As many regions’ water costs rise, more people are asking if the water that flows down their drains after bathing and washing—known as graywater—can be used to water gardens. Increasingly, state permitting authorities are saying yes—with conditions. In Arizona and New Mexico, homeowners can drain graywater right onto their lawns and landscapes. In states whereSigue leyendo «Graywater – Grow with the flow»
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Free Water
Harvesting water in our community might be the difference between survival and financial-resources death. Brad Lancaster, an expert in rain harvesting and water management, offers a solution to harvest over 378.000 liters of rainwater per year, reducing environmental and financial costs in our community. For more information about his projects: + rainwater harvesting
Where is the Green ?
NOA satellite gives us a detail insight of where the vegetation grows. We can now see to an amazing degree of detail which parts of the planet is covered in green and which are bare. + go to interactive map
From bare dirt to abundance
You can start in minute 1.20 to avoid a freaky alien
Is the Government Trying to Kill Digital Currency?
Last week, Jennifer Shasky Calvery, Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), held a press conference to discuss about some concerns related to virtual currencies. FinCEN is a bureau of the US Treasury Department, and reports to the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. You can read her speech here and draw your ownSigue leyendo «Is the Government Trying to Kill Digital Currency?»
Our left carbon budget
We’re now in the black-bar phase, eating up our available «carbon budget» before we hit dangerous levels of temperature rise. If we go beyond the ‘safe limits’ we won’t be able to reverse the sea level rise, ocean acidification, sea ice reduction, agricultural yields, hurricane destructiveness, … the destruction of our own habitat.
Startup Engineering course by Standford
Again something from Coursera, a free 10 weeks course to learn some basic programming skills on how to build an Internet-mobile startup (by Standford University) Course Syllabus The syllabus is optimized to enable students to iterate on their final projects as soon as possible, with technical material in the first half of the class andSigue leyendo «Startup Engineering course by Standford»
Tribute to Mark Twain
Excerpt from Mark Twain’s autobiography «For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old but I do not tell about that anymore now; I am growing old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger,Sigue leyendo «Tribute to Mark Twain»
Loos-en-Gohelle, pueblo minero reconvertido a pueblo sostenible
En la zona Norte de Francia, en la región del Paso de Calais el pueblo de Loos-en-Gohelle se vio obligado a reinventarse. En el año 1990 la actividad minera de la región se desmantela y da paso a una etapa de transición hacia un nuevo modelo. En un inicio se apostó por la creación deSigue leyendo «Loos-en-Gohelle, pueblo minero reconvertido a pueblo sostenible»
Sustainable Energy for all
This weekend someone asked me about how feasible would be to supply all the energy demand with renewable energy. My answer was not very optimistic. In Spain, nowadays, only 15% of the energy comes from renewable sources and as far as I know the main research efforts are driven by the need of finding aSigue leyendo «Sustainable Energy for all»
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