The pothole gardener | A guerrilla gardening blog… A 'Vertical Greenhouse' Could Make a Swedish City Self-Sufficient - Environment. The future of urban farming is under construction in Sweden as agricultural design firm Plantagon works to bring a 12-year-old vision to life: The city of Linköping will soon be home to a 17-story "vertical greenhouse. " The greenhouse will serve as a regenerating food bank, tackling urban sprawl while making the city self-sufficient. Plantagon predicts that growing these plants in the city will make food production less costly both for the environment and for consumers, a key shift as the world's population grows increasingly urban—80 percent of the world's residents will live in cities by 2050, the United Nations estimates.
"Essentially, as urban sprawl and lack of land will demand solutions for how to grow industrial volumes in the middle of the city, solutions on this problem have to focus on high yield per ground area used, lack of water, energy, and air to house carbon dioxide," Plantagon CEO Hans Hassle says. Hantz Farms | World's Largest Urban Farm Planned for the City of Detroit. How To Become A Hacker. As editor of the Jargon File, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizard hacker? ". Oddly enough there don't seem to be any FAQs or Web documents that address this vital question, so here's mine. If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at href=" The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term `hacker', most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits.
If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant. There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term `hacker'. The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. 1. 2. 3. Wildroots Earthskills Homestead - StumbleUpon. Community Sections | Telaithrion Project.
Τα Τμηματα της Κοινοτητας Η έρευνα που μας οδηγεί, σε καθημερινή βάση, στον σχεδιασμό και την πραγμάτωση του εγχειρήματος αλλά και όλες οι δράσεις που έχουν συμβάλει στην μέχρι τώρα εξέλιξη του στο FreeandReal.org. Η κοινότητα χωρίζεται σε 3 μεγάλα βασικά τμήματα. Το Συγκρότημα Γεωδαιτικών Θόλων Στο κέντρο της κοινότητας το Συγκρότημα Γεωδαιτικών Θόλων θα λειτουργεί ως η καρδιά του εγχειρήματος. Αποτελούμενο από 5 συνδεόμενους γεωδαιτικούς θόλους, όλοι τους με πολλαπλές χρήσεις και διαφορετικούς σκοπούς. Ο κεντρικός θόλος έχει περίπου 100 τετραγωνικά μέτρα μέγεθος και θα έχει και δεύτερο όροφο περίπου 70 τ.μ. Αυτοί οι θόλοι θα είναι διαθέσιμοι προς όλους, θα λειτουργούν σαν κοινοί χώροι εστίασης και θα υποστηρίζουν εκπαιδευτικούς χώρους, χώρους επικοινωνίας και υποστήριξης, χώρους τέχνης και μουσικής, χώρους ερευνών και επιστήμης, αθλητικούς και χώρους διασκέδασης ενώ και σε μεγάλα σεμινάρια, συνέδρια ή άλλες εκδηλώσεις θα μπορούν να λειτουργούν και σαν χώροι φιλοξενίας.
Οι Yurt Ενότητες. Promoting Human Creativity. © 1993, David S. Walonick, Ph.D. Defining creativity How do we define creativity? The most frequent answers are "new", "unique". At the other end of the spectrum, B.F Skinner (1974), the foremost expert on behaviorist theory, describes creative individuals as very good at generating mutations. In the classic book Science and Human Values, (Harper & Row. 1956) J. Many writers and artists have described creativity as something external to the body. In contrast, business analysis Scott Witt (1983) believes that new ideas are never original, but rather, they involve the combining and adaptation of other people's ideas.
Child development author Joseph Chilton Pearce describes creativity as "moving from the known to the unknown. " Donald Hebb, one of the foremost theoreticians on the subject of the human brain, believes that "every normal human being is creative all the time...it is not something that occurs only in outstanding individuals". 3) They have a sense of humor. Barriers to creativity. Earth Island Institute | Projects | Plastic Pollution Coalition.