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Lighting the way for safe childbirth The "solar suitcases" designed by We Care Solar are saving lives around the worldMany mothers, babies are dying because their health facilities lack reliable electricityOne of the solar kits also helped during a recent cholera outbreak in the Congo (CNN) -- Solar energy in a suitcase is an invention saving lives around the world in places that lack reliable electricity. Dr. California Academy of Sciences: Patrick Blanc: The Vertical Garden Info The Academy presents a talk by Patrick Blanc, world-renowned botanist and inventor of the vertical garden, and creator of Drew School's 'living wall' -- the largest such installation in the U.S. The talk will focus on describing his design approach and philosophy behind his incredible creations -- vertical gardens that now number over 200 throughout the world.
Lasagna Garden - How to Make a Lasagna Garden Lasagna gardening is a no-dig, no-till organic gardening method that results in rich, fluffy soil with very little work from the gardener. The name "lasagna gardening" has nothing to do with what you'll be growing in this garden. It refers to the method of building the garden, which is, essentially, adding layers of organic materials that will “cook down” over time, resulting in rich, fluffy soil that will help your plants thrive.
Solar magnetism twists braids of superheated gas A rocket-borne camera has provided some of the sharpest images yet of the Sun's corona, the hot layer of gas that extends more than a million kilometres above the solar surface. The corona is millions of degrees hotter than the layer of gas beneath it, but nobody knows precisely why. "It's counter-intuitive for us here on Earth because as you go up in altitude, the temperature decreases," says Jonathan Cirtain, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Nature podcast Geoff Brumfiel hears from researcher Jonathan Cirtain why the Sun’s atmosphere is hotter than its surface. Gardening Australia - Fact Sheet: A Blanc Canvas Presenter: John Patrick, 23/08/2014 SERIES 25 Episode 23 John continues his series of profiles of leading landscape designers France's Patrick Blanc is the world's foremost designer of vertical gardens. Over the last 30 years he has created more than 250 - and John is visiting the latest. He's meeting up with Patrick at a twin-tower complex at the edge of Sydney's CBD which incorporates decorative panels of ornamental plants both inside and out.
Automated Chicken Coop Door If you had any doubts that SiliconFarmer has an actual farm, this project should dispel them. We got six chickens last year. I built them a nice coop. Ocean Energy Teams Compete for $16 Million Saltire Prize in Scotland People have long dreamed of harnessing the tremendous power of the ocean's waves and tides. Off the jagged and wild coast of Scotland, a competition is now under way to demonstrate a practical means of capturing that vast renewable energy for electricity. Four United Kingdom companies are vying for the Saltire Prize, a £10 million (about $16 million) award offered by the government of Scotland, which boasts that 25 percent of Europe's tidal energy potential is surging off its shores.
A Permaculture Design Course Handbook One of the great things about Permaculture is that there is no set definition for Permaculture. This gives us the freedom to personalize Permaculture for our own journey within the realm of co-creating with the planet and our local communities. I encourage all my students to frame their own definition so they can begin to teach others about this philosophy and course of action. The definition is a bit wordy, I know, but it serves to try and shorten what I really believe is the reformation of culture. Not easy to describe how to go from a Insta-culture to a Permaculture, that is a culture based on Permanence, in two sentences. But basically it takes the idea of the triple bottom line which is reflective of the ethics of Permaculture and combines with our mimicking of nature to produce outputs of quality.
Restoring Beauty Beauty the bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, after her prosthetic beak had been fixed into place.Image: screenshot. One morning in 2005, an adult female bald eagle was spotted whilst scrounging for food at a landfill in Alaska. Emaciated, she was starving to death in the midst of a bounty of food. A poacher had shot her in the face, shattering the upper mandible of her beak, leaving her with a useless stump. The damage left Beauty with just a small portion of her left upper beak and destroyed almost all of the right side. Trying to eat using this mangled beak was like "eating with one chopstick" according to raptor specialist Jane Fink Cantwell. GMOs-Frankenfood-Mycoplasmas-Prion Disease How It's Made: Hot Dogs Home | About Us | Contact | Subscribe How It's Made: Hot Dogs Hi-Tech "Phude" "Unfit for Human Consumption."