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09.02.10: Ernest Beck
Climate Change Chocolate UpdateUpdate on Climate Change Chocolate and other ideas for offsetting carbon. Originally published August 17, 2009.
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08.25.10: William Underhill
Somali Documentary ProjectReport on the Somali Documentary Project.
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08.18.10: Phil Patton
Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric CarReview of Mitsubishi's i-MiEV electric car.
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08.10.10: Ernest Beck
Ripple Effect UpdateUpdate on the Ripple Effect initiative launched by IDEO, Gates Foundation and Acumen Fund to distribute fresh water in the developing world. Originally published July 30, 2009.
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07.28.10: Ernest Beck
Camel Mobile Clinic UpdateUpdate on Art Center's Design Matters program, which prototypes a system for transporting medicine on camel back to remote communities in Kenya. Originally published July 18, 2009.
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07.26.10: William Underhill
Map KiberaReport on the Map Kibera project to provide navigation and information on Nairobi's massive informal settlement.
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07.13.10: Phil Patton
Murray T.25 City CarReport on Gordon Murray's conversion from revolutionary race car designer to creator of one of the greenest city cars ever.
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07.07.10: William Underhill
BoatanicIn the Netherlands, designer Damian O'Sullivan conceives of floating greenhouses converted from tourist boats.
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06.23.10: William Underhill
D-Rev Blue Star Jaundice TreatmentReport on Blue Star, D-Rev's affordable jaundice treatment for newborn babies in the developing world.
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06.19.10: Ernest Beck
Teach For AllReport on Teach For All, an $8.6 million program to expand educational opportunities throughout the world created by Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, and Brett Wigdortz, founder of Teach First in the U.K.
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05.11.10: William Drenttel
Sustainability PostersSix leading designers make posters of the word Sustainability.
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05.06.10: William Drenttel
Design for Change ContestKiran Bir Sethi is a designer, teacher, principal, advocate and social entrepreneur. Now her “Design for Change Contest,” a recent initiative that swept India in 2009, is expanding globally.
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05.02.10: The Editors
Change Observer Project Reports: A SummaryChange Observer has been publishing Project Reports as an editorial zone to write about distinct projects at the intersection of design and social innovation. This post summarizes the 38 Project Reports we have published to date.
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04.27.10: Kaomi Goetz
Austin Center for DesignInteractive designer Jon Kolko launches a school to help designers build economically viable careers working for social betterment.
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03.26.10: Jonathan Schultz
One World FutbolReport on One World Futbol produced by Hope Is a Game-Changer.
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03.22.10: Ernest Beck
Es TiempoReport on Es Tiempo, a campaign designed to encourage Hispanic women in Southern California to seek annual screenings for cervical cancer.
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03.17.10: Phil Patton
One Car Per FamilyReport on Yves Béhar's design for a new "people's car."
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03.10.10: Kaomi Goetz
KopernikReport on Kopernik, a new website for funding technology to assist populations in the developing world.
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02.01.10: Julie Lasky
DesigNYCDesigNYC is the latest grass-roots organization to match socially minded designers with nonprofits.
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01.28.10: Ernest Beck
GlobalTapReport on prototype for GlobalTap water refilling stations.
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01.14.10: Jane Margolies
Rising CurrentsReport on "Rising Currents," an exhibition of New York City design solutions to the flooding predicted by climate change experts, which will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, March 24–August 9, 2010.
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12.14.09: Jane Margolies
St. Augustine School Chicken ProjectReport on the sustainability program at St. Augustine parochial school in the South Bronx.
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12.10.09: Julie Lasky
Bigshot CameraReport on a camera that children assemble to learn about science and engineering principles.
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12.08.09: Jonathan Schultz
EyeWriterReport on the EyeWriter software system, which allows a graffiti artist suffering from ALS to continue working merely by moving his eyes.
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12.04.09: Julie Lasky
CO2 CUBESDescription of CO2 CUBES: Visualize a Tonne of Change, a multimedia installation created for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties (COP-15), held in Copenhagen in December 2009.
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12.03.09: Jennifer Ehrenberg
Chicago Welcomes YouOn designing a resettlement process for Burmese immigrants in Chicago.
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11.16.09: Jonathan Schultz
DESISReport on the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability project's latest home at New York's New School.
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11.02.09: Jonathan Schultz
Kick4LifeAIDS education mixes with soccer in plans for a new Lesotho stadium.
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10.30.09: Julie Lasky
88BikesReport on a foundation that distributes bicycles to children in the developing world.
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10.22.09: Ernest Beck
Medellín, ColombiaReport on the city officials who turned around a notorious drugs-and-murder capital, winning the 2009 Curry Stone Design Prize for Transformative Public Works.
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10.06.09: Bradford McKee
Float HouseReport on a floating house designed by Morphosis and UCLA architecture students for the Make It Right Foundation,
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10.05.09: Ernest Beck
Emergency Response StudioReport on artist Paul Villinski's mobile studio, which he converted from a trailer of the type used by FEMA to house victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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09.28.09: Jane Margolies
SkinReport on maternity clothes made in Colombia with local labor. (No seamstresses under the age of 50 need apply.)
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09.22.09: Jonathan Schultz
Better PlaceReport on Better Place, winner of the 2009 INDEX Award in the Community category.
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09.22.09: Andrea Codrington
Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate MonitorReport on the Freeplay fetal heart rate monitor, which won the 2009 INDEX award in the Body category.
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09.18.09: Ernest Beck
PeepoobagReport on Peepoobag, a new self-sanitizing, single-use, biodegradable container for human waste.
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09.09.09: Jude Stewart
KivaReport on Kiva, the pioneering microfinance site, which won a 2009 INDEX award for humanitarian design.
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09.09.09: Jane Margolies
Pig 05049Report on Pig 05049, a book cataloging all of the products made from a single pig, which won the 2009 INDEX award in the Playful Learning category
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09.09.09: Ernest Beck
Chulha StoveReport on the Chulha stove designed by Philips to reduce indoor air pollution in developing countries.
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09.03.09: Allison Arieff
WeCommuneWeCommune offers a technology platform for people who want to share resources and build community within particular subcultures.
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09.02.09: Julie Lasky
Pizza FarmReport on Project M at Winterhouse's Pizza Farm event in rural Connecticut in August 2009.
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08.25.09: Allison Arieff
EmergenceEmergence, a new massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) fosters diplomatic skills.
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08.20.09: Ernest Beck
PACT UnderwearReport on PACT, an underwear company that embraces green manufacturing and donates a portion of its revenue to nonprofits.
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08.13.09: Alec Appelbaum
FLAP BagReport on the FLAP bag, a multipurpose messenger bag for developing-world populations.
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08.07.09: Julia Galef
Question BoxThe Question Box project puts the developing-world poor just a phone call away from an internet search.
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08.04.09: Ernest Beck
Climate Change ChocolateWhile environmentalists debate the ethics and effectiveness of carbon offsets, designers work to make them appealing.
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07.29.09: Bradford McKee
Once More with Feeling: A National Design PolicyBradford McKee reviews the history of efforts to create a federal design policy.
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07.18.09: Ernest Beck
Ripple EffectIDEO launched Ripple Effect in India to help communities with the arduous process of transporting water.
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07.18.09: Ernest Beck
Camel Mobile ClinicArt Center's Design Matters program prototypes a system for transporting medicine on camel back to remote communities in Kenya.
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