What’s New Our newsletter is approaching its one-year anniversary! Look for some changes coming soon. On the blog this week, Howard differentiates efficiency from dMASS. In this week’s newsletter we examine the implications of population growth, share dMASS-Thinking examples in everything from fire extinguishers to band-aids, and offer the ever-popular weekly brainstorming exercise. World Population, [...]
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Business,
Economy,
population,
Resources
What’s New Our team has been on the road a lot lately! It’s been good to get out and talk to people about dMASS. There’s a lot of excitement and great discussion. We look forward to more conversations about incorporating dMASS thinking into designs, business models, metrics, and processes of various kinds. If you’d like to find [...]
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Green,
Materials,
reclamation,
remanufacturing,
reprocessing,
Resources,
reuse,
upcycling
The first week of the new year was a big one for dMASS.net: we launched our first video! If you haven’t seen it yet, take a few minutes to watch it now. “Design Matters: Doing Better with Less” is being described as clever, entertaining, hopeful, accessible, positive, fun & educational. It takes a complex subject [...]
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Design,
dMASS,
population,
Resources,
urban science
I had an odd banking experience during my last few days working remotely from Barcelona. When I received my rent deposit back – in cash – I went to my bank’s ATM and deposited the money without reading the screen prompts. After the machine ate my money, I started to panic a little. I wasn’t sure [...]
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dMASS,
money,
Resources,
time
We’re still thinking about pollution and resources as two separate things, as two separate problems, when they are one and the same. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill helps us see why. Pollution is nothing more than “lost” resources. Something as messy and devastating as the deep sea rig gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico [...]
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dMASS,
Pollution,
Resources
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