solar mobile archive
The project was designed for a complex neighborhood where 14,000 residents, 115 ethnicity groups, 3 Mosques, a Synagogue with a school and a retirement home, a Catholic Church, the Salvation Army, and numerous associations live and operate.
The “solar mobile archive” suggests a wider concept of contemporary community: a green way of sharing experiences, maintaining independence, and self sustainability, while creating community connections.
The “mobile archive” represents a community that is not “given”, but that should be discovered little by little, step by step, with full involvement and green approach. Ghigos aimed to design a device that could represent the concept of self-sustainability. An archive that can gather information directly from the neighborhood and is powered by natural resources, and that can move among the streets tracing experiences in all the possible shapes (texts, stories, recipes, fairy tales, video, drawings, sounds, tastes, and odors…).
The archive picks up and gives: it records, registers, catalogues, and offers. It’s always available and ready to acquire new “data” or share what is available in the memory, providing a feeling of belonging. It’s an independent center of physical and emotional energy production, to produce and distribute knowledge, maintain a sense of independence, distribution, and connection.
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Green Computer Usage
There’s not just the actual computer usage related electricity consumption, there’s also all the millions of tons of plastic and metal used to create the billions of computers in their various forms now on this planet.
We can all do our bit in lessening our impact and the following are tips for more earth friendly computing, [...]
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During this year the US is adding
tons of CO2 to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels
The U.S. has added ... importing fossil fuel.
source: zfacts.com/