Cvillian, 40-something, mother of 2; full-time Realtor, quasi-vegetarian & local foods devotee, rapidweaver, quilter; trying to find more hours in the day, like you.
It took more than a month for the container ship Ebba Maersk to steam from Germany to Guangdong, China, where it unloaded cargo on a recent Friday — a week longer than it did two years ago.
But for the owner, the Danish shipping giant Maersk, that counts as progress.
The Eugen Maersk at port in Bremerhaven, Germany.The Maersk line has halved its top speed..
Anti-Express Shipping. What will those Crazy Danes think of next?
Product design initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness.
Project H Design connects the power of design to the people who need it most, and the places where it can make a real and lasting difference.
We are a team of designers, architects, and builders engaging locally through partnerships with social service organizations, communities, and schools to improve the quality of life for the socially overlooked. Our five-tenet design process (There is no design without action; We design WITH, not FOR; We document, share and measure; We start locally and scale globally, We design systems, not stuff) results in simple and effective design solutions for those without access to creative capital.
Our scalable long-term initiatives focus on improving environments, services, products, and experiences for youth and K-12 education institutions in the US through systems-level design thinking and deep community engagements.
Check out this great blog by Cvillian Rose Brown about her year without garbage.
What Is the Portable Light Project?
More than 2 billion people live without electricity, most in extreme poverty. The Portable Light Project creates new ways to provide renewable power in solar textiles that can be adapted to meet the needs of people in different cultures and global regions. Portable Light textiles with flexible solar materials and solid state lighting enable the world’s poorest people to create and own energy harvesting bags, blankets, and clothing using local materials and traditional weaving and sewing techniques in an open source model.
Portable Light enables people in the developing world to benefit from flexible solar nano-technology and accelerates the movement to clean energy worldwide. Learn More
Donate Visit our old website Contact usThe Rocky Mountain Institute, America’s leading think and do tank for renewable energy, is working with the Portable Light Team to scale the project.
Stylish, simple, sleek and modern … are still not words we are entirely used to using when we describe the cold, cramped, enclosed rectangular boxes known best for shipping freight around the world on giant water vessels. More than many container home concepts, however, this design manages to bring together the best of modular thinking, mobile living and comfortable dwelling.
Instead of continuing our faddish and counterproductive emphasis on small, voluntary actions, we should follow the example of Americans during past moral crises and work toward large-scale change. The country's last real moral and social revolution was set in motion by the civil rights movement. And in the 1960s, civil rights activists didn't ask bigoted Southern governors and sheriffs to consider "10 Ways to Go Integrated" at their convenience. (emphasis mine)
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Wonderful, joyous animated tale....local eating illustrated.
A year ago, I would have called Dumpster Diving a fringe lifestyle choice. But is this really about ecology, human rights and economic justice?
81-year-old fasting to try to stop mountaintop removal
I’m just back from a quick trip to the Capitol, to check in with 81-year-old Roland Micklem, who this morning began a fast aimed at trying to abolish mountaintop removal coal mining.
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