New Paper
Dentsu, Tokyo Design used old newspapers to design a package for a street vendor that sells farm-grown vegetables and fruits. The brief required somethig original, easy to use and low cost.
Filed Under Creativity, Environment, Food
Food Inc.
After Fast Food Nation, Robert Kenner lifts again the veil on American nations food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of governments regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
Filed Under Environment, Food, Modern Life, Social Communication, Water, World Health
Plastic Ocean
Take a look at the Pacific Gyre and the plastic floating in it.
Filed Under Design, Environment, Social Communication
If the world were a village of 100 people
Filed Under Art, Creativity, Design, Environment, Food, Human Rights, Social Communication
Where’s the most remote place on earth?
The New Scientist publishes a map of the most remote places on earth. Surprisingly enough, less than 10% of the world’s land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city.
“In the Amazon, for example, extensive river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20 per cent of the land is more than two days from a city - around the same proportion as Canada’s Quebec province. ”
Nevertheless, most people still don’t have access to the most basic resources such as water, education and medical care.
Filed Under Environment, Food, Human Rights, Water, World Health
Squatters of the World Unite!
Squatting involves using loopholes in local laws to build and occupy housing, free of charge. While a streak of anarchic activism has always run through squatters, in some cases they can create social problems, or give indirect support to crime and drug-dealing. Regardless of its consequences, squatters are a global phenomenon, and they usually find themselves in the middle of conflicts between local populations and the companies and governments of a globalizing and gentrifying world.Author Robert Neuwirth has written a bestselling book on the squatting phenomenon, and edits what is possibly one of the most comprehensive squatting-related blogs over at Squattercity. From the century-long occupation of flats in an expensive district of London, from the Brazilian favelas to the newly-spreading “tent cities” in depression-stricken America, this blog is a must-see.
Filed Under Diversity, Environment, Human Rights, Modern Life
Another wall
Rio de Janeiro government decided to build walls around 11 favelas.
The minds behind the idea say the intention is to protect the rainforest. The residents say it is a way to segregate them from the rest of society.
I say it’s surreal that we are still building physical barriers to solve either social or environmental problems.
Wouldn’t those 40 million reais spent on the walls do better invested in Education?
Filed Under Environment, Human Rights, Modern Life, Politics