Floating Garden Beds
In a region where bodies of water are readily available, we should take initiative to put them to use. Floating garden beds are a brilliant way of utilizing stagnant bodies of water. All you need are the materials to build an average float and some submerged beds with soil. If anything this will save you […]
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Dec, 13, 2012
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Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
We need to apply Vandana Shiva’s train of thought to our own surroundings and benefit from our natural world. Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself is the best teacher. http://www.alternet.org/environment/vandana-shiva-everything-i-need-know-i-learned-forest
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- Dec, 13, 2012
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Twitter @UforME
I have created a Twitter and Gmail account in order to start spreading the awareness of movements on the UMaine campus. Go to Twitter and follow @UforME. Join and share your issues and dilemmas.
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- Dec, 12, 2012
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My Food Philosophy
FOOD I live off of food. Our society and economy is reliant on food products in many ways. Food brings my family together. My food consumption has been developed and changed since I started eating. 1.) My family ate dinner and breakfast together nearly every day when I was growing up. My mother and father […]
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- Dec, 12, 2012
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Sit and Swing
Relax and take notes somewhere other than the library. Take a seat on our swings and enjoy your day.
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- Sep, 27, 2012
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The Alberta Tar Sands is … Mordor?
This an indirect way of using new media ( a popular film in this case) to spread awareness of environmental issues. The Tar Sands are being destructed and this was a major way of approaching the situation. The willingness of the director of the Lord of the Rings to put himself out there for the […]
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- Sep, 25, 2012
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Phone Story
Seeing as we, as a department of new media, have created many apps for the iphone, I thought this was an appropriate project to recognize. The yes Men use an app as a way to spread awareness about the child labor done to mine in foreign countries. http://www.yeslab.org/project/phone-story
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- Sep, 25, 2012
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New York’s anti-gentrification Green Guerrillas Descendants
http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/project/guerrilla-gardening As a response to the urbanization of large parts of the planet, people have been replacing the concrete and clay with lush gardens for purposes beyond the great beauty of them in the industrial landscape. This article caught my eye because it is a seemingly quiet protest or counter argument against the destruction of […]
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- Sep, 10, 2012
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Aquaponics
“Aquaponics houses an aquaculture and hydroponics system for farming fish and fresh vegetables.” This sustainable way of farming will benefit the future in many ways including, limiting emissions and farming in desert locations. Even though this is a design that lessens emissions, I would like to see a design that has no emissions. An even […]
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- Sep, 10, 2012
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