tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18660101997403180702024-03-05T19:59:07.798+00:00useLESS DesignRitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-90527974935173947792008-09-23T11:05:00.006+01:002008-09-23T11:22:38.598+01:00Será que estamos em fase de negação?O certo é que todos nós nos recusamos a ver o que é cada vez mais óbvio...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxn_KiuUBF7pcw0fwRq_meez3LK9cJrQkFZ7YOjv427NieDv3HkVbdyx0ZZyBKFjbhxBcjIqnue8hFRbiP-vZjyAJia7aRNhn2p34P6xVxj7YujbY4Lm6D-mztawcErhk8AqJziThCzF4b/s1600-h/EODglobe08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 404px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxn_KiuUBF7pcw0fwRq_meez3LK9cJrQkFZ7YOjv427NieDv3HkVbdyx0ZZyBKFjbhxBcjIqnue8hFRbiP-vZjyAJia7aRNhn2p34P6xVxj7YujbY4Lm6D-mztawcErhk8AqJziThCzF4b/s400/EODglobe08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249157711804939874" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A partir de hoje,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> dia 23 de Setembro</span>, </span> estamos em dívida para com o planeta Terra...<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" >Até ao fim do ano a população mundial passa a viver com recursos que o planeta não consegue regenerar...</span><br /><br />Isto significa que em 2008 seriam precisos perto de 1,4 planetas para satisfazer os estilos de vida que temos hoje em dia... E assim anda o mundo...Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-19362130296319948152008-09-18T20:39:00.002+01:002008-09-18T20:43:24.200+01:00Campanha Quercus by McCann Erickson<div style="text-align: right;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-jrHrqATYho&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-jrHrqATYho&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">tirado <a href="http://www.madeinmundo.com">daqu</a><a href="http://www.madeinmundo.com">i</a></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-36752920106501401642008-06-29T11:11:00.000+01:002008-06-29T11:12:24.401+01:00It all comes back to you!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3Wht7Vj6u2g&hl=pt-br"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3Wht7Vj6u2g&hl=pt-br" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-9772668175643556692008-06-29T10:51:00.004+01:002008-06-29T11:02:28.706+01:00Frases - 29 de Junho de 2008<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC0JrM9ssH5UlWQX-XVJc8VaHDFk2B73hBJxljMAPYO52h_zXanboqQEM7wdbGocI6fwcDZComEX78hGDYYawOhjjdHs92NQAVZJxEPGwT5GFWTThVyb1RnUX0DAuAlFadRg6Oe1qPPenq/s1600-h/brown.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC0JrM9ssH5UlWQX-XVJc8VaHDFk2B73hBJxljMAPYO52h_zXanboqQEM7wdbGocI6fwcDZComEX78hGDYYawOhjjdHs92NQAVZJxEPGwT5GFWTThVyb1RnUX0DAuAlFadRg6Oe1qPPenq/s200/brown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217241179436376882" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">"Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the <span style="font-weight: bold;">ecological truth</span>."</span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><br />by: <a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/About/Lester_bio.htm">Lester Brown</a><br /><br /><br /></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-83668556638071657032008-06-06T13:33:00.005+01:002008-06-19T18:31:05.975+01:00Aligned for Sustainable Design<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwQGZ2DRkX89SGmMvEP9jUfgD85GxWqm0su_IC6L3bY_wdKU7mUVL0DOYkvmmdewb4UDGxy4WljJDBYmB0Wrae6XRVKi-TE7dPX4aCY59euhqvXmsgW-sPptW8XjA1FYxSJ3mb8bkcBdNP/s1600-h/aligned.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208748908678651122" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 406px; height: 259px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwQGZ2DRkX89SGmMvEP9jUfgD85GxWqm0su_IC6L3bY_wdKU7mUVL0DOYkvmmdewb4UDGxy4WljJDBYmB0Wrae6XRVKi-TE7dPX4aCY59euhqvXmsgW-sPptW8XjA1FYxSJ3mb8bkcBdNP/s400/aligned.jpg" border="0" height="260" width="407" /></a><br /><div>Foi lançado um relatório pelo estudio de design <a href="http://www.ideo.com/">IDEO</a> e pela <a href="http://www.bsr.org/">Business for Social Responsability </a>que pretende ajudar a demonstar como as empresas devem ter uma visão mais integrada dos seus processos de design. Através da demonstração de casos de estudo bem sucedidos, esta publicação pretende dar uma noção das ferramentas disponíveis para a integração da sustentabilidade no design.<br /><br />Podem aceder ao relatório <a href="http://www.bsr.orgi/reports/BSR_Sustainable_Design_Report_0508.pdf">aqui</a></div><div></div><div></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-6317763211540658692008-06-06T13:20:00.003+01:002008-06-06T13:23:16.676+01:0005 de Junho - Dia Mundial do AmbientePorque ontem foi o Dia Mundial do Ambiente e não nos foi possivel postar sobre o assunto...<br /><br />Fica aqui o video oficial das nações unidas!<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o4xVgRiFoHY&hl=pt-br"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o4xVgRiFoHY&hl=pt-br" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-14165072544459783692008-05-31T16:11:00.009+01:002008-05-31T16:50:23.095+01:00Changing The Change: A Good Idea!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiJknwwgrOqZbwT7GvjaBV1_Zge_tSC5F8BarTtpLkQ1mAo4LiCcjKnmqYawpMaVrgucKG2_WmFGe7fH7derWNm8MPhGnlW9b_NL5HwvBaMMbDS6kCWS_WHv5BBJabRnuDPX7H9ZF4JA95/s1600-h/header.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 409px; height: 104px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiJknwwgrOqZbwT7GvjaBV1_Zge_tSC5F8BarTtpLkQ1mAo4LiCcjKnmqYawpMaVrgucKG2_WmFGe7fH7derWNm8MPhGnlW9b_NL5HwvBaMMbDS6kCWS_WHv5BBJabRnuDPX7H9ZF4JA95/s400/header.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206569310927536018" border="0" /></a>"The industrial age is over, really is over, it once made sense, but it doesn’t make sense now. We just have to look around us. Many of the positive creations of the industrial era are now less and less relevant and no longer fit for purpose: our schools and education system, our hospitals and health system, our production and consumption system and our very lifestyles. Where does this leave Design? Is Design, also primarily an industrial construct, less and less fit for purpose?<br /><br />There is a risk that in the industrial sunset design becomes a parody of itself or becomes increasingly commoditized, as it is taken ever more for granted by its industrial masters. There are risks, but if the industrial era is over, there are also great opportunities. This is a time when we have to re-invent just about everything and such times urgently need the specific thinking, skills and capabilities of design. But society needs a different design, not industrial but social, a design that is part of the solution and not part of the problem. If this is so, then it interesting to ask the questions: what is holding us back and what is pushing us forwards?<br /><br />So what holds us back? In part the impression that the 21st century still feels very much like the 20th. We still live by an economic ideology that believes growth is based on ever more productivity and consumption and so we still buy lots and we still consume lots. At the same time we are all children of the 20th century. We have 20th century mindsets and 20th century training and perhaps this is why, even if the industrial age has had its day, we keep on looking backwards and all too often doing what we have always done? And anyway real change isn’t easy. There is no rule book, no instructions of use for the next age. What is easier is to pull the future back to the past. This means that instead of systemic structural change, change that facilitates the new socio-techno-economic conditions to flourish and take us to a new era of prosperity and wellbeing, we co-opt the future back to the past. We colonize the future driven by habit, interests and fear.<br /><br />So what pushes us forward? In short, the desire to grow, to explore, to create and need. In a change of age we face many social challenges whereby society, both in the developed and developing world, needs to invent or re-invent just about everything for an ecological age, including health, education, mobility, etc. Such a re-invention and re-design of systems, however, is about social innovation rather than market innovation. It places the emphasis away from the consumer and his/her needs towards the society and its needs. It gives attention less to the individual and more to the collective, less to a need and more to the activity and the context, , less to the product and more to an ecosystem of information, service and experience. If this is what society needs and where society is going then companies will surely follow, as the big industrial corporations also have to re-invent themselves. And this is the necessity and an opportunity for Design to free itself from becoming a commodity to becoming a strategic differentiator. Who better to help design new social systems than Design? If Design does this, and as the social industries supersede the industrial industries, then Design could certainly be to the 21st century what Marketing was to the 20th.<br /><br />What does this mean for Design? A large part of the answer must lie in the increasingly strategic role of Design Research. Design research is the instrument at the service of Design, exploring and building Design’s role and contribution in the field of social innovation and re-design of critical social areas. Addressing social innovation as a set of design challenges is the means. What are the challenges? What new competencies must we grow in social research, social design, systems design, context design, and service design? Which approaches, methods and tools do we need to develop? How do we facilitate the participatory networks and co-creative practices? How do we imagine new value for a new age?"<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">by: <a href="http://www.design.philips.com/shared/assets/Downloadablefile/Biography1_JosephineGreen_March06-14141.pdf">Josephine Green</a>, in <a href="http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?idEvent=23">Changing the Change</a><br /><br /><br /></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-25399446922894091532008-05-23T14:14:00.009+01:002008-05-23T20:04:19.733+01:00Design Cork for Future, Innovation and Sustainability<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUx0vVUNJOMa_O3TpAXfKBAv5eH8JUQe0C15LEcS1frTrwWL_K1QzmqobK1jzY1py2BVjkI_wXJVQiS17N7XQasQqNc-EBEwN1lPSA-nC_X-JcCJJ-MPXoix2WMCoUSN4AF8vJZkenA9I/s1600-h/design-cork.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUx0vVUNJOMa_O3TpAXfKBAv5eH8JUQe0C15LEcS1frTrwWL_K1QzmqobK1jzY1py2BVjkI_wXJVQiS17N7XQasQqNc-EBEwN1lPSA-nC_X-JcCJJ-MPXoix2WMCoUSN4AF8vJZkenA9I/s400/design-cork.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203566267749693378" border="0" /></a><br />Exposição dos resultados do projecto "Design Cork" que teve por objectivo a utilização da cortiça como factor de inovação ao nível do design (novo desenvolvimento de produto) e sua relação com a industria, investigação e sustentabilidade. <br /><br />Os 37 protótipos de novos produtos em cortiça, desenvolvidos por designers Portugueses e Holandeses, estão expostos no Museu Berardo, até ao próximo Domingo, 25 de Maio.Sara SChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00083522056534597929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-92157104992184823582008-04-30T19:22:00.006+01:002008-04-30T19:32:50.528+01:00One movement, one goal: truly sustainable living.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3dyp3e8LwRq1SGNOTT4ibU1pPvLUS2mavdL2nSlWmTwNg-mIuQkofiAywKdOCfxWnni960vpQoI_8vW1Yu4HwjT-afgRXoDccTreLzkDRsN2gEQwmEV-3Hj6sS-nLQ1qrZQK07xoaLbda/s1600-h/greenlivingmovement.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3dyp3e8LwRq1SGNOTT4ibU1pPvLUS2mavdL2nSlWmTwNg-mIuQkofiAywKdOCfxWnni960vpQoI_8vW1Yu4HwjT-afgRXoDccTreLzkDRsN2gEQwmEV-3Hj6sS-nLQ1qrZQK07xoaLbda/s400/greenlivingmovement.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195106761667226098" border="0" /></a><br />"The evolution of civilization is under way. The people of this planet are opening to change. Most of us now know that the disastrous consequences of our lifestyles are accelerating. Green buildings have captured the imagination of many in the mainstream, but for green professionals the time has come to stop designing for mere energy efficiency and start designing to regenerate and restore. And that means taking responsibility for what people do in buildings and communities after they are built.”<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">by: Greg Searle<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-evident Truths:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 1.</span> Communities are people, not buildings.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 2.</span> Communities will change when the people living in them change.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 3.</span> At least half of human impact on the planet comes from our lifestyles - the choices we make every day. Where, and how, we travel. What we eat. What we wear. The stuff we buy, and how we get rid of that stuff when we're done with it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 4.</span> These lifestyle choices are not made in a vacuum. They are made in communities, and are influenced by community design and buildings.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 5.</span> The way we've designed our cities and buildings in the past has created a template for living that most people follow without much thought, and that template makes it inconvenient to live sustainably.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 6.</span> Those of us who plan, design, finance, insure, build, sell, lease, manage and maintain the places we live in have tremendous influence to change this template, and to make it easier for people to change their lifestyles.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 7.</span> Some of us have been pre-occupied with making buildings, streets, and infrastructure that use building materials, water, and energy in smarter ways. We call ourselves "green professionals". We call our movement the "green building movement." But we now recognize that the biggest problems are fundamentally social ones.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 8.</span> Since buildings and technology represent only half of the problem and half of the solution, clearly the present green building movement doesn't go far enough<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 9.</span> All across our cities, entrepreneurs and environmental groups are emerging with solutions to specific challenges of our unsustainable lifestyles - car-sharing companies, local food advocates, re-use innovators. But most of these green lifestyle initiatives are not joined up with the green building movement, or each other.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">10.</span> We urgently need an umbrella movement that will bring us all together to create and operate truly sustainable communities with intent. The time has come to apply the vast ingenuity of the green building movement to making green lifestyles just as convenient as "grey lifestyles". The time has come to broaden our design teams, to bring green lifestyle experts to the table.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">11. </span>We cannot wait for someone else to bring us all together. We are the ones we have been waiting for.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">in: <a href="http://www.greenmanifesto.org/">The Green Living Manifesto</a><br /><h1 class="entry-header"><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/green-living-manifesto.php" _base_target="_parent"><br /></a></h1></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-42948766621963907612008-04-22T19:13:00.013+01:002008-05-31T20:55:07.970+01:00No dia mundial da Terra...Fica a sugestão...<br /><br /><object height="330" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ObzQOztMaZ4&hl=pt-br"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ObzQOztMaZ4&hl=pt-br" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="330" width="400"></embed></object><br /><br />de uma série épica que celebra o planeta de uma forma nunca antes vista.Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-62247797205719739522008-04-22T18:25:00.005+01:002008-04-22T18:58:44.305+01:00Hipótese de Gaia<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYctpfVf0zydkvSLdAWVZayJs7MIREchgIYWvx5GMmC5bPbd4D1qWagWN5EryyGyF-LmtBIdfp5m7XZb1fSMa6P65vYkLi8_CrLjcWb7bS3GSwr1mWMmiR6z5RoQprPAH3W4ID7k5Nf1W/s1600-h/gaia.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYctpfVf0zydkvSLdAWVZayJs7MIREchgIYWvx5GMmC5bPbd4D1qWagWN5EryyGyF-LmtBIdfp5m7XZb1fSMa6P65vYkLi8_CrLjcWb7bS3GSwr1mWMmiR6z5RoQprPAH3W4ID7k5Nf1W/s400/gaia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192128858977446274" border="0" /></a><br />A Hipótese de Gaia, também denominada como Teoria de Gaia, é uma tese que sustenta que o planeta Terra funciona como um ser vivo, como um gigantesco ecossistema. A hipótese foi apresentada em 1969 pelo investigador britânico James E. Lovelock, e afirma que a biosfera do planeta é capaz de gerar, manter e regular as suas próprias condições do meio-ambiente.<br /><br />Apesar das dificuldades de definição do que é a vida no mundo científico, esta teoria é uma forma de entender o meio onde estamos inseridos. A Terra é uma interacção entre o vivo e o não-vivo.<br /><br />O nome Gaia é uma homenagem à deusa grega Gaia, da Terra. Vista com descrédito pela comunidade científica internacional durante muito tempo, a Teoria de Gaia encontra simpatizantes entre grupos ecológicos, místicos e alguns investigadores e cientistas.<br /><br />No entanto com o fenómeno do aquecimento global e a crise climática no mundo, a hipótese tem ganho, cada vez mais, credibilidade entre cientistas de todo o mundo.<br /><br />Em de 2006. Lovelock afirmou no "The Independent" que "o mundo já ultrapassou o ponto de não retorno quanto às mudanças climáticas e a civilização como a conhecemos dificilmente irá sobreviver".Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-88689863861601216732008-04-21T13:41:00.000+01:002008-04-21T13:45:40.611+01:00Green Typography<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiEwjUsrzchREzW3JhyYvxaFBc3wWA2dHHlVgwzM8-ROU4nRmDoLeirPVz0y-MrOrJZtP_8l85TyZUAbgVTdbkNV0b3NK4kKIMLEtR8LG8VEi9Qwcg2J4QQWBh07POoDZIjEWW8nNQR1Rs/s1600-h/greenissue_title.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiEwjUsrzchREzW3JhyYvxaFBc3wWA2dHHlVgwzM8-ROU4nRmDoLeirPVz0y-MrOrJZtP_8l85TyZUAbgVTdbkNV0b3NK4kKIMLEtR8LG8VEi9Qwcg2J4QQWBh07POoDZIjEWW8nNQR1Rs/s400/greenissue_title.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191678524376683474" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeCaSJbuRZxKFHVIkJczuVqPYAjIQu6HXd6BLwbZpqP-WdVh65U2P-yPSNmsj56ihtUxWqIK6zYhG3FmdPTXOmxecD2nZmxh01Zt26qhYanO86hDc2w54PzGhp0ZJboc0UIX0a_b1ck1Yp/s1600-h/20act-600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeCaSJbuRZxKFHVIkJczuVqPYAjIQu6HXd6BLwbZpqP-WdVh65U2P-yPSNmsj56ihtUxWqIK6zYhG3FmdPTXOmxecD2nZmxh01Zt26qhYanO86hDc2w54PzGhp0ZJboc0UIX0a_b1ck1Yp/s400/20act-600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191678528671650786" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3RVgBHyvxvoRMgqa40A1-u6GqWnHKI3J5mSLRRJ9D5XfJ__mVK2A2yAkYnlF6NOEDe4IkFCC6r9Yd-nxXQVf6Jz4Ob0n081VFqzP2riY9Kn4LJkTpMs8KXYi_0cWGpZFQ3vcDa889fkF/s1600-h/20eat-6002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3RVgBHyvxvoRMgqa40A1-u6GqWnHKI3J5mSLRRJ9D5XfJ__mVK2A2yAkYnlF6NOEDe4IkFCC6r9Yd-nxXQVf6Jz4Ob0n081VFqzP2riY9Kn4LJkTpMs8KXYi_0cWGpZFQ3vcDa889fkF/s400/20eat-6002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191678532966618098" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKvXAgiNStOo7XFVUG03LcIDgpRuWMl1HxBWF2NzZdZDBQ53VHbj7dqodZi3APEKwgXBrozHMuqvOX0MWDc4U0uNzD-2qrm3nGKa5MwQdGz8EsVMMqPWdPPelgcUdAZBWy-nxeYVtM2E1/s1600-h/20move-6001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKvXAgiNStOo7XFVUG03LcIDgpRuWMl1HxBWF2NzZdZDBQ53VHbj7dqodZi3APEKwgXBrozHMuqvOX0MWDc4U0uNzD-2qrm3nGKa5MwQdGz8EsVMMqPWdPPelgcUdAZBWy-nxeYVtM2E1/s400/20move-6001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191678532966618114" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;">by: <a href="http://textiles.ucdavis.edu/laky/gyongy1.0/index.html">Gyongy Laky</a></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-50032172462004734452008-04-14T19:20:00.004+01:002008-04-14T19:33:57.617+01:00Design research, design thinking and imagination: the abilities to imagine and to imageDesign as we know it - “industrial” design - is a relatively young discipline, little more than two hundred years old. The industrial process of design developed to cope with the social and technological changes of the Industrial Revolution. Design as we know it is a corollary of industrial society, industrial technology and the industrial production system.<br /><br />The question we face is how design can be transformed as society and technology transform from industrial to post-industrial forms.<br /><br />There have been different interpretations of the concept of post-industrialism. The differences have tended to polarise between the “info-tech” vision and the “eco-tech” vision. In the former, post-industrialism means a form of hyper-industrial technology, based on the information revolution, automation and highly advanced technology. In the latter, it means a more small-scale, resource-conserving, “convivial” technology. In the former, technology is regarded as an autonomous, science-driven force; in the latter, technology is brought under the influence and control of people and communities.<br /><br />The products and processes of a technology are linked with each other. Pre-industrial technology had its own particular types of products and processes, just as industrial technology can now be seen to have had its own particular types of products and processes. In turn, post-industrial technology will have its particularities which will affect its design processes and the products that stem from it. Perhaps a new paradigm of technology can emerge. Some features of the new technology will be continuations of the old; some will create discontinuities. Some features will be generated by the possibilities of technological development itself, whereas others will be responses to the problems created by that same technological development. <br /><br />Design as it might be - “post-industrial” design - is an issue for design research. Design research is an incredibly young discipline, only about forty years old, but nevertheless having significant influence on design practice and process and having great potential. Design research has a fundamental commitment to interdisciplinarity that will be essential to post-industrial design, and it is establishing a world-wide, international basis of cooperation that will be equally essential.<br /><br />Design research is built around design thinking. Fundamental to design thinking is imagination: the abilities to imagine and to image.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">in:<a href="http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?idEvent=23"> Changing the Change</a> by:<a href="http://design.open.ac.uk/cross/"> Nigel Cross</a><br /></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-36419252246097307772008-04-11T20:29:00.004+01:002008-04-11T20:33:40.421+01:00???<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbyP3fwscG_KoTqS8u_xJiRSNAm-e4wmh3jGVfpdMBNrwV_NDistCym31DsnL3AHSRrNq6p7oQWP21hSqJ0ceowJyn5tKSxFC527Bf1wFzTJsY91dngXDRM79Ii0pDMKw_LgR75X5qyRH/s1600-h/080218armsrace.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbyP3fwscG_KoTqS8u_xJiRSNAm-e4wmh3jGVfpdMBNrwV_NDistCym31DsnL3AHSRrNq6p7oQWP21hSqJ0ceowJyn5tKSxFC527Bf1wFzTJsY91dngXDRM79Ii0pDMKw_LgR75X5qyRH/s400/080218armsrace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188072862321001394" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;">tirado <a href="http://wakeup-smellthecoffee.blogspot.com/">daqui</a><br /></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-20554803151166350852008-04-11T20:16:00.002+01:002008-04-11T20:25:31.409+01:00Design Research builds on the core competence of the Design Culture<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMJD20fLRYAUI1c1Ng95W320CYIzMVR8TCcyB0MqpnoODt-2-md3FhEWdnFE3D6oaua-pXdd3XUsNyLj6AUvRixdNkg4500se6HO3sJgx4tidf5wcJt1lRdxwnBJnedLdSaWEbAFm6sNf/s1600-h/f989c506a6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMJD20fLRYAUI1c1Ng95W320CYIzMVR8TCcyB0MqpnoODt-2-md3FhEWdnFE3D6oaua-pXdd3XUsNyLj6AUvRixdNkg4500se6HO3sJgx4tidf5wcJt1lRdxwnBJnedLdSaWEbAFm6sNf/s200/f989c506a6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188070667592713106" border="0" /></a><br />"Any economy that intends to maintain its sustainability in time needs to explore, on a continuous base, scenarios and hypotheses for constant improvements and advance.<br />All stakeholders of an economic system need to devote attention and resources to innovate and create the conditions for their sustainable profitability while creating recurrent improvement of the quality of life.<br /><br />This challenge is common to all type of economies in all geographical location. Micro and macro economies, all together concur to form an interdependent global economic system always in search of balance and sustainability.<br /><br />In this environment “innovation” is an imperative, and all the stakeholders in the economic system are in search and in demand of innovation.<br /><br />The challenge is the one to qualify innovation and rank it on a model that indicate it social nature and its social economic impact. This new model is relevant to redefine long term strategies and frame short term investment roadmaps.<br /><br />To support the strategic process of testing options that optimize the balance and the coherent fit between short term innovative solutions and long term vision and direction it is relevant to develop and adopt new methods of research for innovation that fast, effective and economic.<br /><br />Design research methods represents to day one of the new answers to this need. Influential Business magazines such as Fortune, Time, Business Week, Fast Company devote more attention to it disseminating the experiences and promoting its adoption.<br />Philips Design has pioneered in this field during the last two decades and has demonstrated , with the support of business consulting companies such as Mc Kinsey and Kaiser, how Design Research provide speed and focused effectiveness.<br /><br />Design has it foundation in a techno-humanistic culture and performs its creativity interfacing connecting and integrating society, end user, technology and economy.<br />Autonomous fields of research such as societal foresight, Business spaces, Industry development and technology development and innovation are taken therefore in an accelerated integration by Design Research maximizing time and investments effectiveness. But even more important than this, Design Research builds on the core competence of the Design Culture providing tangible options for solutions and innovation that maximize end user, societal and customer centric effectiveness and are easier to be validated because of their articulated, visual and understandable representation."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">by:<a href="http://en.red-dot.org/2397.html"> Stefano Marzano</a><br /></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-89295226578575092422008-03-26T20:55:00.003+00:002008-03-26T20:56:53.656+00:00TIBETE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfUv7J7CGJqG3CZtbP8d6B0ZvH69oPkPXsDSCP6gk387rY3VgWyERkVEajZShPINlum-zDkXfgt9AJ-jQwNKyp4OlJsLz5Qn7NJDFWNppoj9IPyyF1r0OCpfuo5u52SBfzu6vKzwyJF7r/s1600-h/JO_Pekin_eng.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfUv7J7CGJqG3CZtbP8d6B0ZvH69oPkPXsDSCP6gk387rY3VgWyERkVEajZShPINlum-zDkXfgt9AJ-jQwNKyp4OlJsLz5Qn7NJDFWNppoj9IPyyF1r0OCpfuo5u52SBfzu6vKzwyJF7r/s400/JO_Pekin_eng.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182156979838753218" border="0" /></a>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-83701559766845418012008-03-22T22:03:00.004+00:002008-03-22T22:10:38.469+00:00CGD - Boas práticas de eficiência energética<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmBhieVDSfE6QbYNA7uJcE-gLYK0dfhO07yqOZpmw45eSXt9PPPOiOEzarZTHhfaJyLAvn2iJPNT9LDrgxs_6fcvKUbid3DhIhsyUeKh83mhJByDb0Sy8XQu18Mm3GZlFkA6RXzGq2iH-H/s1600-h/central.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180691339428862386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmBhieVDSfE6QbYNA7uJcE-gLYK0dfhO07yqOZpmw45eSXt9PPPOiOEzarZTHhfaJyLAvn2iJPNT9LDrgxs_6fcvKUbid3DhIhsyUeKh83mhJByDb0Sy8XQu18Mm3GZlFkA6RXzGq2iH-H/s400/central.gif" border="0" /></a><br />No âmbito do programa estratégico da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, o Caixa Carbono Zero 2010, foi instalada uma central solar, a maior do país, no Edifício Sede da Caixa, com o objectivo de abastecer o edifício numa óptica de boas práticas de eficiência energética.<br /><br />Com a instalação destes 1600m2 de paineis solares, a Caixa evita a emissão de 1.700 toneladas de CO2 por ano, poupa a electricidade equivalente ao consumo anual de 2.000 pessoas e preserva anualmente o oxigénio libertado por 170.000 árvores.<br /><br /><div align="right">in: <a href="http://oplanetaagradece.blogs.sapo.pt/">O Planeta Agradece<br /></a></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-30940712753694568342008-03-22T13:20:00.006+00:002008-03-22T13:30:15.157+00:00Future by Design - A film about the work of Jacque Fresco<p><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FKq3OOY4POw&hl=pt-br"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FKq3OOY4POw&hl=pt-br" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/">Future by Design</a> é um documentário sobre os conceitos e desenhos de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque_Fresco">Jacque Fresco</a>, um futurista, designer e engenheiro social, considerado por muitos o Da Vinci moderno, um estudioso de vários campos e um inventor. Jacque Fresco, hoje com 90 anos, passou toda a sua vida a criar invenções a várias escalas através do uso de tecnologias inovadoras.</p><p>Responsável pelo projecto <a href="http://www.thevenusproject.com/">“The Venus Project- redesign of a culture”</a> trabalha para integrar a ciência e tecnologia num plano para uma nova sociedade, baseada em preocupações humanas e ecológicas. </p><p></p>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-55768013429876623502008-03-21T23:03:00.007+00:002008-03-22T00:06:27.544+00:00Frases do dia -21 de Março de 2008<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_nqzbTGfLiAjhtRc8osFO2rtNU1EuPkkJYhg2vlvBrK5Iulos-SV-KMIl2U8DKUuSxfEHpUDXK1XgAN81EI8dA0XeRhwuMo95p3x0SVmmYdbdiXM2djX_UWqbM1xHrCXcsoAd1gXnUBE/s1600-h/fritz2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180346406310353298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 206px" height="217" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_nqzbTGfLiAjhtRc8osFO2rtNU1EuPkkJYhg2vlvBrK5Iulos-SV-KMIl2U8DKUuSxfEHpUDXK1XgAN81EI8dA0XeRhwuMo95p3x0SVmmYdbdiXM2djX_UWqbM1xHrCXcsoAd1gXnUBE/s400/fritz2.jpg" width="161" border="0" /></a> "... the Buddhist economist would insist that a population basing its economic life on non-renewable fuels is living parasitically, on capital instead of income. Such a way of life could have no permanence and could therefore be justified only as a purely temporary expedient. As the world's resource of non-renewable fuels--coal, oil, and natural gas--are exceedingly unevenly distributed over the globe and undoubtedly limited in quantity, it is clear that their exploitation at an ever-increasing rate is an act of violence against nature which must almost inevitably lead to violence between men."<br /><br />"The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed .<br /><br />"Any fool can make things complicated, but it requires a genius to make things simple."<span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="right">by: E.F. Schumacher, autor de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_is_Beautiful">Small is Beautiful, Economics as if People Mattered </a></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-73997663668258836062008-03-20T11:48:00.010+00:002008-04-14T19:17:04.071+01:00AQUAOVO<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kPakjIENge2jqY1jaqLpcsGModlNR8QO6kr8PGv6AwwbwQCUKtpO1gajmAGTicps-RJc2zaHV3B6BTfDvDaYwdWWay_TA02dHf4W3gK8NRl5wfDRNHz9pkF5RV3SS0b7h1XvdTN41Nzo/s1600-h/aquaovo_ovopur_water.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179795709898627458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kPakjIENge2jqY1jaqLpcsGModlNR8QO6kr8PGv6AwwbwQCUKtpO1gajmAGTicps-RJc2zaHV3B6BTfDvDaYwdWWay_TA02dHf4W3gK8NRl5wfDRNHz9pkF5RV3SS0b7h1XvdTN41Nzo/s400/aquaovo_ovopur_water.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Com o formato de um ovo o AQUAOVO é um reservatório de água para consumo. O dispositivo tem uma capacidade de 11 litros e é ambientalmente eficaz por várias razões:<br />1) Não consome electricidade, utilizando a gravidade para filtrar e revitalizar a água estagnada.<br />2) Os materiais utilizados para a sua produção são a cerâmica, vidro e metal<br />3) Contém um filtro multi camadas que é reutilizável e os seus materiais são 100% recicláveis. O filtro é uma combinação de KDF 55 (sem aditivos químicos), carvão activado, biocerâmica micro porosa e cristais de quartzo.<br />4)<strong><span style="color:#458B00;"> Promove a redução do consumo de água engarrafada.</span></strong><br /><br />A água engarrafada, bebida cujo consumo mais cresce no mundo, tem um alto custo ambiental, por acumular plástico em depósitos e exercer pressão sobre as fontes hídricas.<br />A água engarrafada torna-se excessivamente cara em termos ambientais e económicos.<br />Enquanto nos países desenvolvidos se compra água engarrafada por causa da segurança, limpeza, gosto e status, mais de 1 bilião de pessoas em países pobres não têm acesso a água potável, seja ela engarrafada ou não.<br /><br />Além do custo energético de produzir, engarrafar, empacotar, armazenar e transportar a água, também há o custo ambiental de milhões de toneladas de plástico derivado de petróleo. A maior parte da água é ainda embalada no material plástico conhecido por PET, que exige menos energia para reciclar e não liberta cloro na atmosfera quando é queimado. No entanto as taxas de reciclagem têm vindo a diminuir: cerca de 23,1% das garrafas PET de água foram recicladas nos Estados Unidos em 2005; dez anos antes, haviam sido recicladas 39,7%.<br /><br />"A indústria de bebidas beneficia ao máximo da nossa obsessão por água engarrafada", refere Ling Li, no relatório que escreveu para o Worldwatch Institute sobre os impactes na sociedade do consumo de água engarrafada. "Mas isso não serve de nada para o incrível número de pobres do mundo que vêem a água potável segura como na melhor das hipóteses um luxo, e na pior uma meta inalcançável."<br /><br />A água engarrafada custa entre 240 e 10 mil vezes mais do que a água de torneira. <br /><br />Por este e por todos os outros motivos o AQUAOVO e um aparelho elegante que se pode revelar altamente eficaz em escritórios quer a nivel da sua performance como produto quer pelo seu poder em contribuir para a alteração de hábitos de consumo. <br /></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-44092151018023247842008-03-20T11:32:00.002+00:002008-03-20T11:38:44.714+00:00Cultivos urbanos<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcDOm6_euyfyftx6De7TLL65ESjIw28R57Ift9JeszMsi8ClY-YqpAeui6lkHZUHoJqWVt80e8JP3FUsShxMoan6wmAPzapszr0JdSKir2ZoEnmhC9ChrwLDF37qmzslj8tzzYM4jUN1rl/s1600-h/07.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179786441359202658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="165" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcDOm6_euyfyftx6De7TLL65ESjIw28R57Ift9JeszMsi8ClY-YqpAeui6lkHZUHoJqWVt80e8JP3FUsShxMoan6wmAPzapszr0JdSKir2ZoEnmhC9ChrwLDF37qmzslj8tzzYM4jUN1rl/s400/07.jpg" width="432" border="0" /></a><br />"A equipa formada por Camilo Vaz, Marlene dos Santos e Bruno Oliveira constituiu a única participação portuguesa a vencer um primeiro prémio em território estrangeiro no concurso internacional de ideias <a href="http://www.europan-europe.com/e9/gb/home/home.php">Europan 9</a>. A sua proposta, intitulada "Cultivos Urbanos", incidiu sobre uma área situada em Poïo, nos arredores da cidade de Pontevedra, capital da província com o mesmo nome da comunidade autónoma da Galiza.<br /><div></div><br /><div>A mais recente edição do Europan teve como temas a “Urbanidade Europeia, Cidade Sustentável e Novos Espaços Públicos”. Ao todo estiveram propostas a concurso 73 cidades distribuídas por 22 países europeus. Trata-se da mais vasta competição de arquitectura da Europa, sendo dirigida a profissionais com idade inferior a 40 anos. Os vencedores têm a oportunidade de tornar a sua visão em realidade, trabalhando numa fase posterior com os promotores de cada uma das intervenções apresentadas."</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Ver o resto do artigo, incluindo uma explicação do projecto e entrevista com os autores <a href="http://abarrigadeumarquitecto.blogspot.com/">aqui</a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div align="right">tirado de: <a href="http://abarrigadeumarquitecto.blogspot.com/">A barriga de um arquitecto</a></div><div align="right"> </div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-63464357148940203782008-03-18T19:26:00.000+00:002008-03-18T19:27:12.910+00:00...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaU9McCbCdVqir3xfdzkp07qCfjl8-b1tiDFCCTcOfzGeR_OW-7bF3j-s6na0UFyLPz8PQun1Ul75JYb5AydT-7wC60fkI_JOpq_PIsRVmjejKnr5-u0rlKx25YdJPl5LGza3Zzjy8pQj1/s1600-h/making-ethanol-cartoon.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaU9McCbCdVqir3xfdzkp07qCfjl8-b1tiDFCCTcOfzGeR_OW-7bF3j-s6na0UFyLPz8PQun1Ul75JYb5AydT-7wC60fkI_JOpq_PIsRVmjejKnr5-u0rlKx25YdJPl5LGza3Zzjy8pQj1/s400/making-ethanol-cartoon.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179165389931060482" border="0" /></a>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-56739389373961616102008-03-16T16:52:00.005+00:002008-03-16T18:05:36.723+00:00Thoughts ...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoGxohbrSHPocxL3ePryEl602ykiPq6FHkD-Lbg3GOByEUG9FwvdXA6L3rARqlNBC7-csECLykW-HZc700L1O47LNNTo6bFe_GXF-2jZA6JKO8yCgM27oERQkcGWyDmQKu2aEZqP8lqEO/s1600-h/hands-on-world.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoGxohbrSHPocxL3ePryEl602ykiPq6FHkD-Lbg3GOByEUG9FwvdXA6L3rARqlNBC7-csECLykW-HZc700L1O47LNNTo6bFe_GXF-2jZA6JKO8yCgM27oERQkcGWyDmQKu2aEZqP8lqEO/s400/hands-on-world.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178400941586947314" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">"All of these changes are leading us to an inevitable conclusion, a place we must go, if we can - a place that promises peace and prosperity within a sustainable future."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">"If we are to survive as a life form on the planet, at more or less the scale of our present occupation, there is no other way. <span style="color: #458B00; font-weight: bold;">Collectively, we must come to the realization that there is no exterior to our ecology</span><span style="color: #458B00;">.</span> There is only one environment and everything is entered on the balance sheet. Every positive. Every negative. Everything counts. <span style="color: #458B00; font-weight: bold;">There can only be true prosperity if it is global prosperity, and we can only count our wealth in peace when we count it together."</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">"The good news is evidence all around us that not only are we as a global culture commited to Arnold Toynbee's vision, but we are actually pushing beyond the human race in our consideration to imagine the welfare of all life on earth as practical objective. In the words of John Cage <span style="color: #458B00; font-weight: bold;">"the world is getting better, s-l-o-w-l-y."</span>"<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;">in: Massive Change - <a href="http://www.brucemaudesign.com/">Bruce Mau</a> and the <a href="http://www.institutewithoutboundaries.com/">Institute without Boundaries</a><br /></div>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-25096462513684874422008-03-16T16:20:00.010+00:002008-04-14T19:17:34.064+01:00Pilhas USB<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOVe_o024v91h0drC5fVVCqWeHAPJHPyDGSdQY2uvsBytKX9rkGrGgiHd9_6BNknJ46IZmpj7_ycYKFYd0EzteirPny_YvOXwpfDIKRpvOqrRY7O0txgkhBRo6oiW7AC44Uco7jD8tYTw/s1600-h/2_USBCELL_rechargeable_AA+Batteries_charging_in_Laptop-72dpi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOVe_o024v91h0drC5fVVCqWeHAPJHPyDGSdQY2uvsBytKX9rkGrGgiHd9_6BNknJ46IZmpj7_ycYKFYd0EzteirPny_YvOXwpfDIKRpvOqrRY7O0txgkhBRo6oiW7AC44Uco7jD8tYTw/s320/2_USBCELL_rechargeable_AA+Batteries_charging_in_Laptop-72dpi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178381725903264978" border="0" /></a><br />Usadas em diversos aparelhos electrónicos que fazem parte do dia-a-dia, as pilhas e baterias podem representar um problema ambiental que afecta a todos, directa ou indirectamente, devido aos metais tóxicos envolvidos no seu fabrico. Estes problemas podem ser minimizados se o consumidor tomar consciência da melhor forma de adquirir, usar e descartar estes produtos.<br /><br />Recentemente surgiram no mercado as pilhas recarregáveis nas portas USB dos computadores enquanto os mesmos estão a trabalhar.<br /><!-- end st_tag_br --><!-- begin st_tag_br --> Esta é a nova proposta que pode revolucionar o mercado destes componentes, com redução significativa dos gastos, quer económicos, quer energéticos.<br /><br /><!-- end st_tag_br --><!-- begin st_tag_br --> As pilhas USB têm uma funcionalidade muito idêntica à de uma pendrive. Abre-se uma tampa e descobre-se a conexão USB.<br /><br /><!-- end st_tag_br --> Depois, basta ligar as pilhas ao computador via USB e esperar cinco horas até que carreguem por completo, um processo que pode ser repetido 500 vezes.Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866010199740318070.post-20709068890023927992008-03-09T17:11:00.015+00:002008-03-09T19:08:00.245+00:00Butão: da Idade Média para o século 21 sem perder o equilíbrio?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOLsqAme2l49YZ2lNNinJTrSx_tyo0ZvO-FI6Hm8uX9uAxakO7YJm8IdUmut2Y1BiHlT15jgEsEgFWDMvLsab4xuwqGE1trfjy2U6uIAwOu5RWE6YEtvkjrFA6bidjyFRpYKVATqtPMehl/s1600-h/ed96_butao_02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOLsqAme2l49YZ2lNNinJTrSx_tyo0ZvO-FI6Hm8uX9uAxakO7YJm8IdUmut2Y1BiHlT15jgEsEgFWDMvLsab4xuwqGE1trfjy2U6uIAwOu5RWE6YEtvkjrFA6bidjyFRpYKVATqtPMehl/s400/ed96_butao_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175799913687456882" border="0" /></a><br />"Quando o rei Jigme Singye Wangchuck ascendeu ao trono, em 1972, o Butão estava entre os países com os mais altos índices de pobreza, analfabetismo e mortalidade infantil - um legado da política de isolamento. "Pagamos um preço alto", diria mais tarde o rei. Seu pai, o terceiro rei do Butão, começara a abrir o país na década de 60, construindo estradas, escolas e clínicas, empenhando-se na admissão do Butão nas Nações Unidas. O rei Wangchuck iria muito além. Com a autoconfiança de um governante cujo país nunca fora conquistado, ele tentou ditar as condições para a abertura do Butão e, no processo, redefinir o próprio significado de desenvolvimento. <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">E cunhou uma expressão para descrever seu objectivo: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 139, 0);">Felicidade Nacional Bruta</span>.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Para muitos butaneses, esta idéia não é uma mera ferramenta de marketing ou utopia filosófica</span>.<span style="color: rgb(69, 139, 0);">É uma diretriz de sobrevivência</span>.</p><p> Guiado pelos <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(69, 139, 0);">"quatro pilares da Felicidade Nacional Bruta" - desenvolvimento</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(69, 139, 0);"> sustentável, protecção do meio ambiente, preservação da cultura e bom governo </span>-, o Butão arrancou-se da pobreza esmagadora sem explorar seus recursos naturais (com excepção da energia hidroeléctrica, vendida à Índia como principal fonte de receitas externas). Quase três quartos do país ainda são cobertos por florestas, com mais de 25% delas - uma das mais altas porcentagens do mundo - demarcadas como parques nacionais e outras áreas protegidas.<br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZdKYocHIFj4GEorzspTbuY-Clt9D-W12GQ34Vyyy_E8ONckCPG8tsKoGhB_tpSEYDgqMu1zkCU7W5zwD-MoNc0aR_SkhYiPDrY6-sg-fQaICM0OvNcL5z8MWelZvei44t8U5KnX24D70/s1600-h/ed96_butao_18.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZdKYocHIFj4GEorzspTbuY-Clt9D-W12GQ34Vyyy_E8ONckCPG8tsKoGhB_tpSEYDgqMu1zkCU7W5zwD-MoNc0aR_SkhYiPDrY6-sg-fQaICM0OvNcL5z8MWelZvei44t8U5KnX24D70/s200/ed96_butao_18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175798165635767330" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwDGvmFW4rkE1a1tNLUtwZ-Onh1nCmA_AfwlDZK-2WSuqOtYFH3TlC6zGXJV8_ENQcFbApnBjAwimwXngdIOHawo-pX9g_2j4KgTdcM3GpCTdFoqKokxaeSd-JwIfh2pzMrM2m0g2byrju/s1600-h/ed96_butao_08.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwDGvmFW4rkE1a1tNLUtwZ-Onh1nCmA_AfwlDZK-2WSuqOtYFH3TlC6zGXJV8_ENQcFbApnBjAwimwXngdIOHawo-pX9g_2j4KgTdcM3GpCTdFoqKokxaeSd-JwIfh2pzMrM2m0g2byrju/s200/ed96_butao_08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175798414743870514" border="0" /></a><br /></p><p>Os índices de analfabetismo e mortalidade infantil diminuiram, e a economia vai de vento em popa. Também o turismo cresce, embora rigorosos limites à construção e uma taxa diária de até 240 dólares cobrada a cada visitante afugentam a onda de mochileiros que invadiu o Nepal.<br /></p><p>Às vésperas do novo milênio, em 1999, o Butão deu aos seus cidadãos o acesso à televisão. Foi o último país do planeta a fazê-lo. A internet entrou timidamente nesse mesmo ano. Uma euforia tomou conta das cidades butanesas quando o mundo exterior em toda a sua espalhafatosa glória surgiu em lojas e salas de estar.<br /></p><p>Mas destapar a caixa de Pandora gerou preocupação. Afinal, o que acontece quando uma sociedade isolada e conservadora é subitamente exposta ao<em> rapper</em> 50 Cent e à Federação Mundial de Luta Livre? Tais questões têm peso extra quando se trata de uma nação vulnerável de 635 mil habitantes, metade deles com menos de 22 anos.</p>E, então, chegou a hora do ousado ponto alto do experimentação modernizante do Butão: mudar para a democracia. Nunca na história, dizem as autoridades butanesas, nenhum monarca benquisto abdicara do trono para entregar o poder ao povo. Mas, em 2006, foi o que fez o rei Jigme Singye Wangchuck, gerando singular convergência de eventos para 2008: uma coroação (o quarto rei entrega a coroa do corvo a seu filho, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, de 28 anos, que será um monarca constitucional), a celebração de um centenário (o 100o aniversário do monarca foi em 2007, mas um astrólogo real declarou o ano seguinte mais auspicioso) e, o mais importante, a formação, em meados do ano, do primeiro governo democrático do país.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(69, 139, 0);">Assim, o verdadeiro teste da Felicidade Nacional Bruta está apenas a começar</span>. Os novos líderes civis do Butão terão de enfrentar uma avalanche de mudanças. Dentre elas, nada menos que um público ainda enamorado pelos seus reis e céptico quanto à democracia.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 139, 0);">O mundo observa e pergunta se esta nação, outrora tão esquecida, poderia ajudar a responder a algumas das mais inquietantes questões da humanidade: como pode uma sociedade manter a sua identidade face ás homogeneizantes forças da globalização? Como adoptar as coisas boas do mundo moderno sem ser vitimado pelas más? E poderá existir algum equilíbrio benéfico entre tradição e desenvolvimento?"</span><br /><br /></span>Ler o resto do artigo em :<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://viajeaqui.abril.com.br/ng/materias/ng_materia_270793.shtml">National Geographic "O Iluminado caminho do butão"</a><br /><br /></span>Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591251468012696564noreply@blogger.com0