Posts Tagged ‘negawatts’

Humans: Still Learning to Design

The Gulf oil spill, is at the heart of the matter, a design flaw. I’m not alluding to BP’s oil extraction technology either. Certainly, it had an important role to play but it’s not the whole story, or even a central part of it. The story is bigger. And like most [...]

Less Power to the People

I bumped into GOOD Magazine’s project 010 the other day where it asks for readers to submit their ideas for a project. I submitted an idea that’s been bouncing around in my head for a couple months now. It involves micro-financing (ie: Kiva.org) and energy savings. Seems to me like this would make an interesting [...]

The Handoff: Real-world Learning

I guess one of the few good things about the world having many problems is that it gives teachers many options to choose from when looking for engaging projects. It is hoped, through this project, that students will learn valuable information literacy skills, mathematics, science, political science, writing….and very importantly: that they can be agents [...]