The Switch! Project

Switch! examines the presence and use of energy on a neighborhood, community, and citywide basis. Thus, it shifts away from the design of product interfaces and interactions in the home to forms that have a wider presence in the local and public space.

We continue to explore how design might enable people to relate more deeply and in an ongoing manner to energy use, but at an expanded scale- considering household-household, building-building, neighborhood-neighborhood interactions. To approach this, design must be extended beyond discrete people-product interactions to make visible and tangible the connection to wider-scale and longer-term interactions making up a locality, community, and society.

For further background: www.tii.se/switch, www.tii.se/static, www.tii.se/aware

Objectives

▪ promote the rational uses of energy;
▪ promote renewable energy;
▪ provide and disseminate energy information;
▪ protect the environment;
▪ reduce waste of energy in all sectors of society;

Saturday, April 19, 2008

story about stuff



What is the Story of Stuff?






From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.


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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Sony Bio Battery

Sony Bio Battery powers gadgets on grape juice and sports drinks



Sony Japan has just posted a short video and press release detailing its latest fuel cell - a device that uses not ethanol or methanol this time, but glucose extracted from grape juice and sports drinks. link
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The Plumen Project

As with other HULGER products, The PLUMEN low energy light bulb prototype is a reaction to the lack of real diversity, imagination and personality offered by the market today
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energy saving tips

Nice graphic showing the energy saving tips, taken from the Ministry of Energy, Government of Ghana. link
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Statistical Review of World Energy 2007


Energy in our world today

The BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2007 tells the story of the world's current and historical energy trends. This edition includes data up to the end of 2006


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Saturday, April 12, 2008

BLOG WATCH: Peak Energy

worth a visit click here
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Organic photovoltaics

plastics for energy from light

Government and the private sector earmarking 360 million euros for technology initiative,

The advantages of organic photovoltaic materials will provide opportunities for enormous cost savings in the manufacturing process and completely new product visions:

- transparent photovoltaics which could be applied to windows or casings,
- photovoltaics on a roll which could be produced for application to large surfaces,
- integrated photovoltaics through which every electronic device could have its own integrated power supply thanks to new kinds of solar cells.

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