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Natalie Jeremiienko's method to new technologies is an chance for social change to benefit in aiding environmental health. Natalie’s innovations have a much effect to her surroundings as her actions help in improving the environmental health of the people around her. As a New York resident, Natalie is dynamic in executing small acts and innovations that assist in producing an eco-mindset, ultimately carrying out positive socio-cultural impacts. In addition, Natalie encourages her younger audience with her work, making it fun for them to capture their attention. She does this because they are the future in mimicking her acts and innovations and the future dwellers to the manifested environment.

For instance, with Natalie’s tadpole test, whereby one places a tadpole in water and awaits the tadpoles reaction based upon the tadpoles sensitivity to water pollutants. This simple yet effective experiment can assist individuals in better monitoring the water we use and more importantly consume. Moreover, an additional example is the hot air/solar chimney filter, which can filter out dangerous pollutants that contaminate the air around us. Clean air is vital to our health and is vital since one cannot see contaminated air.

The first step in the manufacturing of gelato is the daily shipment of a dairy base to the factory. The ingredients of the dairy base are milk, cream, sugar, corn syrup, whey, and natural gums. When a specific flavour has intent to be created, then a team is assembled to perform such tasks as tearing mint leaves, melting chocolate, stirring ricotta, roasting pistachios, splitting vanilla beans and etc. To make the gelato, workers take the dairy base and flavour ingredients and pour it into a freezer where it slowly churns to execute consistency. The churning process takes roughly 15 minutes and then in the final stage it flows out into its packaging.

The tiny jellybean can take up to ten days to make. A mogul machine delivers the heated jellybean mix into its molds. Each jellybean mold tray has 1260 impressions of the jellybean shape, therefore giving the heated jellybean its form. Next, the cornstarch is layered and then shaken off. Subsequently, the beans are placed into a drum where the flavors and colours are added. The flavoring and colouring processes are repeated 4 times. The beans are then delivered to the stamp pad where they receive the iconic “jellybelly” stamp, packaged and delievered.

The importance of knowing and understanding how stuff is made is vital to accurately figuring out how to improve the design with an emphasis on environmental health. It is important to focus upon all the production processes, as there can be environmental benefits in many different stages. Manufacturing requires fine tuned processes through research and development, making it more efficient while upholding environmental standards. Understanding HowItsMade is important because other areas of design can ultimately influence others to redesign products in the more efficient, greener goal.