[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
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Following on the heels of a recently published study in the journal Nature Geoscience, which estimated that Arctic permafrost could hold 60% more organic carbon than previously thought, a team of scientists from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has found that the planet’s permafrost layers — comprising an area that […]
Watergoat Trash Debris Boom
Much like its notoriously un-picky mammalian counterpart, the new storm system trash collector the Watergoat from First Earth Industries gathers any and all garbage that coasts through its path. The Watergoat is essentially a storm water debris boom made simple: it’s a nylon net that forms a floating barrier around a storm […]
Helmet Piece in front of Center for Architecture
Conflux New York kicked off to an interesting start with a panel on Thursday that focused on the psychogeography of rivers. Conflux is a five year-old festival of panels and outdoor performance art, in which hundreds of artists turn New York City into an urban art laboratory, […]
Watergoat Trash Debris Boom
Much like its notoriously un-picky mammalian counterpart, the new storm system trash collector the Watergoat from First Earth Industries gathers any and all garbage that coasts through its path. The Watergoat is essentially a storm water debris boom made simple: it’s a nylon net that forms a floating barrier around a storm […]
The PAPPA* Phone
It’s likely that nobody asked Hulger to make a phone for use with Skype out of sustainable wood. But they did. And the result is an unlikely combo of Skype, a program that’s one of the most satisfyingly realized visions of the future (who’d have thought watching Star Trek 15 years ago that […]
Despite the major improvements made in satellite technology and modeling over the past few years, predicting future climate change remains a tricky matter. Taking into account the often conflicting reams of data provided by researchers and monitoring technologies results in the creation of imperfect models that inevitably fail to accurately represent all aspects of the […]