Design for Change equips children with the tools to be aware of the
world around them, believe that they play a role in shaping that world,
and take action toward a more desirable, sustainable future.
On Juli 12, 1895, American American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was born. He is well known for numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, including the widely known geodesic dome.
WattzOn allows you to measure the amount of power needed to support all of the aspects of your lifestyle. By calculating every impact in watts, all the varied choices made in your life can be directly compared - including actions that happen on markedly different timescales. Measuring in power rather than carbon emissions also recognizes that there are not enough remaining fossil fuel sources to support the energy needs of the world. Not limited to activities, you can also determine the impact of your belongings through the embodied energy database. WattzOn is opening up the assumptions, the methodology, the mathematics, and the data to the entire community -- we can argue, modify, tweak, and eventually reach consensus so that WattzOn's power estimates improve over time.
I live in the country, but my latest life choices have also involved living in miniature spaces—which presents an additional set of challenges, both to the soul and to practicality. For the last three years I’ve shared a one-room cabin with a pack of
a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"