December 2009
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Happy Holidays!
Modern Evolution wishes you a very happy holiday season!
Illustration by the great Charley Harper from a vintage card:
It’s the night before Christmas and from up on the rooftop you hear such a clatter that you spring from your bed to see what’s the matter. You were expecting maybe Claus? It’s paws—a pack of raccs fleeing the flue, decking the haul from an untimely...
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“It’s not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?”
– Henry David Thoreau
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COP15: Behind the logo
As world leaders meet in Copenhagen this week to hash out the future of our planet, an interesting post from earlier this year discusses the COP15 logo design process:
The design is based on graphs of scientific climate data, showing predicted temperature changes, and there are 192 lines, one for each UN member state.
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Inside Trek Bicycles
The folks over at LimitedHype have an excellent post with tons of photos from their recent visit to Trek Bicycles in Waterloo, Wisconsin.
Having arrived at around lunch, we also noticed that the healthy lifestyle is really apart of the culture there. It seemed like everybody was coming back from a run, ride, yoga class or cafeteria with salad and water.
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The New York Times Magazine has a great new feature full of interesting little write-ups on the best innovations of 2009. Titled The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas, all of it is really well-designed and illustrated, just as online information should be (but rarely is). You can navigate through the ideas alphabetically or with handy tags & icons in Business, Design, Natural Science,...
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
It would be a shame if I posted the Chris Jordan photos in the previous post without also including this great infographic from GOOD magazine. It’s all about the Pacific Gyre, a large patch of floating plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The plastic is loaded with toxic chemicals which get into fish, birds, other wildlife, and ultimately in humans as we eat those animals....
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Midway by Chris Jordan
Photographer Chris Jordan has been making quite a name for himself by documenting the disturbing impacts of human consumption. His latest work, Midway: Message from the Gyre, is a series of albatross chicks taken on Midway Atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The birds are all filled up with garbage, just as he found them. Pretty nasty stuff.
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