Comments on: Ecotonoha

Ecotonoha

anathema — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 09:28:11 -0800

Ecotonoha: Grow a virtual tree with words and NEC plants real ones. [via Cool Hunting]

By: gwint

gwint — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 09:45:28 -0800

By: ZippityBuddha

ZippityBuddha — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 09:57:55 -0800

Beautiful flash and a worthy project -- interesting to see the different things people write on their leaves (including mash notes; better than scratching their initials into real bark). The 2003 fpp said NEC will only plant trees according to signatures received until Christmas '03, but the site says they project runs until December 2004, although it may be cancelled at any time. 609 trees have been planted so far this year, apparently.

By: anathema

anathema — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:00:30 -0800

Heh. For some reason I only searched the past year.

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:40:31 -0800

...a worthy project I hate it when corporations sponsor things like this. The Eddie Bauer store here in Victoria unfailingly asks you if you'd like to add $2 (I think it is) to your bill so that they can plant a tree. What do they put your purchase in? A humungous paper bag.

By: vorfeed

vorfeed — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:16:49 -0800

The Eddie Bauer store here in Victoria unfailingly asks you if you'd like to add $2 (I think it is) to your bill so that they can plant a tree. What do they put your purchase in? A humungous paper bag. So, they give you a shot at replacing the bag you've just used, instead of just wasting the bag like every other store does... and this is somehow bad?

By: Evstar

Evstar — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:35:31 -0800

In terms of ozone renewal, wouldn't it be more productive to regenerate our lost algae and wetlands?

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 15:52:22 -0800

So, they give you a shot at replacing the bag you've just used, instead of just wasting the bag like every other store does... and this is somehow bad? Yes. It's smoke and mirrors and 'feel-good' marketing. It has nothing whatever to do with sustainability. Forests have a more important function in the environment that simply supplying Eddie Bauer's with cheap packaging material.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 05:14:49 -0800

The tree is beautiful, and so are the messages. (Good example of how an interface influences content posted through it.) And I really dig the music. It's like being at Epcot center, only much better. (Though I did just drink some tapwater...)

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:23:49 -0800

I agree with Tlogmer -- the sort of effortless artfulness and good design I'd think to find in a science center artist-in-residence project.