next year they oughta at least nominate Jamais....
Concrete Canvas beats Plantic for
Saatchi's prestigious World Changing Awards!
Well Saatchi & Saatchi have given the 2005 World Changing Award (a shabby $100K) to Peter Brewin and William Crawford, the engineering team from London's Royal College of Art who invented the "Concrete Canvas"-- a quick install emergency shelter system. They took the prize over a dozen other finalists who included my favorite bioplastic company (Plantic), as well as the FROZEN ARK PROJECT (Nottingham University, UK) -- Plan to save the DNA of all Earth's endangered species, BIO-SOLAR ENERGY NANODEVICES (MIT, Cambridge, USA) -- Minute solar cells that use spinach to convert sunlight into electrical energy, JOT-A-DOT (Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia) -- The first real innovation in Braille writing in 50 years, A LENS-FREE OPHTHALMOSCOPE (Cambridge, UK) -- Simpler, much less expensive than traditional models, for carrying out accurate, highly revealing retinal examinations, SPLASHPOWER (Cambridge, UK) -- Recharges cell phones etc wirelessly when placed on mouse mat-sized pad., WIKIPEDIA (Florida, USA) -- Free-content, on-line encyclopedia, written collaboratively by volunteers worldwide, and a handful of other finalists. While David Byrne wasn't a judge this year, Philip Glass and Lou Reed were. The awards are still a little quite but I figure in a few more years these are going to be the academy awards of sustainability.....
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