Thursday, February 28, 2008

Your Personal Solar System

Tomorrow (Friday) I'll be giving my talk for the WE DONT KNOW WHAT WE DONT KNOW exhibition. Please stop by for a discussion on small-scale solar and veggie burgers cooked by car battery.

Adeetje Bouma will teach how to make
SUNNY SIDE UP
on February 29 1PM-2PM
Main Building Basement Gallery


Or you can try Instructables for some zany solar array ideas:

Monday, February 25, 2008

Enemy Kitchen

"Enemy Kitchen is an ongoing project begun by Michael Rakowitz in 2004. Collaborating with his Iraqi-Jewish mother, he compiles Baghdadi recipes and teaches them to different public audiences."
Read review in San Francisco Chronicle

Iraqi food and Turkish coffee will be made in-house (using artist's emailed instructions) and served to attendees. Tuesday, Feb 26th 10pm in Main Building's basement gallery.

















Just as organic food swept into grocery stores in the 1990s, Godsall is planning to line the lumber aisles of Home Depot and Lowe’s with underwater-harvested timber. He’s also talking to Ikea about an exclusive deal to provide wood for tables and chairs. And the Triton logo is becoming an “Intel Inside”-type seal that retailers can slap on products to attract green-minded buyers.

Click here for article...

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Parkingday.org




Conceived by REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks.

Lunchtime Lecture Series

This Monday at 12, Paul Foer will be this weeks guest at the lecture series. Paul will talk about city planning,public transportation and the question of "what exactly is sustainability anyway?"

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Sustainability Film Series

This Tuesday is the last night of the Sustainability Film Series. We'll screen Everything's Cool. It is a documentary that is specifically focused on the public and political perceptions of climate change. The director, Judith Helfand will be there to take questions after the film.

Heres a link to the films site for more information.

First flight with bio fuels...



it's just a gimmick...