National Geographic Maio 2014 "Como alimentar 9000 milhões"

Não é preciso optar entre unidades industriais ou agropecuária biológica. Existe outra via.


PRIMEIRA MEDIDA Congelar a pegada da agricultura

SEGUNDA MEDIDA Aumentar as colheitas nas explorações agrícolas já existentes

TERCEIRA MEDIDA Utilizar os recursos com mais eficiência

QUARTA MEDIDA Mudar as dietas
QUINTA MEDIDA Reduzir o desperdício

Vejam o artigo completo em : http://www.nationalgeographic.pt/index.php/ng-revista/211-como-alimentar-9000-milhões

French Pavilion for Milan Expo Designed to Grow Fresh Food

For the upcoming Expo Milan 2015, the country of France envisioned their pavilion as a covered market. A competition was held to design the space with the winning entry coming from X-TU architects. They centered the 3,600 square meter building around the concept of “producing and nurturing in another way,” which relates to the Expo’s tagline of “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.” We’ve previously seen that China’s pavilion for the event resembles waves of wheat. France too has an imaginative design that instead utilizes a light-weight lattice structure whose construction methods ensure that it can be disassembled and reused after the exposition.

The ground floor is a hub of activity where a range of herbs, vegetables, and hops are planted throughout the fertile marketplace; it plays on the idea of production and caring for all that pass through. Attendees can dine upstairs at a terraced restaurant that harvests and serves the pavilion's fresh produce. Additionally, there is a small boutique that offers a variety of French food, along with a demonstration zone for a hands-on approach to the country’s signature style of cooking.

The project seeks to find a solution for self-sufficiency, taking into account that there will be an estimated 9 billion people living on earth by 2050. There’s a need for additional production methods that foster better nourishment. The pavilion’s design is seen as a metaphor for a physical place where new perspectives on food and nutrition can grow and ultimately influence the world for the better.

Fonte: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/x-tu-architects-france-pavilion

Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore - TED

Conferência TED

Leyla Acaroglu

Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore

(18minutos)

http://www.ted.com/talks/leyla_acaroglu_paper_beats_plastic_how_to_rethink_environmental_folklore#t-207767



Temas:
Papel Vs. Plástico
Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida
Materiais biodegradáveis
Desperdício de comida
Design de Produtos e serviços
Sustentabilidade

Redução das emissões de CO2 da Ikea - mudança da receita das Almôndegas

"No ano passado, a Ikea vendeu 97,4 milhões de almôndegas. O prato é um ícone sueco. Mas porque a receita tradicional precisa de carne de porco e de vaca - ambos os maiores contribuintes para a mudança climática - a empresa está agora a trabalhar em opções vegetarianas, e de frango, para ajudar a cortar as suas emissões de carbono."

Fonte: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3029750/ikea-is-making-meatless-meatballs-as-part-of-a-massive-push-for-sustainability#2

Documentário "Plastic Paradise - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

"Every single piece of plastic that has ever been created since the 19th century is still somewhere on our planet. So if it never goes away, where does it go?"

"Thousands of miles away from civilization, Midway Atoll is in one of the most remote places on earth. And yet its become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, syphoning plastics from three distant continents. In this independent documentary film, journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun travels on a personal journey of discovery to uncover this mysterious phenomenon. Along the way she meets scientists, researchers, influencers, and volunteers who shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption and learns the problem is more insidious than we could have ever imagined."

Trailer em: http://vimeo.com/42143924

 Fonte: http://plasticparadisemovie.com

Releasing the penguins rescued after Rena oil spill!!

Little blue penguins were contaminated by oil after the Rena Oil Spill disaster in New Zealand. They are released into the ocean after being cleaned at the oiled wildlife facility.

Vídeo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeTbHEwlHbQ

(0.53" - libertação dos pinguins)

Air, Water, Waste, Food, Energy – Designers Imagining Self-Contained Living Systems

This is Future Living

The Future Living house is a testament to the will of design. It took twenty six designers (a feat in itself) to create it. Every technologic leap was analyzed to make sure anything proposed was possible by 2050. It’s a paradigm shift in home resource creation and location. Water uses gravity to generate pressure. Energy is harvested from solar and wind apparatuses. Air, water and waste are cleaned using a living bio wall and everything is recycled when possible.

Design Team: Cornelia Bailey, Tanushree Bhat, Marilee Bowles Carey, Anthony Caspary, Eric Diamond, Xiaonan Huang, Reenu John, Na Rae Kim, Paolo Korre, Eugene Limb, Hsin-Cheng Lin, Miguel Angel Martinez, Nikhil Mathew, Elise Metzger, Mahdieh Salimi, Kshitij V. Sawant, Owen Schoppe, Jessica Striebich, Hannah Swart, Traci Thomas, Helen Tong, Sally Wong, Yixiu Wu, HyeKyung Yoo and Gene Young of IIT Institute of Design.

Fontes:
http://www.tinyhouseliving.com/air-water-waste-food-energy-designers-imagining-self-contained-living-systems/
http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/09/27/this-is-future-living/

Make Them Visible

"Have the homeless became so invisible we wouldn't notice our own family menbers living on the street?"

Vejam o vídeo, vale mesmo a pena…

http://www.makethemvisible.com

"Rolling City" Is Designed To Re-Plant The Desert

"Mounted on 16 treads originally designed to move NASA rockets, this floating, self-powered platform would roam around greening the desert--all the while supporting an entire city on board."

"Every year, more than 46,000 square miles of arable land turns to desert. As deserts spread--a process that keeps moving faster thanks to climate change and practices like clear-cutting--the UN estimates that more than 1 billion people will be directly affected. (…) Floating above the platform, giant balloons would capture water condensation. As the first treads roll over the soil, the machine uses a little water from the balloons to soften the ground. The last set of treads injects seeds, some fertilizer, and more water… Everything would run on renewable power, using a combination of solar towers, wind turbines, and a generator that creates electricity by harnessing the stark differences in temperature between day and night in the desert. The machine could theoretically capture enough energy that it can self-support an entire small city onboard. (…) The architects are currently working on developing the project on the Moroccan side of the Sahara Desert."

Fonte: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028173/this-enormous-rolling-city-is-designed-to-re-plant-the-desert

Os novos avisos das Nações Unidas para as alterações climáticas

Fonte: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028444/visualized/the-uns-latest-dire-climate-warnings-visualized

“Pedal-powered” Fresh Juice Bar

Juicy Cycling is a “pedal-powered” Fresh Juice Bar. Through recycling old bicycles connected to a centrifuge, a glass of freshly-squeezed juice can be obtained in only a few minutes.

The idea of the project is to construct a Fresh Juice Bar with a real-time action, involving the public of the area.

The bar is constructed of recycled materials, such as old bikes and cable reels.

One single module contains a personal seat at the pedal machine combined with a table and a juice squeezer.

Nuno maya - Sculpture - "Plastic World"

Plastic debris washed up on beaches gets turned into beachfront art:

"Plastic World" — made by Portuguese artists Carole Purnelle and Nuno Maya— pictured in Australia, on the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk, during the 2013 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi exhibition. 

The spherical sculpture is 79” (200 cm) in diameter.

(photo credit: Halans on Flickr)

Projeto "Fruta Feia"

O projeto: Numa sociedade em que cada vez há mais pobreza e mesmo alguma fome, temos a situação irónica e triste de cerca de 30% da fruta produzida em Portugal ser desperdiçada pois, apesar de ser saborosa e de qualidade, não tem o aspecto perfeito em termos de cor, formato e calibre que a grande distribuição procura e que os consumidores escolhem.

A cooperativa Fruta Feia tem como objectivo principal canalizar essa parte da produção fruto-hortícola desperdiçada até aos consumidores que não julgam a qualidade pela aparência, combatendo uma ineficiência de mercado, criando uma marca e um movimento que consigam alterar padrões de consumo e gerar um mercado para a chamada “fruta feia”. Um mercado que gere valor e combata tanto o desperdício alimentar como o gasto desnecessário dos recursos utilizados na sua produção (água, energia e terrenos agrícolas). A Cooperativa de consumo Fruta Feia abriu a sua primeira delegação no Bairro dos Anjos (Lisboa) no passado dia 18/Novembro de 2013.

http://www.frutafeia.pt

Se quiserem ser aderentes, basta inscreverem-se no site como consumidores. :)

WWF "Seize Your Power" - participem!

Vejam esta animação da WWF (e participem no fim…) sobre combustíveis fósseis e energias renováveis:

http://yourpower.panda.org

Links: Eco-Village + Countertop Composter That Zaps Your Food Scraps Into Healthy Soil Fertilizer

"This Eco-Village Is An Environmentalist's Dream"
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027132/this-eco-village-is-an-environmentalists-dream#7

"Countertop Composter That Zaps Your Food Scraps Into Healthy Soil Fertilizer"

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3027035/fund-this/a-countertop-composter-that-zaps-your-food-scraps-into-healthy-soil-fertilizer#1

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/

"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