VIDEO REFLECTIONS:Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car? A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future, and is educate and enlighten audiences with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil.In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline.This movies shows how the U.S. was ignorant of hybrids and electrics back then. It's a good thing we're starting to ealize what gasoline is doing to the world's atmosphere. Writer-director Chris Paine informative and entertaining documentary, which makes an explicit link between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, traces the evolution and eventual marketplace failure of the innovative vehicle. Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. Introduced as a means of providing an alternative to increasing oil consumption and reducing pollution in 1996, the electric car was all but a forgotten memory only a decade later. More, It is really impressive that electrical car exsisted in the different period of times.On the one side, It must have enough reasons of why the electronic car is been designed.Otherwise,there were no market and designers were not even think about to design it. Who Killed the Electric Car? the car company,oil company,consumer,government etc might be guilty. Car company cares more about earning money.Besides, for electric car,it is a kind of big challenge compared with petrol cars.Because for designing an electric car, you need to design a totally new supporting system to it.

VIDEO REFLECTIONS: How it’s made? Giving packaging a new life

How it’s made?  Giving packaging a new life

Cardboard boxes

Cardboard boxes are the special types of boxes made up of the corrugated fiberboard. A corrugated cardboard consists of two layers, one is known as the liners while the middle part is usually known as the fluting. Cardboard boxes can be printed in any custom color, shape, size and quantity. One of the major advantages of cardboard box is that they can be recycled and used later on for the various other purposes. Besides, cardboard is a nice way to promote your company and information. On the box, you can provide all your company details.

Tubes

Now a day, people use tube in many different areas, for instance: toothpaste, glue. The metal tube is air tight and impermeable.properties give superior protection to contents, keeping them fresh and uncontaminated through long periods of intermittent use. Internal linings applied to the metal give it added compatibility for products that are highly alkaline or acidic.

Tetrapak

Tetra Pak basicly made by there layers: 1.paperboard 2. Polyethylene. Commonly used plastic. 3. Aluminium. Package designed to store food without refrigeration also contain a thin layer of aluminium foll.Packages are mostly made of wood, which is a renewable material. Renewable simply means that the supply regrows naturally.  Tetrapak.

Recycling

We can help to reduce this waste by reusing and recycling certain items. They often separate trash into paper, metal, plastic and glass.

Aluminum cans

Producing recycled aluminium saves 95 percent of the energy used to make aluminium from raw materials. Aluminium is the most cost-effective material to recycle and there are a numerous commercial metal recyclers operating in Australia that accept aluminium cans.

Glass bottles

Typically, glass bottles are created in a factory using an automated process. There are two main steps when it comes to making glass bottles. 1. Molding the molten glass using an iron mold and air. 2. Reheating and cooling the glass. Glass is recycling and reuse of returnable, and glass constitutes a good barrier for oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Plastic bottle and jar

An advantage is that plastic does not shatter, is transparent and lightweight. Unfortunately, plastic takes forever to break down and can be hazardous to the environment.

As a designer, we should take environment issues seriously. Considering about using recycling material, in order to creating more environmental friendly products, and providing new life to products.