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Tagged with: appropriate technology, design, education, social entrepreneurship
Posted in designers/engineers, USA
Posted in designers/engineers, USA
Your Daily Egg 94
Yes, We Can! Like a Legos© competition, except with (usually) round things filled with food. more here: http://canstruction.org/content/our-history
Tagged with: canned food, canned goods, construction, design, Feed America, food pantries, non-perishables
Posted in food security, nutrition, USA
Posted in food security, nutrition, USA
Your Daily Egg 57
Trees for Titís Proyecto Tití is a Colombian organization dedicated to protecting cotton-top tamarins, known locally as “titís” for the sound they make. The organization takes a systemic approach, addressing the root causes of threats to the titís’ survival. Titís…
Tagged with: binde, Colombia, cotton-top tamarins, design, fuel efficiency, natural habitat, stove, wood-burning
Posted in natural resources, training
Posted in natural resources, training
Your Daily Egg 56
What’s Wrong with a Little Charity? “Running a charitable organization as though it were a for-profit business is morally reprehensible.” And it is precisely that kind of thinking that has kept charitable giving at 2% of GDP for the last…
Tagged with: charitable giving, charities, civic engagement, design, fundraising, groups, money, non-profit business models, non-profit sector, outreach, overhead, social innovation
Posted in funders/marketers
Posted in funders/marketers
Your Daily Egg 55
Sand Castles Moladi is an award-winning construction system consisting of lightweight, removable, reusable, recyclable, lightweight components. It’s ease of use makes it an ideal product with which to train semi-skilled and unskilled laborers. more here: http://www.designother90.org/solution/moladi-award-winning-housing-construction-solution/
Tagged with: construction, construction forms, construction system, design, modular construction framing, Moladi, recyclable
Posted in permanent, training
Posted in permanent, training
Your Daily Egg 52
It’s d.lightful, It’s d.lovely d.light is an international social enterprise serving households without access to reliable electricity. To date, the company has d.lighted 19.2 million people. more here: http://www.dlightdesign.com/who-we-are/
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Because All Humans Strive to Get a Head Not to be crude, but, hey, every body does it. The question is what to do with it afterward. Sanitation Creations’ new Dungaroo beats the crap out of the competition. more here: http://sanitationcreations.com/dungaroo/
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Now Explain it to Me Like I’m a Citizen New York City’s Center for Urban Pedagogy is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to improve meaningful civic engagement. more here: http://welcometocup.org/About
Tagged with: capacity building, citizens, civic engagement, democracy, design, groups, outreach, politics, public policy, rights
Posted in adult/continuing education, NYC
Posted in adult/continuing education, NYC
Your Daily Egg 42
Halfway Houses Tasked with building public housing units for around $7,500 USD per unit including land, service infrastructure, and construction itself, Chilean architectural firm Elemental, approached the problem incrementally. more here: http://www.designother90.org/solution/incremental-housing/
Tagged with: architecture, Chile, democratic design, design, Elemental, incrememtal housing, Iquique, public housing, Quinta Monroy, systems, urban
Posted in permanent
Posted in permanent
Your Daily Egg 39
Be Revolting, Y’all! Yeah, like they said. Like we highlight every day. more here: http://www.solutionrevolutionbook.com/ …and HERE (as in at CE).
Tagged with: "Solution Revolution" William D. Eggars, civic engagement, Deloitte, design, engineering, groups, money, networking, outreach, Paul McMillian, systems, technology
Posted in adult/continuing education
Posted in adult/continuing education
Your Daily Egg 34
Freewheelin’ Free Wheelchair Mission is the the response a biomedical engineer from California had to watching a woman in Morocco drag herself across the road one day. To date, they have given out over 400,000 wheelchairs to people in 77…
Tagged with: design, disabilities, mission, missionaries, mobility, wheelchairs
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Posted in Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, D.R.C., Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, medical, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, PEOPLE, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Power to the Pedal Take your basic bike, add some bits about to be garbage and presto! a portable pedal-powered water pump. more here: http://www.technewsdaily.com/551-bicycle-powered-pump-to-quench-third-world-thirst.html more bike driven machines from Maya Pedal here: http://mayapedal.org/machines.en
Tagged with: bicycles, bikes, design, engineering, Guatemala, irrigation, Maya Pedal, pumps, water
Posted in agriculture, human power
Posted in agriculture, human power
Your Daily Egg 32
Liter of Light How millions of plastic bottles become millions of watts of light. more here: http://currystonedesignprize.com/winners/2012/liter_of_light
Tagged with: design, plastic bottles, prisms, recycling, refraction, solar light
Posted in entrepreneurship
Posted in entrepreneurship
Your Daily Egg 30
Working Toward a More Workable World https://vimeo.com/73288785 Index: Design to Improve Life is a Danish organization whose mission is to educate, engage, and inspire designers to find sustainable solutions to global challenges. Every other year they present an award to…
Tagged with: Denmark, design, groups, Index, life improvement, processes, systems
Posted in designers/engineers, professional education
Posted in designers/engineers, professional education
Your Daily Egg 29
How Cool is That? Nigerian Mohammed Bah Abba designed a refrigerator that relies on evaporative cooling to keep produce fresh for longer periods of time. more here: http://www.rolexawards.com/profiles/laureates/mohammed_bah_abba/project and here: http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Pot-in-pot_cooler
Tagged with: cooler, design, evaporative cooling, Nigeria, pots, produce, refrigerator, solar cooling
Posted in nutrition
Posted in nutrition
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