Grocery Project at Art-A-Whirl

A work-in-progress of the Grocery project is showing at Art-A-Whirl May 14-16.

Artist on the Verge exhibit: works-in-progress at Art-A-Whirl
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS FLIER

The installation will display a prototype of a system to trace the origins of grocery purchases at the point-of-sale.

Preview:

New Media project in-progress at Art-A-Whirl
Grocery tracking project-in-progress installation
Close up of interface design for grocery project
Tracing a lunchtime grocery store purhase

In Development: And in-store tracking system that will map a customer’s produce, meat and dairy purchases. An accompanying online portal will allow deeper browsing into the background of the product’s origin.

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The Eco-Savings of File Transfer

An Earth Day Campaign by online service yousendit.com calculates the savings of using digital file sharing vs. printing, burning CDs and shipping.

Though a bit of a stretch to calculate environmental impacts in this fashion, it’s always good to see dynamically-calculated details on your own impacts (and those of all users of a service).

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CALCULATED SUSTAINABILITY SAVINGS