The Art and Technology Behind Themed Environments

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While you may not be familiar with the term ‘themed environments’, there’s no doubt you’ve experienced them. If you’ve been to a theme park, water park or museum, you’ve certainly seen some theming handiwork. Even if you’ve been to a shopping mall, casino or resort, you’ve probably been exposed to the world of themed environments – and thanks to advances in technology, you’ll probably be seeing much more of them in the future. Automated foam carving systems are ensuring that themed environments are not only here to stay, but that their scale, creativity and presence will continue to grow.

In the past, the production of themed environments has been a labor of love. Without the benefits of technology, hand carving has always been the order of the day, creating processes that leave much to be desired. Just consider the size of many themed creations, and you can understand how carving by hand can be a tall order. Untold hours are required to create large scale projects, and in a world of licensed characters, architectural reproductions and artistic interpretation where scale and accuracy are absolutely critical, there’s little room for error or inaccuracy. Not surprisingly, the craft of creating themed environments has become highly specialized, with a select few companies creating top notch work. The times, however, are changing. » Read more: The Art and Technology Behind Themed Environments

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Creating a Cleaning Environment

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A cleaning environment is one where the pollution of the past is remediated and cleaned with time to remove existing historic risk to the environment and public health. A cleaning environment implies a return of the natural endemic local ecology, and is an ideal to strive for.

We need to create a cleaning environment if our marvels of science and technology are going to be matched, and not outweighed, by many current tragedies, including human starvation in some parts of the world and extinction of other life forms. Global warming is taking place and is an increase in the Earth’s average temperature. This, in turn, causes climate changes. Global warming also could cause droughts and disrupt agriculture.

A cleaning environment means not despoiling the remaining parts of the world which are still undeveloped. Globally, indigenous people inhabit areas with some of the highest remaining biodiversity on the planet and are actively being engaged as partners in biodiversity conservation. Issues of sustainable development, resource management and ecological restoration all include native stakeholders. » Read more: Creating a Cleaning Environment

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Environment and Technology

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As the interest in environmental matters rise due to ever-more-frequent disastrous weather events, also becomes manifest the separation in public mind between technology and environmentalism. There are some people who want to hear nothing about the environment and make constant claims that caring for the planet is bad for the economy. There are also people who believe that science, technology and industry are evil and want to return to the land. Both are in grave error.

The first group is wrong for a simple and obvious reason that healthy environment is necessary for a livable world. Without such, the quality of life will vastly decrease, whatever is produced by the economy. With island nations sinking into the sea, oceans turning to acid, coastal areas being flooded, and all kinds of disastrous weather events taking place, what is threatened is not only lives of a vast number of people but also the quality of life for the rest. Since the premise of economics is improving people’s existence, this state of affairs puts a lie to that claim for as long as people who claim to be interested in economic well-being remain aggressively uninterested in the health of the environment.

The second group is also in the wrong. A full-scale movement to the land by all or majority of humanity is not a feasible option. Subsistence agriculture cannot support anything close to the current world population, and if such a thing were to transpire then a vast portion of the world’s population would die. So that while a limited movement to existence outside of the industrial economy is possible, the primitivist solution is not feasible for the majority of the world’s population. » Read more: Environment and Technology

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