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Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles for Good Design
These have appeared in a lot of places, including Wikipedia, fluidui.com, and this rather nice version using a design of Rams’ to illustrate each point. I include them here for your reference and mine. Good design: Is innovative – Rams states that possibilities for innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development…
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Living Carbon Innovates with Charles Buchwald & Friends
We’re proud to announce the debut of another new site developed with assistance from CB&F. Living Carbon is a 100% non-profit owned carbon offset development company, specializing in conservation offsets—the ’100 mile offset.’ Living Carbon’s Briony Penn worked with lead developer and designer Charles Buchwald and others to create the design and site architecture. With…
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Salt Spring Farm to Table Catering: Live!
Saltspring local, chef and sommelier, Janelle Langford has been working with Charles Buchwald & Friends to develop a site that captures the flavour of her outstanding hospitality business. Salt Spring Farm to Table Catering is the product of 25 years of “effortless entertaining”, sommelier training, and “a touch of risk taking tempered by a poetic…
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Greenway Partners
Sometimes Facebook can actually be useful and productive. A case in point: I recently reconnected with a friend from Northfield High School. David Narum is a partner with Greenway Partners in Arcata, California, promoting and using regenerative design to go “beyond sustainability”. It’s great to find like-minded people working to reconnect people and the planet.
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Climate Action Day
Saturday, 24 October 2009, is the Global Day of Action for Climate Change. If you haven’t heard about it yet, please visit 350.org for just a few minutes, and read about the thousands of events around the world organized to bring attention to the threat of climate change, and to ask our leaders to carry…
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WOLF Kids: Live with CB&F
Charles Buchwald & Friends is proud to announce our latest web site development effort. The WOLF Kids school, here on Salt Spring Island, has recently debuted a site that is both a information portal for their program, and a communication tool for the participants in the group. The WOLF Kids program is a very exciting…
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Deep Ecology Workshop
Charles Buchwald & Friends staff will be attending a new workshop on Salt Spring Island this weekend. Here are the details: The Work That Reconnects: Discovering Our Ecological Self Sunday, July 19th “our pain is a measure of our love for our world” The Work that Reconnects helps us to connect with our deepest emotions…
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130% Wind Powered Servers
The computers that run all of our hosting here at Charles Buchwald & Friends can use a lot of energy. Despite the fact that the hardware we use is Energy Star compliant, it’s still a lot of heat and energy required to keep them running around the clock, every day. Now our servers are 130…
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The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
This exceptional video story has been online for several months, but it takes on new meaning in light of the current financial distress here in North America. Ms. Leonard has a particularly clear take on the system of consumption that is gobbling up our resources at an astounding rate. This has broad implications for our…