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Sustainability
Bookmarks
100R: Off the Grid
100R (Rekka and Devine) document their off-grid life aboard sailing vessel Pino — covering water, power, cooking, heating, and internet under severe constraints. The core principle: halving your requirements is equivalent to doubling your capacity. Practically useful and philosophically coherent.
Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy
NYT investigation into the massive energy waste inside data centers — servers running at 6-12% utilization, backup systems idling on standby, cooling systems sized for peak loads that rarely arrive. Exposed the gap between the clean, efficient image of cloud computing and the physical reality.
Sourcemap: Where Things Come From
Sourcemap mapped the supply chains of everyday products — tracing where components come from, how they're manufactured, and the carbon footprint of each leg. An early attempt at supply chain transparency as a public tool.
CO2-Eating Algae Lamp
A biochemist created a lamp powered by living algae that absorbs CO2 and produces light via bioluminescence. A striking proof-of-concept for biological energy systems that simultaneously sequester carbon and generate illumination.