Peep this when I go out I might want it to be like this….!
The Spirit Tree is an earth friendly carbon neutral burial option for those wishing to have their remains cremated. The concept is quite beautiful actually. The biodegradable cinerary urn has outfitted with a ceramic top perforated with hydration holes. The bottom is a combination of peat moss, dirt, wood chips, and post consumer paper that is biodegradable. The remains and the seeds of a tree, or any plant of your choice, are added to the interior of the urn and it is then placed in the earth outdoors in a fertile location. The ceramic top is weathered away over a long period of time and the tree grows up through the center from within as a living memorial to your loved one.
“The act of restoration can be as simple as replacing something that has aged and died away. Above all it means to heal, to make whole, to reweave broken strands and threads into a social fabric that honors and nurtures life around it. To restore is to make something well again. It is mending the world. People have to believe there is a future in order to look forward.”
Not only is it carbon neutral by offsetting the CO2 created during the cremation process, but it is a great way to continue the circle of life while creating a strong visual and emotional symbol for those wishing to look to the future. Spirit Tree is a member of the Green Burial Council and can be purchased by contacting them on their website.
I really would love to have one of these in my living space f’real freal.I think this is another one of those incredible ideas similar to the seedling system that if it is build with green cost effective technology would be a effectively healthy addition to any home.Here is what the designer Mathieu Lehanneur had to say about it.
The Locavores appeared in San Francisco in 2005 and define themselves as ” A group of culinary adventures who eat food s produced in a radius of 100 Miles (160 Km) around their city”.By doing so they aim to reduce impact to the environment inherient to the transportation of foodstuff, while ensuring their traceability.
Local River anticipates the growing influence of this group( The word locavore made its first appearance in an American Dictionary in 2007) by proposing a home storage unit for live freshwater fish combined with a mini vegetable patch.This DIY Fish-farm-cum-kitchen-garden is based on the principle of aquaponics coupled with the exchange and interdependence of two living organisms-plants and fish.
The plants extract nutrients from the nitrate rich dejecta of the fish.In doing so they act as a natural filter that purifies the water and maintains a vital balance for the ecosystem in which the fish live.The same technique is used on large scale pioneer aquaponics/fish-farms which raise Tilapia ( a food fish from Asia) and lettuce planted on trays floating on the surface of the ponds.
Local River responds to the everyday needs of fresh foods that are 100% traceable.It bets on a return to favour of Farm-raised fresh water fish (trout, eel perch, carp , etc), given the dwindling of many salt water species do to over fishing.It also demonstrates the capacity of fish farmers to deliver their stock live to a private consumer as a guarantee of optimum freshness-impossible in the case of salt water fish that has been netted.
Local River aims to replace the decorative “TV aquarium ” by a equally decorative but also functional “Refrigerator Aquarium”.In this scenario fish and greens cohabit for a short time in a home storage unit before eaten by their keepers, the endplayers in a exchange cycle within a controlled ecosystem.
Yo im a big plant nerd, if you know me you might catch me from time to reading about the medicinal qualities and spiritual assistance different plants have to offer.I also enjoy experiments in growing caribbean and african plants that shouldnt thrive here , and nuturing them.So you can imagine how excited I was when I came across this.I believe that nature and our living spaces shout balance with each other and hopefully with more genius ideas like this that will continue to happen.
This is a great idea from designer Brett Duncan. It is a system of biodegradable nestling planters. As the plant grows too large for it’s planter you place the whole planter inside the next larger soil filled planter, and so on, until presumably placing the final planter in the ground. It is healthier for the plant than repotting because it is less stress on the roots and it is less messy, so less stress on you. This is a little different than the compressed sphagnum moss (peat moss) planters because they appear to be a little more ridged, and in my opinion, they have a better aesthetic appeal. There are other biodegradable planters out there but most of the ones I’ve seen are not intended to biodegrade around the plant, instead they are mean to biodegrade in the landfill if you throw them away.
“Just to help explain some of the questions of the project Seedling, the seed starts in a sphere so that it can be surrounded by soil and nutrients, as well as moisture when it is watered to help simulate how seeds germinate naturally.
Each pot has nutrients and soil combined with the biodegradable plastic. This allows for different amounts and concentrations based on the plants growing cycle. For example, the white specs in some of the pots are actually egg shells.
The user can also tell if the plant needs to be watered by picking up the pot. The plastic absorbs a certain amount of the water so the elasticity changes depending on the saturation of the soil.
I wanted to create more of an experience for people taking care of their plants. I believe that plants have been adapting to us for far to long, maybe it’s time we reciprocated the gesture.” – Brett Duncan
Welcome to the Lilypad a Ecolopolis for climate refugees.So basically scientist have started to figure out that global warming is happening alot faster then has ever been thought of.One Architect Vincent Callebaut offers his vision of how to house the thousands to millions who will be displaced by inland flooding due to rising sea levels.Check out his vision here.
Last night I went and checked out my homie Melina Jones perform at the Elbo Room.I was a great show She ripped her set, I was very impressed.So after her set I was outside chopping it up with her DJ Dario aka Deedot
so we were just shooting the breeze one of us was like what you gonna do, Dario said he was thinking of mobbing his bike to Ocean Beach.So you know how I get down I was with , I told him let smash to the house and I will be right back.So we met back up at Elbo Room like 20 min later and rolled out.We rode Valencia over to market crossed market and headed up Fulton S., man let me tell you Fulton hill on a fixie is no simple task, that hill is a monster!But I maintained and didnt give up.We rode Fulton all the way to the beach , stopped and I caught a few shots from the wall.We headed over to safe way got a snack then took Balboa back towards the city.Balboa was hella fun lots of ups and downs….after we crossed Park Presidio we dropped down to Geary and road that to Webster.D and I went our seperate ways He lives near Nob Hill and I live in the Mission.So I mobbed up webster over to church down to valencia and back to the crib.All and All the ride took about 3 hours. I didnt get home till just about 4am but I cant wait to do it again…here are more experiments in the capture of light enjoy.
Love or Hate Fif…. but there is no denying that somebody whos turned over 300 mil in less then 10 years is fuckin handling business….this is a great interview….simple but laced w/ game.peep.
So in my travels through the net I found yet another incredible resource and something to peep.I wanted to put it here for those interested to download.The folks who made it at SuperFlex actually want you to do that…..so there I didn’t thief it incase you were wondering. I had to wait 2 and a half hours to get it as a torrent but you can get it here from off my ftp faster.But I digress here is a write up they did to tell you about it , So I will let them explain …Enjoy!
Self-organisation/Counter-economic strategies is about the many approaches to the creation, dissemination and maintenance of alternative models for social and economic organisation, and the practical and theoretical implications, consequences and possibilities of these self-organised structures. The counter-economic strategies presented here are radical alternatives to classical capitalist economic organisation that exploit, or have been produced by, the existing global economic system.
Essays by ten writers cover a wide cross-section of activity, from new approaches to intellectual property and the implications of the free/open source software movement to political activism and the de facto self-organisation embodied in informal architecture and the so-called black economy.
Self-organisation/Counter-Economic Strategies is not a comprehensive overview or an attempt to unify these diverse interpretations. It is intended as a toolbox of ideas, situations and approaches, and includes many practical examples.
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So last night after work I swung by the house dropped off my stuff.Grabbed my D20 and pushed out on my bike.I road for about 2 hrs.I headed from my spot on 22nd down South Vanness through downtown and over to the piers then road over to waterfront by Ghiradelli Square.The mashed through north beach and chinatown to market.Mashed up market to dolores, road up dolores to the top of the park then mashed down 20th valencia and smashed to the house.Now let me say in no way shape or form do I consider myself a photographer…I can take a decent shot ,and have a basic understanding of how to use a quality camera but I ant no photographer by far.These are just my experiments around light, and the capture of it via the camera lense.anyways hope you enjoy.
