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Datestamp: April 23rd, 2007
Archive for April, 2007
buzztracker - news mapping
Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations appearing in global news coverage.
Buzztracker tries to show you how interconnected the world is: big events in one area ripple to other areas across the globe. Connections between cities thousands of miles apart become apparent at a glance.
Buzztracker currently only tracks English-language news sources.
Datestamp: April 23rd, 2007
Lower East Side Ecology: E-waste
NYC Dept of Sanitation Electronics Recycling & Clothing Donation Event
Sunday, April 22, 2007 8 am - 2pm
Union Square, North Plaza - southeast corner of 17th Street & Broadway
As part of their Spring Cleaning Events the NYC Department of Sanitation/Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling is sponsoring and organizing an electronics recycling & clothing donation event in Manhattan with assistance from the Lower East Side EcologyCenter and Goodwill Industries, and additional support from Con Edison. For details on what to bring and more, click here!
Datestamp: April 21st, 2007
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Act Now to Stop Gun Violence
How many deaths and injuries must we endure before our nation’s elected officials act to end gun violence? We must ask our leaders: “What are you going to do about it?” What are you going to do to make our schools, workplaces, and communities safe from gun violence?
President George W. Bush said yesterday that schools should be a place of “safety and sanctuary for every student,” but he and other national leaders do nothing to ensure that safety. They provide condolences, and then do nothing to stop future tragedies.
Datestamp: April 17th, 2007
Google Earth goes Political
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled content—photographs, data, and eyewitness testimony—from a number of sources that are brought together for the first time in Google Earth.
Datestamp: April 17th, 2007
Light Wind and Lace Fence
light wind
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An outside lamp drawn from our home surroundings. The gently sweeping Dutch windmills were actually perfect generators of their own. With that in mind, we made this lamp. With every breeze it stores energy, enough to enjoy every summerevening untill
forever. Contemporary vs traditional, art vs functionality.
Shaped by its function the big prop spans over one meter on each side. It is a self supporting light source that marks the landscape.
Lace Fence
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Industrial production is for us a big source of inspiration. The Big Miracle of how some products come about is a beautiful phenomenon if you look at it closely. In our projects we often combine the sensitive and the small with the powerful, large and industrial.
The LaceFence project translates that line of thinking. Fencing is a sign how we modified and cultivated our environment. Like brambles fences are rising rampantly around us. What would happen if a patch of embroided wire would meet with and continue as an industrial fence. Hostility versus kindness, industrial versus craft.
Datestamp: April 15th, 2007
Court Backs Environmentalists, EPA needs to Clean Up
Court Backs Environmentalists on Power Plant Cleanup - New York Times
Court says that the Clean Air Act expressly authorizes the E.P.A. to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, contrary to the E.P.A.’s contention.
The court had three questions before it. Do states have the right to sue the EPA to challenge its decision? Does the Clean Air Act give EPA the authority to regulate tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases? Does EPA have the discretion not to regulate those emissions?
The court said yes to the first two questions. On the third, it ordered EPA to re-evaluate its contention it has the discretion not to regulate tailpipe emissions. The court said the agency has so far provided a ”laundry list” of reasons that include foreign policy considerations.
Datestamp: April 2nd, 2007
