Title: Energy Conservation teach-in
Location: Oak and the Iris Café, located at 2826 Fort Hamilton Parkway on the corner of East 4th Street
Link out: Click here
Description: * Energy Conservation techniques
* Weatherization: Waste less energy through air sealing, increased insulation, window upgrades and improved ventilation.
* Solar Panels: Learn if your building is a good candidate for installing solar panels and start making your own electricity and hot water.
* Meet neighbors who have weatherized their homes and installed solar panels.
* Hear from local Contractors and Providers about costs, financial and environmental benefits and government incentives to help offset the costs.
Guest Speakers will include representatives from AEON Solar, A.S.K. Construction, Solar 1, and 1BOG (One Block Off the Grid).
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-06-17
End Time: 20:30
Made right here in Kings County by Sullivan Walsh:
image courtesy of Walsh Metal Works
Walsh Metal Works. Yet another indication of the abundance of brilliant artists, artisans, inventors, and engineers in Brooklyn.
From the Associated Press, via Newsday:
At a news conference with U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to discuss how stimulus money is being used for job training, Bloomberg noted several ways the economy seems to be doing better. Then New York Observer reporter Azi Paybarah asked whether the improving economy cancels out Bloomberg’s rationale for changing term-limits law last fall.
The billionaire mayor had the law changed so that he could run for a third term this year. The former CEO’s main argument at the time was that New Yorkers needed him to use his financial expertise to protect the city from fiscal ruin.
See also Ben Smith’s coverage at Politico. Which includes video clip
Khoi Vinh, the outstanding web designer (Subtraction, The Times, Mister President), and neighborhood resident and Liz Danzico, whose work is new to us (Happy Cog Studios, Bobulate.com) have created A Brief Message,
A Brief Message features design opinions expressed in short form. Somewhere between critiques and manifestos, between wordy and skimpy, Brief Messages are viewpoints on design in the real world. They’re pithy, provocative and short — 200 words or less.
The site is beautiful. Not a surprise. But using techniques which were a surprise.
A Brief Message. (88 words).
Pat Dryburgh – Logo for The Republic
Pat Dryburgh – also a top-notch WP theme designer – has been busy doing other stuff. Current portfolio here.
Uncommon Projects is yet another example of Brooklyn’s abundance of inventors, creators, makers, designers and engineers – and how the boundaries between all of the previous description have blurred or disappeared. They write code, build websites, and build machines. And here’s some of what they’ve done.
Photo-taking bicycles for yahoo’s Purple Pedals Project; in turn, developing a solar charging system so that the bicycle’s photographs could be transmitted remotely; building a network which links the bicycles.
Software: Nice Burn, a brilliant app which allows users – I’m assuming mostly people involved in film/video production – to download and burn custom DVDs from anywhere. That is – User A is shooting footage at one location and uploads the dailies, or perhaps a particular piece of footage which needs to be reviewed or distributed quickly – on more than one platform – and possibly on widely used platforms. User B – using PC or Mac, downloads the footage and burns in PAL or NTSC.
Certainly useful for film production. But why not journalists or citizen-journalists, needing to get information out of a denied environment (think Burma/Myanmar), or during a crisis (think Katrina)?
Uncommon Projects. And here’s a link to their blog – UpLog.
Indirectly via NYC Resistors.
