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A Guide To DIY Coconut Oil Beauty Products (Infographic) Solutions Hub. You’ve come to the right place. THRIVE Solutions Groups are self-organizing all over the planet and now you can search for groups in your area, or start your own. THRIVE groups share best practices with each other, so you can benefit from each other’s experiences and progress. The THRIVE Solutions Model is based on a whole-system approach comprised of twelve interconnected sectors that cover the primary areas of human endeavor. By identifying key problems in each of these Sectors and coming up with solutions that are good for all of them, we will avoid having unforeseen impact in a Sector seemingly distant from the immediate concern at hand. Waarom we iedereen gratis geld moeten geven. Londen, mei 2009.

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Besparen Consuminderen Bezuinigen Bespaartips Vrek. Parliament kicks off debate on the legal right to water. Onkruidverdelger Round-up straks verboden. Www.ikclaimmijnnaam.nl. Funny Looking Tower Generates 600% More Electrical Energy Than Traditional Wind Turbines. The Sheerwind wind turbine promises to produce 6 times the electrical power than traditional wind turbines.

Funny Looking Tower Generates 600% More Electrical Energy Than Traditional Wind Turbines

This funny looking wind tower acts like a funnel, directing the wind from any angle, down through a tube to a ground based turbine generator. The funneling of the wind through a narrow passage effectively creates a “jet effect” increasing the velocity of the wind, while lowering the pressure. This is called the Venturi Effect. This speeds up the wind turbine mounted inside the narrowest portion and generates electricity. As such it can capture and generate electricity at a much lower wind speed than current wind power technologies. The idea is so simple, so elegant, and promises to produce so much more energy at lower cost and more efficiently, that it might just be the answer to many problems with current wind turbine technology. Imagine a smaller HOME version on your off grid cabin. Conventional wind turbines use massive turbine generator systems mounted on top of a tower. Via:

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company - Welcome to our website ! Green Toolbox by International Young Naturefriends IYNF. Technology - Potato power: the spuds that could light the world. With a simple trick, the humble spud can be made into a battery, so could potato powered homes catch on?

Technology - Potato power: the spuds that could light the world

Mashed, boiled, baked or fried? You probably have a preference for your potatoes. Haim Rabinowitch, however, likes his spuds “hacked”. For the past few years, researcher Rabinowitch and colleagues have been pushing the idea of “potato power” to deliver energy to people cut off from electricity grids. Hook up a spud to a couple of cheap metal plates, wires and LED bulbs, they argue, and it could provide lighting to remote towns and villages around the world. They’ve also discovered a simple but ingenious trick to make potatoes particularly good at producing energy.

The idea may seem absurd, yet it is rooted in sound science. De vele voordelen van gemeenschaptuinen. How to Build a Rain Barrel. 1 of 2 Close-up of conduit adapters Use a 2-in. male threaded electrical (gray PVC) conduit adapter and a 2-in. female threaded conduit adapter to make a watertight hole from which the rainwater can flow. 2 of 2 Install valves Install a large valve to quickly fill watering cans and a smaller valve for a garden hose.

How to Build a Rain Barrel

It's pretty easy to build your own rain barrels from plastic drums or trash cans. Pilesgrove could host greenhouse facility that produces sustainable electricity. Pictured is an approximate plan of what the new site in Pilesgrove Township could look like following construction.

Pilesgrove could host greenhouse facility that produces sustainable electricity

(Submitted Photo) PILESGROVE TWP. — The township could be home to a new and unique facility that produces sustainable fuel and generates electricity using a water plant. The Behrens Energy, Agriculture, and Robotics Group is behind the project and are hoping to put a pyramid-shaped greenhouse structure on a piece of land in Pilesgrove to create and sell electricity. Photos du journal. Photos du journal. The Philosophy of Liberty. MEAT THE TRUTH - English spoken. Home - Online Collection System. Basisinkomen, een nieuw mensenrecht. El Salvador considers world-first mining ban. South America / Environment 03 Oct 2013 Around 90% of surface water in the country is already contaminated, largely due to agricultural runoff and lack of sewage treatment.

El Salvador considers world-first mining ban

El Salvador is the most densely populated country in Central America and a fifth of its rural population lacks access to safe drinking water, according to the World Bank. In July 2012 government tests on the San Sebastián river – where the US-based Commerce Group ran a gold-mining operation until 1999 – showed nine times the accepted levels of cyanide and 1,000 times the accepted levels of iron. There are currently no active metal-mining operations in El Salvador, five years after then-president Antonio Saca, following strong public pressure, said he would not issue new permits. Community organisations, church groups and environmentalists have come together to campaign against a cyanide leach gold mine proposed by Canada-based Pacific Rim in the northern department of Cabañas.

Photos du journal. Photos du journal. De sociale effecten van een basisinkomen. The Bottom Line: A New Economy. Photos du journal. Photos du journal. Photos du journal. Sustainability, Community and Co-operatives - Philippe Cousteau. Vio.Me: Greek factory re-opens under workers’ self-management. The first batch of products produced under workers’ control The workers of Vio.Me., a building materials factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was abandoned by its owners, have been unpaid since May 2011.

Vio.Me: Greek factory re-opens under workers’ self-management

At a general assembly they decided to occupy the factory and operate it under direct democratic workers’ control. After a year-long struggle that has attracted attention and solidarity in Greece and worldwide, they started production on February 12, 2013, after three days of intense mobilization. Onswipe. The world's largest 'waste dump' is found in the Pacific Ocean.

If you were to travel from the United States of America to Japan, you would most likely encounter what could be described as the world's largest waste dump: a 100,000 tonne expanse of debris floating around a large region of the Pacific Ocean.

The world's largest 'waste dump' is found in the Pacific Ocean

The total area of this phenomenon has been said to equal the size of continental U.S., but the truth about its true size remains unknown. Captain Charles Moore first discovered the 'Pacific garbage patch' in 1997. The area in which rubbish gets caught up is known as a gyre, which can be described as a large-scale circular feature made up of ocean currents that ultimately traps waste and moves it around the region.

Plastics constitute 90 percent of all trash in the world's oceans with 20 percent of this waste being dumped from ships and oil platforms. The rest comes from land. Models of Sustainability: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage. A Sustainable Approach To The World's Economies: centralise happiness and well-being. Bhutan has inspired a global framework to ensure humans and nature live in harmony, through happiness and well-being.

A Sustainable Approach To The World's Economies: centralise happiness and well-being

The New Development Paradigm (NDP) has been inspired by Gross National Happiness (GNH) which is the central system in Bhutan. Instead of the usual GDP system, GNH centralises the happiness and well-being of the people rather than wealth, whilst protecting and maintaining nature and the environment. The new framework offers an alternative approach to the global economies. It will be presented to the UN in 2014 as a replacement to the Millenium Development Goals that run out in 2015. GDP is the usual economic system, but with the financial crises, ever increasing unemployment, the effects of climate change and environmental destruction, it seems this system is no longer working. The NDP has been created by the Alliance for Sustainability and Prosperity (ASAP), an international movement aiming to craft a sustainable future.

Bee hives on a building in Bhutan Equitable Society: Voor de Wereld van Morgen - help mee aan een duurzame samenleving. De Wereldprijs 2013 is voorbij Op 7 november was de ontknoping van een spannende race.

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