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The Macro & Micro of 3D-Printing

By Simon | Published: March 19, 2010
I noticed two articles today that are kind of linked in my mind. The first article if from inhabitat (“3-D Printer Creates Entire Buildings From Solid Rock“) is about what is basically a rapid prototyping machine for large stuff, like sculptures or possibly even buildings. This 3D Printer is built by Enrico Dini and basically  [...]
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Power Down Weekend: Results

By Simon | Published: December 22, 2009
Well the results of the power down weekend that I posted about before are in and it is the Queen Mother Building that has won by a significant margin. The results are available on the Estates & Buildings page describing the endeavour and are republished here. College Building Weekend Average use (kWh) Weekend 4th- 7th Dec (kWh) % Savings Life Sciences Wellcome [...]
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Power Down Weekend

By Simon | Published: November 27, 2009
I am not sure of the true value of this experiment but it piques my interest nonetheless. Over the weekend of the 4th-7th December users of a number of buildings on the Dundee University campus are being asked to turn off non-essential equipment so that the energy consumption of a powered down building over a [...]
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Living Buildings

By Simon | Published: September 29, 2009
Hot on the heels of a recent post about living bridges comes this story of architects in Germany who are looking at the use of plants as support structures in buildings so that houses and cities can grow “into the sky”. Their website discusses a number of projects involving using plants, often Willow trees, to [...]
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Institute for Computational Sustainability

By Simon | Published: September 29, 2009
Whilst away in the states earlier this summer I met a representative from the nascent Institute for computational sustainability (ICS). Computational sustainability is defined as an interdisciplinary field that aims to apply techniques from computer science, information science, operations research, applied mathematics, and statistics for balancing environmental, economic, and [...]
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  • Cult of the Green Man gathers news and ideas about green issues, green culture, sustainability, ecology, permaculture, and general veriditas related miscellany.

    The aim is to keep track of my reading and musing on topics related permaculture and sustainability which are increasingly of research interest to me as a domain of application for my skills in argumentation theory, agent software, and defeasible automated reasoning.

    I also love the outdoors, from walking, camping, hunting, fishing, and foraging, to gardening, keeping chucks and Apiary, right through to researching the myths of the green that underpin many of the folk tales told about the British landscape. Hopefully all of these aspects will get some attention on these pages in the future…

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