“ [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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...
Sunday, June 29, 2008
0 Comments