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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoEARTH MANUAL PROJECT2024-03-04T20:00:42+00:00
https://www.earthmanual.org/?en
robertogrecodisasters repair rebuilding kobe japan tohoku indonesia thailand philippines naturaldisasters preparedness local slow small disasterpreparedness architecture design 2014 sharing connecting connections community learning howwelearn knowledge international solidarity tamaetakatsu emiiwakiri eastloop earthquakes tsunamis craft revival making almaquinto senhikonakata oshika ikaputra osamutsukihashi fastbox toshiakihisatomi nobuakifuruya paper boxes shigeruban eisuketachikawa oliveproject sns ayalamuseum flooding water materials plastic floodshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ff2246a0b58f/How the humble honey bee helps keep Jaeger-LeCoultre’s high watchmaking buzzing2024-01-15T21:35:13+00:00
https://timeandtidewatches.com/vegan-leather-watch-education/
robertogrecowatches veganleather watchstraps straps watchbands bands sustainability animalwelfare vegans animalrights plastics plastic environment pvc plants buffyacaciahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c787c3fa451/From clothes to tech, why is everything so poorly made? - Vox2023-12-29T07:46:13+00:00
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23529587/consumer-goods-quality-fast-fashion-technology
robertogrecoconsumerism capitalism clothing design business latecapitalism 2023 izzieramirez waste quality plannedobsolescence coraharringtron earnestelmocolkins bernardlondon climatechange globalwarming fastfashion repair maintenance labor shein garments apple technology electronics synthetics plastic righttorepair amazon microsoft google tesla johndeere generalelectric lobbying zachdinicola diy care gaygordon-byrne pollutionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c4f47797439/Scratching Every Watch Case To See Which Brands Are Lying! - Ultimate Watch Scratch Test - YouTube2023-12-21T22:10:43+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oX1itHnqcY
robertogrecowatches durability materials 2023 ceramic steel titanium plastic resin swatch casio bioceramic braun wise luminox polycarbonate carbonfiber traska sinn rze pvd ultrahex supertitanium citizen spaghettiscameti bronze chrome 316lsteel 304steel vostok 904lsteel carbonox marathon zincalloy tegimentedsteelhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:61b5eee617cd/The Bittersweet Irony of the Swatch X Blancpain Scuba - YouTube2023-09-30T19:57:33+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Er49jHQvI
robertogrecoidguy blancpain swatch watches 2023 repair repairability maintenance longevity plannedobsolescence disposability plastic oceans industrialdesign consumables consumption consumerismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a81b0bad7c5/Eyeo 2022 - Jen Lowe & Patricio Gonzalez on Vimeo2023-01-02T07:59:41+00:00
https://vimeo.com/772225816
robertogrecojenlowe patriciogonzález 2022 time art technology clocks clockmaking octaviabutler rasheedahphillips ursulafranklin hundredrabbits software hardware preciousplastic recycling slow small reuse divination holistic patriciogonzalez patriciogonzalezvivo patriciogonzálezvivo emergent emergingtechnology practice ewaste materials plastic plastics repurposing compassion nature electronics eyeo digital allthesenses senses multisensory collaboration sfpc schoolforpoeticcomputation augury channeling birds birdsong noticing precarity astronomy stars geomancy astrology symbols solarprotocol quantumtime nonlinear blackquantumfuturism alinear linearity clocktime compliance resistance conformity control ritual care caretaking grief rest zoominginandout community cycles environment local looom animation computing movement perception clouds sky nightsky moon bodies waste tools toolmaking calendars timeautonomy geologictime hibernation past present future synchronicity pastlives freedom liberation neurodiversity eyeo2022https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ca32479f34c1/Thoughts On How To Interpret Sustainability And Environmental Friendliness Claims From Watch Brands | aBlogtoWatch2022-08-20T03:52:06+00:00
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/thoughts-on-how-to-interpret-sustainability-and-environmental-friendliness-claims-from-watch-brands/
robertogrecowatches sustainability environment 2022 greenwashing signaling capitalism marketing mining metals labor exploitation arieladams carbonneutrality plastics plastic oceanplastics carbonoffsets recycling luxury sales vegan veganleather animals animalrights leather pleather consumption packaging waste consumerism charities ngos nonprofit nonprofitshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e2120c7c8f7/Blue Jeans: Articles of Interest #5 - 99% Invisible2021-11-21T02:56:05+00:00
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/blue-jeans-articles-of-interest-5/
robertogrecojeans clothing plastic plastics denim fabric clothes 2018 averytrufelman environment levis history indigo fashion mendng repair slow small consumerism consumption labor cotton fabricshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:80d3ad8fc735/What Have We Done to the Whale? | The New Yorker2020-09-21T20:38:53+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/24/what-have-we-done-to-the-whale
robertogrecoamiasrinivasan whales climatechange globalwarming environment extinction 2020 multispecies morethanhuman history hunting animals wildlife ecotourism nature sustainability instagram socialmedia wildflowers superblooms tourism capitalism twitter facebook selfies rebeccagiggs argentina lummination pollution plastic waste megafauna whaling denmark korea pacificnorthwest alaska zanzibar siberia canada greenland iceland norway basques pelagicwhaling uk netherlands southafrica newzealand whalehunting japan australia ussr technology depletion war military iwc oceans faroeislands spain españa basquecountry economics geopolitics antarctica nationalism manufacturing weapons orcas bluewhales minkewhales rightwhales graywhales philiphoare anthropomorphism human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships mammals cuteness whalesong spermwhales sound audio communication humpbackwhales puertorico newfoundland belugas belugawhales mercury pilotwhales agriculture greenpeace contamination toxins pugetsound biocide latecapitalihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f621f1ffceb/FixIts | For When You're In A Fix - Quick. Reusable. Strong.2018-07-07T21:37:51+00:00
https://fix-its.co.uk/
robertogrecomending fixing plastic plastics repairhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:774fc98c3e37/The Fantastically Strange Origin of Most Coal on Earth – Phenomena: Curiously Krulwich2018-01-06T22:47:10+00:00
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/
robertogreco430 million years before present, the first vascular plants emerged from early tide pools. In order to stay upright, these plants employed cellulose, a chain of simple sugars ... it was easy to make and offered rigid yet flexible support
This is from How Fungi Saved the World.
90 million years later, heralding the Carboniferous period,
plants developed a new kind of support material, called lignin. Lignin was an improvement development over cellulose in several ways: it was harder, more rigid, and, being more complex, almost impossible to digest, which made it ideal for protecting cellulose. With lignin, plants could make wood, and it lead to the first treelike growth form.
But lignin made the lycopod trees a little too successful. Because their leaves were lofted above many herbivores and their trunks were made inedible by lignin, lycopods were virtually impervious to harm.
Dead trees piled up without decomposing. Compacted by weight, they turned to peat and then to coal. 90% of all today's coal is from this period.
Wood pollution lasted 40 million years.
Finally, however, a fungus belonging to the class Agaricomycetes - making it a distant cousin of button mushrooms - did find a crude way to break down lignin. Rather than devise an enzyme to unstitch the lignin molecule, however, it was forced to adapt a more direct strategy. Using a class of enyzmes called peroxidases, the fungus bombarded the wood with highly reactive oxygen molecules, in much the same way one might untie a knot using a flamethrower. This strategy reduced the wood to a carbohydrate-rich slurry from which the fungus could slurp up the edible cellulose.
Which leads me to think:
There's a ton of plastic in the ocean. Why not engineer a fungus to rot it? Having this magical material that lasts forever is absurd. This is a controversial idea I admit. But although I agree that we need to reduce plastic pollution (via social change and by regulatory intervention), cybernetics tells me that's a fragile solution. Homeostasis is to be found in a ecosystem of checks and balances: instead of eternal plastic, we need plastic plus a plastic-rotting fungus plus an effective-but-hard-to-apply fungicide. Then balance can be found."]]>2016 coal plants trees fungi science evolution classideas decomposition srg naturalhistory plastichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e446f16d2f44/Plastic-Eating Caterpillars Could Help Bring an End to Pollution2017-04-29T22:40:37+00:00
https://futurism.com/plastic-eating-caterpillars-could-help-bring-an-end-to-pollution/
robertogrecobiomimicry biomimetics animals insect anture plastic 2017 pollutionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9bdfc5238a40/Deep time’s uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces | Aeon Ideas2016-11-21T19:20:24+00:00
https://aeon.co/ideas/deep-time-s-uncanny-future-is-full-of-ghostly-human-traces
robertogrecoanthropocene plastic deeptime science time longnow humans chickens 2016 davidfarrier environment earth holocene consumption materialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1d3dc5cb1e18/Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever | Books | The Guardian2016-04-03T22:37:17+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/01/generation-anthropocene-altered-planet-for-ever
robertogrecoenvironment geology literature anthropocene speculativefiction fiction novels juliannelutzwarren extinction 2016 robertmacfarlane posthumanism capitalism economics systems systemthinking technology sustainability technocracy capitalocene deforestation chinamiéville jedediahpurdy mckenziewark jasonmoore danielhartley jeffcandermeer tomothymorton hyperobjects naomiklein elizabethkolbert gaiavince annatsing seanborodale richardskelton autumnrichardson rorygibb memory holocene earth salvation philiplarkin plastic plasticene stratigraphy eugenestoemer paulcrutzen history apex-guilt shadowtime stieg raymondwilliams fredricjameson glennalbrecht johnclare solastalgia inequality annalowenhaupttsing jedediahbritton-purdy jacquesrancière chinamievillehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:80597b4e08ed/crap futures — constraint no. 4: education2016-01-12T06:35:51+00:00
http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/136818232954/constraint-no-4-education
robertogrecoWood makes essential objects, objects for all time. Yet there hardly remain any of these wooden toys…. Henceforth, toys are chemical in substance and colour; their very material introduces one to a coenaesthesis of use, not pleasure. These toys die in fact very quickly, and once dead, they have no posthumous life for the child.
A word of warning to those who would abandon old areas of knowledge and useful materials too quickly."]]>crapfutures 2016 rolandbarthes wood education children durability materials time slow plastic future futures 3dprinting digital digitization 3dadditivism fablabs darpa diy making makermovement economics purpose additivism fablabhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:764101d3f39a/Plastic Passion: The Civil Engineering Solution to Weak Roadways -2016-01-04T06:07:02+00:00
http://zbrella.com/plastic-passion/
robertogrecoplastic roads materials infrastructure construction 2015https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:569c4125bc97/JOSH BLACKWELL2015-12-06T22:52:43+00:00
http://www.joshblackwell.com/
robertogrecojoshblackwell art artists plastic textile glvo sewinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:85fa4fbe0919/FORMcard by Peter Marigold — Kickstarter2015-11-22T17:16:43+00:00
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formcard/formcard-melt-mould-make-mend/
robertogrecomaterials plastic plastics petermarigoldhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4afad792a46f/Myth of the Garbage Patch – The New Inquiry2015-05-23T08:34:15+00:00
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/myth-of-the-garbage-patch/
robertogrecoenvironment garbage plastic recycling oceans capitalism green greencapitalism 2015 mayaweeks chrischen globalwarming climatechange greatpacificgarbagepatch andrescozarcanañas narwhals wildlife animals multispecies cetaceans naturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4d9aca0cbfd1/BLDGBLOG: Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach2014-06-10T20:55:02+00:00
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/welcome-to-world-of-plastic-beach.html
robertogrecobldgblog geoffmanaugh geology plastics plastic 2014 janzalasiewicz hawaii plastiglomeratehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1bb1906dd030/What Screens Want by Frank Chimero2013-11-20T14:55:53+00:00
http://frankchimero.com/what-screens-want/
robertogrecoThe world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.
…
We can produce a vision of the web that isn’t based on:
consolidation
privatization
power
hierarchies
surveillance
We can make a new map. Or maybe reclaim a map we misplaced a long time ago. One built on:
extensibility
openness
communication
community
wildness
We can use the efficiency and power of interfaces to help people do what they already wish more quickly or enjoyably, and we can build up business structures so that it’s okay for people to put down technology and get on with their life once their job is done. We can rearrange how we think about the tools we build, so that someone putting down your tool doesn’t disprove its utility, but validates its usefulness.
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Let me leave you with this: the point of my writing was to ask what screens want. I think that’s a great question, but it is a secondary concern. What screens want needs to match up with what we want.
People believe there’s an essence to the computer, that there’s something true and real and a correct way to do things. But—there is no right way. We get to choose how to aim the technology we build. At least for now, because increasingly, technology feels like something that happens to you instead of something you use. We need to figure out how to stop that, for all of our sakes, before we’re locked in, on rails, and headed toward who knows what.
One of the reasons that I’m so fascinated by screens is because their story is our story. First there was darkness, and then there was light. And then we figured out how to make that light dance. Both stories are about transformations, about change. Screens have flux, and so do we."]]>frankchimero 2013 screens flux build2013 plasticity jamesburke plastic skeoumorphs containers materials change transitions perception flatdesign windowsphonemetro ios7 software replacement shape affordances grain design paper print movement motion animation customization responsivewebdesign responsiveness variability mutability mutations ux interactiondesign interfaces language ethanmarcotte maps mapping representation cartography embodiedmeaning respresentation tednelson computersareforpeople softwareisforpeople unfinished responsivedesign windowsphone eadweardmuybridgehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:553ebe1625c2/