Nov
27th
Fri
27th
alexanderpf.com
Untethered Aesthetics
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… farmer scientists - working to develop a world class research center for decentralization technologies using open source permaculture and technology to work together for providing basic needs and self replicating the entire operation at the cost of scrap metal. We seek societal transformation through interconnected self-sufficient villages and homes. This is a stepping stone to transcending survival and evolving to freedom. Factor e Farm is the land-based facility where we put this theory, Open Source Ecology, into practice. More
Nov
18th
Wed
18th
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. Jeremijenko’s projects—which explore socio-technical change—have been exhibited by several museums and galleries, including the MASSMoCA, the Whitney Museum, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. A 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, she was recently named one of the 40 most influential designers by I.D. Magazine and one of the inaugural Top 100 Young Innovators by the MIT Technology Review (TR100). Jeremijenko is the director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, assistant professor in Art, and affiliated with the Computer Science Dept. via Wikipedia
I had no idea who Natalie Jeremijenko was last week — but after hearing her lecture on campus today I’m looking forward to doing some playful environmental research/art of my own over winter break.
Nov
9th
Mon
9th
Far too much of the debate about sustainability still orbits around ideas of smallness, slowness, simplicity, relocalization that often obscure the reality of our lives from us. Their main virtue is that they make incredibly complex systems that we cannot change alone seem susceptible to easy understanding and quick transformation through personal choice. In other words, they let us deceive ourselves in ways that are extremely comforting.
— Alex Steffen (The Revolution Will Not Be Hand-Made: A Quick Sunday-Morning)
Oct
7th
Wed
7th
Polyface Farm — Permaculture in Action
First cattle graze a section of grass pasture then three days later free range chickens are brought in to eat the maggots from the cow manure, distributing it across the pasture in the process and leaving their own feces as well. Hens come in next, followed by pigs. By the end of the cycle the grass is composted by the worms and microorganisms in the soil into rich topsoil that will support more plant life.
Working with nature is a beautiful thing – and it only requires that we sit back and observe what nature wants to do and how we can steer it using its own processes.
Sep
24th
Thu
24th
GOC 2009
I got back from Greening of the Campus earlier tonight and I’m already loaded down with the consequences of having to catch up in every single class as well as with Sol of Auburn. This was the first time I’ve made a presentation to a room that wasn’t a captive audience and it was exilerating. I spoke on the quasi-longterm (4 month) impact of a energy, water, and waste reduction competition that I worked on last year. I didn’t have my slides done until about 3 hours before my talk — and hadn’t gone through the presentation in it’s entirety a single time. I was told I was talking for about 18 minutes — but it felt like it was less than 10. After that I took part in a workshop on organizing running energy reduction competitions among groups. The idea is that any organization that can monitor the electricy/water usage of its building weekly can take part. The schools report kWh once a week (or feed in real time data if this is possible) and the data is logged and graphed (as kWh, dollars, the mass of the carbon produced, and a few more) on the competition website. Groups could form amoung rival schools, amoung fraternites. If that sounds interesting to you check out what LucidDesignGroup is working on.
Sep
13th
Sun
13th
Earth Days
