Fairfield County Makers’ Guild Fosters Creative Community
The Guild members renovated a long-unused space near batting cages, then pooled their own money to furnish the new home with all the essentials.
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Emulating Ecosystems: A Story About Beer
Businesses interested in meeting environmental sustainability goals can learn a lot from ecosystems. Functioning ecosystems are closed-loop systems, where one organism’s waste is another organism’s food or building material. An example of such industrial ecology is the ZERI beer brewing system that replaces the “make, take, and waste” linear resource stream with a circular system in which waste is treated as a resource rather than as garbage. This is biomimicry at the system scale.
Community for a Healthy Makerspace
Occasionally, I’ll visit a frustrated makerspace. “We have a space. We have tools. Where are the members?” They describe how they’ve put energy into the physical aspects of the space and say nothing about the community building aspects.
The “Factory of the Future” is Here Today
Shapeways announces the opening of a Factory of the Future in Long Island City, Queens. And Mayor Bloomberg announces the launch of New York’s Next Top Makers competition.
World Maker Faire New York Community Meeting Tomorrow
Join the World Maker Faire team and NYSCI staff tomorrow evening from 6:30-8:30PM at Collab on Hudson Street in Manhattan for a NY Community Meeting.
An Aussie Maker Faire
Austrailia’s very first Maker Faire is happening next Saturday, January 14th, at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
Feltique Wool Crafting at Cast Away
Yesterday I spent the afternoon making felt and sharing projects from Feltique at Cast Away Yarn Shop. I met the most wonderful people, and had a great time explaining the finer points of needle felting. I’d love to hear in the comments section about your favorite events, past or present, for making crafts with your […]
