Patagonia – The Cleanest Line: Don't Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times →
Nothing about the Mac. Everything about what we believe in.
Like usual, another great brand choice.
(via mnmal)
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Black Friday
I made no purchases, and I’m fine.
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After The Story of Stuff and The Story of Cap and Trade, cultural myth-buster Annie Leonard goes after the brokenness of America’s “dinosaur economy” with The Story of Broke
This fills me with equal parts hope and cynicism. Let’s hope the future of government transparency includes a web/iPhone app that lets me sort/filter politicians by “supports dinosaur economy subsidies” and has my best interest in mind. I wish I was kidding…
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I really like the concept and the sentiment behind Nathalie Stämpfli’s Soap Flakes, a bath device that easily dispenses shavings from soap bars. Stämpfli developed a wall-mounted version (pictured), as well as a pepper-grater-esque hand-held version.I always love to hear the designer’s individual stories and rationale behind interesting inventions like this. Among her motives for creating Soap Flakes, Stämpfli has a personal dislike for the “weird slippery” sensory experience of handling bar soap, yet she prefers the ecological efficiency of it to liquid soap. She explains further on the project page.
I also recommend browsing through Nathalie Stämpfli’s other design explorations.
This is how the world changes for the better: individuals taking experimental steps to extinguish their own personal annoyances and sharing their results. Mankind ends up reaping the benefits.
via Designspiration
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via jxnblk:
Holy crap I want one of these.
More support to the idea that simple, intelligent monitoring is the future of conservation at the personal level.
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This fills me with pride and hope for the era we live in and the generation we’re a part of.The Empathic Civilization
(Source: youtube.com)
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into
small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.”— Mark Twain
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Malthus, by Conceptual Devices via lifeattractslife:
A synopsis:
“As designers we give ideas a form and we transform them into things. We can’t certainly solve the world’s challenges, but what we can do is to create a concrete storytelling about them. A narrative.
Malthus is one of these tales. It is an in-home aquaponics unit designed for the next generation kitchen or living room. It grows one meal a day: a portion of fish and a side salad. Aquaponics farming is a technique that combines the cultivation of fish with the growing of vegetables. The fish provides rich fertilizer for the plants and in return, the plants clean the water from the tank. The fish and the plants co-exist in a symbiotic relationship.”
A link to learn more: http://bit.ly/lI45av
Take away:
Emulating nature’s perfect recycling (making no true waste) needs to be our aim.
(via smarterplanet)
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“Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.”
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Ira Glass
(via Dave Caolo)
(Source: minimalmac, via packlite)
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via curiositycounts:
The Mountain – certifiably the most spellbinding timelapse yet, of (mostly) the Milky Way from El Teide, Spain
There’s certainly something instantly gratifying about time-lapse videos that we miss in viewing our surroundings in real time. It pulls hours and hours of moments and forces you see the big picture; colors shifting from day to night, the sway of trees, the way the wind moves across everything. Unachievable with the naked eye? Nah. Spend more time doing nothing but observing the smaller details and you’ll find each single frame more interesting as a whole. Be concerned how each moment moves to the next, how real time lapses. Meditation has many forms…
Take your time.
