«Human Powered Snow Vehicle. It’s thought for competitive training but also for panoramic tourism along cross country ski tracks. It’s really lightweight because of its structure, made of bent aluminium sheets. Designed to be built without moulding technologies, it’s totally recyclable and eco-friendly.»

Source: coroflot.com

«the tar sands are an immensely destructive project. To date, tar sands oil extraction has devastated an area the size of the city of Toronto. If oil extraction from the tar sands continues unchecked, it has the potential to destroy an area the size of England.

tar sands tailings lakeToxic tar sands tailings lakes already span 170 square km, which is an area larger than Lake Muskoka, and they are growing every day. Downstream, primarily First Nations communities, are seeing increased sicknesses in their communities, seeing a traditional way of life becoming further displaced and many are afraid of drinking the water. Everyday, 11 million litres of toxic tailings leak into the surrounding environment. The current greenhouse gas emissions of the tar sands is equivalent to that of 9 million cars. By 2020, it is projected that the greenhouse gas emissions will rise to the equivalent of the annual emissions of over 26 million cars, which is 1.5 times the greenhouse gas emissions of all the cars in Canada. »

Source: greenpeace.org
Watch the greenwashing campaign at: capp.ca

«The I-Green is a small bike peripheral that turns kinetic energy into electrical to charge nearly any portable device. »

Source: www.yankodesign.com

«L’archive XIBERIA référence un ensemble de vidéos abordant des sujets souvent cachés, occultés, ou maquillés par les média de masse. »

Source: xiberia.info

«Greetings “medicinal” marijuana “patients.” Have you been looking for a better way of ingesting every last puff of “medicine” that escapes your bong? The Bong Mask straps across your face and surrounds your respiratory system with sweet, sweet pain relief.»

Source: gearfuse.com

«Mr SiMo’s Boomcase Project recycles suitcases by making them into very portable very cool speakers. Each one is bespoke and works with iPods, iPhones and any device with a headphone jack yadda yadda yadda. The exciting bit is that the cases have chargers built-in and last for over seven hours»

Source: theboomcase.com, Vintage Suticase BoomBoxes

«À l’heure où les produits “longue conservation” sont de plus en plus prisés, les clients ne soupçonnent pas l’existence de substances dangereuses dans les emballages hermétiques et dans les aliments avec lesquels ils sont en contact. C’est le cas du Bisphénol A, que l’on trouve dans les contenants en plastique rigide et qui peut provoquer des maladies cardiaques ou affaiblir le système immunitaire. Même risque avec les phtalates utilisés pour plastifier les matériaux servant au conditionnement. Agissant comme des hormones, ils peuvent entraîner la stérilité chez les hommes..»

Video:
L’emballage qui tue (Dailymotion)
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«Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires. Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar..»

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bbc.co.uk
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«The Planet is a unique collaboration between a film-production company, a science portal and Swedish public-service television. Our aim is to enhance public awareness about the planet and our future; to show the limits, threats, and possibilities we are facing today. During the campaign global change issues headlined the news, and was a subject much discussed among Swedes.»

Source: svt.se

(Video) “The planet”: part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

(Video) “Planète sous pression”: part 1: Le grand tournant | part 2: Chacun pour soi | part 3: Dans notre bulle | part 4: Réagir

«Looking almost as fresh as the day it was bought, this McDonald’s Happy Meal is in fact a staggering six months old.

Photographed every day for the past half a year by Manhattan artist Sally Davies the kids meal of fries and burger is without a hint of mould or decay.

In a work entitled The Happy Meal Project, Mrs Davies, 54, has charted the seemingly indestructible fast food meals progress as it refuses to yield to the forces of nature..»

Source: dailymail.co.uk