Sunday, March 28, 2010

RagBag


Fashion items upcycled from disposable HDPE shopping bags, picked up from the trash heaps of India.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Plastics Identification



For the 3-step method for plastic identification click here.

For the 7 ID codes for plastics click here.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Design for disassembly and recycling










Rexite.com




Rexite Attila and Rexite Cricket, compactors for aluminium cans and PET bottles, designed by Julian Brown.

Tectan.de

Video: Nike Trash Talk




Video: Chindogu un-useless Japanese inventions



Volumes 1 and 2 of this book by Kenji Kawakami are available at the UNSW Library under P608.752/1.

Report: Useless Christmas gifts



More here
http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=337627
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1525907.htm

Video: Philips Chulha stoves



More at
http://www.design.philips.com/chulha

Video: Compressed Air car



More at http://www.mdi.lu/english

Core 77 Human Power Challenge




More at http://www.core77.com/challenge/humanpower

Enoughness.co.uk





Some of the recipients of the Landfill Prize include the Bra Dryer, the Motorized Ice Cream Cone, and the Philips Sonicare with UV sanitizer.

Video: Reverse vending



iForm.net


Fox-Fibre.com


Nike Air Jordan XX3


Video: UK Folding Plug

SoftAirDesign.com


Restbox.com

Ebook: Lifecycle Design Strategies


Book: Design for the real world, by Victor Papanek


Mobile Christmas


Video: Who killed the electric car?


Who killed the electric car?
©2006, 90 min
DVD available at UNSW Library PDVD 629.2293/29
Trailer at www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/electric.html
Trailer at http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJAlrYjGz8
Full video here: http://www.viddler.com/explore/etika/videos/7/
Part 1 of 10
Part 2 of 10
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Web: OnePlanetLiving.org


WWF posters

Why UAE has the highest per capita footprint








Ebook: Living Planet Report

Book: Earth at Night, by NASA


Book: Material World, by Peter Menzel




Resist-NoShopping.com


Ebook & Interactive: Design Can Change



Ebook also available here.

Video: Playpumps





More at www.playpumps.org

Monday, March 22, 2010

Video: Greenfly > design greener products



Higher quality videos available at http://greenflyonline.org/video.php

Downloadable material data sheets and design guidelines available at http://greenflyonline.org/video.php

Ebook: Our Choice

Interactive: Vital signs of a warming world


Video: Too many people



Click image for link to 2009 video from Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff, titled "Too many people", which shows that we are quickly reaching the limits of our reasources. Due to overpopulation the Earth has reached it's natural resource capacity.

Video: The Story of Bottled Water


More at http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/



NOTE: For Task Six, you may choose to reflect on Annie Leonards' latest short animated videos:

1. The Story of Cap and Trade.

2. The Story of Bottled Water.

3. The Story of Electronics. (coming soon on May 2010)

Reflections on this video due May 17.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Friday, March 19, 2010

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Video: Lifestraw



http://www.lifestraw.com/

VIdeo: SODIS Solar Disinfection of water

More videos on the SODIS website, including this one from CNN.

Video: Design To Improve Life



Video: Kinkajou Literacy Library

Video: Darfur Stove Project

Video: GreenFire technology stoves

BCK solar cooker

Video: Rapid deployable structures

Deployable/Transformable Structures from Daniel Piker on Vimeo.

Mobile Renewable Energy



BoGo Light

Solar powered flashlights.

Interecell Vaccine Patch Transcutaneous Immunization




Needle-free alternative to injected immunizations. Easy, sterile administration, applicability with both the developed and developing world. No needles left lying around. Designed by IDEO.

Spider Boot: deminer's foot protection system

Video: Adaptive Eyecare



Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global plan to distribute them to a billion people in need by 2020.

Ebook: Better by Design

Video: Chulha smokeless stove

Video: YellowOne Antivirus

Video: Better Place electric car system





More at http://www.betterplace.com

Video: Air Car

Video: Carbon footprint



The Discovery Channel video "Global Warming : what you need to know : carbon footprint" demonstrates how much carbon dioxide the average American family produces and presents a graphical timeline of global warming throughout history. Hosted by Tom Brokaw, interviewing NASA's top climate scientist Dr James Hansen and Princeton University professors Michael Oppenheimer and Stephen Pacala.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

SustanableMinds.com




Monday, March 15, 2010

How many planets did my students need?


Well, the EcoFootprint results are out. It was great to see my students reflecting on the results of their own HONEST calculations of their lifestyle resource demands and resolving to reduce their own footprints. Great work guys and gals! I hope that by the end of the semester you could recalculate again and check if you needed less planets!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Undercover Table


The Undercover Table prototype, by Thom Faulders and Anna Rainer of Beige Design, turns into an emergency station in the event of a disaster. Three bands hold a tent and other supplies in storage containers beneath the tabletop, which pulls off to transform into a stretcher with handholds.

Factiva


I encourage you all to use this database of 8000 newspapers from around the world, which is free if you access via the UNSW Library. This would be very useful fo your Design for Disasters projects.
To access Factiva, you can either use the UNSW LRD (Library Resources Database) or Sirius. Look up "Factiva" and you'll find the link to the online resource.
You can set the dates to search for, as well as the particular region and country of the newspaper.
You can also filter results to include only English-language reports and articles.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

FEMA

This US Government site has lots of stuff on various disasters.