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Sepp Hasslberger: 3D Design and Print of a Customized Solar Home

Video, 7:53.  Produces 150% of the energy it consumes.  Surplus can go into your car or to a less well-endowed neighbor. Solar House 2.0, erected this year on Barcelona’s waterfront, uses time-tested passive solar techniques, but it takes a high-tech leap forward using digital design and digital fabrication techniques to make it completely optimized for …

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Review: Designing a World that Works For All: Solutions & Strategies for Meeting the World’s Needs

Medard Gabel 5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary Sequel, Second Book in Series,October 30, 2012 This is the second book in the series, the first was Designing a World That Works for All: How the Youth of the World are Creating Real-World Solutions for the UN Millenium Development Goals and Beyond. They are different books, …

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Yoda: Public Interest Design – Isn’t That What Governments Do?

Must-See Public Interest Design Tim Brown, October 9, 2012 A show curated by John Cary of Public Interest Design has just opened in San Francisco at the Autodesk Gallery. It is a must if you are interested in design and the social sector. The exhibit features many of the organizations that contributed to the design labs at …

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SmartPlanet: Designing Grid for Renewables – And Why Nuclear Does Not Adapt

Designing the grid for renewables By Chris Nelder | October 3, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT Americans have been repeatedly told a series of lies about accommodating renewables onto the power grid: That it can’t handle large amounts of intermittent power generation. That standby fossil-fueled capacity must be maintained at 100 percent of demand for those …

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SmartPlanet: Design of Cities Matters — Cuts Emissions!

Building walkable cities cuts emissions more than fuel taxes, study says New Urbanists have advocated walkable cities and shorter commutes for years. But does investing in this approach — what behavioral economists call “smart growth” — simply look good on paper, or does it produce tangible results? It does, according to a new study published …

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NIGHTWATCH: Libyan Collaborators with USA Compromised – Embassy Breach, Captured Laptop(s) – Ambassador dies from smoke inhalation in an improperly designed “safe room”

US-Libya: Update: The British news outlet, The Independent, today published a detailed list of the extent of the security disaster in Benghazi, which goes beyond the tragic murders. According to The Independent, laptops were stolen that contain lists of Libyans who cooperate with the Americans, classified papers were taken and classified data was compromised. NightWatch …

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Search: design philosophy politics

This is an important search and made multiple times.  Whoever is thinking about this, consider getting in touch with Robert Steele, this is something he is thinking about right now, defining the future of Public Administration transformed into Public Governance and no longer government-centric. Selected Internal Search Results 2012 Integrity, Reflexivity, & Open Everything Reference: …

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