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Open to students and student-led organizations from around the globe, the Better World Challenge aims to inspire young innovators from multidisciplinary backgrounds to solve a social problem. This year, they are asking participants to re-imagine coastal communities that are now facing increasing threats of coastal erosion and climate change. The challenge: how do you build a better coastline? Open to creativity and ingenuity--we're looking for long-term sustainable solutions that go beyond traditional protective structures. The winner will recieve a $1,000 opportunity to work with the non-profit Save the Bay to advance their vision, a platform to showcase their idea to the Better World by Design community, as well as complimentary admission to their three-day conference (September 30-October 2, 2011) in Providence, RI.
For those of you who don't know A Better World by Design (also known as ABWxD), the're a Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design student-run conference that seeks to create tangible change through the use of design, appropriate technology, and social entrepreneurship. They had over 1,000 attendees last year--engineers, designers, entrepreneurs, scientists, architects, and politicians, etc. Core 77 called the conference "incredibly inspiring,” and Dwell Magazine featured them in an article entitled “How to Throw A Design Conference.” This year’s event will feature speakers including Rob Schuham of FearLess/COMMON, Mayor John Fetterman of Braddock, PA and physicist Wolfgang Feist, founder of the Passivhaus Institute.
See http://www.abetterworldbydesign.com/challenge.pdf for more info on the challange!
One of the buildings was Alexander Graham Bell's office and many of them are pre Confederation.
"The buildings, some of which date back to the 1840s, back onto what used to be a canal, and have as many as seven stories below grade. Goods used to be manufactured in the buildings and shipped to Buffalo and the United States, right out the back door. It is an important industrial archaeological site. But it has been neglected for many years, owned by various slum landlords and left to rot; last year the city expropriated all 41 buildings. Councillor Mark Littel says the demolition could start as early as today; cranes and bulldozers are moving in right now. They say they are going to build a YMCA there." Read the full article here... http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/the-greenest-brick-demolition-brantfo...
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