Jun 26, 2015
Allegra Fuller Synder Talk at the 2015 IX Symposium
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: architecture, chemistry, education, engineering, nanotechnology, science, sustainability
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Jun 19, 2015
Buckminster Fuller Institute Launches Online Dymaxion Reading Group for Summer 2015
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: education, sustainability
“BFI is thrilled to announce the launch of our web-based Dymaxion Reading Group; participants will discuss text about, by, or related to Buckminster Fuller, facilitated by experts and guests from our network. … We are launching the program with Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, gathering for discussions online starting the first week in July as part of the ongoing celebration of the anniversary of Bucky’s 120th birthday.
Initially published in 1969, and one of Buckminster Fuller’s most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is a brilliant synthesis of his world view and a great introduction to his ideas. In this volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity, and the principles for avoiding extinction and “exercising our option to make it.” How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future.”
Jun 16, 2015
Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man By Tim Urban | Wait But Why
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, energy, engineering, solar power, space travel, sustainability, transportation
Tim Urban, of Wait But Why, recently received a phone call from Elon Musk’s staff asking if he would like to write about the automotive, aerospace, and solar power industries through personal interviews with Elon Musk and his teams. Tim Urban said yes, and the first three of essays / articles are already posted on his site.
Jun 15, 2015
SpaceX just launched a Hyperloop pod-racing competition By Sean O’Kane | The Verge
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, sustainability, transportation
“SpaceX just announced an official contest open to university students and independent engineering teams. The company will release detailed rules, criteria, and tube specifications in August. … The challenge will be to build “human-scale pods” to be tested on the Hawthorne, California test track that will be built next to the SpaceX headquarters, but the company is careful to note that no humans will ride in the pods. All the designs submitted must be open source.”
Jun 15, 2015
Smart urban planning in Amsterdam — Feargus O’Sullivan | CityLab
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: architecture, economics, energy, engineering, environmental, government, materials, policy, science, sustainability
“Instead of treating Amsterdam as complete and starting again elsewhere, the IJburg plan has managed to find more space in a city that thought it had no more left.”
Jun 8, 2015
NASA is investing in eco-friendly supersonic airplane travel — By Mike Murphy | Quartz
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, environmental, government, science, sustainability
NASA said that if all goes to plan with these studies, it sees the first business-jet-sized supersonic planes going into production by 2025, and commercial planes by 2030.
Jun 1, 2015
New design ideas to avoid wasting marble — Via Abitare
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: architecture, environmental, materials, sustainability
Vasi disegnati da Paolo Ulian per Bufalini Marmi con la texture Pixel
May 28, 2015
New Wind Turbine Generates Electricity Without Rotating Blades
Posted by Jeremy Lichtman in category: sustainability
I just wrote a story about something like this back in December. Usually takes slightly longer for science fiction to become science fact.
