Design for the departed: An interview with Parting Stone’s Justin Crowe – Local Affiliations

For a long time, cremation has been considered as a taboo for the religious, a choice not many would take. In the 1980s, the cremation rate was just below 10%, but over the last few years, the US has seen it slowly taking over traditional burial. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, cremations account for 50.2%… Read More Design for the departed: An interview with Parting Stone’s Justin Crowe – Local Affiliations

12/09/201902/22/2022 Caris Avendaño Cruz1 Comment

S.A.R.E – Self Assembling Robotic Environments

By, Michael Jantzen S.A.R.E is a conceptual design that explores ways in which artificial intelligence and robotics can be used to create new kinds of physical spaces. This particular design consists of one eight by eight by eight-foot box and one eight by eight by twelve-foot tall box. Each of the boxes has been divided… Read More S.A.R.E – Self Assembling Robotic Environments

11/06/201901/28/2021 Adriana Siso2 Comments

Lesson Plans For Bringing Tower Garden to the Classroom

Fall is finally here, and the school year is in full swing! Teachers — we know you’re well aware that with a new school year comes new opportunities and inevitable challenges. Whether it’s finding a new, refreshing way to engage the class, or making a daunting subject matter approachable, you may be looking for a… Read More Lesson Plans For Bringing Tower Garden to the Classroom

11/02/201902/09/2021 Adriana Siso

How Urban Farms Support the Healthy Living Movement – Tower Garden, a Molecule Store partner

A full 90 percent of the U.S. labor force worked on a farm in 1790.1 By 1860, that figure shrank to 58 percent. In 1940, it dropped to 18 percent. And in 1990, less than three percent of workers helped produce our nation’s food. As our number of farmers decreased, we witnessed an increase in the consumption… Read More How Urban Farms Support the Healthy Living Movement – Tower Garden, a Molecule Store partner

11/02/201902/22/2022 Adriana Siso

The tragedy and remedy of paper

One of man’s most important inventions is a flimsy sheet of wood pulp that became the heart of human’s first long-distance communication, among its many other uses. Of course, there have been various writing surfaces used beforehand—tortoise shells, wood, parchments, anything where the ink drips and stays like a warning sign for others to read.… Read More The tragedy and remedy of paper

10/30/201907/09/2021 Caris Avendaño Cruz

Fit to eat: the case of edible foodware

Single-use plastic cutlery has changed the way consumers eat outside their homes. Convenient, yes. But for the better of the environment? No. Plastic Pollution Coalition reports that America alone uses 100 million pieces of these plastic utensils per year—a large percentage that contributes to about 270,000 tons of plastic waste produced globally. Six million tons… Read More Fit to eat: the case of edible foodware

10/17/201907/09/2021 Caris Avendaño Cruz

Eyes on Mars: Humanity’s Venture in Conquering Space

Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin has already said it: humans should be on Mars. It could be a stone shot in empty space—a far-flung daydream. Or it could be a vision of the future, one that will give earth-dwellers an alternative before the planet succumbs to a crippling disease brought about by climate change. What was… Read More Eyes on Mars: Humanity’s Venture in Conquering Space

09/24/201911/02/2021 Caris Avendaño Cruz2 Comments

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