They have followed me all of my life.
Permaculture Principles →
- Observe and interact: By taking time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our particular situation.
- Catch and store energy: By developing systems that collect resources at peak abundance, we can use them in times of need.
- Obtain a yield: Ensure that you are getting truly useful rewards as part of the work that you are doing.
- Apply self-regulation and accept feedback: We need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can continue to function well.
- Use and value renewable resources and services: Make the best use of nature’s abundance to reduce our consumptive behavior and dependence on non-renewable resources.
- Produce no waste: By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste.
- Design from patterns to details: By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.
- Integrate rather than segregate: By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other.
- Use small and slow solutions: Small and slow systems are easier to maintain than big ones, making better use of local resources and producing more sustainable outcomes.
- Use and value diversity: Diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the environment in which it resides.
- Use edges and value the marginal: The interface between things is where the most interesting events take place. These are often the most valuable, diverse and productive elements in the system.
- Creatively use and respond to change: We can have a positive impact on inevitable change by carefully observing, and then intervening at the right time.
(via fuckyeahpermaculture)
LOOK AT MY POWERWINDOWS!
Transparent solar panels could replace your windows.
German startup company Heliatek is testing their flexible, transparent solar panels which could one day be built into houses to act as power-generating windows.
techreview, 17.04.12.
Truth: It's the 2 year anniversary of BP oil spill →
The facts:
1. Congress STILL hasn’t enacted a single piece of legislation responding to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
2. It took 9,700 vessels, 127 aircraft, 47,829 people, nearly 2 million gallons of toxic dispersants, and 89 days to stop the gush of oil.
3. Its legacy on sea life: Eyeless shrimp, crabs without claws, and fish with open lesions
4. 60 percent of the oil from the spill remains unaccounted for, according to a Florida State University study.
5. 3,000 miles of beaches and wetlands along the Gulf Coast were contaminated and damaged by oil.
Source: Center for American Progress
(via shuddertree)
