{"id":842,"date":"2009-04-22T04:13:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T08:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2018-09-22T06:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T10:27:40","slug":"a-simple-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/a-simple-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/4329681?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"624\" height=\"421\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Visualizing the impact a simple cup can have on our environment<\/h3>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainabilityissexy.com\" target=\"_blank\">sustainabilityissexy.com<\/a>, over <strong>6.5 million trees are consumed each year to produce the 16 billion disposable coffee cups that are being thrown away out into landfills. <\/strong>For about every 50,000 paper coffee cups produced, a tree is destroyed.<!--more Read more \u00bb --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a-simple-cup-montage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a-simple-cup-montage.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"a-simple-cup-montage\" width=\"624\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DESCRIPTION<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>A Simple Cup <\/em>visualizes the impact disposable coffee cups have on our environment by simulating a real-time growing forest on a web site every time a mug of coffee is placed onto a networked coffee cup coaster. The interactive visualization encourages coffee drinkers to drink out of their coffee mugs by rewarding them with saved trees and energy onto a virtual ecosystem (that may be accessed globally online) every time they don\u2019t drink out of disposable paper cups when they have a cup of coffee. Hypothetically, if a significant amount of coffee drinkers had one of these networked mug coasters next to their desks, they would be able to each contribute and collectively grow this  forest together, visualizing how much natural resources have been saved over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/flow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"flow\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/flow_med.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The objective of <em>A Simple Cup<\/em> is to raise awareness over the impact disposable  coffee cup production has on our environment\u2019s natural resources. The project does this by encouraging coffee drinkers to stop drinking coffee out of disposable cups and instead make a valuable contribution to our environment. On the web site\u2019s visualization, one mug of coffee is equivalent to 50,000 paper cups, which claims the life of about one pine tree. In addition to visualizing trees, the butterflies in the forest each represent one home that could be potentially powered in a year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mug_legend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-855\" title=\"mug_legend\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mug_legend.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/flow.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/flower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-789 aligncenter\" title=\"flower\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1 TREE = 50,000 PAPER CUPS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/butterfly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-785 aligncenter\" title=\"butterfly\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1 HOME THAT COULD BE POWERED IN YEAR = 300,000 PAPER CUPS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a-simple-cup-cupandgarden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a-simple-cup-cupandgarden.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"a-simple-cup-cupandgarden\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a-simple-cup-closeup-x2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a-simple-cup-closeup-x2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"a-simple-cup-closeup-x2\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a-simple-cup-closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a-simple-cup-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"a-simple-cup-closeup\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visualizing the impact a simple cup can have on our environment According to sustainabilityissexy.com, over 6.5 million trees are consumed each year to produce the 16 billion disposable coffee cups that are being thrown away out into landfills. For about every 50,000 paper coffee cups produced, a tree is destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-objects","category-technology","category-visualizations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}