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Illinois State: Art, Nature and Science

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From January 25 through May 7, 2010, the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery presents Pathways and Portals: Art, Nature and Science. Thirteen Illinois artists and one Illinois based collaborative project act as visionaries for culture to show diverse ways of perceiving, exploring and understanding the world through mythology, science, religion, nature and artaportals to realms of consciousness.

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Posted: April 16th, 2010
at 1:07pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: art,green,contemporary,science,events

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Bhutan and the Modern Terma

St. Pema Lingpa in the form of Prime Minister, Jigmi Y. Thinley, a Penn State graduate and a former royal administrator and diplomat, has revealed a modern terma or hidden treasure for Bhutan and the rest of the world. Working with GPI Atlantic, a maritime think tank, the relatively new monarchy has come up with and introduced a new gross national happiness (GNH) curriculum into the country’s education system.

GNH rests on four pillars of value: environmental conservation; cultural preservation and promotion; sustainable and equitable development; and good governance, including the development of active and responsible citizenship. These pillars are divided into seventy-two quantifiable variables, designed to provide hard data about significant issues.

The outcome, said Thinley, should be:

"an educational system that is quite different from the conventional factory, where…children are just turned out to become economic animals, thinking only for themselves." Instead, graduates would be "more human beings, with human values, that give importance to relationships, that are eco-literate, contemplative, analytical." They would know that their own happiness was found in giving happiness "to your spouse, to your family, to your neighbours a and to the world at large."

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Disputed Island Disappears into Sea

NEW DELHI (AP) - For nearly 30 years,AIndiaAandABangladeshAhave argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island’s gone.

New Moore Island, in the Sunderbans, has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor atAJadavpur UniversityAinACalcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed byAsatellite imageryAandAsea patrols, he said.

"What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,"Asaid Hazra.

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Posted: March 29th, 2010
at 7:35am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: myninjaplease,too good to be true,green,ir

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Time to Rethink Design

David Carlson of the David Report has released a new trend look at the state of a full design world. Design contamination has taken over an expertise that is barely 100 years old; new products are simply the variations of old themes- (conceptual design, new articulations of the same, design signatures and design as art).

However if we are able to get back to using aging products and making design matter in a lifecycle, there is a cleaner horizon.

Designer Naoto Fukasawa: "I understand that myArole is about enhancing our living…. I've become moreAattached to the current life, and have started considering the betterment of our lives in a reality where we allAbelong, rather than predicting what could happen".

We need new storytellers:

Fred Alan Wolf - The Dreaming Universe (1994):A"Aboriginals believe in two forms of time: two parallelAstreams of activity. One is the daily objective activity,Athe other is an infinite spiritual cycle, called dreamtime,Amore real than reality itself…".

Carlson poses a great question, how do we A"change old habits and not to perpetuate the sales argument that the main role of designAis added value."

Read the full report in one of three forms: PDF, Flip Through Version or Text

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Bloom Box : Powering the Future?

I’m sure many of you have seen this by now somewhere on these here internets - the Bloom Box, designed by Bloom Energy. Long story short, this super-secretive project claims that just 2 of these little boxes could power your family home - and that a stack of just over 60 could power a small business.


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They don’t seem like that revolutionary of a solution to me, really, as most of those installed so far are using natural gas as the fuel going in to the fuel cell - but they do seem to be SUPER efficient.

Best part of the video - the green tech guy being interviewed is asked if we’ll all have Bloom Boxes in 10+ years - he says "there’s a 20% chance that we will - but it’ll say GE on it". HAHA.

Head over to Gizmodo for a technical breakdown of the Bloom Box and it’s potential.

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Posted: February 25th, 2010
at 10:34am by orangemenace


Categories: myninjaplease,youtube,life,too good to be true,green,home,fo' real?,real life news

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The Rape of Appalachia

Appalachia’s mountains are being blasted at a rate of several ridgetops each week. Parents fear for the health of their children. And those trying to fight the devastation have found that coal baron Don Blankenship, C.E.O. of Massey Energy, is tougher than bedrock.

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Posted: February 24th, 2010
at 7:00am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: green,not ninja-worthy

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Preston Scott Cohen: Taiyuan Museum

Currently under construction, the Taiyuan Museum of Art was selected as the winning proposal in an international design competition. Designed byAPreston Scott Cohen (currently a professor at the GSD), the building’s dynamic bending/twisting/folding form - and its creation of a number outdoor spaces - is said to be based on the local agricultural landscapes of Shanxi Province.

"Just as the landscapes of curved terraces in Shanxi respond to the laws of irrigation and topography, the curved and tessellated surfaces of the Taiyuan Museum of Art respond to contemporary technologies for controlling natural and artificial light.

The spatial effect recalls the multiple perspectives of traditional Chinese landscape painting."

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Posted: February 23rd, 2010
at 10:20am by orangemenace

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Expo Feria Ambiental

(en Espanol)

AQue es? La Expo Feria Ambiental del Bicentenario "el retorno verde," sera el primer evento ambiental que intentara generar consciencia y educacion sobre los cuidados con el medio ambiente.A Estas acciones seran de beneficio para todos nosotros y para el mundo.

ADonde y cuando se llevara a cabo la expo feria ambiental? Esta primera feria ambiental se llevara a cabo los dias 19, 20 y 21 de marzo del ano 2010 en los jardines de el Parque Benito Juarez

AQuienes participan?

Pequenas y Medianas Empresas (PyMES) verdes de todo el pais e internacionales
Pequenos productores de comercio y empresas sociales
Grandes marcas verdes, ambientales y socialmente responsables
Organizaciones no gubernamentales, sociales y ambientales
Expertos, artistas y lideres de opinion
Consumidores Verdes en busca de consumo sustentables

    ADeseas ser patrocinador?

    La Expo Feria Ambiental del Bicentenario es posible gracias a patrocinadores involucrados en el retorno verde, para nosotros es muy importante este apoyo para hacer la expo feria cada vez mas grande y trascendente, si estas interesado en patrocinar contactanos.

    ADeseas ser expositor?

    Si estas interesado en tener contacto con mas de 10,000 consumidores verdes, la Expo Feria es una excelente oportunidad para hacerlo.A Contactanos.

    ADeseas participar con alguna platica, taller, o documental?

    Contactanos y buscaremos la manera de agendarlo en nuestro espacio cultural

    Contacto:

    DIRECCION DE MEDIO AMBIENTE Y ECOLOGIA

    Boulevard de la Conspiracion #130, C.P. 37748

    Salida a Queretaro entronque a Doctor Mora

    Telefono: 01 (415) 120 4339 o 152-96-00, Ext 181

    San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

    expoferiaambiental@hotmail.com

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    Posted: February 21st, 2010
    at 8:18pm by Koookiecrumbles


    Categories: life,green,business,science,et cetera,development,events

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    My Ninja Please! 2.12.10 Live in the Ocean

    This building that you see is the Gyre, an inverted underwater skyscraper. This sea bed scraper is 400 meters deep (around 1,312 feet). Four arms 1.25km in diameter extend from the center spire and act as buoys and also function as inner harbors and ports that can play host to huge ships. Starting off at 30,000 sq meters of space with each floor getting smaller down to 600 sq meters, the total floor area of the entire structure is 212,000sq meters. Designed by a Victoria BC based firm, the structure will be a recreation center boasting hotels, restaurants, gardens and shops. It will use alternative energy sources like the sun, wind and the ocean itself. Read more

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    Posted: February 12th, 2010
    at 1:39pm by Koookiecrumbles


    Categories: myninjaplease,green,architecture

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