The Fixers Collective will be returning to Maker Faire New York this month. They invite attendees to bring their broken stuff and learn how to fix it. They describe themselves as an “ongoing social experiment encouraging improvisational fixing and mending and fighting planned obsolescence.”
What is being billed as the world’s first (and most expensive) cultured hamburger patty debuted in London today, NPR reports. And the project’s anonymous funder was unveiled, too. It’s Google’s Sergei Brin.
Liberty Tool Company in Liberty, Maine sells salvaged hand tools. This lovely three minute video featuring Liberty owner and tool buyer H.G. “Skip” Brack pays homage to beautiful old tools, notes the importance of tool use in sustainable economies of the future, and provides a glimpse into a solid small-town business providing a useful service to its patrons.
The editors of Makeshift noticed that production, more than at any point in the last century, is occurring at the grassroots. In different cultures it goes by different names: DIY in the US, jugaad in India, jua kali in East Africa, and gambiarra in Brazil. Makeshift seeks to unify these cultures into a global identity.
The Homegrown Village is going to be at Maker Faire. Of their site, they say: This web site celebrates all of us who pioneer a HOMEGROWN way to live, eat, grow, and express ourselves. We connect to the land and to each other. HOMEGROWN.org is a place where we can learn from each other, share […]
Image from STEP Looking to teach sustainability in to the young’uns in your life? Try the Sustainability Technology Education Project, or STEP. There are 35 case studies on the STEP site, primarily aimed at key stage 4 students. These provide a range of examples of sustainable solutions to technology issues from around the world. Each […]
AIDG is a NonGovernmental Organization (NGO) that helps provide low technology solutions to help address environmental and health needs to people living in communities without great access to the systems that many of us consider requirements. Here are a few of their water-based initiatives: Solar Hot Water: XelaTeco, with support from AIDG’s wonderful interns, recently […]
