Architecture of Dhyanalinga - an elliptical brick dome, made of stabilized earth blocks. In ancient temples, the structure that houses the Deity is as important as the Deity itself.
The parikrama or the walkway of the temple, the garbhagriha or the innermost shrine of the temple, the shape and the size of the idol, the mudra held by the idol and the mantra (sound) used for the consecration of the temple are the fundamental parameters of a temple. These elements are matched and built according to a certain science and based upon the understanding of the energies, thereby creating a powerful energy situation and facilitating inner transformation.
The energies of the Dhyanalinga have been consecrated to last for more than 5000 years without any dissipation. The elliptical dome that houses the Dhyanalinga is 76 feet in diameter and 33 feet high. From brick and mortar shops to city planning, we cover sustainable trends in construction, renovation, and more. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE LIVING.
Washington State Becomes Latest GMO Battleground. Active Citizens, Biodiversity, Civil Society, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Headlines, Health, North America, TerraViva United Nations Protesters outside the offices of agriculture giant Monsanto who were rallying as part of a "national day of solidarity.
" Credit: Daniel Lobo/cc by 2.0 - The northwestern state of Washington could become the first in the U.S. to require labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on foods and food packages, after a similar measure in California failed last year. Over 353,000 Washingtonians signed on to a petition creating Initiative 522, which will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot statewide. It notes that such labeling is fast becoming the international norm. "The 'no' side has corporations that are all bankrolling their campaign.
" -- Elizabeth Larter of Yes on 522 Last year, Washington and Colorado voted to legalise marijuana altogether. “We have a history of leading on issues. Corporate opposition. Resilience Alliance - HOME. Center for Creative Ecology at Kibbutz Lotan, Israel. Mallory McDuff, Ph.D.: Wendell Berry's Sacred Environmentalism. Writer, farmer and modern-day prophet Wendell Berry will visit the college where I teach and live this fall, and I'm trying to remain cool and level-headed.
For me, that's a challenge because I marvel at his poetic prose that challenges us to hold our spiritual values at the center of our sense of place. During his short stay, I fear becoming part of an agrarian paparazzi, planning my jogging routes around his campus tour or visit to an Appalachian Studies class. While I plant my fall garden, I visualize him strolling past my on-campus duplex when I'm harvesting kale with my two daughters. Yes, this hero worship is amusing on some level, if you consider that I'm a 45-year-old mother, writer and academic.
But I believe that we need to feel reverence for those voices calling us to put our religious values to work in local communities to sustain God's earth. We need alternative road signs and luminaries if we are going to reconnect human communities with places. Edward Abbey. Acoustic ecology. Acoustic ecology, sometimes called ecoacoustics or soundscape studies, is a discipline studying the relationship, mediated through sound, between living beings and their environment.[1] Acoustic ecology studies started in the late 1960s with R.
Murray Schafer and his team at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) as part of the World Soundscape Project. The original WSP team included Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp, Bruce Davies and Peter Huse, among others. The first study produced by the WSP was titled The Vancouver Soundscape. The interest in this area grew enormously after this pioneer and innovative study and the area of acoustic ecology raised the interest of researchers and artists all over the world. Viktor Schauberger. Viktor Schauberger (30 June 1885, Holzschlag, Upper Austria[1] – 25 September 1958, Linz, Austria[2]) was an Austrian forest caretaker, naturalist, philosopher, inventor and biomimicry experimenter.
Schauberger developed his own ideas based on what he observed in nature. In Implosion magazine, a magazine released by Schauberger's family, he said that aeronautical and marine engineers had incorrectly designed the propeller. He stated: “As best demonstrated by Nature in the case of the aerofoil maple-seed, today’s propeller is a pressure-screw and therefore a braking screw, whose purpose is to allow the heavy maple-seed to fall parachute-like slowly towards the ground and to be carried away sideways by the wind in the process. No bird has such a whirling thing on its head, nor a fish on its tail. Alick Bartholomew has written a book[4] about Schauberger's unorthodox ideas. See also[edit] Notes[edit] External links[edit]