Hello! (mods please don't take this down)

I'm a current UC Irvine student working on a project for one my classes. One of the criteria's is to get community feedback and I thought I'd ask on here. My project involves designing a product to help clean up beaches. My partner and I have done some in-person observations and have noticed that the most used item to pick up trash happens to be the claw grabbers. We've also noticed that many people's arms get tired really quickly and stop using them. We are trying to design a rolling device to make it easier to pick up trash (think of the tennis ball wire picker upper).

We were hoping on some feedback on issues you've noticed while volunteering/picking up trash on the beaches, sharing your experiences, and any other feedback in terms of improving the product. Thank you!

My name is Ashwani Jain, and I am a Democrat running for Congress to represent Maryland’s 6th Congressional District which includes Northern Montgomery County as well as Frederick, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett Counties.

While I would be the first Millennial and first Asian-American ever elected to represent Maryland in Congress, I am specifically running because I have comprehensive policy solutions that will open the doors of opportunity for our community.

This is an open seat with no incumbent, and Maryland's Primary election is on the 14th of May.

My top policy priorities include:

• Removing the influence of corporate money in politics and campaigning.
• Making public college free as an investment in our future.
• Establishing a system of Medicare for All which includes access to reproductive health.
• Increasing the minimum wage to $26 by 2030 to account for inflation, cost of living, and productivity.

Please feel free to ask any questions regarding my policies, the Congressional election, my experience campaigning, or anything else!

You can find out more at JainForCongress.com or at my Subreddit r/JainForCongress

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Hello everyone! I am a senior at Southern Oregon University and I am currently working on an environmental capstone called "The Anderson Clean-up Project" with another Environmental Science major, Ryah Hale. Our goal is to lead a volunteer based clean-up of Anderson Butte and document the waste removal process. We are currently fundraising to cover important safety and waste removal needs and any donations would be greatly appreciated. We are also looking for individuals who are interested in volunteering for the clean-up on the weekends of the 6th and 13th of April. Your support is crucial to our success. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or if you are interested in volunteering. Thanks! Anderson Cleanup Project

This survey has now been closed, thank you for your interest!

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[Hello!

I’m currently working on my Product Design Degree Major project.

I created a survey about an imagined scenario regarding the purchase and consumption of an on-the-go value meal deal for lunch (such as the ones found in the UK) - typically containing a Main, a Snack, and a Drink.

My goal is to design a sustainable alternative, but I need your help to find out what you need so that together we can make a difference!

Here’s the link: https://forms.gle/rohNRorqGEdhVGLZ7

If you have a few spare minutes, please consider taking the survey, and sharing it with others!

Thank you!]

Sustainability startups in the food industry

Hey guys,

I need your help.

I’m working on my last year university thesis 🥲

The topic is asks how food companies like restaurants, supermarkets or producers can adjust to EU policy (Green claims initiative) to analyse their food product emissions and make that information accessible to the everyday buyer

I think that new startups like CarbonTag or CarbonCloud who have developed massive databases to show this data and also help all these businesses reduce their CO2 footprint in the long run are very cooll!!

I’m not sure if I should commit to this topic and use the case study or if this is too unrealistic

Can you guys help me? What do you think of my business (startup) choice as a case study?

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Hi guys, this is a little survey for my university coursework. It should take less than 2 minutes to fill out if you want to. It would be a big help to me if you did. its looking at whether just stop oils extreme actions helps get their message across or gets in the way of their overall goal

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyv0d87auRzkmk2m4fNtQEktIAIluEQ-QUA_iaV7QV4ilM-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

I live in a European country that has strict EU laws for environmental protection. However, the implementation of these laws, particularly for preventing environment-related illegal acts, is not well functional. The authorities cannot do anything unless I have a picture with the registration numbers of the car or vehicle of the person who is responsible or unless I call the police at the time that the illegal action happens. This is frustrating and impractical for me.

The illegal act/crime:

Someone is digging with his bulldozer to make deep holes in the dry riverbed in order to dump construction materials. He has already made multiple holes around the riverbed, dumped garbage inside them, and filled them with soil. Now he has moved into the dry riverbed, destroyed the shape of the channel, and has already dumped materials in.

I need advice: How can I achieve getting an alarm when he is there with his bulldozer? I live 10 minutes away from there. I would like to call the police at that time or have a picture taken. I need a relatively cheap solution. A sensor or camera or something like that

Hi guys, this is a little survey for my university coursework. It should take less than 2 minutes to fill out if you want to. It would be a big help to me if you did. its looking at whether just stop oils extreme actions helps get their message across or gets in the way of their overall goal

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyv0d87auRzkmk2m4fNtQEktIAIluEQ-QUA_iaV7QV4ilM-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

Farming is the cause of 80% of deforestation, please skip to the farm facts chapter if you wish to know how many million tons of pesticide are used every year.

The complete PDF with images is here: https://github.com/SwedenDigBot/Coltimech Complex devices, quadcopters, radios and 3d printing, come from the garage hobby scene.

Garden robots, when they come, will flow from a collaborative project that networks research together.

This is an attempt at an open-source simian tool technology, and a garden robot.

The fundamental difference here is the robot arm, which is a hybrid mechanism. It doesn't exist anywhere else except for this open-source research, based on RepRap 3D printer technology and telescopic linear slides, it is cheap, precise and you can build it yourself.

It is a mini telescopic crane that has higher force than articulated arms. It's not just handy for gardening, it can also be a wall art machine unlike any other.

Thus, a crafty sister project for the cultivator mechanoid is for wall art: It’s a mechanism that you can knock about, load into a car, throw grit on, and it’s fine for many different jobs, perhaps to add a dab of paint to rundown walls.

What’s the Coltimech?

It’s a rover that can complete 5-8 farm tasks. The tool system resembles a gun turret mechanism. Rather than shooting bullets in any direction, it rapidly moves tools backwards and forwards, to sow, weed and dig agroecology polycultures. There’s a hose under the arm to emit water from a tank in a chassis box.

Articulated arms are a silly piece of a garden robot, so we rewrote the rule-book based on technology used in pallet-moving-forks and fire-engine aerial apparatus.

It’s a kind of robot meant for small farms and country homes with land. You can rent one for a week if you want a food garden, and it will work 20 hours a day on complex designs.

You can also steer it around your garden by sliding your fingers on a smartphone and squirt water at people for a party trick. It’s a very expensive water pistol, mist fountain, massager, party drink waiter, singing flower delivery bot. It can work for you day and night with an infra-red camera, phone CMOS, AI mapping and 1TB storage. It analyses precise 2D and 3D maps of farm, garden and landscape design.

At the tool-end there is an automatic-tool-changer, like a food processor port with slow rotations, which can clip on different garden tools to care for food and flowers.

The tools are profiled and selected through 3D visualization and vector math:

• Seed depositor – 8 to 20 variety seed patches at 20 m2.h

• Foliage clipper – for mowing weeds and foliage

• Drill Digger / Auger – also for uprooting entrenched weeds

• Claw

• Hoe – A simple trusty tool for abrading and dealing with slugs

• A soil probe – theoretical, current tech is dubious

• A bore drill – to core tubes of compost into the ground

Field bots will enhance human abilities with super-human ones, for back-straining, ground-level observations and errands 140 hours a week. They will print your designs as a physical flower bed. They will check seedlings every hour for slugs and bugs, map every plant, node and fruit in graphs and optimize precision harvests of chemical-free fruit and veg.

The research encompasses a diverse array of disciplines, mechatronics, biophysics, AI and wildlife. It is so varied and fascinating. As a hobby it is a good way to discover astonishing facts of science and technology. The following is a design guide for labs and university students. Hopefully it can prompt eco-friendly technologies to come sooner.

That was the intro.

What do you think of the name "Coltimech"? It's difficult for me to find a tech name that sounds wise and smart. Thanks for reading!