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the filmmakers have captured an out-of-this-world aerial footage of a reindeer cyclone, where a threatened herd of animals runs in circles around the hunters as a formidable defense strategy.
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the collaborative defines their mission as researching, building, and advocating for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity.
the artist has been documenting the festival since 2014, capturing the unexpected driving artwork, as well as the passionate creators.
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the exhibition brings together a diverse array of tools, such as planes, chisels and saws, that have played an important role in the development of japanese architecture.
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By the way, sustainable is too broad a term to associate with any object! walking or having no bicycle is more sustainable, but we cannot achieve distances comfortably with walking! If this bicycle works with less maintenance for 20+ years then it is sustainable!! or close to it!
It is not sustainable for its material use and production techniques! Bamboo usage and local job production makes it sustainable!
Exactly what is “sustainable” about this bike? Powder coated steel, standard wheels and tires, pedals, chain… Even the parts that use bamboo are structurally made from carbon fiber and fiberglass – both come from industrialized chemical processes. I don’t think we’re going to save the planet on this one, guys.
Clever tube design, but I still have to call Greenwashing. The only remotely “sustainable” parts of this bike are the three bamboo tubes, and even those are lined with carbon fiber and glued to steel — meaning that unlike a traditional all-steel frame, this frame can’t be (feasibly) recycled. The rest of the frameset and components — which is the vast majority of the bike’s environmental footprint — is the same stuff as a regular bike. (No wonder they painted the rest of it black.)
I love green and US/local-made products as much as the next guy (probably more), and I do think the bamboo/carbon combo is clever. But people shouldn’t be deceived that this is appreciably greener than a regular bike. People would do the planet and local economy a bigger favor by paying their local bike shop to fix up an old/craigslist/junkyard bike. Then take the many hundreds of dollars they save over buying this and donate it to a job-training organization — or better yet, buy American-made green products.
What an amazing project.
A good and useful product which is also Environment friendly and creating jobs.