Michael Mandiberg

The New York Times covers the New Amsterdam Bike Slam. We won hardcore. We proposed angle in parking, charging for street parking (!), bike ferries, multimodal transport, passive visibility through retroreflective coatings, secure centralized bike storage, a bike school bus (where a leader comes by and picks up all the kids on bikes and [...]

Watch the whole thing. Or at least the first 12 minutes. Its worth it. Fascinating. It is so familiar that I feel like I was shown this in grade school… alongside Powers of Ten.
Some things have changed since Ulrich Franzen made it: waterfronts are now viewed as more precious potential [...]

My environmental focused plugins are included in the exhibition End of Oil at Exit Art. The opening is this Saturday, June 13th from 6-8. The exhibition runs from June 13 – July 31, 2009.
A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics) , The End of Oil is an exhibition of photography, prints, videos, installations and new [...]

Tiffany Holmes asked me some questions recently about The Real Costs, in preparation to write about it in her dissertation.
How many website hits to date for Real Costs?
How many downloads of the software (.xpi)?
To be honest I hate counting hits and downloads. It inevitably reminds me of popularity contests and other things that are [...]

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The Green Marketing page on Wikipedia. Objectively chronicling the pursuit of the various marketing associations to make a greenback of the green movement(s).
Into this page on Green Marketing, some wikipedian has inserted images of Green Markets. AKA Farmers Markets. A wonderful, willful misunderstanding of a pun.
I first noticed this [...]

Oz Etzioni’s Unrecyclable logo won the Eco-Vis Design Challenge last (last?) year. He recently made the image available under a Creative Commons license.
We made a couple hundred of these for the exhibition, and they were gone on the first day. Now you can make your own. if someone gets some printed, send [...]