Tag: sustainability

LighterLife, please never thrust wasteful crap at me again

  • June 4, 2009 at 1:30 pm

  • I was a little angry this morning. As I was trying to catch a train from St Albans, a smiley, bouncy young lady thrust a carrier-bag into my path. “Would you like a free lunch,” she chirrupped. It wasn’t a question. She was coercing me into her sinister game of wasting resources and fattening the [...]

DIYcity: reinventing your city by building web apps

  • January 16, 2009 at 1:06 pm

  • “Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps – we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? How can these technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today [...]