Visualizando Dependencia del Petróleo

Posted by Lluis Sabadell Artiga at August 08, 2011

Story of Bottled water is another interesting video made by Annie Leonard who has became very famous with her excellent and successful Story of Stuff.

Posted by Lluis Sabadell Artiga at August 06, 2010

Os presento este vídeo genial del artista Alexandre Orion que realiza un graffiti limpiando la suciedad pegada a una reja de una carretera. Sería de hecho el arte más ecológico que además de no consumir (a parte de los trapos y e agua) mejora el entorno y por lo que se refiere a la temática POC pues es una manera muy interesante de visualizar la polución generada por el consumo de petróleo... Ah! y no os perdáis el final del vídeo con la…

Posted by Lluis Sabadell Artiga at May 06, 2010

Now you can be the protagonist of the petroleum era: explore and drill around the world, corrupt politicians, stop alternative energies and increase the oil addiction. Be sure to have fun before the resources begin to deplete. Play Games at AddictingGames

Posted by Lluis Sabadell Artiga at April 07, 2010

Living in the suburbs often looks like the cheaper housing option—until you factor in the cost of transportation, that is. The Center for Neighborhood Technology has an amazing online tool that maps 161,000 American neighborhoods and adds the transportation costs to the housing costs in a given place so you can see how affordable (or not) the far-flung exurbs really are. In the lefthand map above, the yellow areas show where housing is less than 30 percent of average income and…

Posted by Lluis Sabadell Artiga at March 26, 2010

Oil Standard is a web browser plug-in that converts all prices from U.S. Dollars into the equivalent value in barrels of crude oil.  When you load a web page, the script seamlessly inserts converted prices into the page. As the cost of oil fluctuates on the commodities exchange, prices rise and fall in real-time. Oil Standard is a work by Michael Mandiberg a Brooklyn based artist, programmer, designer, educator, and bicyclist.

Posted by Lluis Sabadell Artiga at March 26, 2010

Real Costs is a Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce websites. The first version adds CO2 emissions information to airfare websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, etc. Following versions will work with car directions, car rental, and shipping websites. Think of it like the nutritional information labeling on the back of food... except for emissions. How Real Costs Works: Experience the project by installing the Real Costs plug-in into your Firefox application. Currently, this plug-in pulls each flight…

Posted by Lluis Sabadell Artiga at March 26, 2010