Cool new swap initiative looking for interest … (via Local swap share buy sell site | live local)
From exkimo Carli Lambach .. looks very cool (via 21 November: AgBag Workshop Sydney « Carbon Arts)
Become a uFarmer! Learn how to create arable land out of thin air
Receive your very own Jeremijenko-designed durable, efficient AgBag, and learn how to fill it with uFoods that equip an urban body to cope with the assault of urban pollutants. We will step you through the whys and wherefores of closed system agriculture, and how a distributed urban system can produce high value edibles. We will add a phenological tracking system to your stylish AgBag so that you can become part of a collective experiment in urban farming.
Im not sure why, maybe it’s the maker in me who’s always tinkered with and made stuff since a very young age, but there’s something incredibly exciting about Open Source Hardware projects. And this is the Mac Daddy of them all! I cant resist … it really really is AWESOME! ( via Open Source Ecology)
Looking forward to our The Economics of Happiness screening with the live local foundation tomorrow night!
‘Going local’ is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world - our ecosystems, our societies and our selves. Far from the old institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different future… (via The Economics of Happiness | Home)
If you’d like to go local visit our foundation’s site at www.livelocal.org.au
Research: Mapping the Impact of Traffic on the Livability of Streets - information aesthetics
Quite a cool article on the value of removing traffic from the neoughbourhood. Couldnt agree more, but in the end its not oppinion but hard data that counts. This wasthe message from the (awesome) NYC Commissioner of the Dept of Transport Janette Sadik-Khan - who has done incredible things transforming NYC into a city that favours people over cars (she spoke at the City Talks with CLover Moore recently).
