Israel's water shortages

In today's world, it seems like oil is the most important natural resource we have, yet people have forgotten that our source of life is water!. Water levels around the world are running low and people should become aware of this and take action for preservation!. This short clip shows Israels water shortage crisis and how it has now begun to create man made pools to store water for the near future.

Thesis proposal 1

Title:
Promotion of waste vegetable oil as alternate fuel for large diesel fueled vehicles.

Introduction:
Daily thousands of trucks, busses and delivery vans travel the roads of our city and province, this making the transportation industry responsible for a fair amount of the carbon dioxide emissions affecting us today. Status Canada shows that the transportation industry has grown dramatically since 2004, growing at a range of 5 % per year. The increase in the transportation industry also brings an increase in oil demand at times where the world has passed its peak oil point. Peak oil is the term for reaching the maximum global oil extraction and entering a rate of production decline. With oil supplies falling, humankind most find alternate and effective energy sources if it wants to keep up with demand and its way of living. Our economy relies extremely on oil for its survival; we use oil in everything from tires, plastic covers, and of course the transportation of food and other goods. This makes oil shortages as being catastrophic for our society. Finding more efficient alternate fuel sources can help slow down the demand for oil as well as drift from our need for it. There are plenty of new sources of energy in the works such as solar, wind, tidal and geothermal power, these are extremely environmentally friendly. Though these new energy sources are good for our planet, the only problem that they bring is that they are yet not strong enough to surpass the capabilities of fossil fuels. We are still far for finding a source of energy to replace oil, but some technologies can be used in certain aspects in today’s world that could lead to the decrease on oil demand. Looking at the transportation industry today, local vehicles that do not travel long distances can utilize alternate sources of energy thus reducing emissions and fuel demand. Many of the current buses, trucks and delivery vans run on diesel fuel, this engines posses the capacity to be modified under 3000 dollars in order to run on straight waste vegetable oil. This could is a good source of energy and can be acquired at low or even no price from local restaurants since these places must pay to get rid of this oil. This technology still requires the vehicle to start and turn off on diesel, but it multiplies the mileage per gallon of fuel and also producing lower carbon dioxide emissions.


Abstract:
Limited supplies, production decline and demand on the rise, we must find new sources of energy to counter our dependence on fossil fuels. The transportation industry is responsible for big part of this demand for it requires fuel to run on its daily basis. This project aims to the promotion of waste vegetable oil as an alternative form of fuel for diesel running transportation vehicles in cities and towns, aiming to reduce fuel demand as well as emissions.

Research question/problem:
Having experienced the wonders of waste vegetable oil as fuel (a friend has converted his bus and traveled to British Columbia with it). It was clear that this new source of fuel could be of great help to society for there are thousands of restaurants that need to get rid of their waste vegetable oil on the daily basis. My research question is how to promote the use of WVO as an efficient fuel source and how to properly promote this to an industry that will benefit from it. We are at a time where new sources of energy are crucial to our survival, so the need for an alternative source to an industry that relies on fuels for its operation is very important.


Audience:
The audience for this project would be mostly companies that use diesel fueled vehicles for their business. These companies can see great savings by converting their car fleets to waste vegetable oil; the cost of the conversion will pay itself at the end due to less necessity to purchase diesel fuel. One tank of fuel would last twice to three times longer than before for the diesel fuel is only needed to start and turn off the engine. These companies can be on a minor scale at first such as small delivery trucks, vans, etc.

Realization:
In order to realize this project, a full on research on the extent of use of the waste vegetable oil must be done. This information will come from first hand experience with people that have used the technology in the past. To properly promote the project, a full-scale campaign must be done. Posters, promotional pamphlets, a how to convert your car booklet and an informational website are the deliverables.

Learning outcomes:
The learning outcomes of this project would to increase my knowledge about this and other forms of alternate fuels that are already out there but yet not implemented, also to explore to what extent these sources of energy can be implemented in a small, medium or larger scale. Also my aim is to get on the track of promoting a more sustainable society with the use of resources we already have without the depletion of our planet.






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waste vegetable oil as fuel

Here is a short video on how waste vegetable oil from local restaurants can serve as fuel for diesel powered engines. A friend of mine actually did convert his diesel bus to run on vegetable oil and embarked on a cross country trip to British Colombia. So far the bus has ran 3000 kilometers on Waste vegetable oil.

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/science-channel/5061-invention-nation-vegetable-oil-engine-video.htm

ART & COPY

Very interesting documentary about the world of advertising. As graphic designers we also come to take part of this world so this documentary was a good watch. It follows stories of famous advertising legends about advertising, how it came to be and about creativity. The film touches into great topics such as morality when it comes to advertising. It explains how Nike, Budweiser, Apple, and brands as such went from advertising simple products to advertising lifestyles. Although many questions about advertising are raised during the film, that is all it does for not many are actually followed. On the good side it does implies that bad advertising has come to pollute the world.

Design process 2

After doing research on the utility assigned, I was able to become familiar with electricity, its uses and how we interact with it on daily basis (simple things just as just turning on a light, plugging something to the outlet, etc.) and also a graphic information that would allow me to create a graphic language for the utility.

Before developing a graphic language for the identity, first further research was done into the field of electricity providers. The research was made in a form of an identity audit. This process helped in seeing whats been done before, what things to take in account for, what not to do, a sense of colour pallets, etc.




This graphic language knowledge became very helpful in the next step of the project which was to create a logo for the utility.

Design process

So this semester has been long and well not much has been posted on here regarding my actual graphic design process. Thankfully for my graphic design class we have been working the whole semester on researching and developing an identity for an utility company for Toronto. There were four entities which were transportation, electricity, water and parks/recreation. The entity assigned to me was electricity.
The process for the development for this project began with no surprise a research on what the actual thing was and how we come into contact with it on a daily basis.





The second phase begins as a study of mark making of electric objects we interact with, these are things such as plugs, outlets, etc.

The death of the aral sea

Uzbek Orol a once-large saltwater lake straddling the boundary between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. The shallow Aral Sea was formerly the world's fourth largest body of inland water. It nestles in the climatically inhospitable heart of Central Asia, to the east of the Caspian Sea. The Aral Sea is of great interest and increasing concern to scientists because of the remarkable shrinkage of its area and volume that began in the second half of the 20th century. This change is primarily due to the diversion (for purposes of irrigation) of the riverine waters of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya, which discharge into the Aral Sea and are its main sources of inflowing water.
The Aral Sea depression was formed toward the end of the Neogene Period (which lasted from about 23 to 2.6 million years ago). Later the hollow was partially filled with water—some of which came from the Syr Darya. Toward the end of the Pleistocene Epoch (which occurred about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago) or in the early Holocene (after about 11,700 years ago), the depression was inundated for the first time by the Amu Darya, which had temporarily changed its course from the Caspian to the Aral Sea, and the rivers' combined flow maintained a high water level.
The Aral Sea area is characterized by a desert-continental climate of wide-ranging air temperatures, cold winters, hot summers, and sparse rainfall. The rate of precipitation—an annual average of 4 inches (100 mm) in all—is only a tiny fraction of the lake's traditional rate of evaporation. The most significant factors affecting the water balance of the Aral Sea are river flow and evaporation, which formerly took out each year about the same amount of water that the rivers brought in. Over the centuries, variations have exceeded 20 feet (6 metres), while annual and seasonal variations of between 10 feet (3 metres) and less than a foot have been recorded. In 1960 the surface of the Aral Sea lay 175 feet (53 metres) above sea level and covered an area of 26,300 square miles (68,000 square km). The Aral Sea's greatest extent from north to south was almost 270 miles (435 km), while that from east to west was just over 180 miles (290 km). Although the average depth was a shallow 53 feet (16 metres) or so, it descended to a maximum of 226 feet (69 metres) off the western shore. The sea's northern shore—high in some places, low in others—was indented by several large bays. The low-lying and irregular eastern shores were interrupted in the north by the huge delta of the Syr Darya and in the south were bordered by a wide tract of shallow water. The equally vast Amu Darya delta lay on the lake's southern shore, and along the lake's western periphery extended the almost unbroken eastern edge of the 820-foot- (250-metre-) high Ustyurt Plateau.
From about 1960 the Aral Sea's water level was systematically and drastically reduced because of the diversion of water from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for purposes of agricultural irrigation. As the Soviet government converted large acreages of pastures or untilled lands in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and elsewhere into irrigated farmlands by using the waters of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, the amount of water from these rivers that reached the Aral Sea dropped accordingly. By the 1980s, during the summer months, the two great rivers virtually dried up before they reached the lake. The Aral Sea began to quickly shrink because of the evaporation of its now-unreplenished waters.
By 1989 the Aral Sea had receded to form two separate parts, the “Greater Sea” in the south and the “Lesser Sea” in the north, each of which had a salinity almost triple that of the sea in the 1950s. By 1992 the total area of the two parts of the Aral Sea had been reduced to approximately 13,000 square miles (33,800 square km), and the mean surface level had dropped by about 50 feet (15 metres). The governments of the states surrounding the Aral tried to institute policies to encourage less water-intensive agricultural practices in the regions south and east of the lake, thus freeing more of the waters of the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya to flow into the lake and to stabilize its water level. These policies succeeded in reducing water usage somewhat but not to the level necessary to have a significant impact on the amount of water reaching the Aral Sea. In 1994 these same states—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—established a joint committee to coordinate efforts to save the Aral Sea. The difficulty of coordinating any plan between these competing states, however, has hampered progress.
By the end of the century the Aral had receded into three separate lakes: the Greater Sea had divided into a long, narrow western lake and a larger, broader eastern lake, with the remains of the Lesser Sea to the north. The level of the sea had dropped to 125 feet (36 metres) above sea level, and the water volume was reduced by three-fourths of what it had been in 1960. Almost no water from the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya reached the sea. In the early 21st century the eastern portion of the Aral suffered the most drastic and immediate decline—diminishing by some four-fifths between 2006 and 2009. Although the World Bank funded the construction of a dike that was anticipated to preserve the northern portion of the sea, it was expected that the entirety of the remaining southern portion—both eastern and western lobes—would be lost by 2020.
The rapid shrinkage of the Aral Sea led to numerous environmental problems in the region. By the late 1980s the lake had lost more than half the volume of its water. The salt and mineral content of the lake rose drastically because of this, making the water unfit for drinking purposes and killing off the once-abundant supplies of sturgeon, carp, barbel, roach, and other fishes in the lake. The fishing industry along the Aral Sea was thus virtually destroyed. The ports of Aral in the northeast and Muynoq in the south were now many miles from the lake's shore. A partial depopulation of the areas along the lake's former shoreline ensued. The contraction of the Aral Sea also made the local climate noticeably harsher, with more extreme winter and summer temperatures.
In the late 1990s an island in the Aral Sea, Vozrozhdenya, became the centre of environmental concern. The Aral Sea derived its name from the Kyrgyz word Aral-denghiz, “Sea of Islands”—an apt designation, as there were more than 1,000 islands of a size of 2.5 acres (1 hectare) or more strewn across its waters. Many of these islands have joined the mainland with the shrinking size of the sea. By 1999 the sea had receded to a level where only 6 miles (10 km) of water were separating Vozrozhdenya Island from the mainland. The increasing accessibility of the island from the mainland was of special concern because Vozrozhdenya had been a testing ground for Soviet biological weapons during the Cold War. In addition to testing done there on such agents as tularemia and bubonic plague, hundreds of tons of live anthrax bacteria were buried on the island in the 1980s. In 1999 still-living anthrax spores were discovered on the site, and scientists feared that when the island was no longer surrounded by water, land vertebrates could carry anthrax to populated areas.
The health costs to people living in the area had already begun to emerge. Hardest hit were the Karakalpaks, who live in the southern portion of the region. Exposed seabeds led to dust storms that blew across the region, carrying a toxic dust contaminated with salt, fertilizer, and pesticides. As a result, health problems occur at unusually high rates—from throat cancers to anemia and kidney diseases—and infant mortality in the region is among the highest in the world.

THOUGHTS:

This is a clear example how our way of living has impacted the planet at a large scale. Many people believe that global warming is not such a big deal as they picture it to be, but when massive lakes seize to exist we must open our eyes to the reality of things. Its infuriating how many people do not appreciate and acknowledge that the resources we have are only limited, if we keep living the way we live we are in for big trouble! WAKE UP PEOPLE!



MLA style:
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New energy sources

Energy, industry, sustainability, technology, environment.

Publication, animation, poster design, Information design, Educational design.


In the past half of century, humanities population has three folded increasing the demand for energy and natural resources in order to sustain our population. Energy sources such as oil and natural gas have been massively exploited and we are at the verge where a new and more efficient energy source needs to be found. The success on finding an alternate source that will comply to our needs can be a drastic event that will determine the survival of our species in the next half century. This need along with the push for diverting climate change from rising has motivated the exploration of new energy sources and our planet, which has seen our species evolve through thousand of years, has always provided for our survival. Nature is the ultimate source of energy and we must learn how to become sustainable by working with nature in a give and take relationship. The law of physics states that energy cannot be made nor destroyed but it can only be converted. There are unlimited sources of energy such as solar energy, tidal energy, wind energy or other sources such as biofuels. For the past few years I have become interested on exploring these new sources of energy and feel the need to bring awareness to the greater public of the possibilities each one of these has through different graphic design tools such as animations, educational campaigns, informational books and posters.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1. HOME - a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 2009 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
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HOME- documentary

HOME - a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 2009 ,
http://www.home-2009.com

This documentary looks at the story of our planet and the impact humankind has brought through since its appearance to the modern day. Through spectacular video imagery along narration the documentary is a must see. It raises concerns about the massive impact we as a single race have come to achieve, specially in the past century alone. It shows the scars we have implanted on our planet through the depletion of our natural resources.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

Cold not get the embed code for the documentary but here is the link.

Spains solar tower

This is something I came across a while back but have not got around to posting it. In a quick summery about the project, it is basically one massive harvesting field for solar power. It uses mirrors to reflect solar beams into a tower where that energy is harvested and then transformed into usable energy. Right now the project can create enough energy to power 10 000 homes while reducing 12 000 tons of CO2 emissions. When the project is completed by 2013 it will be able to power 180 000 homes.

THOUGHTS:
This is what I am talking about people!! we have excellent sources of clean energy provided by nature, these which are unlimited like solar energy. well maybe not unlimited since the sun will eventually contract and explode in millions of years, but we will have a good run at it until then!

Also here is a google video about the whole thing

Collapse 2009

Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst?

Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Lost Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current finacial crisis in his self-published newsletter. From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray.

Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate about the issue of "peak oil," the concern raised by scientists since the seventies that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Rupperts doesn't hold back at sounding an alarm, portraying an apocalyptic future. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded, and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.

Collapse also serve as a portrait of a loner. Over the years, Ruppert has stood up for what he believes in despite fierce opposition. He candidly describes the sacrifices and motivators in his life. While other observers analyze details of the economic crisis, Ruppert views it as symptomatic of nothing less than the collapse of industrial civilization itself.


Review by http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503769/synopsis




THOUGHTS: This documentary is a bit scary but it in a blunt way is an eye opener on how the system has been running for the past decades. Right now is a critical time for us to become more aware of these things and detach ourselves from the mass consumerist ways that have been planted into our culture. If we want to have a planet for our children and grand children to play on, we must stop idolizing consumerism and everything it stands for and begin to focus on nourishing a more sustainable way of living

Economical collapse

The worlds money and power are in the hands of a small portion of its population. This power delivered from the depletion of natural resources which after a hundred years of exploitation, they will not last too long. Humankind must find new ways of energy and change its way of life, leaving or modifying its capitalistic ways. When the capitalist system falls, which eventually will for the people can only be suppressed for so long, a certain way of revolution will occur. This is an example of this system failing and the people standing to the government claiming for a change.

Argentina's economic collapse



THOUGHTS:
So here it is, complete chaos on the streets! the system in place is weakening by the minute and if it goes the way it is going it wont last. Rich people can only keep taking from the poor for so long, once people revolt all hell will break lose! In order to avoid such a thing we must become aware and begin a move towards a better system where we live as brothers and sisters sharing this beautiful planet and its resources.

READING ASSIGNMENT # 2 NOTES

INVESTIGATING DESIGN: A REVIEW OF FORTY YEARS OF DESIGN RESEARCH

Nigan Bayazit

The paper begins with the question “What is Design Research” and a quote by L. Bruce Archer: “design research is systematic inquiry whose goal is to knowledge of or embodiment of configuration, composition, structure, purpose, value and meaning in man made things and systems”. The objectives of design research are the study, research and investigation of artificial things made by humans. Research is focused on making a contribution to the common knowledge. It explains the importance of the past and how design methods emerged into our design field. This road of research methods can be traced all the way to the 1920s with the Bauhaus and carried by its members such as Gropius and Moholy-Nagy. The term “design science” was introduced, this which would seek efficiency through minimal use of energy and materials. This shift towards research as means of producing and inventing was adopted from the military research efforts during the world wars.

During the 60’s it became evident to designers that they must shift from hardware and form to the consideration of human needs. Here the Nigan introduces design methods developed and he breaks them into two generations.

First Generation Design Methods

The influence of systems analysis and systems theory on design established the grounds for the development of systematic design methods. A new scientific approach to design method was delivered; Design Science. This called for implementation of scientific approaches to artificial disciplines (developed by humans). Research became common in Europe and The U.S, people were looking at rational methods of incorporating scientific techniques and knowledge into the design process to make rational decisions. Design was to be scientific and the designer had to start by analyzing human behavior to derive qualities, quantities and relationships. Many conferences took place showing the interest of designers to adopt these scientific research methods.

The second-generation design methods defined design problems as “wicked” and finding appropriate solutions for such would create new problems to be solved. This new generation allowed newcomers to find new ways for themselves and find methods that would meet the realistic requirements of the real world. User involvement began to compensate for the inadequacies brought by the previous generation of research methods. The success of such research depended on the designers’ awareness of the user values and therefore he must now seek collaboration with social scientist and anthropologist to carry out adequate design research. Many of the research studies were done under the fields of architecture and engineering due to Europe’s need for reconstructions. When the 90’s came around, design researchers and design methodologist were working in the field of computer-aided design and developing their methods in relation to architectural and engineering design problems. Significant growth in all areas of design took place during the nineties due to new professional demands on design research.

THE PROBLEM: THE HEART OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS.

The problem or question is the axis round which the whole research effort revolves. The heart of every research project is the problem. These problems are everywhere, research is related to the ever expanding and exploding universe of knowledge. Research projects are for the upheaval of basic knowledge about different phenomena. Research projects can be divided into two; basic research which focuses on bettering the theoretical conceptualizations of a particular topic, while applied research informs human decision making about practical problems. The dividing line for these two concepts is a very blurry one. Research projects take a lot of time and energy therefore it is important that one is passionate about the subject being studied. The goal is to make a difference and advance frontiers of knowledge through research, collection of data and the interpretation of this data. Research projects are not for achieving self-enlightenment, compare two sets of data to determine a relationships between these data, or problems that can be answered with a yes or a no are not considered appropriate research projects. These do not fit the condition of benefiting humanity of knowledge for the better good.

To identify possible problems of research one must first look around since problems are everywhere and then inform yourself about this topic. Information is widely available and it sheds insight on what has been done or what needs to be done in that field. The article suggest attending professional conferences in order to build contacts and to ask professionals for a better insight of what is needed to be done. Ultimately one must be passionate about the topic being researched as well as have it be interesting and worthy of attention of the greater masses.

Through the design process one must keep asking the question of what am I doing, where am I going. To help this, researchers must first state the problem in clear manner in full sentences that could be understood by everyone. Also areas of study must be limited to a manageable size. If a researcher cannot clearly express his problem, people might question his/her abilities to collect and interpret data. Researchers are encouraged to edit their work in order to clarify their righting and improves your thinking.

METHOD DESIGNING: THE PARADOX OF MODERN DESIGN EDUCTATION

Jessica Helfand begins talking about the revolution in theatre by introducing a new theory of training for actors where they would draw from their own emotions in order to understand and portray better the characters. She used to be an actress and now in the field of graphic design she uses this analogy to describe the paradox of modern design education. Students are encouraged to engage the audience in the same manner, but they have been allowed to appropriate some part of this method acting, which glorifies feeling and celebrates vanity; the part that amplifies personal memory and replays it as objective truth and are misplaced as graphic design. Students frame the interpretation of visual form and come to believe that the every interpretation its itself the form.

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