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Balsam Fir Pitch. The First Zombie-Proof House. Somehow, ritual drunk-conversation concerning team captains for the apocalypse has become a major part of the lives of 20-somethings.

The First Zombie-Proof House

Having been matured in the Grandaddy-crowned masterpiece film (put “A.M. 180” on and forget that you have a job) 28 Days Later and the best-selling Zombie Survival Guide, we’re all a little too ready to deal with the 2012 zombie apocalypse of our dreams. “The Safe House,” designed by KWK Promes, starts to get eerily close to something I could work with, if say 200 bludgeoned members of the undead army came over to eat their way into borrowing some sugar. “The most essential item for our clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security,” begins the designers’ website in the summary of the structure. Who wouldn’t feel safe in a concrete rectangle that folds in upon itself to become completely sealed? Even the windows are covered with a slab of concrete when the structure is on nap time. Green Building 101: Inhabitat. As summer comes to a close, so does our weekly series on green building.

Green Building 101: Inhabitat

Hopefully we have expanded your knowledge of applying sustainable concepts in your own home, whether it’s a studio rental in the city or a straw-bale abode in the country. Loosely based on USGBC‘s pilot program LEED for Homes, the series has covered subjects ranging from community planning and transportation, to light bulbs and leaky faucets. If you’re arriving for the first time, or you want to review the series, here are the installments in order of appearance… Location & Community >Sustainable Sites >Water Efficiency >Materials & Resources >Indoor Air Quality >Energy & Atmosphere >Environmentally Friendly Lighting >Eco-Power >Appliances, Electronics & Energy Use >Design Innovation >

38 Survival Downloads and Handbooks – Pioneering, SHTF, Engineering, Urban Gardening, Defense, and More. Posted on Aug 16, 2013 in Emergency Preparedness & Survival, Featured Articles, Urban Gardening, Farming & Homesteading Kevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net If you find this material helpful, please consider donating $1 or $2 to the website!

38 Survival Downloads and Handbooks – Pioneering, SHTF, Engineering, Urban Gardening, Defense, and More

Thanks! Is Fixed Price Energy A Good Deal? Each month, the energy bill hits your mailbox.

Is Fixed Price Energy A Good Deal?

There’s not much thought into writing the check for payment, aside from the seasonal changes. Waiting for summer to end and energy bills to drop. The last few years, most energy companies have started sending out options that haven’t existed in their history. Zombie proof house. ZDAY Survival Simulator HD. Propagating Plants by Air Layering. Make a Survival Kit out of an Altoids Tin. Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists. Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.

Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists

Humans derive about 20% of their protein from animal-based products now, but this may need to drop to just 5% to feed the extra 2 billion people expected to be alive by 2050, according to research by some of the world's leading water scientists. "There will not be enough water available on current croplands to produce food for the expected 9 billion population in 2050 if we follow current trends and changes towards diets common in western nations," the report by Malik Falkenmark and colleagues at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) said.

Community Gardening: The Plot Against Hunger. Christina Sarich, Contributor Waking Times What if you could grow more than 3 tons of organic produce, flowers and herbs annually for an entire community on less than an acre of land?

Community Gardening: The Plot Against Hunger

Sound impossible? There are community gardens all over the country doing just that. Cheese waste can replace antibiotics in pig feed. By adding probiotic bacteria to the whey permeate that’s left over in cheese production, the whey can prevent piglets from getting diarrhoea caused by E. coli bacteria.

Cheese waste can replace antibiotics in pig feed

(Photo: Colourbox) If farmers feed their piglets with cheese waste with added health-promoting bacteria, they can make significant cuts in their use of antibiotics, shows new study. Light can reveal salmon fillet. The study mapped causes of changes in the light spectrum.

Light can reveal salmon fillet

(Foto: Marius Fiskum) Robotic Bees to Pollinate Monsanto Crops. By Russ McSpadden / Earth First!

Robotic Bees to Pollinate Monsanto Crops

Newswire Traducción español aquí. Traduzione italiana qui. Pollinators participate in the sexual-reproduction of plants. University of Sydney developing robots to automate Australian farms. The idea of an automated farm has probably been around since rural electrification started in the early 20th century.

University of Sydney developing robots to automate Australian farms

Replacing back-breaking labor with robots has an obvious appeal, but so far cheap labor in many countries and the insistence of agriculture on being so darn rural has made automation limited in application. Despite this, Salah Sukkarieh, Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies of the University of Sydney, is heading a team working on developing robotic systems for farms with the aim of turning Australia into the “food bowl” of Asia.

As has been the case for centuries, Asia needs food, but it lacks farmland. With its abundant arable land, Australia has the potential of profiting by meeting this need, but Australian labor costs are high, so automation has the potential to increase yields and improve efficiency by eliminating many manual tasks. From Exhausted Suburban LAWN to Supercharged Food System? My long term goal is to convert every inch of my sterile, depleted lawn into a productive food system.

A food system that requires as little work as possible to maintain for the maximum possible yield. I’ve got my work cut out for me. My soil is (mostly) dead. It’s a thin layer of sod on top of a feast of rocks held together with clay. Converting soil this dead into soil so rich that life literally pops out of it isn’t easy. New process could allow any plant to serve as a food source.

Virginia Tech associate professor Percival Zhang is leading the research on the bioprocess Although the causes of world hunger are numerous, it certainly doesn’t help that factors such as arid conditions and limited land space make it difficult to grow food crops in certain places. If people in those areas could eat foods derived from plants that are hardy to the region, but that aren’t considered nutritious, it would go a long way towards addressing the problem. Making Food From Flies (It's Not That Icky) : The Salt. Hide captionBlack soldier flies mate and lay eggs inside these cages at EnviroFlight. Dan Charles/NPR Black soldier flies mate and lay eggs inside these cages at EnviroFlight. In the quirky little college town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, home to many unconventional ideas over the years, there's now a small insect factory. Send in the Cows (or, How to Reverse Desertification, Build Soils, and Sequester Carbon) In light of last week’s post highlighting our death march towards Peak Soil, it seems appropriate to look at how we can go about building (i.e. adding organic matter to) the damn thing.

Various permacultural methods exist that help build soil and heal the land, but the organic apple of this article’s eye is a technique known as “managed grazing.” In the words of Joel Salatin, “Nothing builds soil like intensively managed grazing on grasslands.” As noted, left to its own devices, it takes nature roughly 500 years to build just 2 centimeters (cm) of living soil. When done properly, grazing – or, more specifically, management-intensive grazing - can more than double that rate in 50 years time. Meanwhile, Salatin’s farm has been building one inch of topsoil annually (along with increasing their organic matter from 1.5 percent to 8 percent of soil content over the past 50 years).

Replacing food: An engineer's approach to body fuel. Scientists: Use animal manure's stinking wealth of resources. Increasing demands for meat, milk and eggs across the world have prompted an explosive growth in livestock production with massive environmental consequences at local, regional, and global levels. Between Pigs And Anchovies: Where Humans Rank On The Food Chain : The Salt. Hydrogen cars now one step closer. They're Back! Chesapeake Oysters Return To Menus After Rebound : The Salt. Originally published in the September/October 2010 issue of GreenSource. Originally published in the October 2010 issue of Architectural Record.

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