UBINIG. Farida Akhter Wednesday 09 April 2014 On 22nd January, 2014 twenty farmers from four districts were given the saplings of Bt Brinjal in ceremony organized by Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC).
The Agricultural Minister Matia Chowdhury gave out the trays of saplings along with a booklet. The farmers selected by BARI were happy because they thought they were fortunate ones to be chosen for such a ceremonial distribution of saplings. The Solutions Project - 100% Renewable Energy. 2008_NWT11_oerbossen.pdf. Superdirt Made Lost Amazon Cities Possible? November 19, 2008 Centuries-old European explorers' tales of lost cities in the Amazon have long been dismissed by scholars, in part because the region is too infertile to feed a sprawling civilization.
But new discoveries support the idea of an ancient Amazonian urban network—and ingeniously engineered soil may have made it all possible. (See Ancient Amazon Cities Found; Were Vast Urban Network [August 28, 2008].) Special Report: Inspired by Ancient Amazonians, a Plan to Convert Trash into Environmental Treasure. SIDEBAR: The Companies and Organizations Poised to Turn Garbage into Fuel, Fertilizer and a Means of Carbon Sequestration When Desmond Radlein heard about Richard Branson and Al Gore's Virgin Earth Challenge, a contest in which the first person who can sequester one billion tons of carbon dioxide a year wins $25 million, he got out his pencil and began figuring whether or not his company was up to the task.
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In addition to each plant being able to record interactions with other individual plants, users can also create polycultures or guilds of known plant combinations that work well together. Appropedia. - Terra Preta Archeologisch Onderzoeksproject naar Ecologische Landbouw. Global Peace Index. Global Peace Index Scores, 2012.
Countries appearing with a deeper shade of green are ranked as more peaceful, countries appearing more red are ranked as less peaceful. The Global Peace Index (GPI) is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness.[1] It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected and collated by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Life-cycle assessment. Life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis)[1] is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave (i.e., from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling).
LCAs can help avoid a narrow outlook on environmental concerns by: Compiling an inventory of relevant energy and material inputs and environmental releases;Evaluating the potential impacts associated with identified inputs and releases;Interpreting the results to help make a more informed decision.[2] Life Cycle Assessment Overview Goals and purpose[edit] The goal of LCA is to compare the full range of environmental effects assignable to products and services in order to improve processes, support policy and provide a sound basis for informed decisions.[3] There are two main types of LCA. Four main phases[edit] Het Autonome Huis. Life in Matavenero ecoVillage, Spain. It was ruined, overgrown, and without road access.
Collectively the villagers care for 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of wild mountain landscape at an altitude of about 1,000m (3,300ft). The early settlers lived in tipis and quickly cleared the old paths, reconstructed the school house and repaired a two kilometre canal to bring water to the village. They began to create gardens for food, rebuilt ruined homes and installed a cable transport system which has helped more people to settle in the village. The community is an environmentally friendly settlement growing its own organic produce where now the third generation of children are starting to appear.
Spontaneous Organization for Polyculture. I think one reason monocrop agriculture has pervaded history is mental simplicity.
It is a process that removes all possible variables. Beginning with eliminating all plant life, there are clearly defined steps. Tiny natural homes built using natural building methods. The windmills of Iran catching the storm’s sting.
Lessons From Italy's Matera, the Sustainable City of Stone - Charles R. Wolfe. UNESCO has repeatedly used Matera, designated a World Heritage Site in 1996, as an educational case study for sustainable living In the provinces of southeastern Italy, the landscape is changing, as a new world of alternative energy infrastructure blends insular hill towns, turbines, and solar panels across traditional farmland.
Damanhur Home Page. Yggdrasil - Een Didactisch-Ecologische Ontmoetingsplaats voor Permacultuur. Monolithic Dome homes, schools, churches, storages, gyms and more. In Transition 2.0 - a story of resilience and hope in extraordinary times. The Transition Movement have just made available free to view online their second film, In Transition 2.0. This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up community power stations. Monolithic Dome (green building forum at permies) SaybianTv wrote: Timby have you taken the MD course is Texas, I've watched the video dvd course over and over, and I just don't think it's enough for me to do them on my own.
In places where nobody knows about MD's that pretty much makes the client the on site forman. I watched a great video on youtube of a lady in Hawaii who built her own, day in and day out. PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES DESIGN DECK 2.0. Untitled.