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Environment

Excessive Packaging from Creative and Lexar

January 5, 2010

Two recent purchases.
First, this Lexar SD card. The packaging is 28 times the size of the product. Many consumer electronics segments are becoming commodified. Memory tops that list: there’ s little to differentiate Lexar from Sandisk and others beyond branding and advantages such as packaging design. I understand the need to convert browsers to purchasers [...]

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Shot of the Day: Waiting for Wind

December 14, 2009

Tara and Nastia wait for wind in Cornwall. (May as well plug my old program here: Engineering for Sustainable Development at Cambridge. This shot is from an ESD trip in 2008. Thinking about doing a masters around sustainability? Consider applying. And congrats to Jackie who did just that and just got in!)
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Canadians: How does it Feel to be a Pariah?

December 2, 2009

Several years ago I stumbled upon this obscure report. Greenhill had found a pulse lurking under the surface: opinion-makers around the world felt that Canada had gone from a positive force to relatively useless in about 15 years. Worse even, as we were still trying to tell the rest of the world how to behave, [...]

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Skoll:Emerge in Tweets

November 30, 2009

It’s been a hectic and wonderful day at Skoll:Emerge, a one-day conference for student social entrepreneurs. Let’s call Skoll:Emerge a qualified, hopeful hit. Good interaction with students, some interesting panels and a couple dynamite mainstage speakers (Caroline Casey especially). All for a student-friendly price. It’s been a haze, so I’m going to try something new [...]

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3 Ways to Shoot a Leaf

November 26, 2009

…and give it some personality.
1) Undress it, discovering how the internal structure creates the whole.

2) Override it with context and shift the hues to create a set of emotive qualities.

3) Let it move and speak for itself.

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Shot of the Day: Oxford Examination Regulations

November 21, 2009

I received this book awhile ago: University of Oxford Examination Regulations 2009. Rivetting reading. But the gut reaction was this: what a waste of paper. Not because the information isn’t important, but because they are automatically given to each student and relevant faculty, examiner and various official. Must be over 15,000 books, each at 2″ [...]

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Shot of the Day: Lost Purpose

November 19, 2009

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Like New Approaches to Old Problems? Two Ways to Engage.

November 11, 2009

Morning/Afternoon/Evening folks,
Here are two great ways to get engaged with communities of changemakers, change angents, social entrepreneurs, unreasonable people (pick any term that works for you), particularly if you’re in the UK.
First, Emerge, a student social entrepreneurship conference happening at Oxford on November 29th:
Over 300 students will gather for the main event - a day [...]

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Shot of the Day: Jeffrey Sachs

October 21, 2009

I attended a lecture last night with Jeffrey Sachs, put on by the James Martin 21st Century School. Matt at Aid Thoughts has broken it down nicely (although may have wanted more detail than was possible in such a broad, short lecture), so I don’t have to here. If anyone’s really interested, the talk should [...]

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Public Campaigns: Surface-Scratching Environmentalism?

October 19, 2009

I am coming to a realization: I don’t believe in environmental (or climate change-tackling) solutions that rely on consumers continuously making conscious decisions to be environmental. I don’t believe in public campaigns. At least not if we want impact within a generation, and directly.
Public behaviour-changing may work in the medium to long term to create [...]

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