Featured Locallectuals

Whimsy Press
Whimsy Press

Tell a Locavore or Relocalizer

Your name (*)
Your e-mail (*)
Friend's e-mail (*)

Sign Up - It's Free!

Locallectual Directory

Add Entry
Search

An American City of Lights is First to Advertise with the Sun PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 15 November 2008

Leave it to New York City to be the place to pioneer eco-billboards.  Coming soon to Times Square is a 35,000-pound electronic message board that will be completely generated by the sun and wind .  When there is neither, the billboard will go black.  And that’s that.

Times Square Solar Wind Billboard


-Serena

 
A New Use for Made in China Toys - Art PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 14 November 2008

My last blog was about how Chinese factories were closing due to the lagging import market. I thought this blog would be a good follow up. An artist by the name of Michael Wolf has made an art installation using only Chinese-made toys and pictures of the factory workers. The exhibit, which is installed in a gallery in Hong Kong, contains approximately 20,000 toys with faces (his criteria in choosing them) that he gathered over a month's visit to Salvation Army-type stores in the US.

Michael Wolf Chinese-Made Toy Exhibit                Michael Wolf China Toy Installation Close-Up

Check out Wolf's webpage for more pics of the exhibit, the process in which he made it, and pictures of the factory workers. It's pretty powerful stuff.

 

Michael Wolf Chinese Toy Factory Workers

 

-Jess 

 
Julia Child Day at Smith College Features Local Food PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 14 November 2008

On Thursday, November 20th, Smith College will be celebrating Julia Child Day. The menu will include local turkey, cobbler made from local apples, locally-made ice cream and other local edibles. Presentations will be given by eco-chef Bryant Terry and food activist Anna Lappé. What an event!

-Karen

 

 
Hybrid Tugboat - The "Prius" of Tugboats in Development? PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 14 November 2008

hybrid tugboat
Unfortunately, the shipping industry is apparently not currently on the cutting edge of green technology. Hopefully, this is changing as companies such as Foss Maritime Co. of Seattle are developing hybrid tugboats.

-Karen

 

 

 

 

 

 
It's Not Only America: Chinese Losing Jobs Due to Export Slow Down PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 14 November 2008

Chinese Factory WorkersThe global economic crisis has reached Asia. And while many people might have thought it wouldn't happen, when thinking about how dependent the rest of the world is on China and other Asian countries' factories, its not suprising that the lack of spending globally would hit those factories hard. In fact, in the first half of 2008, over 67,000 factories closed in China! Wow. The New York Times has written an article on how the Chinese factory worker is suffering from the lack of exports as well as what this means for the Chinese economy as a whole.

I highly recommend reading this as it shows how global this economic crisis has really gone.

-Jess 

 
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>

Results 37 - 45 of 693