GASLAND Trailer 2010

Posted: August 27th, 2010
at 8:37pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,film,science,health
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Mobile is Transforming Indian Agriculture
For decades Santosh Ostwal obsessed over an obscure problem: how to make it easier for Indian farmers to water their crops.
As a kid in 1981, Ostwal would watch his one-legged grandfather make the one-mile trek out to his fields to irrigate his land. It was arduous and repetitive; access to electricity and water was sporadic. Now an engineer, Ostwal has finally solved his grandfather’s problem with a phone-controlled water pump-starterAcalled the Nano Ganesh. It’s an elegant example of how mobile phones are being used in the developing world in incredibly innovative ways.
Here’s how the Nano Ganesh works. A farmer purchases the device for between $12 and $268, depending on the model. The device is then connected both to a mobile phone and the electric water pump. Once it’s set up, the farmer just needs to call that phone and enter a code to get it going. No cell service? No problem. Ostwal also made a remote control. He claims the water, electricity and time savings can cover the cost of the device in 11 days.
Posted: August 14th, 2010
at 4:42pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,cell phones,grub,development
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
The following is a selection of the papers published by Dr. P. Prusinkiewicz and his students and colleagues about Algorithmic Botany.
Posted: August 11th, 2010
at 7:15pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,science,education
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The Metaphysics of Cutting Grass
Everything I know about cutting grass I learned from my father. He had three rules and one quasi-rule. The three rules undoubtedly reflected his occupation as a systems analyst. Rule 1: To maximize efficiency and, thus, save energy, plot the yard into squares and mow inward from the outer edge. Rule 2: To prevent the engine from overworking and, thus, save gas, always position the discharge chute away from the square. Rule 3: To extend the life of the mower and, thus, save money, always service the machine according to the manufacturer's specifications. The quasi-rule, however, was prompted not by occupational mindset but, rather, to reward himself for performing the tiresome chore he found cutting grass to be: Have a cold beer afterward. AI follow these rules today, though I confess I do occasionally fail to observe the letter of the quasi-rule by having more than the one cold beer my father permitted himself. But far more seriously, perhaps, I violate its motivating spirit by not finding cutting grass a tiresome chore at all. In fact, I enjoy it. Despite pushing a rotary mower up, down, and across the sometimes hilly terrain of a double lot, I like cutting grass.
Save the Butterflies
Help support the Butterfly Conservation Society Ghana with their new t-shirt in a bottle initiative.
Posted: July 24th, 2010
at 6:37pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,mnp is for the children,10th dan
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LA Rainwater Harvesting
Los Angeles has proposed a new water management law that would require rainwater harvesting on all new homes, large developments, as well as on some redevelopment projects. The Department of Public Works unanimously approved the new ordinance in January for the increasingly parched region. It requires various methods to capture, reuse or infiltrate all of the rainwater runoff that is generated by a 3/4 inch rainstorm.
Posted: July 23rd, 2010
at 6:58pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,development
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Global Clean Energy Innovation
In the ongoing debate of federal energy and climate legislation- which continues to aim at carbon targets for the utility sector- there is little discussion ofAhow to achieve those targets if they can ever be set. How will we innovate to deploy radically cheaper clean energy technologies at an unprecedented speed and scale?
Posted: July 18th, 2010
at 1:00am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,business,science,development
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Wildman at Work
Ultimately, in the argument about work and how it should be done, one has only one's pleasures to offer. It is possible … to be in one's place, in such company, wild or domestic, and with such pleasure, that one cannot think of another place that one would prefer to bea€" or of another place at all. One does not miss or regret the past, or fear or long for the future. Being there is simply all, and is enough. Such times give one the chief standard and the chief reason for one's work. -AWendell Berry, "Economy and Pleasure" (Continue reading the article by clicking the link below)
Posted: July 14th, 2010
at 7:45pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: art,green,web,politricks,et cetera,philosophy,ethics
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