“A documentary about a journey to “The Edge of the Earth”. The Gates of the Arctic National Park is the northernmost national park in the U.S. (the entirety of the park lies north of the Arctic Circle).There are no established roads, trails, visitor facilities, or campgrounds in the park.”

Filmed using Solar Power for Two Weeks = 10,000 combined shutter releases and video clips.

“William Kamkwamba, from Malawi, is a born inventor. When he was 14, he built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, working from rough plans he found in a library book called Using Energy and modifying them to fit his needs. The windmill he built powers four lights and two radios in his family home.”

Via TED

peliCAN by Frederik Wepener and Ross Zietz
Threadless is a community-based tee shirt company with an ongoing, open call for design submissions. Buy this peliCAN tee, You help Gulf oil spill. Threadless is donating all proceeds from the sale of this peliCAN T-shirt to the Gulf Restoration Network.

“UNHCR has created three posters available to view and download to support this year’s World Refugee Day. Millions of refugees around the world are unable to go home. These posters celebrate the strength and resolve that forcibly displaced people have to overcome adversity and make the best of their future lives.”

Experiencing Abstract Information from Stefan Kuzaj on Vimeo.

How can you increase the immersion of data? The bachelor thesis „Experiencing Abstract Information“ by Jochen Winker and Stefan Kuzaj introduces theoretical principles and shows them with some interactive examples.
There are four essential parts in making abstract information experiencable: information itself, relevant senses, fitting emotion and a direct reference of the presentation to the information. With our method you can not only design fitting media, but also check existing media for its potential.
To demonstrate the systematics, we built three interactive installations. By using them you become an interactive diagram in a virtual mirror, cause virtual water-pollution in a water-basin or compare the time you have to work in different countries to buy a big mac or some bread. All of these installations show a different approach of immersive data transfer.

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Cedar Avenue of Nikko (Tochigi, Japan)

Photo by Katarina

“Yamdrok Tso ( Turquoise lake ) is about 4500m above sea level”

Yamdrok Lake (Tibetan: Yamdrok Yumtso) is one of the three largest sacred lakes in Tibet (28°56′N 90°41′E / 28.933°N 90.683°E / 28.933; 90.683). It is over 72 km (45 miles) long. The lake is surrounded by many snow-capped mountains and is fed by numerous small streams. The lake does have an outlet stream at its far western end.

Around 90 km to the west of the lake lies the Tibetan town of Gyantse and Lhasa is a hundred km to the northeast. According to local mythology, Yamdok Yumtso lake is the transformation of a goddess.

Yamdrok Lake, also known as Yamḍok Yumtso, has a power station that was completed and dedicated in 1996 near the small village of Pai-Ti at the lake’s western end. This power station is the largest in Tibet.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamdrok_Lake]

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“This community was created to help individuals and communities take
sustainable action on the local, regional and national levels. By
providing a means for people to share their ideas and solutions within
our framework of sustainability goals, we hope to encourage others to
take similar steps.
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Visit 11th Hour Action

Photo by Mike Hudson

“hongi is the Maori welcome expressed by the rubbing or touching of noses.
The literal meaning of “hongi” is the “sharing of breath.”

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“Inspired by the Giving Tree, this project called the “Savior Bud”
latches on to trees (one of Earth’s most generous living things) and
uses it’s natural recycling processes to obtain water. In a simple
process which basically involves collecting the moisture from the
leaves and emptying it out into containers, the Savior Bud takes one
more step toward acceptable living conditions in Africa.”

via Yanko Design