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Tapping into the water beneath our homesvideos
In chronically dry places, like the entire continent of Australia, communities faced near permanent drought increasingly rely on alternative sources of water. While rainwater capture is common Down Under, a large number of people and farmers have chosen to look not up, but down for this limited resource.Tapping into ...
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7 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
How to make your own yogurt... & avoid all those containersvideos
One of the largest sources of plastic waste are food containers. If you eat a lot of dairy, you're sure to have noticed the milk and yogurt containers piling up. There are a few dairies that reuse their glass bottles, like New York's Ronnybrook Farms or Tasmania's ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A landfill that only buries 25% of its wastevideos
Sending all of our garbage- from construction to garden waste- to landfills may be a thing of the past. In the UK, landfill space is set to run out within a decade. Even in countries with more land, landfills are problematic due to issues like methane emissions- in Australia more ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The Wormer, his Can-O-Worms and worm peevideos
faircompanies user "wormer" has waxed on about vermicomposting's power to transform not only his apple cores, but also his life. His simple Can-O-Worms worm bin eats all of his organic garbage, provides him with great fertilizer for his garden and gives him "cred". In this video, Sydney, Australia's ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Sydney's Sustainable House: how to live like a treevideos
It's a house that produces power, water and even reuses its own sewage, all that in the middle of Australia's biggest city. When Sydney environmental lawyer Michael Mobbs set out to renovate his 100 year old home back in 1996, he- and his wife and 2 children- didn ...
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9 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Sydney's Solar Sailor: a hybrid for the high seasnews
Ferries, freighters, and pleasure boats are getting an eco-facelift thanks to solar sails.There are solar boats and there are sailboats, and now thanks to the patent of a Sydney (Australia) technology company there are solar sail boats and their popularity is growing.Patent-holder Sydney-based Solar Sailor Holdings uses masts ...
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11 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
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Rebirth for apple cores and maybe your lifeblogs
Worms gives you cred, especially when filling a conversation gap with: “I have worms”. Those 3 words carry a lot of weight. Of course you have to get past the obvious – “No, not me personally. 10,000 of the buggers are in the backyard finishing off yesterday’s banana.” There ...
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1 year ago by: Wormer user 19 comments
En Sídney: una casa que actúa como un árbolnews
Pese a ser autónoma y sin residuos, no es un excéntrico experimento, sino una casa convencional. Su dueño nos invitó a verla y nos explicó el brillante futuro de los jardines verticales.Ya en 1996, antes de que expresiones como recolector pluvial o aguas grises formaran parte del léxico técnico ...
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2 years ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
Not all trees are created equal: an ode to corkblogs
What if you could harvest a wood product for flooring without killing a single tree and at the same time protect biodiverse forests and endangered species? On nearly 30,000 square kilometers of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, there is such a place. The cork oak forests ...
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2 years, 1 month ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Sustainable House: it behaves "like a tree"news
It's a home so self-sufficient it processes its own sewage, but it's no wacky experiment in living, rather a very normal-looking urban house. Its creator gave us a tour and explained the bright future of vertical gardens and carbon farming soil.Back in 1996, before terms like greywater ...
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2 years, 1 month ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments