The Greenwashing Index is a mashup of advertisements submitted by users and ranked on how much they lie about the sustainability of products. Watching ads through a critical lens has a very different impact than their broadcasting on television or in print; the only problem is that they tend to disappear from the web once […]
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farm map 3
I recently met with Season to Taste Catering Chef Robert Harris, who told me about Chicago-based Green caterer Greg Christian. He has published a number of tools and started several initiatives to promote eating locally and sustainably through his website. Among them: a map (above) of the farms he uses to source food in the […]
Also posted in food, futurecraft, marketing, traceability
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code maker
Kaywa offers a QR code generator and a reader you can download to your cell phone so that you too can begin authoring and spectating in the internet of things.
Also posted in 2d, traceability
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farm map 2
With the growing interest in eating local and community-supported agriculture there is a real demand for enabling technology to let small producers and community markets advertise their ever-changing menu. Otoyk (Kyoto backwards) is the newest entry in this field; it allows users to submit links to community farms and markets, and visitors can find directions […]
Also posted in conviviality, energy, environment, food, futurecraft, marketing, supply chain
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VOTE
Roger and Me may have been soft. And Bowling for Columbine was harsh to Canadians. But Fahrenheitt 911 was poignant. And Sicko made me cry. You won’t believe what Michael Moore did with Slacker Uprising – apparently he supports the Bush presidency. But Roseanne doesn’t agree. Watch and share, there’s no EULA.
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how things aren’t made
Transparency in manufacturing is fascinating – being able to peer inside the LEGO factory or watching how TCHO chocolate is made really gives you a feel for the product that you wouldn’t otherwise have. But transparency can also be selective: what about a photogenic cigarette factory or Nike’s pride about their only non-sweatshop shoes? Then […]
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youtube your own adventure
One of the unexpected discoveries of the nightmarket.web workshop has been the ability to re-create a random walk through an urban space through youtube comments. The Bright Night team (Avalon, Odeson, Hung Hsiao-Mei, Jackie Yang and Jimmy), as part of the exercise of translating the unique experience of visiting a craft market in Tainan City, […]
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re-mapping history
I just finished Gavin Menzies‘ page-turner ‘1434,’ a book that proposes that a Chinese fleet visited Italy in that year and brought along with it world maps that paved the way for the European ‘Age of Exploration’ and technical documents that laid the groundwork for many Renaissance ‘inventions.’ The controversial book is largely an amateur […]