Resources
Tips and Tricks for Visual Storytelling & Sustainability Communication
Chipotle Veggs Out Locally
Food retailer Chipotle has an online animated map showing the…
Straw Bale Installation at MN Landscape Arboretum
A straw-bale bench and accompanying info-graphic is on exhibit…
Grocery Project at Art-A-Whirl
A work-in-progress of the Grocery project is showing at Art-A-Whirl…
The Eco-Savings of File Transfer
An Earth Day Campaign by online service yousendit.com calculates…
“Designing Our Way Out” at MCAD
Arlene Birt will present April 22 at Pecha Kucha night in a joint…
Tracing a Taco
'Tacoshed' tracks the journey (and miles) of all the ingredients…
Bush Fellowship Finalist
Arlene Birt is named as a finalist for the 2010 Bush Fellows…
Water Rights Exhibition
The 'Drinking Water Cycle' glasses are on part of the 'Water…
Year in Numbers
A local cafe has compiled a somewhat-visual depiction of their…
Measuring & Communicating Life Cycle course online
Sustainability: Measuring and Communicating Life Cycle online course through MCAD's Sustainability program - registration open.
Older News
2009
9.Dec.09 Arlene Birt named Artist in Residence at MEDEA…
Malmo MEDEA – New Media Artist Residency
Arlene Birt is artist in residence at MEDEA Malmö in Fall 2010, where she will collaboratively develop an interactive information design project to help people experience their social and environmental footprints: by making the ‘stories’ of these impacts visible and interactive – in the context of the city of Malmö.
Serving Carbon With Your Crackers
Carbon foot-printing has made its way onto the plates of people living in Sweden. These 'climate labels' list kg of CO2 per kg of product: which results in a decimal like .3498 or .7612. The problem with this approach is that it provides no frame of reference for the consumers to understand...
Visualizing Grocery Impacts – Artist Fellowship
Arlene Birt is selected for the 2010 Art(ists) On the Verge fellowship program for a project on Visualizing Grocery Impacts
Linking Everyday Gestures with Digital Details
Pranav Mistry combines standard, everyday gestures with digital information. His solutions -which include the SixthSense wearable computer - have potential to bring real transparency into sustainability, and enable people to literally immerse themselves in their own ecological footprints.
Carbon Footprinting Transit
Twin Cities Metro Transit now links carbon footprint data with…
Cell Size Comparison
This nifty flash tool from the University of Utah's Genetic's…
Tracing A Box’s Life
Colombia Sportswear is asking you to 'Consider the box' with…
Presentation for Packaging Sustainability
Short presentation for Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design launch party at MCAD.
Sourcemap for product ingredients
Sourcemap, developed by an MIT-based team, uses Google Earth…