ecology

noreply@blogger.com (seanny D) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:01:00 +0000

the paper-less campus, i know josh is in this group but thats another really good idea just because of the amount of waste and material used in creating text book is high, the price is rediculous and the book companies dont make that much money off them anyway apparently... so what if they charge 20 dollars for an e teext for the kindle or whatever you want to use for it, all of a sudden the people who made the text make a ton more money cause they dont have printing costs, just downloads, you dont have to have new versions of the text with only 1 chapter difference every year, just updates, students dont have to pay as much, less waste a hundred fold and much much less material used, texts could still be sold if people wanted...why not? so i just dont see a down side to this idea, of course people would need to buy the hardware to get the ebooks but they would pay for themselves in a year with thee money that you save on text books. lets just say you need 8 texts at 100 dollars a piece thats 800 dollars on text books annually, you can sell tem back for 40 dollars each at the end of the year so you you regain 320 but you dont have those texts anymore, so now you have spent 480 on something you wont be able to refer to ever again, lets say the hardware costs 500 dollars and an e text costs 20 the total is 660 for the 8 texts and the hardware, and you get to keep the information you payed for ina super compact form. the problem now would be to convince people thats what they want.

noreply@blogger.com (seanny D) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:54:00 +0000

the idea of the corn starch cup is pretty cool, and i was thinking about it for possibly my product rethink, and then jae was talking about it in class the other day but in a different way than i was thinking about it i guess, but say your biodegradable and nutrient rich dish was imbedded with flower seeds or grass seeds so you could have special dumping sites, toss it out and in 3 weeks itll be a patch of grass, theres a spray called hydroseed (as far as i know) and its the green stuff they spray on ditches to help grass groww quickly, im pretty sure its like nutrients grass seed and some sort of a fiberous pulp mixed with water and that stuff will grow grass anywhere, what if you could incorporate that into even the sleeve that comes on the starbucks cups just have the inside of it covered in hydroseed, doesnt get on your hands or in your coffee and you can throw that in the garden and grow a patch of daisies or whatever, but i think the idea that intrigues me is that littering is so deviant and this way it could possibly be super benificial to throw your coffee cup on the ground, or like a herb garden sort of deal, use the cup as the pot crumple up the sleeve put it in the cup fill the cup with soil and you have a flower pot, when the cup gets nasty just plant the whole deal in your garden

noreply@blogger.com (seanny D) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:49:00 +0000

This post is about the car pool idea for the u of m campus.. personally i think its an awesome idea and if you could create some sort of incentive and then some sort of a symbiotic relation with the bus system it could work really well. incentives like some money from thee people that you carpool with, maybe a bus pass for the university could be used as a pass for the car pool system as well...just a special type of card just for students and you buiy it on a monthly basis. that way the bus system could make some money off of it as well as the person doing the driving. i also really like the idea that stephen had in class of setting upa website like the navigo but then incorporating the car pool system with it.

architecture and site, about 25 examples

noreply@blogger.com (seanny D) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:17:00 +0000

so, i went to thee lecture and i sat through it and i listened intently and i took notes and all the things that i thought that i was supposed to do for the lecture and i still didnt really get too much useful knowledge out of it. maybe im ignorant to the impact or weight of the topics adressed but it seemed like some of it just wasnt really that important. maybe i was expecting something different i dont know. i felt that the topics that were discussed, eventhough they were well organized didnt really pertain to a wide variety of places, pretty much desert and coast. i also felt that the lecture was rushed, i would have liked to see a focus on a couple of examples and really elaborate on those.

sustainability in the post industrial landscape

noreply@blogger.com (seanny D) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:10:00 +0000

there was a section in this article that got me to thinking about my life, or people in my generation and how we act. In the beginning of the article Ellen explains the notion of post-industrialism as given by Daniel Bell, that our world after industrialization will be over run mass media and telecommunications and how physical access will be substituted for electronic access, and at that very moment that i was reading it i was in the middle of a scrabble game with four friends from residence on facebook and texting with another. Quite a profound realization in my life that what i was doing is exactly what i read was going to happen, communications via the internet has taken away from, at least my ability, to communicate in person. The people i was playing with were literally a 5 min. walk away. it is now easier, more convenient, and more comfortable to talk with someone without seeing them or even hearing their voice. I have become accustomed to the msn interface and less attatched to an in person conversation. just makes me wonder how this is going to affect relations, even on the most primal levels.

cyborg theories and situated knowledges, response

noreply@blogger.com (seanny D) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:52:00 +0000

i really didnt get a lot out of this reading, mostly because i didnt really understand a lot of what the author was trying to say...maybe my vocab just isnt good enough. Either way, what i did come out of it with is that we dont see technology as deeply integrated as it actually is; we dont see it in a cultural or sociological sense, we actually like to seperate it as a totally different subject all on its own when it really is a large part of those spheres. It also talks a lot about how we should be taught those ideas..and thats about it that i got from it...

noreply@blogger.com (seanny D) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:31:00 +0000

sorry its a little late. ok so i read the essay and this whole talk about ecological design is kind of a scary thing. i know we have to smarten up some time and do whats right for the environment and right for the human race and world so we can continue to exist but it seeems like my generation is going to be one of the ones thats really going to suffer. this sort of stuff makes me think what kind of world im going to be in in 30 years... what kind of job im going to have ...will i be able to survive the huge changes that are going to happen? idk but it makes me nervous...besides all that i thought it was a good article. learning to live locally is going to be difficult though... i love pineapple..but i think thats gooing to be one of the large parts of what we have to do in order to survive..what about the people who dont have the resources or climate or ability to live locally?

the compass house

noreply@blogger.com (seanny D) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:17:00 +0000

this is directional thinking...I think the house itself ties into our disussion on wether or not our own built environment is a natural thing or not. While im still undecided on which side i take on that i think that this house is definately borderline, since the surrounding environment lives from the gatherings of the house and the house lives because of the environment surrounding it. I like the idea that the house sustains gardens around it complete with trees bamboo and grass or whatever may be suitable to plant in that area and how it stores the water to be used in months where there isnt sufficient rainfall. the main public living quarters with a glass north facing wall is a good idea as well since you will get the maximum amount of natural light in the space. The one thing that that i thought might need some reconsideration was the moveable walls; where it does provide a dynamic and changing atmopusphere within the home it also creates a chaotic space of change in a place that i believe should be constant and familiar.