Protoprint is a social enterprise that provides waste pickers in India with low-cost technology to produce 3D printer filament from the waste plastic they collect. It was founded by environmental engineer…
Protoprint is a social enterprise that provides waste pickers in India with low-cost technology to produce 3D printer filament from the waste plastic they collect. It was founded by environmental engineer…
A powerful article highlighting a more nuanced view (beyond just economic hardship) on farmer suicides – one thing the us and india have in common at scale. “People engaged in…
Special operations veterans are not done serving. Transferring skills from military dive training, retired soldiers are responding to a different kind of planetary threat: the loss of critical ocean habitat. Force…
Samuel Smith on Twitter Co-op boss: “I don’t believe in leadership anymore”. #Leadership has become too complicated, instead he suggests “followership” is what wins hearts & minds and delivers biz…
The Japanese cosmetic giant Shiseido has partnered with Microsoft Japan and Skype For Business to create ‘Telebeauty’: an augmented reality app that applies virtual make-up to a teleconference user’s video image. …
Sandjar K on Twitter For only the 2nd time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 y.o is increasing in the U.S. 69% of the surveyed young…
GE is offering free online learning certificates plus guaranteed interviews to Massachusetts residents, through the online learning platfrom EdX.org. The offer is a collaboration between the platform, founded by Harvard…
madhumithaa on Twitter @FuturesCentre Interactive exhibition explores anxieties around automation in the workplace by imagining human-centred work in 2020 #signalofchange https://t.co/EVLBjk0kc2 TheFutureLaboratory on Twitter Mental Work Factory envisages the #future…
madhumithaa on Twitter @FuturesCentre – we know this already but still, #signalofchange? @_eam asks: AI/automation is moving so quickly, where are the checks and balances? https://t.co/JWEvQsd9mo Scott Santens: “Yes, doctors,…
Researchers from Stanford University created a ‘flash organisation’ to work alongside designer Daniel Steinbock to produce his new card game called True Story. ‘Flash organisations are a new crowdsourcing technique that…
Carol Brighton on Twitter NatureAtWork: Building #EcologicalInfrastrucure – Who wouldn’t take the stairs? #SignalOfChange #BiophilicDesign #EdibleStaircase https://t.co/RbochsW6hH Check out this edible stairway to heaven (or at least lunch) British designer…
Sandjar K on Twitter When people talk about the future of retirement, this is what I imagine. | Many older Americans are living a desperate, nomadic life https://t.co/s9Bgju5Pix #signalofchange