What a beautiful way to turn something irrelevant into something worthy of applause
65,000 “retired” CDs upcycled into art:
Set along the landscape of Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Monro recently completed a solo show in which he covered the 23 acres of the Gardens with a handful of complicated light designs. Using CDs as the basis for this particular piece, Monro recycled more than 65,000 discs to form these contemporary Waterlilies in Bloom. The piece greets visitors with a metallic glow as it pays homage to Longwood’s iconic water lilies. The many retired audio discs float along the Large Lake during the day, reflecting brilliant flashes of sunlight in a rainbow of colors.
(via Recycled CDs Make Waterlilies — Juxtapoz.com)
More work by Bruce Munro featured previously on Unconsumption here, and more repurposing of CDs here.
(Yes, same artist. In the above text, quoted from Juxtapoz magazine’s site, Munro’s referred to as “Monro.”)
Side note: I guess CDs sitting in water for four months didn’t harm the water quality on Longwood’s grounds?!
When was the last time you put yourself in someone else’s shoes?
Michael H Rohde’s disorientating images show rooms from an ant’s perspective
Compact hydroponic unit can grow 10,000 vegetables a year
In recent times, Springwise has come across a number of startups aiming to aid urban crop growth with innovative hydroponic solutions, from the NASA-inspired Green Wheel indoor rotary garden to Efficient City Farming’s rooftop aquaponic farm. Now Japanese homebuilding firm Daiwa House Industry has developed the Agri-Cube, a unit that fits inside a standard parking space and can produce 10,000 vegetables a year. READ MORE…
Out of the Blue: The Terramar Project: Become a Citizen and Protector of the High Seas (via GOOD.is)
No country “owns” the wide open oceans, they are regarded as common space. This is why they’re treated so poorly, it is a classic tragedy of the commons. This is also why there’s a giant patch of garbage of undetermined size floating around the ocean. It’s pretty pathetic this is how we’re treating our world. Let’s all step up and take responsibility to be global citizens who are going to take care of the oceans.
by Julie Ma
Who owns the seas? For 64 percent of the world’s oceans—the amount that lies beyond national jurisdictions—the answer is no one. The high seas, as they’re known, are like the planet’s commons: since they don’t really belong to anyone, no nation invests enough in offering them…
This is a project I’d love to support and tell everyone about. We can all make the world better.
Oregon Tech renewable energy engineering students bring electricity to Tanzanian villages
On August 19, Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) students will join their professor, Dr. Slobodan Petrovic, in Tanzania, where they will install solar energy systems for schools and hospitals. The trip is part of Oregon Tech’s BS in Renewable Energy Engineering (BSREE) degree program, the only ABET-accredited energy engineering program in North America.
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