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Our Car-Based Environments Are Making Us Sick WorldChanging Team, 14 Sep 10
by Angie Schmitt Behind some of America’s most pressing health problems — obesity, diabetes, depression — there’s an often ignored culprit: a built environment that is hostile to active lifestyles. As the U.S. medical industry pours billions into treating epidemic...
Humanitarian Design Projects and the Growth of Digital Fabrication WorldChanging Team, 14 Sep 10
Looking back one, two and five years ago today (give or take!) on Worldchanging: 2009 Kenyas' First "Net Positive" Basketball Court Christa Morris reports on Architecture for Humanity's "net-positive Rainwater Court" project at the new Mahige Hope High School in...
Media Tracking and the Quantified Self Ethan Zuckerman, 13 Sep 10
Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly have been documenting an emerging phenomenon they call “the quantified self“. The term refers to a set experiments that people are conducting – primarily on themselves – to understand their own bodies and behavior. In...
Family Planning, Sustainable Research, and Dongtan WorldChanging Team, 13 Sep 10
Looking back one, two and five years ago today (give or take!) on Worldchanging: 2009 Defusing The Population Bomb Adam Stein reflects on a study that suggests family planning is one of the lowest-cost ways to reduce CO2... 2008 Reader...
New Solar Trees Light Up Angkor Wat, Cambodia Amanda Reed, 10 Sep 10
New solar powered street lights installed in Angkor Wat, Cambodia add much needed public lighting to the area, in a fun, low-energy design that increases night-time safety and facilitates greater earnings for local businesses. Nothing Design Group conceived of the...
