Organic Food Booth

Most OCAD students, who wake up early in order to make it on time for morning classes, rush out of their homes without eating breakfast. By mid-afternoon, students are hurrying to Village By The Grange, for a quick hunger fix at the nearest McDonalds, Yummy Yummy Noodles or Art Pizza. Granted these fast food restaurants are cheap on our student budgets, they obviously do not offer the proper nutritious balanced breakfast that our scholarly minds need. So, I propose that OCAD should set up an Organic Food booth that no only offers eco- friendly goodies but in a sufficient price that our lowly financial status can handle. From sandwiches, coffee, to muffins all eco-friendly mixes in biodegradable containers. Eco-friendly food is food grown, gathered, or harvested near the point of use.

Also, some studies have shown higher nutrient levels in organic fruit and vegetables compared with conventionally grown products. Most studies show that organic food is better for you because it lacks harmful dyes and hormones.

Did you know that if you consumed an average apple you would be eating over 30 pesticides, even after you have washed it?

Some more startling facts now. Pesticides in food have been linked to many diseases including:

Cancer
Obesity
Alzheimer’s
Some birth defects

Not a nice list is it? There are probably others but if you think about it, how can it be okay for you to eat chemicals and not expect some form of reaction in your body? Our bodies are delicately balanced wonderful machines. Any form of foreign chemical is bound to cause irritation at the least.

But there are added benefits to serving beyond mere health. By virtue of being fresher, the food looks, tastes, and lasts better than food procured by traditional methods of grow it elsewhere and transport it. By buying eco-friendly food we are supporting the local economy. Small farmers and ranchers are good for your community because their activities keep open space around your community that's good for ecological diversity and creating fresh air. Buy from them to keep them viable and your community diverse and strong.

Another benefit of buying food locally is that OCAD would be saving energy from transporting the food great distances. That lessens our dependence on oil, reduces air pollution, and decreases wear and tear on the roads. That's a subtle benefit, but one that benefits you in many ways.

And finally, locally grown and shipped food has reduced packaging, reducing OCAD’s landfill donations and associated trash fees.

Alexie Johnson

Great Advertising Book

For those of you that are in advertising and that are passionate about advertising, this is a great book to read to gain some knowledge on advertising. i just recently started reading it and it is excellent. The book is called "Cutting Edge Commercials" by Jim Aitchison. The book is available in the school library. However, there's only one copy and as i have said, i am currently reading it so if you are interested in reading this book, please let me know so i can be motivated to read quickly. :)
tata for now~

Danbee

Ayumi and Danbee's Big Idea --section 15

Here's Ayumi and my idea for the second part of "Making OCAD Greener" project. We are thinking of building portable ashtrays that can be placed near the smoking pit of our school in order to encourage our smoker students and faculty members to throw the buds away in this ashtray. we often see small buds laying everywhere on the side walk of our school and it is quiet disturbing. In order to prevent the smokers from continuously throwing the buds anywhere, this ashtray that is about 4ft tall will allow smokers to develop a habit of throwing the buds where they belong. This ashtray piece will resemble a human face with its mouth open. Every time someone throws buds into this mouth, the face will cough in order to send the message that smoking is bad and can cause cancer. This way people will be more aware of the negative aspect of smoking, and through this Guerilla tactic, we are hoping to get some positive responses. This piece will also be translucent so people will see how many cigarettes are being smoked every day. we are hoping this design approach will be successful. we will further explain about our concept during the Critique day. Good luck on your exams.

Danbee and Ayumi~

"Not Just Another Brick in the Wall"

Increasingly, researchers are establishing the correlation between indoor air quality and the productivity of workers as well as the health of individuals. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors. Health Canada estimates that Canadians spend more than 80% of their time indoors. In general, a significant proportion of this indoor time is spent within the home, with the time spent in workplaces coming in a close second.

We propose putting living wall system in the great hall of the school. A living wall is a wall system that essentially provides a vertical surface where various plants can be grown. Living walls filter air particulates, improving air quality and help to reduce the urban heat island effect (UHI). Interior walls clean the air and add humidity to the air to compensate for central heating in the winter.

We think adding a Living wall system would be a great addition to the OCAD environment. The improved air quality would greatly improve the health of students and faculty, and the increase of greenery in the school would certainly improve the mood of anyone who enters the building. All of which would improve the productivity of the students and staff of OCAD.

In our presentation we will detail the benefits of a living wall in our school. Also we will investigate the cost of installing such a system, and if it would be physically possible to incorporate a living wall into the existing architecture of the school.

Group:- Chris Fischer, Darrell Currington, Jenny Duong, Ashley D'Amato

One big idea

Patrick, Slav, Ivan Jesse

For our one big idea, it begins by modifying the inside of the Sharp center for design. We are proposing to add in suspended ceilings in all applicable areas in order to cut down on heating and cooling costs associated with the massive overhead space, currently only occupied by ducts and pipes. From this original idea, we were able to impliment a second, more personal idea, and a new way for students to share their work and become more intimate with the school. After charting out the layout of all the ceiling tiles and reworking of some of the piping (possibly only adding/removing some fittings) the students would be able to purchase a tile and display some of their work. Instead of just having the plain white ceiling tiles in normal office buildings, purchased tiles would be able to be designed by the students, large photos/paintings etc. (all moderated to make sure appropriate) and will encourage students engagement with the school's environement. We are in the process of working out the financial implications associated with such a project, but are also hoping that after the numbers are worked out, the energy savings and investment of the students would offset that cost, later generating an income if not simply a livelier more creative environment.

The OCAD Annual

Our Proposal:

We want to make OCAD a better place for students to network and gain valuable student relationships. As second year students, we find there is a serious lack of interaction between our peers, not just within our own programs but within the entire school. The sharing of ideas between artists and designers is truly important, and we are proposing to design an annual publication, highlighting the work of every full time student at OCAD of that year. This publication would be designed and created by the student body, and funded by the school, and possibly if needed an outside sponsor. This publication would be given to every student who contributed, as a resource to showcase, network, and to create a sense of community within the school. The process of creating this publication would be done over the internet, with a web-based template used by student to upload jpegs of their work. The size of the publication would be roughly 9" by 12", and proffesional looking enough that could be used in the students' portfolios. We will be researching the best sustainable way to produce this, as well we will be working out the costs. We are very excited about this idea, and look forward to developing it further, and showing you our results.

Rebecca Caswell, Danielle Sebastian, Bill Avgerinos, Sarah Lavoie

Green-Social Tabletop!!

I love the design of OCAD’s famous “tabletop” although I feel it is not reaching it’s fullest potential. As we have been doing numerous projects concerning the environment, I feel that the roof is a great opportunity to make a difference and boost OCAD’s Green Grade. We could utilize the tabletop to create what is known as a “Green Roof”. These have become popular is such cities as Chicago as they are a great way to make nature and industrial developments work together to make a difference in our environment. There are many benefits of the Green Roof including reduced city temperatures, reduced air pollution, improved rainfall runoff quality and a 40% increase in absorption of rainfall runoff that could lead to potential flooding. I also feel that OCAD lacks in area’s in which we can hang out and be social with one another. What better place to be than floating above the city on one of Toronto’s most bizarre buildings. I think this would be a great place to relax between classes while it would also bring great opportunity to be social and interact with each other’s creative minds.

ONE BIG IDEA

Judging by the comments of the class, it seems that there is a great need at the Ontario College of Art and Design for some shape or form of social outlets; that is hotspots in the school in which students can retreat to for social or relaxative purposes, escaping the harsh confinements of the classroom. From my previous travels and experiences at other schools, I have observed that the majority Universities in Ontario both have a main coffee shop, and a main pub; both of which act as landmarks for social interaction or relaxation. Some places even have several of these, and I feel that these are absolutely essential to one’s University experience. They fulfill the needs of all different types of students, from the caffeine-crazed mochaholics, to the professional party animals looking for good times to be had, and then of course, everyone in between. Therefore, I plan on constructing some sort of hypothetical solution to this huge problem here at OCAD, by finding locations for these places, and overseeing all aspects of their design according to research conducted from similar establishments, and also from my own hands-on experiences. More info soon to come!

One Big Idea: The EX-Space!!

Welcome to The Ex pace

We desire more excitement in our OCAD campus life!

We need some in-school activities that require physical participation, so that students or faculty staffs can enjoy in their spare time, and achieve the balance between physical and psychological exercises; and to form a more “humane” OCAD community. There should be no limitation to participants’ school years, faculties, genders, or nations; in that case, EVERYONE is welcomed!

Our group thought of using OCAD’s X-space as the OCAD EX-pace (Exercise-space) when it’s available, we’ll by setting up a few ping-pong tables or badminton nets. From our research, it shows that OCAD used to have one ping-pong table, but now it’s been taken away. These equipments will be easy to set up and store, so it won’t affect the events at the X-space.

We can either schedule 2-3 days in a week, to allow the access to the equipments, or we can schedule different activities on different days. For example: Monday 2:00- 8:00p.m. Badminton Club; Tue 2:00-7:00 Ping-pong club; Thursday 4:00-8:00 Dutch ball, etc.; and in-door soccer on Fridays.

The activities can also be placed in form of a mini-competitions or challenges. For example: video game champions; DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) dance king/queen; Best voice (Karaoke); The favorite dancer: hip-pop, breaking, ballet, jazz, cultural dance, etc.; or the Spring-bed jumper.

We also strongly encourage students to share self-invented games, such as the human-foosball that was set up in the Butterfield Park for last year’s interactive design class project.

Some other mini-games can involve Chess, Chinese Chess, Backgammon, and etc. These games train the problem-solving skills of our brain; allows the body to be peaceful; and would be a great opportunity to meet new friends.

In conclusion, In order to organize the equipments and schedules of the EX-pace, we’ve come up with the idea of forming OCAD Activity Council. The OCAD Activity Council will take responsibility of booking the available equipments, space and time; and most importantly, gathering OCAD’s favorite activities and games, and make them possible. Let’s bring our university campus to life!

Group: Winny Shen 2272763

Jenna Lee 2267805

A Sad Story....

Hi everyone,

Just a little tidbit of useless information that I thought I would share. It's actually close to my heart because it's taking place in the city I call home. When my family was in Mexico City, we lived in an area called Zona Esmeralda, in a 'neighbrhood' called Club de Golf Chiluca. It is a very affluent area because it is where all the expatriates who are in Mexico City because their company sent them there live, because it is close to the city but high enough in the mounts to avoid most earthquakes and pollution. All of the neighborhoods were built around these wealthy golf clubs, for people who could afford to build a home there.
Contracting and construction in Mexico is very different than it is here in Canada or the US. It is mostly done independently, so all of the houses were original designs, no two alike. And because people were building into the mountainsides and using the stone and form of the mountains as part of their architecture I mean really really different, not just different materials, and each a different color. People in Mexico paint there houses bright pink if they feel like it. Very colorful :) Bellow is the view from my old neighborhood, just so you have an idea of what the area was like.


I say 'was' because some new developments have moved in across the hills from where I lived. A picture is worth a thousand words:

These are part of a low income housing plan. Yay. I'm all for affordable housing, considering how many people live in cardboard boxes in Mexico. Unfortunately, these houses actually aren't all that affordable, and still only cater to the middle class in price. They are also ripping into the hills you saw in the first picture, to level out the space for these structures. I probably don't even have to point out that they are painfully ugly.

So thats my sad story for the day. I weep bitterly. But hopefully this will get you thinking about ways to prevent things like this from happening, or ways to improve on the idea for the future.

~Brenda

IDEA

I think it would be great if there is a place for listening to a good music and get relaxation in the school. Each student needs to be relaxed and get rid of his or her stress. So, listening to music and dancing for a short time might help us to back to our work, fresh and healthy, revitalized.

Music has the potential of stimulating or relaxing people, it can reduce pain, help us to organize our skills and thoughts, release our emotions, entertain us or just pass the time. It can reduce stress, balance our brain waves, deepen our breathing, lower our heart beat or organize our emotions. Do you know of any prescription that can do all of that – I don’t. But it can be addictive.You might get to the point where just listening to a particular type of music makes you feel at peace or happy. We know now that even the unborn child responds to music, so we play music while we are pregnant to assure a peaceful and healthy environment and existence in the womb. Healthy people desire a harmonic environment and the ill require one. Music helps the body return to a state of balance and harmony when everything else around us is out of order.

Composters! says Jenny Duong

My one big idea is that OCAD should start promoting the idea of having composters available on the streets. A lot of our waste consists of packaging and food. Why not take out the food component and make fresh soil for the planet instead? Also with biodegradable products becoing more popular, composters surely will come in handy.
If this was a possiblity I invision the idea of having colorful composting boxes to fit our school architecture.

ONE BIG IDEA

Making OCAD’s roof GREEN

The age of sustainable design has arrived. Professors at OCAD teach sustainability and the importance of such practice. Although the research from PART I of this assignment has shown that the facility itself and primarily its design does not 100% support the GREEN design.

The construction of the Sharp Center of Design allowed for a vast area of the rooftop of the structure. Although the space is underused and is not utilized to its fullest potential. The Green Roofing practices have become increasingly popular in Europe and some places in North America. Currently, there are even the whole cities where the Green roof practice is the primary issue when designing and constructing a new building.

So my main question and proposal of how can we make OCAD a greener and better place would be to propose the idea of Green Roof that will only benefit the OCAD’s community.

ONE BIG IDEA

My idea has to do with the solar energy. Solar energy is energy from the sun, in the lighting sufficient area, the solar energy supply continuously; the production process will not have any environmental pollution, it will not use any other earth resource or causes the global warming. Also the solar energy is a good energy similar to the water power or the wind power. If we have it on top of OCAD's roof, it will support the energy we use. However, it will be a big problem to afford so we have to do some fun raising or we can have everyone to recycle their useless stuff and exchange for money to help OCAD raise the money.

Green Roof - One Big Idea

For my groups project "Did OCAD Make the Green Grade" we did the OCAD building and I was incharge of the roof of OCAD. An issue that came up in our discussions with Peter Lashko, Director of Facilities Planning and Management was the Green Roof. He said that it would cost way to much and that OCAD cannot afford such a thing. I think that it would be a great asset to our community seeing as how we are an environmentaly friendly school. If we could think of a way to raise the money or something to make a step forward to getting a green roof that would be quite the accomplishment. I know that a few people in the class are interested in this project and we can gather all our information in class and find out what we need to do to make this work.

Vicky

One Big Idea

Hey guys

So basically my group Mike , Katie, and I ( Rob) have had many ideas on what we can focus on and improve for OCAD and its community, for example everywhere from having prizes in the yellow stair case so that we can encourage people to use it more and to also have a little bit of excercises, to ideas where the front doors can be replaced by revolving ones so that they can provide a sense of energy creation by having them turn constantly because of the in and out 's that students do. But our main idea we are focusing on now is using the display case around the school to be used to displaystudents work that has been rented out by them for a small fee so that they can have others enjoy it. Thats all for now , we'll have more in depth detail once the presentation comes rolling around.

thanks guys

Later
Rob De Laurentiis 2264760

Readings and issues for this week's Quiz

These are some of the readings and issues you should review for this week's open-book quiz, which will consist of some multiple choice, short answer questions, and one longer opinion piece:

Vultures Vanishing & Farewell to the Yangtze dolphin
Research Methodologies
Making the Green Grade
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream

Bring your notes and handouts. The quiz will be based on the readings we have discussed in class, the guest lecture by Toby Heaps, and the film 'The End of Suburbia' that we viewed in class.

The quiz is worth 10%

Agriculture in ocad

The addition of an OCAD run agriculture program would be an excellent use of resources considering the already constricting market for organic foods.

In simple OCAD should institute an official program allowing students to take a credit for free to grow various plants and vegetables of nutritious value. These vegetables would than be outsourced to the student population or markets around the school allowing for both fresh and expensive supply. Students would learn traditional growing methods including greenhousing techniques and agriculture. The overall benifits are limitless especially when looking into the future, and the expenditures unlike most ideas is relatively cheap. The only real investment being time.

My partner is Josh Derksen and Stephen Shoettler

For Those of You who are stressed!!

Hey guys,
I have provided something that is quiet important for 2nd year students like us who are overwhelmed and stressed by non-stoppable school workload.

Stress: The Silent Killer

Stress is a state of tension that is created when a person responds to the demands and pressures that come from work, family and other external sources, as well as those that are internally generated from self imposed demands, obligations and self-criticism.

Stress is both additive and cumulative. It adds up over time until a state of crisis is reached and symptoms appear. These symptoms may manifest themselves psychologically as irritability, anxiety, impaired concentration, mental confusion, poor judgment, frustration and anger. They may appear as physical symptoms. Common physical symptoms of stress include: muscle tension, headaches, low back pain, insomnia and high blood pressure. Untreated, these symptoms may lead to physical illness and sometimes death.

http://www.stressfree.com/stress.html


Like what it says in the article, stress can lead to death so lets try to enjoy our life and hopefully we will survive through our second year!!! haha

see you all at the distillery!!!

Danbee

ONE BIG IDEA (actually I have a few here)

Hi everyone, I have a few ideas that came to my mind:

First Idea: OCAD is moving into having entire school communication network mainly through internet. Our website is constantly growing, now we have MyCourse with all our course materials online, Student and faculty email is an essential tool to communicate between classmates and faculty members. Even this Think Tank Blog becomes this class' major place to exchange ideas.

My idea is to give the OCAD website a page that devote to green awareness, every student and faculty member can submit articles related to green design and art, people can also express personal thoughts towards any issues relate to green. This platform will act as a tool to inspire us as designers in practice to become more aware in green thinking. AND the best part is that by creating a green page we will continue to generate many more OCAD green projects/ideas, in the long run we will and can improve OCAD's environment drastically by having more people contributing their opinions!

Second Idea: Have OCAD's environment fills with things that made out of recycled materials, this can include chairs, benches, tables, garbage bins, light fixtures, wall treatments, space dividers, art works, etc. Every disciplines from the community can submit proposals, in that way, we can raise awareness of school green environment by infusing many different green possiblities in every corner of the school. A sign will be put beside each product/art work to give user some facts that relate to the materials used and other environmental issues. This will be present in a form of a permanent installation or exhibition in OCAD. "Everywhere I go in OCAD, I see Green"

Third Idea: Have art sale host once or twice a year for everyone from OCAD to sell arts that made from recycled materials to raise awareness in the community about thinking green, and also at the same time, raise money for any green projects that OCAD is working on.

If anyone interest in any of my idea, please join me to make this project happen!
leave me any comments you have. :)

ONE BIG IDEA

Brainstorming/researching for this project I've come up with a few ideas OCAD could use to improve their environmental standards.

For one, motion sensored lighting in the Sharp Center. I have lived in the highrise in Grange Park for two years and noticed that often times the lights are left on all night in forgotten rooms. I think a lighting systme that is highly sensitive to motion would be a good energy saver for this problem.

Secondly, in the summer when the air condioners are blasting, we could think about installing a deep water cooling system which draws cold water from the depths of lake Ontario into a piping system that naturally cools the building.....it would be like dunking the building in cold water the same way your dog might cool off by jumping in a lake.....since the building is already standing, I don't know much about retrofitting a system like this but these are ideas are preliminary-ish.

Thirdly, solar panelled roofing....it can't hurt to make use of the natural energy that comes our way everyday and I think OCAD should definately get on that.

That's all for now....see you in class tonight.
I'm working with Mike and Rob and they have some awesome ideas too but I'll let them speak for themselves:)
Cheers,

Katie Felton

Exchange what we need !!! (Assignment 3 part 2)

Hi, everyone.

We have a lot of "recycle projects (use recycle material to make a sculptrue, jewelry, model and so on)" in OCAD every year. My idea is find a room in OCAD to storage the recycle material we collected (been clean & packed). OCAD student can exchange anything they needed for their project. For example: 10 plastic bottle exchange 2 magazine/10 cans ... We can put anything that is recycle in order and students take turns to be the "storage room" assistant and organize this event.

I always find not enough material for my "recycle projects", such as i wan to use cans as my materials and i only drink ice-tea, that limits my materil color (if i want somthing red as coke cans). OCAD is an ART SCHOOL, most of the materials that we use are paper, we can also collected our used paper to make recycle paper and print our school advertisment on. This would helps people view us as "green school/ green artist" .



Starts form everyone of us !!! That's my idea for "OCAD GREEN" !!!

Thank you .

Planting Trees

Hey Everyone,

My idea has to do with making the interior of Ocad green. For example I think it would be a great idea to have a place were we can actually sit under the trees, thus I think we need to have trees planted inside of Ocad. This idea has been inspired by Sheridan College. If anyone has ever been to Sheridan College (Oakville Campus), one would specifically see a place next to the library were a huge tree is planted and the ceiling is made from glass, therefore it creates a great sitting place. This is my informal proposal.

Thankyou!

Assignment 3 part 2 - 1 big idea

one thing that instantly came into my mind when thinking about how our school could be improved was basically an idea of having a part of the school solely devoted to relaxation and getting away from the school's harsh interior. whenever i come to school i always see so many students constantly on their computers at the tables for hours and hours and they basically never get up to stretch or even rest, even though they are sat in front of a computer. also, the lighting and the interior design of ocad is quite harsh, and doesn't really create a relaxing or easygoing mood for students. additionally, all the various wires and plugs and things, especially in the ED and ID areas, add to the sterility of the building - i somtimes see students sleeping in such places which is very unhealthy as its not good for the body to rest amongst electricity and electrical outlets/products for a long period of time.

my design process teacher last year vaguely told us about how ocad needs a room where students could just rest, sleep and get away from the harsh reality of ocad. i think a small, enclosed area of the school, such as one of the presentation rooms that no one ever seems to use, could be redone into such a space, with cushions and muted colours and such, so students could go there just to catch up on some rest since school is so stressful. also, i recently found out that the scant physical activities/classes that ocad offer, such as dance class or yoga, are basically held in any random room that's available. this space could also be used for such purposes which i think would definitely promote student health and wellbeing at ocad. if students see that there's a room just to relax in and where people do such fun things as latin dancing and yoga, they would definitely take more of an interest in such an underlooked area of ocad life.

Field Trip - The Distillery Historic District

North America’s best preserved collection of Victorian industrial architecture is located in this historic enclave in downtown Toronto. Formerly the Gooderham & Worts Distillery (founded in 1832), The Distillery has been developed as a centre for arts, culture and entertainment. It is filled with galleries, artist studios and workshops, boutiques, retail stores, restaurants, bars and cafés.

Distillery Historic District is located at Trinity and Mill Street in the Parliament and Front St. vicinity. See the map for directions from OCAD or go to the website for further information: http://www.thedistillerydistrict.com/

Wednesday afternoon class:
Meet at Balzac’s café in Building 60 Trinity Lane at 3:00 on Wednesday November 14th.

Thursday morning class:
Meet at Balzac’s café in Building 60 Trinity Lane at 12:00 on Thursday November 15th.

We will be visiting various galleries, including: Jane Corkin Photography, Artcore, and Monte Clark, as well as the Deaf Culture Centre, and Lileo shop and gallery.

tech award!

heres some interesting stuff...
Id personnally like to know more about the water purification solution... and what P&G are going to do with it.

http://www.news.com/2300-11746_3-6217626-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

JUICE2: Making the invisible visible

So , I don't know if anyone did but i went to the Juice2 Lecture on Friday.
I went to
PETER JONES, Ph.D. Principal, Redesign Research Managing Partner, Dialogic Design lecture and here's what i got from it.

The first question that was asked to us was: what is Participatory Design or PD? Well PD is basically when you involve the 'user' in the design process. Creating this more effective dialog and design process. Process often used in creating a product.
So why not use Participatory Design to social issues? Dr. Jones goes into explaining how to conduct a PD for CCPs? (complex continuing problems. These problem are known to persist during the years and there is 49 CCPs in the world and they are mostly social issues) he suggest that we reunite all the element of a CCP in a room and by using a software that he works on, find solutions to these social issues. But the big challenge is not to bring the society leaders but the 'real' stakeholders in a CCP; the victims. In a situation where we are talking about poverty as a one of the biggest CCP, it is hard to bring all the poor people in one room.

My Footprint

	CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES FOOD 1.8 MOBILITY 0.1 SHELTER 0.6 GOODS/SERVICES 0.5 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3
	IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.8 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
	IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.7 PLANETS. I think I did this right :S

Aquafina Tap Water

To follow up with my presentation on bottled water, here is a link to an article outlining PepsiCo Inc. changing the label of Aquafina to state "Public Water Source". Click title.

Yes, tap water.

More on this later...

Student Publications

Hey Everyone!

If you were in class on Wed. then you might remember my idea. I think that the communication between the student body and the administration, as well as the entire OCAD community in general is in need of improvement. With a proper voice, the student body will be able to take more of a leading role in running THEIR school. I propose we start a proper student publication to showcase the voice of the student body, both through writing, art, and journalism.

If you are at all interested send me an e-mail at bg06ss@student.ocad.ca
~Brenda

appliance wattage for green project

http://www.flatheadelectric.com/energy/appliancewattage.htm

so thats the link for the appliances everyone, sorry bout the lateness :P see you all in class tomorrow! the Raptors lost.. terribly..

link!

hey guys heres the link to the video about advertisements/ billboards relating to my presentation on sao paolo

http://www.scenic.org/slideshow.mov


-angela

If everyone consume like I do, we would need 2.4 planet...?!

I consider myself as a very "green" person - always recycle any recyclable materials, reduce waste like paper or unnecessary purchase, eat unprocessed food, walk instead of drive if i can... But it turns out that if everyone consume like i do, we would need 2.4 planet... this is sad.. :( I guess I have to try much harder.

long overdue eco footprint results

food: 3.5
mobility: 0.4
shelter 1.2
goods/services: 1.6
total footprint: 6.7
.....
if everyone lived like me, we'd need 3.7 planets

Eco Footprint

Hey Everyone!

CATEGORY
FOOD 1
MOBILITY 0.7
SHELTER 1.6
GOODS/SERVICES 1.8
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 5.1


IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.8 PLANETS.

Josh's Eco Footprint

Food: 3.1
Mobility: 0.1
Shelter: 1.0
Goods: 1.1
Total: 5.3

"If everyone lived like you, we would need 2.9 planets"