Art
August 24, 2023, 2:29am
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Thanks! Many interesting open access books at the link - now bookmarked.
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j9c
August 24, 2023, 5:24pm
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I beg to differ.Wastiary… could use some imagination and a zoom-out of timescale.
Of these things:
boingboing:
A for Architecture of ruins
B for Bomb ecologies
C for Capitalism (plastic)
D for Data waste
E for Excrement
F for Fire
G for Ground up
H for Hairs
I for Identity
1 for 1%
2 for HS2
3 for From 3rd world to included 3rds
4&6 for 4th Industrial Revolution and 6th extinction
5 for 5G
… some are not waste at all. They are technical nutrients and many have closed loops already. Some can be composted. Yea verily even hair. Even excrement from hog farms, if not sluiced into massive anaerobic lagoons at scale, can be composted. Not waste.
Cradle-to-cradle design (also referred to as 2CC2, C2C, cradle 2 cradle, or regenerative design) is a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems that models human industry on nature's processes, where materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. The term itself is a play on the popular corporate phrase "cradle to grave", implying that the C2C model is sustainable and considerate of life and future generations—from the birth, or "cradle", of one genera...
Involuntary park is a neologism coined by science fiction author and environmentalist Bruce Sterling to describe previously inhabited areas that for environmental, economic, or political reasons have, in Sterling's words, "lost their value for technological instrumentalism" and been allowed to return to an overgrown, feral state.
Discussing involuntary parks in the context of rising sea levels due to global warming, Sterling writes:
They bear some small resemblance to the twentieth century's na...
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August 28, 2023, 11:00pm
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