I haven't read or even seen the book yet. But the research made and the attention to all details of bookmaking is incredible: the typeface used, the handmade illustrations and cyanotype technique, Hiroshima interviews and other field trips.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
№ 73. Reading Curie
I haven't read or even seen the book yet. But the research made and the attention to all details of bookmaking is incredible: the typeface used, the handmade illustrations and cyanotype technique, Hiroshima interviews and other field trips.
Monday, March 19, 2012
№ 71. Monday Mind Melds: Green Planet
Mondays can have their perks, too. They can give the week a shot in the arm especially for armchair green revolutionaries.
Earth Day is almost here. What better way to prepare than to inspect current thinking and maybe learn something.
Here's one very engaging article from Utne:
"Today we operate the world with our growth paradigm and our economic imperative and our social imperative as being the supreme goals for our societies. We then add, at best, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and all the good work we’re doing with clean tech and efforts to be more efficient, all with the explicit goal of minimizing environmental impacts within the overarching growth paradigm. The insights of the Anthropocene and tipping points show this paradigm doesn’t work anymore. We have to reverse the whole order and agree that the biosphere is the basis for everything else. This is quite dramatic, because it means human development has to be subordinate to Earth system boundaries. It changes the whole idea of macroeconomic theory, because macroeconomic theory basically states that as long as you put the right price on the environment, you automatically get the most cost-efficient way of solving environmental problems."
Earth Day is almost here. What better way to prepare than to inspect current thinking and maybe learn something.
Here's one very engaging article from Utne:
"Today we operate the world with our growth paradigm and our economic imperative and our social imperative as being the supreme goals for our societies. We then add, at best, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and all the good work we’re doing with clean tech and efforts to be more efficient, all with the explicit goal of minimizing environmental impacts within the overarching growth paradigm. The insights of the Anthropocene and tipping points show this paradigm doesn’t work anymore. We have to reverse the whole order and agree that the biosphere is the basis for everything else. This is quite dramatic, because it means human development has to be subordinate to Earth system boundaries. It changes the whole idea of macroeconomic theory, because macroeconomic theory basically states that as long as you put the right price on the environment, you automatically get the most cost-efficient way of solving environmental problems."
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| Hiroshima Videos from www.archive.org |
Sunday, March 11, 2012
№ 70. Ze Map, X Marks the Spot
"There are a ton of fan-made maps out there depicting the world of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series — not to mention some pretty impressive fan art — but this one is by far the best we’ve ever seen. Created by superfan TheMountainGoat by combining books from the maps as well as other fan-made maps, it is as functional as it is beautiful. There’s a larger, zoomable version at his website, plus some other goodies, like a cool animated timeline map and a view of Westeros in Google Earth view. We’ll never get lost on the Dothraki sea again."
from Flavorwire
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