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Urban Agriculture
“ [A]n industry that produces, processes and markets food and fuel, largely in response to the daily demand of consumers within a town, city, or metropolis, on land and water dispersed throughout the urban and peri-urban area, applying intensive production methods, using and reusing natural resources and urban wastes to yield a diversity of crops [...]
Continue reading...on low-tech
Saturday, March 1, 2008
This is an extract of a conversation i had with totoro last week on regarding the relevance of investing in low-tech. Seems to me that everyone including developing countries are obsessed with hi-tech solutions. Whereas this might be a good model for developed economies, it might no the the most wise solution for undeveloped areas, such [...]
Continue reading...Sustainable and Low Cost Housing
Sunday, December 9, 2007
What to you get if you mix Bill Clinton + Brad Pitt ?jejejeje, no, well yes but think again... Although they might seem not to have too much in common, by mashing up some of their ideas it is possible to design a replicable model for sustainable habitat in emerging communities.
Continue reading...Vegetable Based Charcoal
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Amy Smith has been working for years in humanitarian design, she gives a great course at MIT “Design for Developing Countries,”. Last year with the help of her students she figured out how to make charcoal out of local non polluting resources such as roots, cane sugar remaining and similar.Now that Tabasco lacks of many [...]
Continue reading...Re: for Gilad
Monday, October 22, 2007
Gilad left a question in another post, the answer turn out to be so extend that i had to make it a post. HJ - I’m curious - do u know of specific areas in Mexico which are planned to receive the device? Any gov’t initiative to buy a bunch of them and distribute?As cool as [...]
Continue reading...Smoother Public Transport Network (republished)
Sunday, August 26, 2007
(republished for safe keeping) The purpose of these networked set systems is to provide a smoother use of public transport system in Monterrey, taking advantage of emerging Technologies, which we hope when the times come to develop the project, they would have reached a mature stage. The solution network consists in the connections between mobile devices, enhanced [...]
Continue reading...Internet Village Motoman Network
Friday, May 11, 2007
or riding the bike against digital divide : DNetworkAmerican Assistance for Cambodia, Operation Village Heath, Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolMobile access point and antenna Designer/manufacturer: United Villages, Inc., antenna by HyperLink Technologies, Inc.United States, 2002–03Dimensions: 6†h x 12†w x 4†d (box), 15†(antenna)Solar panel Manufacturer: Kyocera CorporationJapan, [...]
Continue reading...Cátedra sobre el cambio climático y el calentamiento global
Wednesday, December 31, 1969
When: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5pm to 6pm CDTWhere: Salón EUAEvent Status: confirmedEvent Description: Tipo de evento: Mesa RedondaEl calentamiento global es uno de los problemas ambientales más graves que enfrenta hoy en dÃa la humanidad. Sin embargo, el cambio climático también crea nuevas oportunidades, como lo demuestran las inversiones cada vez mayores en la aplicación [...]
Continue reading...- Urban Agriculture
- hjbarraza: I demand hackability
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- Guerrilla Gardening
- Moonjar v2.01
- hjbarraza: @ronier puedes decir a gabby que lo estamos esperando en libeko ?
- hjbarraza: mhhh I like an empty mail inbox, and a full rss reader inbox
- hjbarraza: While my white friends live in L.A., California; if i moved there i would live in L.A, Mexifornia JA !
- hjbarraza: Has anyone noticed how beautiful the sunlight between 8:00 and 9:00 and 5:30 to 6:30 is ? (or is it just me? ja !)
- hjbarraza: @gabrielsaldana after this week ill start charging to sign any NDA. This is an insane NDA Signing Galore
- Carta Abierta a Felipe Bracho (11)
- Comming Up Next (5)
- Mexico: One computer per gun (4)
- Hacking Coda: Coda CodeIgniter Edition (4)
- OLPC XO vs Classmate (4)
- News from Baghdad (3)
- eduCommons 2.2.0 (3)
- Re: Creativity needed in finding access solutions for rural Mexico (3)
- RE: Porque los bloggers alguna vez fuimos niños… (3)
- Smoother Public Transport Network (republished) (3)
- my favourite robot companions
- Diplomado: Historia y Crítica de la Arquitectura Mexicana Contemporánea
Asides 
hjbarraza: @tom4cam probably someone in the social media classroom community already is http://tinyurl.com/4jp7hd
hjbarraza: im going back to preschool !!!
hjbarraza: So, how is everyone feeling today ?
hjbarraza: y que me levantan los truenos a las 6 am
hjbarraza: @chicaregia jajaja no entendi lo reporte indigo !
hjbarraza: Just recieved a new book from amazon ! : )
hjbarraza: @eliastorre in the south, you can go to electrolabo.com in the north its better to go to the border. in which city are you ?
hjbarraza: Google won’t search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don’t find Chuck Norris, he finds you.
hjbarraza: finally reading “Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers” arduino fun for me http://tinyurl.com/2osup7
hjbarraza: Zombie Fest @ Mty, Mx, YEEEEEEEEEEEIIIII
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
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