ago

• StumbleUpon Integrating More Social Aspects Into Redesign

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 705
  Earlier this month, StumbleUpon started showcasing their new homepage design, when they touted their “Google + Twitter” social search . Now they’ve gone through the rest of the site to make it more consistent (less customizable), easy to understand and streamlined. Read Write Web reports: The new ...
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• Habitat for Humanity and PG&E Support Green Neighborhood in Oakland, CA

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 742
  Recently we took the trip to Oakland, CA to visit a Habitat for Humanity East Bay Project of particular interest for its pairing of energy-efficient homes with families in need of housing. What was once a deemed by the EPA and the Department of Toxic Substances as a blighted property due to its history as a ...
  1 week ago

• Savior Bud Device Produces Drinking Water from Tree Leaves

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 742
  Drinking water is all around us — if we know where to look. The Giving Tree-inspired Savior Bud designed by Seol Ah Sun and Kim Hyo Jin is a portable device that attaches to tree leaves and slowly collects water . After four hours, a full cup of water is ready for drinking. Read the rest of ...
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• Civic Leaders and Designers Collaborate on Good Design for SF

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 742
  As part of last month’s Architecture and the City Festival GOOD magazine took it upon themselves to match San Francisco civic leaders with well-respected designers to attack city problems head-on . In a packed lecture hall at the SPUR building , Alyssa Walker moderated a breakdown of design stalemates and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taking Advantage of Economies of Scale: $10 Kiran Solar Lamp

  
  Design Sojourn — Authority: 459
  I was really impress with the $10 Kiran Solar Lamp by D.Light. Finally someone is using the cost advantages that come with manufacturing economies of scale to keep the price of a product low rather than using it to enjoy higher margins. A socially conscious product, the Kiran Lamp was designed to be a safer and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Twitter Successful?

  
  Bokardo - Social Design by Joshua Porter — Authority: 433
  The big question everyone has with Twitter is, and the very first one that John Battelle asked Twitter CEO Ev Williams when he interviewed him yesterday, is “What’s the revenue model?” And the answer Ev gave is exactly the same one they’ve been giving for a year now, which essentially is: “We’re not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bernos Block Party

  
  bernos.org — Authority: 110
  Every year around this time we, at bernos, begin loosing our minds, in a good way. We start brainstorming on new shirts, Nolawi starts designing and the feedback process is never ending. We have to choose the color scheme, how much inventory we have to get, how many designs we should do for our fall collection… ...
  3 weeks ago

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