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Some turtles… But where were the whales?
We were supposed to encounter plenty of sea life during this season of the year, but for one reason or the other we hardly got to watch some turtles, sword fish and sun fish. The Mediterraneo is getting empty as well as all the oceans: overfishing, acidification, violation of sealife protection laws, pollution, human impact,Sigue leyendo «Some turtles… But where were the whales?»
SunWater crowdfunding campaign
Pumping irrigation systems in poor countries are most of the times unafordable by the families. Paul Polak has designed a solar pumping system that reduces in 80% the cost of a traditional fotovoltaic powered systems. They are raising 50.000USD, want to participate? + info
Dream Green Home
13 things to take into account when designing a green home DJ Miller – @MillerHeWrote
Self assembling
Can you imagine a technology that wipes out all the complex assembling processes in the manufacturing industry? {youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIEhi_sAkU8}
Fiddle Fair 2013
I’d wish I had been there this year too!!
Inhabitants wanted – Mars 2023
The space race has always been expensive. We have been talking about the need of finding new planets for the last decades; new places to exploit, new natural resources to replace those we have depleted in Earth, new planets to keep growing, but who is going to pay for the investment needed? At a momentSigue leyendo «Inhabitants wanted – Mars 2023»
Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Bóveda del fin del mundo
If you were one of the most wealthy countries in the world and you were managing one of the biggest sovereign funds of our planet, would you consider creating the biggest seedbank ever to provide insurance against the loss of seeds in a global crises or after a continuous genetic modification of our seeds? NorwaySigue leyendo «Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Bóveda del fin del mundo»
What's wrong with us women??
During the last days I have seen a couple of videos showing the poor image women have of ourselves. We are told by the media how we should be, what beauty is, how we should look… Beauty is inside of us, don’t let yourself be influenced by any industrial standard, cause they do not applySigue leyendo «What's wrong with us women??»
Desiderata
Cause today is as good as any other day…a simple homage to the beauty of words, of music, of the nature that surrounds us,… cause luckily there’s a real life beyond mass media. «Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrenderSigue leyendo «Desiderata»
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