using cornstarch cups and Freitag conference bags will help ( a little ) but I suspect that there are major issues that we need to address, such as.....
Energy usage in Data centres...BusinessWeek this week has an several articles about this and other related topics, the data centre one seems to be a biggie
E-waste...how hardware is designed for obselescence and replacement, when the design and manufacturing process should take into account repair, refreshing, recycling and re-purposing, as is increasingly the case with cars and other products in some European countries
Sustainable manufacturing....there are some very nasty materials and chemicals used in the manufacture of electronic devices...off-shore manufacture shifts the problem but doesnt solve it..."Cradle to cradle" by William McDonough is a good introduction to these issues
IT and sustainability.....ways of visualising and minimising energy use and environmental impact to alter behaviour
Alternative formats for conferences....the carbon footprint from moving 2600 people from accross the world to one place is very significant...satellite mini-conferences, tele-conferencing, blogs, wikis, google groups are all alternatives to that which can be developed, although I suspect that better forms have yet to be developed
Congratulations all on the fformation of this new group, there's a lot to do
> Energy usage in Data centres...BusinessWeek this week has an several > articles about this and other related topics, the data centre one > seems to be a biggie
> E-waste...how hardware is designed for obselescence and replacement, > when the design and manufacturing process should take into account > repair, refreshing, recycling and re-purposing, as is increasingly the > case with cars and other products in some European countries
> Sustainable manufacturing....there are some very nasty materials and > chemicals used in the manufacture of electronic devices...off-shore > manufacture shifts the problem but doesnt solve it..."Cradle to > cradle" by William McDonough is a good introduction to these issues
> IT and sustainability.....ways of visualising and minimising energy > use and environmental impact to alter behaviour
> Alternative formats for conferences....the carbon footprint from > moving 2600 people from accross the world to one place is very > significant...satellite mini-conferences, tele-conferencing, blogs, > wikis, google groups are all alternatives to that which can be > developed, although I suspect that better forms have yet to be > developed
> Congratulations all on the fformation of this new group, there's a lot > to do
I'd like to contribute a brief-history of eco-design written by John Wood (Reader in Design Futures, Dept. of Design, Goldsmiths Collage) and published on the Attainable Utopias network with whom I am collaborating.
John has promoted eco-design for a long time, and educated generations of students at Goldsmiths on issues of consumption and sustainability.
I thought that this historical account on eco-design vs. market forces could be of an interest to this community. The Attainable Utopias' call for "synergistic communities" relates to the idea of "community of communities" mentioned by John Thomas.
> Nice list. I'm hoping that asking for introductions will get us > thinking as a group about how we can or already have added to this > list.
> jen
>> Energy usage in Data centres...BusinessWeek this week has an several >> articles about this and other related topics, the data centre one >> seems to be a biggie
>> E-waste...how hardware is designed for obselescence and replacement, >> when the design and manufacturing process should take into account >> repair, refreshing, recycling and re-purposing, as is increasingly >> the >> case with cars and other products in some European countries
>> Sustainable manufacturing....there are some very nasty materials and >> chemicals used in the manufacture of electronic devices...off-shore >> manufacture shifts the problem but doesnt solve it..."Cradle to >> cradle" by William McDonough is a good introduction to these issues
>> IT and sustainability.....ways of visualising and minimising energy >> use and environmental impact to alter behaviour
>> Alternative formats for conferences....the carbon footprint from >> moving 2600 people from accross the world to one place is very >> significant...satellite mini-conferences, tele-conferencing, blogs, >> wikis, google groups are all alternatives to that which can be >> developed, although I suspect that better forms have yet to be >> developed
>> Congratulations all on the fformation of this new group, there's a >> lot >> to do
since I have just added my profile to the wiki that Mike nicely set up for us, and saw that Bill is working on an eco-visualization project, I thought to share some art-related links on this topic.
Tiffany is Chair of the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This article of her is a great overview of creative practice of eco-visualization. If you will be in Washington this summer for CC2007 (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ CC2007/), you will be able to see her work exhibited at the National Academy of Sciences.
She also maintains a blog on pro-environmental art and design projects: http://www.ecoviz.org/
> since I have just added my profile to the wiki that Mike nicely set > up for us, and saw that Bill is working on an eco-visualization > project, I thought to share some art-related links on this topic.
> Tiffany is Chair of the Department of Art and Technology Studies at > the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This article of her is a > great overview of creative practice of eco-visualization. If you will > be in Washington this summer for CC2007 (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ > CC2007/), you will be able to see her work exhibited at the National > Academy of Sciences.
> She also maintains a blog on pro-environmental art and design > projects:http://www.ecoviz.org/
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