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PROMISSO CONSCIENTE: Passo a passo para construir a sua cisterna de pneus usados e recolher água da chuva para irrigação em terrenos. Passo a passo para construir a sua cisterna de pneus usados e recolher água da chuva para irrigação em terrenos Por Marise Jalowitzki O sistema é de fácil execução e máxima eficiência. Há um video (veja nas fontes de referência ao final) que mostra em imagens todo o projeto, apresentado pela própria idealizadora, a extensionista Claudia Paraíba, da Emater-RS. Para os que não tem o livre acesso à web, você, que lê este artigo, pode imprimir este texto e levar até as comunidades que você conhece. Vi, ouvi e copiei muito do conteúdo do video, coordenado pela jornalista Thaís D'Avila do Canal Rural - RS. O descarte dos pneus é um sério problema ambiental e não podemos ficar fora das soluções. A proposta foi inspirada em projeto da ESALQ-USP (Piracicaba-SP) que, em 2004, criou caixas d'água utilizando pneus descartados. - 6 pneus radiais - massa de calafetar - veda calha - material strech - flange com torneira - serra-copo - tapete de borracha de 1 cm de espessura Colagem dos pneus.

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Would You Live in a Shipping Container? Adam Kalkin isn't the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction against the tidy white surfaces of modernism. But nobody has employed shipping containers more inventively than Kalkin, a New Jersey architect and artist who has used them to design luxurious homes, museum additions, and refugee housing. In architectural circles, Kalkin is regarded as something of an oddball. He began his talk at the Urban Center in New York Tuesday night by playing the first five minutes of a Jerry Lewis movie, followed by the actor's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards last month.

His website includes lessons on hitting a tennis forehand and a selection of songs to sing after taking antidepressants. Years ago Kalkin shaved while delivering a lecture at the Whitney Museum. For all his artsy provocations, Kalkin's strategy makes some practical sense. Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! Bridge to Nature: Amazing Indian Living Root Bridges. In most parts of the world, when a bridge is needed it is built from wood, steel or concrete. But in Cherrapunji in northeastern India, the locals are much more patient. They simply coax nearby trees to grow into natural bridges. The process takes many years, but the result is completely natural, surprisingly strong, and looks like something out of a wonderful fantasy world. The Ficus elastica is a type of rubber tree with extremely strong roots.

This tree species is unique because, in addition to its primary root system, it also grows a secondary set of roots part of the way up its trunk. Cherrapunji is often credited as being the wettest place on earth. The bridges are made by using a root-guidance system. (all images via: Atlas Obscura) It can take upwards of ten or fifteen years for the root bridges to really take root and become strong enough to use, but they are certainly worth the wait.

The Super Strength of POLLI-Bricks – Bricks Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles! These recycled plastic bottle bricks are more affordable and durable than traditional bricks Photo from flickr They’re transparent and translucent. They interlock together to form a honeycomb structure that’s extremely durable. They can be used to build anything from buildings and fences to roofs and walls of light. So what are “they” referring to? They’re called POLLI-Bricks, and they’re a genius example of recycled bottle architecture. Although these plastic bricks may not be as cool as the Heineken beer bottle interlocking bricks from Joe Laur’s One Million Buddhist Beers on the Wall, One Million Buddhist Beers…. blog post, these are a pretty cool close second! Here’s a video of Brian Chee talking about POLLI-Bricks at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: Oh, and did I mention how durable these bricks are?

I love the fact that the bricks are solar-powered, and that they retain sunlight during the day to help illuminate them at night! Digg. Your source of daily updated funny pictures and gifs. Natural-bathroom. Construção civil - Lajes - Poliestireno Expandido - Termotécnica - Joinville. Richard Proenneke. Life[edit] Proenneke's father, William Christian Proenneke, served in World War I and later made his living as a well driller.

His mother, Laura (née Bonn) was a homemaker. His parents married in late 1909, or early 1910, and had three daughters and three sons: Robert, Helen, Lorene, Richard (Dick), Florence, and Raymond (Jake). The year of Richard's birth is often given as 1917, but social security and census records prove him to have been born in Primrose, Harrison Township, Lee County, Iowa, on May 4, 1916. For several years, he worked as a heavy equipment operator and repairman on the Naval Air Station at Kodiak. Proenneke spent the next several years working throughout Alaska as both a salmon fisherman and diesel mechanic. He worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service at King Salmon on the Alaska Peninsula.

Retirement[edit] Proenneke's cabin. The cabin is hand-made. Death and legacy[edit] The Early Years: The Journals of Richard L. See also[edit] References[edit] Bibliography[edit]