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LOOK: On the Road with Ethos Alliance

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on November 16, 2009 at 5:44 pm

LOOK: On the Road with Ethos Alliance

One of the worst environmental disasters in history, the “Amazon Chernobyl” refers to the roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil and the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water that have leaked and spilled since Chevron-Texaco began excavating in the northeast region of Ecuador nearly three decades ago. For the region’s 30,000 indigenous residents, daily life is a humanitarian calamity, as tarnished water renders agriculture all but impossible, and chronic health problems are rampant and…

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  • Categories: Environment , Media
  • Tags: 30 Days , Crude , Ecuador , Environment , Ethos Alliance , Media
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LOOK: Cartography of the Strange

  • Posted by: Morgan Clendaniel
  • on October 28, 2009 at 11:00 am

LOOK: Cartography of the Strange

At its most basic level, the map is a utilitarian device that clearly explains a given geography. At its most adventurous, the map embodies our innately human desire to know what is over the next hill, and the hill after that one, and it tells the stories of how we relate to each other. In that spirit, cartographers both amateur and professional have been embellishing the form over the years, creating all varieties of interesting, artistic,…

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  • Categories: Design , Environment
  • Tags: books , Map , Strange Maps
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LOOK: To Share and Share Alike

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on October 12, 2009 at 4:33 pm

LOOK: To Share and Share Alike

If you have some grass in your front yard, a lawnmower is a valuable asset—you know, for the five to 10 minutes of actual clipping it does during a two-week span. During the remaining 20,150 minutes of that time frame, however, the thing simply takes up space in the garage. And over the years, those minutes add up to quite a lot of non-usage. Meanwhile, your mower-less neighbors are fretting about the jungles of grass in…

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  • Tags: los angeles , Neighborgoods , sharing
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LOOK: The Age of Stupid

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on September 21, 2009 at 12:51 pm

LOOK: The Age of Stupid

The year is 2055, and climate change has wreaked havoc on the Earth and its peoples. One surviving man, an archivist played by Pete Postlethwaite, combs through a series of documentary footage from 2008: Iraqi refugee children in search of their lost brother, a wind-farm developer embroiled in a fight against an anti-wind power lobby in England, a young medical student in a poor village in Nigeria who aspires to American-style wealth and mobility. As he…

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  • Tags: Documentaries , film
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LOOK: Nek Chand’s Rock Garden

  • Posted by: Jen Swanson
  • on September 15, 2009 at 10:59 am

LOOK: Nek Chand’s Rock Garden

Art takes many forms, but often, the media remain the same. Not so in Chandigarh, India, where an unlikely artist, 82-year-old Nek Chand, uses the earth itself to forge his masterpiece. His Rock Garden is a 25-acre maze of mosaic pathways, waterfalls, and hidden chambers that’s home to thousands of surreal human and animal figurines. The garden is constructed entirely of industrial waste, organic materials, and other recycled items, making it one of Asia’s largest recycling…

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  • Tags: Chandigarh , India
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LOOK: The Plantagon Greenhouse

  • Posted by: Michelle No
  • on August 31, 2009 at 7:00 am

LOOK: The Plantagon Greenhouse

By year 2050, the global population is expected to reach 9 billion, 80 percent of which is projected to live in cities. Currently, most local supermarkets rely on stocking practices that, when applied to dense populations, add unnecessary costs to the average city household’s food budget. Transported from locations often hundreds or thousands of miles away, fruits and vegetables incur transportation, storage, and handling costs that amount to 70 percent of the goods’ final retail price.

Such…

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  • Tags: Cities , stockholm , Sweden
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LOOK: PACT Sustainable Underwear

  • Posted by: Adam Starr
  • on August 24, 2009 at 4:40 pm

LOOK: PACT Sustainable Underwear

Change your underwear—change the world. That’s the idea behind PACT, an apparel company tailored for people who want something more sustainable in their shorts. Launched in 2009, PACT sells premium men’s and women’s underwear online—but their mission goes beyond your boxers. PACT Donates 10 percent of its sales to nonprofit organizations, sources its material from a sustainable supply chain, and uses its underwear as a blank canvas for artists and designers.

PACT’s founders, Jeff Denby and…

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LOOK: The Bicycle Film Festival

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on August 18, 2009 at 3:05 pm

LOOK: The Bicycle Film Festival

About a decade ago, Brendt Barbur was riding his bicycle on 3rd Avenue in New York City when he was struck by a bus. Noting that the incident was “kind of negative” and “obviously not a fun experience,” it nonetheless inspired him to endeavor toward something positive. But where many a civic-minded bike enthusiast might have been moved to don a suit and clamor about city hall, Barbur took a different route: he founded a…

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LOOK: SunFlowers, An Electric Garden

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on August 10, 2009 at 4:39 pm

LOOK: SunFlowers, An Electric Garden

After Austin’s Robert Mueller Airport moved across town in 1999, the old 711-acre site was slated for a complete overhaul. Based on principles of New Urbanism, the Mueller development would eventually house some 10,000 people while safe-guarding 140 acres for parks and greenbelts and meeting a number of aesthetic and environmental conditions. For instance, in order for a large retail lot to receive a green light therein, the city required that developers mask an unsightly expanse of…

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LOOK: Lanefab Microhousing

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on August 3, 2009 at 5:14 pm

LOOK: Lanefab Microhousing

Neighborhoods in Vancouver tend to facilitate walking, biking, and public transit with greater ease than the the vast majority of U.S. cities and suburbs, but they also happen to be comprised of systems of laneways, or alleyways, which connect houses to their garages and parking spots. The resulting configuration means that a good deal of the city’s most desirable real estate is being used to house cars, rather than people.

That could change, however, as the combination…

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