Compost Mobile BOARD 3 @ 100%: Defining the Place
BOARD 3 @ 100%: Defining the Place | Miami-Dade vs. Miami Beach | Demographics and Housing Typologies Miami-Dade Miami-Dade’s residential areas are typically made up of single-family home neighborhoods. A good example of typical neighborhood is the Village of El Portal. Located North of Little Haiti, the Village of El Portal has put its efforts [...]
Student Report: The 2nd Greater Everglades Community Food Summit 2011 – An overview
Attending the second day of the Greater Everglades Community Food Summit Gathering was an exciting experience. Natalie Zend, an independent facilitation consultant who facilitates leadership skills for a sustainable future, led many local enthusiasts came together, hoping to make the area a better sustainable community, to talk about issues that they wanted to bring to [...]
Post 5: Compost Mobile – Board 1 @ 100%
The CompostMobile Reaseach Team is in the process of creating a series of instructional pamphlets in order to explain the purpose the food scrap collection program we’re launching in Miami. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments [...]
Post 4: Compost Mobile – Board 1 @ 50%
Our first board describes what composting is, how it works, and what are the benefits of composting. We are trying to integrate the three topics into one board in order to present Composting in its totality. This board is our first attempt where we were able to define different types of composting and show how [...]
Post 3: Compost Mobile – Thinking Graphically
Designing a presentation that defines the problem in order to create an efficient solution to Miami’s Waste Management inefficiencies, which could possibly set a standard for other cities and inspire them to implement composting programs. The first problem we found is that the issue of composting is lacking in awareness, leading people to the notion of composting as [...]
Post 2 Compost Mobile: Preliminary Questions
Both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website and CalRecycle.com state that the main problem in the solid waste stream is the amount of organic waste that is being sent to the landfills. This amount is inefficient because biodegradable waste in landfills makes the decomposing process generate greenhouse gases. According to Resource Conservation section on [...]
Post 2 Micro-Lending: Preliminary Questions
Micro Lending supplies loans and basic financial services to people who are less fortunate. These financial services allow people to find financial stability in their lives and help them in finding employment. Over the last few decades many agencies have been providing credit to people living in different communities around Brazil (one of our case [...]
Event: Sketch&Ride#3: Opa Locka
Sketch&Ride is a series of outreach bike rides organized by Up-Lab with the participation of local community groups and Miami residents. The goal of the ride is to bring community awareness to Miami residents through bike rides through a variety of neighborhoods of Miami and through the act of sketching architectural and urban landmarks of [...]
