The Accidental Curator

Wind-lit: Solar

Imagine lounging outside some hazy warm summer night with some friends when all of a sudden your ultra green lanterns, powered solely from the wind and sun, illuminate as dusk approaches. These lanterns are but one of the many projects Developed by cutting edge design and technology group Living World. Living World attempts to actualize an idea called “senseware”, loosely translated senseware is a concept that strives to detach production from creativity, by realizing this detachment one attains a heightened awareness or sympathy for sensing the beauty of the living world that surrounds us. Senseware literally means “tools for sensing the living world”.

http://www.livingworld.net/

Get Green with Brad

Brad Pitt's new environmental pet project, "Make It Right" (MIR), assembled a team of fourteen world-renowned architecture firms from across the globe to fabricate affordable and sustainable homes for the victims of hurricane Katrina. 150 such homes are slated to be built for low-income residents of New Orleans most devastated quarter, the Lower 9th Ward. Pitt hopes that the MIR project will encourage other architectural firms to help rebuild the Big Easy.

http://makeitrightnola.org/index.php

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/12/more_on_brad_pi.php