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Brandon Meyer posted an update: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987_i-p […]

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:44:50 -0500

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Cameron Tonkinwise on LinkedIn: I proposed the other night that people who are 'the sustainability person'…

I proposed the other night that people who are 'the sustainability person' in their corporations, need to form a union. It didn't go down well, even though I…

Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Green Building: This is neat! Our house is actually on a corner lot with […]

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:24:20 -0500

This is neat!

Our house is actually on a corner lot with the house behind us not only situated in the other direction, but we’re at a slightly higher elevation and separated by a small thatch of woods. We consider ourselves very lucky because I would say most of the houses in our neighborhood have smaller yards and other homes behind them with…

Brandon Meyer posted an update: Re-reading Arturo Escobar's paper, "Autonomous design […]

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:14:35 -0500

Re-reading Arturo Escobar’s paper, “Autonomous design and the emergent transnational critical design studies field” in the Strategic Design Research Journal as a reference of forms of “anthropological design” practices. Not in an attempt to re-label these movements, but rather to identify the potential and better articulate what an…

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Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:20:20 -0400

The youtube channel, “Not Just Bikes” did a really good job summarizing the work of the organization, Strong Towns on the broader issues that makes it hard to choose an alternative to driving a car in the United States, whether or not it is an EV, as well as why we really, really should. CityNerd is another youtube channel that is…Read more

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EV technology is not perfect and the use cases are more limited than ICE vehicles, especially when considering long-distance travel and heavy towing, but ICE vehicles tend to come[…]

Brandon Meyer posted an update: EV technology is not perfect and the use cases are […]

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:20:20 -0400

EV technology is not perfect and the use cases are more limited than ICE vehicles, especially when considering long-distance travel and heavy towing, but ICE vehicles tend to come at a greater environmental cost and the use cases of alternative technology are far greater than the actual demand for them acknowledges. That is not to say that…

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Just a moment...

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Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:13:53 -0400

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Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:38:06 -0400

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Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:10:09 -0400

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Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:37:41 -0400

https://fordauthority.com/2023/06/the-onion-envisions-a-four-lane-2024-ford-explorer/

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Just a moment...

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EV technology is not perfect and the use cases are more limited than ICE vehicles, especially when considering long-distance travel and heavy towing, but ICE vehicles tend to come[…]

Brandon Meyer posted a new activity comment

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:37:24 -0400

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

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In reply to - Brandon Meyer posted an update

EV technology is not perfect and the use cases are more limited than ICE vehicles, especially when considering long-distance travel and heavy towing, but ICE vehicles tend to come[…]

Brandon Meyer posted a new activity comment

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:37:08 -0400

https://energynews.us/newsletter/the-problem-with-extra-large-evs/

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EV technology is not perfect and the use cases are more limited than ICE vehicles, especially when considering long-distance travel and heavy towing, but ICE vehicles tend to come[…]

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Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:36:49 -0400

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/17/climate/electric-vehicle-emissions-truck-suv.html

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EV technology is not perfect and the use cases are more limited than ICE vehicles, especially when considering long-distance travel and heavy towing, but ICE vehicles tend to come[…]

Brandon Meyer posted a new activity comment

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:34:44 -0400

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/07/07/ev-range-anxiety-battery-myth/

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EV technology is not perfect and the use cases are more limited than ICE vehicles, especially when considering long-distance travel and heavy towing, but ICE vehicles tend to come[…]

Brandon Meyer posted a new activity comment

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:38:51 -0400

Epic Gardening did a pretty good review of it. The takeaway was that it’s more for people who either do not want to do traditional composting or can’t compost because they do not have any space for it. What you get is not really ready-compost, but a pre-compost or a soil additive like coconut core or peat.
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Does anyone have a home composting system they love? The algorithm has figured me out and I got an ad for Lomi this morning, and it looks awesome but expensive. I’m[…]

Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: "Where are today’s design schools and design researchers? […]

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 01:00:02 -0500

“Where are today’s design schools and design researchers? In my experience, most design teaching is feeding the machine – sticking to the outdated playbook of modernism, training students in skills for industry now rather than preparing them to contribute thoughtfully to a less materialistic future. With some notable exceptions, there are …

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Design is … Lost

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Brandon Meyer posted an update: Tanveer Ahmed and Lauren Williams moderate a […]

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:53:24 -0500

Tanveer Ahmed and Lauren Williams moderate a conversation between design educators to examine cultural shifts in student activism, and discuss their experiences with radical pedagogies and social-justice-oriented education in institutionalized and community-based design education in the U.K. and…

Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: Talk exploring the contradictions of sustainability […]

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:51:58 -0500

Talk exploring the contradictions of sustainability (in design): between greenwashing, politics of production, and overconsumption.

As the earth burns and drowns in front of our eyes due to our overconsumption, we, designers, promote the discourse on designing for a better world but carry on with business as usual. In an era of…

Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: 7 points of convergence towards civic and […]

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:22:44 -0500

7 points of convergence towards civic and Indigenous futures
On October 9, 2019, 16 people from diverse expertises and worldviews gathered in Toronto. Together, we explored socio-ecological pathways that weave civic and Indigenous imaginations to better support current and future generations… Running through all of our discussions, was…

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Civic-Indigenous 7.0

7 points of convergence towards civic and Indigenous futures

Brandon Meyer posted an update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0IdCwF5UkM

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:17:11 -0500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0IdCwF5UkM

Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: Ten valuable learnings from creative practitioners […]

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:08:47 -0500

Ten valuable learnings from creative practitioners [who participated in the Messages in A Bottle project]

Identifying emerging themes from each interview led to a total of 34 themes. We then compared, combined, and further questioned and expanded the themes, informed by the full interview transcripts and related literature. This resulted in…

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Ten learnings - Messages in a bottle

Ten learnings Ten valuable learnings have emerged by carefully listening to what the creative practitioners shared with us (see Background section for details). Identifying emerging themes from each interview led to a total of 34 themes. We then compared, combined, … Continue reading

Brandon Meyer posted a new activity comment

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:24:38 -0500

Twitter and other social media platforms allow the anthropology community to come together but as the article points out none of the existing social platforms really meet the needs of anthropologists or hold any great potential to move anthropology as a field forward – they were just the only options.

Mastodon is having a moment but the question…Read more

In reply to - Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists

An interesting reflection on the slow implosion of Twitter, the cultivation of online community, and resources for fields like anthropology.[…]

Brandon Meyer posted a new activity comment

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 03:15:14 -0500

Yes, I am thankful that I am able to extend my research background well beyond my anthropology degree into other areas like being able to determine the best configuration of materials for an energy-efficient wall assembly within a set of constraints. I have spoken with civil engineers and energy-efficient homebuilders who could all teach me…Read more

In reply to - Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Green Building Carpentry is kind of a hobby of mine and like most people I don’t have the kind of money to invest in something like a PHIUS-certified greeen building,[…]

Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Green Building: Carpentry is kind of a hobby of mine and like most people […]

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 15:04:27 -0500

Carpentry is kind of a hobby of mine and like most people I don’t have the kind of money to invest in something like a PHIUS-certified greeen building, so over the years we’ve been slowly remodeling and retrofitting our home with sustainable, energy efficient materials. We replaced a drafty fireplace and chimney with an energy-efficient wood…Read more