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Millions of tons of household rubbish painstakingly sorted by families for recycling is being dumped abroad. Whitehall has admitted that waste from recycling bins is being shipped to countries including China, India and Indonesia, where much of it ends up in landfill. In papers published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ministers concede that what happens to the 12million tons of 'green' waste shipped abroad every year is largely beyond their control.
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The Systems Thinking Playbook for Climate Change A toolkit for interactive learning Imprint The Systems Thinking Playbook for Climate Change: A Toolkit for Interactive Learning Authors Linda Booth Sweeney, Dennis Meadows, Gillian Martin Mehers... Via Ides De Vos, Steve Wilhite, Maya Givon Delete the scoop?
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The Harvard Graduate School of Design released its Ecological Urbanism app last month. The interactive app adapts content from the GSD book of the same name, which explores how designers can unite urbanism with environmentalism. Combining data from around the world, the app “reveals and locates current practices, emerging trends, and opportunities for new initiatives” in regard to the future of cities. A collaboration between the school and Second Story Interactive Studios,the app stems from the GSD’s Ecological Urbanism conference and dovetails with the duo’s ongoing efforts to explore sustainability in our cities of the future. Via Lauren Moss, landscape architecture &sustainability, F|Mattiuzzo Delete the scoop?
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This talk draws on the latest global modeling research to construct a sweeping thought experiment on what our world will be like in 2050. The World in 2050 combines the lessons of geography and history with state-of-the-art model projections and analytical data-everything from climate dynamics and resource stocks to age distributions and economic growth projections. Via Szabolcs Kósa Delete the scoop?
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Millions of tons of household rubbish painstakingly sorted by families for recycling is being dumped abroad. Whitehall has admitted that waste from recycling bins is being shipped to countries including China, India and Indonesia, where much of it ends up in landfill. In papers published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ministers concede that what happens to the 12million tons of 'green' waste shipped abroad every year is largely beyond their control.
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La plastica è uno dei materiali più inquinanti al mondo e che richiede un esborso di energia e di acqua enorme per poter essere realizzata; riciclarla è un dovere al quale nessuno deve sottrarsi, ma qualcuno ha fatto di questo gesto addirittura una vera e proprio opera creativa. L’agenzia turca Designnobis ha da poco presentato un progetto che ha vinto il Green Dot Awards e l’International Design Award: l’idea è quella di fornire un kit per la creazione di un ecosistema di coltivazione verticale, il Pet-Tree, un impianto che sfrutta il riutilizzo delle bottiglie di plastica di cinque litri per sviluppare un giardino in altezza in modo semplice ed ecologico. Un’opportunità potenzialmente eccellente per chi ha un minimo di spazio, dentro o fuori le mura domestiche, e vuole produrre le proprie verdure a casa, riciclando al tempo stesso.... Via Manuel Brambilla, F|Mattiuzzo Delete the scoop?
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According to the United Nations Environment Programme, buildings account for approximately 40 percent of worldwide energy use and are responsible for 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. They also play an important role in the health and wellbeing of those who inhabit them each day. The mass of information about what makes a building green tends to concentrate on new and innovative designs that create beautiful photo spreads. While such examples are inspiring, they make up a very small percentage of all buildings in operation. Green Buildings Alive is an environmental initiative aimed at collecting and sharing data on existing buildings between 10 and 60 years old. The data is collected from office towers in Australian Central Business Districts (CBDs) and shared on a public website.
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Understanding long-term trends is an important tool in identifying opportunities and risks. STEEP analysis looks at the world through five different perspectives – Social, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Political. The following are the major themes that are presently shaping the future... Via Szabolcs Kósa Delete the scoop?
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