Eco Design e Sustentabilidade: fevereiro 2014

quarta-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2014

Sobre a questão do plástico...

Este site sugere alguns livros e filmes sobre o tema do plástico.

Livros:

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water, by Peter H. Gleick-
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it, by Elizabeth Route
Cradle To Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by Michael Braungart and William McDonough
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash, by Edward Humes-
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, by Donovan Hohn
Oceanus, by Mara Kerr
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, by Susan Freinkel
Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too, by Beth Terry-
Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans,by Captain Charles Moore
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things, by Rick Smith
Sullie Saves the Seas, by Goffinet McLaren-
Watercolors: How JJ the Whale Saved Us, by Terry Tamminen

Filmes (vejam os trailers):

Bag It, directed by Suzan Beraza
No Impact Man, directed by Laura Gaggert and Justin Schein
Plastic Planet, directed by Werner Boote
Tapped, directed by Stephanie Soechtig
Addicted to Plastic, directed by Ian Connacher

The Majestic Plastic Bag - A Mockumentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgh9h2ePYw

Como o nome "Mockumentary" sugere, é pequeno vídeo (4min) em tom de brincadeira/ ironia/ sarcasmo, mas vale a pena ver até ao fim.

Fonte:
http://neeasciencenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/o-inicio-do-fim-dos-sacos-de-plastico/

"Creating A Living City"

"How can an existing community with limited resources create a shared vision of a sustainable neighborhood?

Ecodistrict planning builds community capacity for the development and implementation of closed-loop systems for Energy, Water, Nutrients and Waste. In her TEDx talk, Christine Mondor outlines evolveEA’s community-based approach to designing sustainable neighborhoods, highlighting the story of two Pittsburgh communities engaged in district-scale sustainability efforts that were launched through a project called the Living Cities Masterplan" .

artigo, notícia, vídeo, palestra TED
http://urbantimes.co/2014/02/creating-a-living-city-by-building-ecodistricts-in-post-industrial-communities/

Site de notícias

http://neeasciencenews.wordpress.com/

Projeto 'Pastagens Semeadas Biodiversas'

Mais um destaque português

projecto português sustentável - boasnoticias.sapo.pt

Um projeto português para a gestão dos recursos naturais

Comentem.
artigo: http://expresso.sapo.pt/portugal-lidera-solucao-para-gerir-recursos-naturais-da-terra=f840796#ixzz2kXyIVa57

Minimalismo dos objetos

Num mundo onde o consumo ainda não é feito de forma consciente, há quem faça a diferença de forma a viver com menos objetos.

artigo:

http://p3.publico.pt/actualidade/sociedade/8534/de-quantos-objectos-precisas-para-seres-feliz

"Here's What Will Happen To Earth 100 Quintillion Years From Now" - FastCompanyLink

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024584/infographic-of-the-day/heres-what-will-happen-to-earth-one-hundred-quintillion-years-from-no

Documentários Interessantes

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)

IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.' With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view, the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan, an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The film employs McGowan's story to examine larger questions about environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.

Earth (2007)

Feature-length version of the documentary TV series Planet Earth (2006), following the migration paths of four animal families.

Baraka (1992)

A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.

Livros Interessantes

How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything

From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or even having a child, How Bad are Bananas? gives us the carbon answers we need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out to give us a carbon instinct for the footprint of literally anything we do, buy and think about. He helps us pick our battles by laying out the orders of magnitude. The book ranges from the everyday (foods, books, plastic bags, bikes, flights, baths...) and the global (deforestation, data centres, rice production, the World Cup, volcanoes, ...) Be warned, some of the things you thought you knew about green living may be about to be turned on their head. Never preachy but packed full of information and always entertaining.

Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things

'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, this approach only perpetuates the one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, that creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. Why not challenge the belief that human industry must damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model for making things? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we consider its abundance not wasteful but safe, beautiful and highly effective. Waste equals food.

Guided by this principle, McDonough and Braungart explain how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new - continually circulating as pure and viable materials within a 'cradle to cradle' model. Drawing on their experience in redesigning everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, McDonough and Braungart make an exciting and viable case for putting eco-effectiveness into practice, and show how anyone involved in making anything can begin to do so as well.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Bad-Are-Bananas-everything/dp/1846688914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393412753&sr=8-1&keywords=how+bad+are+bananas

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cradle-Cradle-Remaking-Make-Things/dp/0099535475/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393412741&sr=8-1&keywords=cradle+to+cradle

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Obrigada

terça-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2014

Ecovative Design - "Driven to produce materials that are healthier for people, the planet, and profits"http://www.ecovativedesign.com

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682117/how-two-college-pals-are-growing-a-solution-to-our-reliance-on-plastic#1

Zero Carbon Food - Londres

http://www.zerocarbonfood.co.uk

"Zero Carbon Food is a commercial venture that aims to benefit Londoners, businesses, society and the environment as a whole. Utilising underground redundant spaces, we will be producing leafy greens, herbs and micro-greens. These would be grown using LED lights and a hydroponics system with all produce for sale within the M25.

The immediate benefit for Londoners is reduced food waste through increased shelf-life, bringing employment to inner cities and helping to achieve the reduction in the carbon footprint of the capital.

The wider benefits are that our system uses 70% less water versus traditional open-field farming methods, year round production negates seasonality and therefore the necessity to import produce, drastically reducing food miles for retailers and consumers. In addition to this the crops are free from pesticides."

Bem vindos!

sábado, 22 de fevereiro de 2014

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