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Move over sun and wind power… the next
frontier in renewable energy is people power! And no, we don’t mean them
being used as in soylent green, but rather, to use the energy generated from
the movement of large numbers of pedestrians through an occupied space. If
you think about it, it makes perfect sense: people power is cheap and
plentiful. People are an infinitely renewable resource in a public space,
since they are moving around and coming and going all day long. We’re excited
to announce that plans are now afoot to take the heat energy generated by the
movement of human beings and use it to heat a train station in Sweden.
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The organically inspired work of Ma
Ke is an exercise in the power of poetry and one person’s mission to defy
the odds in the cut throat world of high fashion and garment production. The
experimental Chinese fashion designer has made a name for herself as a
flowering renegade in a country more commonly known for mass produced
textiles and cheap labor. Exception
de Mixmind, Ma Ke’s recent collection and art house label, uses
sustainable fabrics and materials that are intricately crafted by artisans at
hand looms in a studio awash with natural sunlight. Known to some as the
anti-fashion designer, Ma
Ke’s handcrafted pieces cover the gamut of having been buried in dirt to
having been awarded ‘Best
Asian Fashion Designer’ by Elle Style Awards during 2007.
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Tags: Ma, Ke, Exception, de, Mixmind, Asian, Chinese, fashion, designer, Wu, Yong, Useless, documentary, film, textile, garment, production, Chinese, labor
We love NAU and we love Ecolect (one of our recent holiday party cohosts). So it’s
natural that we’re wishing we were in the Midwest for the Ecolect “3rd Coast” launch party at the NAU store in Chicago.
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