Waste Land trails Brazilian artist Vik Muniz in his journey back to his hometown of Rio de Janeiro where he involves pickers of recyclable materials, called catadores, in an art project that re-creates classic works of art using the trash they pick for a living.
Other Google Cultural Institute projects have included showcasing the Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting thousands of works of art online through the Art Project, and the digitization of the Yad Vashem Holocaust materials.
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The Materials Project is a collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to accelerate innovation in materials research by providing materials researchers with the information they need.
The organizations claimed that the project introduced potential risks of hazardous materials and emissions, wildfires and noise which would degrade air quality, prime farmland, cultural resources and endangered species (the blunt-nosed lizard, San Joakin kit fox and giant kangaroo rat).
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Jo Ellen Sines is the VP of Project Development at Corman Construction, Inc and the past Chair of the Maryland Transportation Builders and Materials Association.
It was carrying materials for the construction of a pulp mill in Uruguay - a project that has caused a huge rift between Uruguay and Argentina.
That project will seek to return samples of organic materials from an asteroid to help scientists understand how the building blocks for life may have been seeded on the early Earth.
Jointly organized by UNESCO, the Secretariat on Policies of Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR), Ministry of Education and Ministry of External Relations of Brazil, the meeting allowed international experts to discuss the major components of the project such as the policy guidelines and teaching materials that have now been drafted by specialists and how to implement pilot testing with interested countries and partners.
Mr Felce then enlisted the help of Rocket Creative, a public relations company to help them find building materials for the project.
Further institutional capacity building of MoI Literacy Department in project planning, implementation, management, teacher training, materials development and monitoring and evaluation are envisaged to be carried out in LEAP 2 together with the MoI.
The working language of the course was English, while some selected teaching materials and guidelines used in the course were translated into Urdu or Pushto for the participants of the Project for better understanding and implementation.
Materials developed through the project will be made available to all 133 teacher training institutions and 63 provincial Departments of Education and Training in the country.
Sixty percent of the Russian-supplied materials used in these reactors are defective, according to knowledgeable Cuban defectors from the project.
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The workshop agreed on a roadmap for the project, including the set up of several task forces to deal with issues such as teaching materials, literacy environments, etc.
Although the nature of the optic gunk remains unknown, project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory suspect volatile materials coming from the spacecraft after it departed Earth in February 1999.
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