Sandlewood as the crop for arid areas
We all know sandlewood, we burn it in incense, put it in our soaps and cosmetics, and even use it for art. Little did we know that it is the perfect tree for the arid Australian climate. Combine Sandlewood with aloe vera, olives, some grape vines and air-drop irrigation and we could have sustainable produce [...]
England is having blizzards in spring. The worst in 50 years. London is covered in snow again, they hadn’t had snow for decades before 2000. The USA has a winter that won’t end. New York has had two massive hurricanes in 4 years. Australia is getting tornadoes!! Unheard of. Australia has had floods and bushfires [...]
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We can grow vegetables and seafood in our own homes, even our balconies, with minimal outside energy/food input. Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture – growing fish and seafood for consumption – and hydroponics. Most people have heard of hydroponics because its a way to grow vegetables, and herbs without soil using running water and [...]
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This is a beautiful documentary covering ground many of us should or do already know. We are damaging our planet, we are not doing anything to stop it, and this may lead to our eventual end. Thoughtful and with some idea of a better way it is very worth watching.
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This building won the World Architecture festival building of the year in 2009. The speaker is Paul Finch and the video comes from Dezeen screen.
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I just visited my local 7Eleven and something struck a cord. As I went to the counter I noticed the Chinese student working the late shift sifting through a large box of packaged sandwiches. You know the type, hermetically sealed triangles of turkey and mayo on wholemeal, roast beef and lettuce on rye, ham cheese [...]
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Machines that work on a small scale that you can build yourself. Wikipedia for the farm? I love this. Watch the video’s and do more investigation but it slots in nicely with permaculture and eco-building. However the core team don’t look like farmers rather IT and media guys. You never know though this could be [...]
Continue reading …The heads of industry can decide to care about the enviroment and when they do they create sustainable industries. Sustainable in all senses of the word. Both profitable and good for our enviroment, and I suspect it makes people happy to work for such a company. This is the forward to the book Ecology of [...]
Continue reading …Environmental mismanagement is a very sure way for a civilisation (in this sense civilisation is human existence no matter how uncouth) to break down, even to disappear completely. Jared Diamond in his book Collapse: How Societies choose to fail or survive, (another book that had multiple sub headings for its title, in England just choose [...]
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Edward Linarce’s airdrop irrigation system may enable crop production in drought ravaged regions. Inspired by the Namib beetle which survives in one of the planets most arid regions by collecting water moisture from early morning fogs, the airdrop irrigation system is a self contained relatively simple unit which takes this idea and applies it for [...]
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