sustainability

Creating Sustainable Systems through Collaboration and Crowdsourcing
“In 2010 150 billion garments were produced around the world…a dye house uses up to 200 tons of water for each ton of fabric it dyes…”
With those words a challenge has been posted to http://launch.org to try and solve the unsustainable components of the materials development system.
Goonj is Creating a Parallel Economy Using Waste
I recently attended the LAUNCH: Beyond Waste forum at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Held July 20 – July 22, 2012, the forum is part of the LAUNCH program which…

Trash to Couture
Trash to Couture is an impressive site by seamstress and designer Laura Pifer. Laura converts old clothing into fashionable new outfits, her site includes great DIY tutorials to achieve similar results. Here…
Welcome to the Anthropocene – A Video About How We Affect Our World
We are the “new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of earth”.