Friday, July 31, 2009

Melbourne's Theatrical Masterpiece







This is the most amazing piece of architecture that I have ever came across. I am really into modern artwork and design, but this takes it to another level.

"Ashton Raggatt McDougal (ARM) architects completed the design of the Melbourne Recital Center and the neighbouring Melbourne Theater Company helping to transform the formerly derelict Southbank area of the city to the dynamic district it has now become. The firm has been so successful in their designs of the two buildings that they have been honored with the 2009 Victorian Architecture Medal winning highest accolades in three categories for public architecture, interior design as well as urban design."- thecoolhunter.com

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Do schools kill creativity?



The education system is something that I have been trying to improve and innovate upon for the last 2 years of my life. Sir Ken Robinson sums up exactly why I am trying to improve upon education and why I feel there needs to be a change in the way we educate our youth. Let the youth pursue their passions and let creativity flourish, for our world will be better because of creativity.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Gym's of the future





If you thought kinetic energy recycling by using bikes was cool, check out this idea for the future! It is a human powered River Gym. This is a design of a floating gym originally thought for use of commuters around the Manhattan area. These pods would be able to harness energy output from people exercising, and recycling it into helping them commute across town. For more information check out Archinode

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

DustCart Recycling Robot







This is DustCart's real-life recycling robot that travels the streets of Peccioli, Italy. This electronic robot is actually a part of DustBot's $4 million research program, but has the capability to collect rubbish and sort it into organic, recyclables and waste. Also it has the technology to measure things such as: sulfur oxide, benzene, ozone and nitrogen oxide with built-in sensors. Even cooler, you can summon this robot by cell phone to come and pick up your rubbish.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Aveda's Cap Recycling Program




Everyone is always telling you to recycle your plastic bottles, but once you recycle the bottle, you always have to throw away the caps. Nobody does anything with the actual bottle caps, and because of it, millions of wasted caps flood into our oceans. Finally, some business is doing something to help alleviate this problem. Aveda is collecting bottle caps that they will reuse to help create their new product casings. Here's some info on how you can donate.

From the Aveda website
"Aveda found that a majority of plastic bottle caps do not get recycled today.

Often these caps end up as litter or trash, ending up in landfills and beaches or migrating into our rivers and oceans. Birds and other marine creatures mistake them for food with tragic results. The magnitude of this pollution problem is devastating to our oceans and wildlife.

You can be part of the solution by joining Recycle Caps with Aveda.

Aveda is announcing a new recycling initiative that helps extend the current boundaries of recycling and elicit participation from all corners of our community. With the help of our network of salons and stores, in partnership with community schools, we are building a new recycling program for plastic bottle caps in which caps are collected at stores and schools and then sent by Aveda to our recycler where the material is recycled into new caps and containers. Aveda has been able to work closely with our suppliers to develop ways to make new caps and containers from the recycled caps. We hope to ship new products using this reworked, environmentally-friendly material later this year.

What type of caps do we collect?
The program accepts caps that are rigid polypropylene plastic, sometimes noted with a 5 in the chasing arrows recycling symbol. This includes caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter.

Excluded from collection are pharmaceutical lids and non rigid lids such as yogurt lids, tub lids (margarine, cottage cheese), and screw on lids that are not rigid. If you can bend or break the lid with your bare hands, then it does not meet the rigid plastic definition. Please do not include any metal lids or plastic pumps or sprayers. Unfortunately, too much of the wrong types of materials can contaminate the recycling process. We appreciate your efforts in keeping it clean!"

During earth day I was actually talking to a guy about this, and after I left, I couldn't remember the company. Finally I found out who I can donate my big ball of bottle caps too.