Berlin Farm Lab Some visual input from the first day of the gardening season. Thank you, Melina Daphne Papageorgiou for the beautiful photos! if you want to garden, come and find us every saturday at the Beilsteinerstrasse 51, in Berlin-Marzahn. more to come! Fiber-Optic Solar Toilet Turns Sewage To Plant Friend txchnologist: by Michael KellerWorld Water Day is coming up this Saturday. Moss Fm, the first radio that works with electricity captures by moss during photosynthesis! read more Urban farming and permaculture merge with the popular hiphop culture in Brussels! 'Utopian cob awesomeness' Community garden in Marzahn Berlin Farm Lab is looking for people who would like to start a community garden in Berlin-Marzahn! 10 Vegetables & Herbs You Can Eat Once and Regrow Forever There are some ingredients I cook with so often I can never buy too many of them, and most of them are produce. A film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.
How I grow and harvest organic Chia seeds Chia is very convenient and versatile. I chew chia seeds, releasing their nutty taste, and use them as a snack food on a busy day. They swell a little as they absorb saliva, making them soft and ready for the journey to my stomach. Soaking the seeds first in water or a fresh juice makes them even easier for your body to digest. Sprouting chia seeds increases their vitamin content and makes them even more nutritious. The leaves, fresh or dried, make a relaxing and therapeutic tea. If you want to sweeten your chia tea, use a healthy sweetener like honey or stevia. When baking my own bread, I sometimes toss a handful of chia seeds in the mix. Extra chia leaves I feed to my hens, pigs or other animals.
10 Ways To Create An Open Culture Three years ago, Grey London really needed to change. The industry had changed, the media landscape had changed and Grey remained a relatively successful (in financial terms at least), safe, but dull London outpost of a global network. Not a great, or ultimately sustainable, place to be if you’re in a creative industry. Grey had tried to change before. As a team, we have a shared dissatisfaction for how most agencies choose to work. To achieve actual change rather than paper change we needed three things: vision, courage and urgency, with the greatest focus on the latter--because talking about change rather than doing it is where most programs come unstuck. And we have. Here, based on our experience, are 10 ways to become Open. Don’t just strategize for change All businesses need to change. Strategy is, in fact, the easy bit. Do it now Pick the right team The operative word here is team. Do as I do, not as I say Fundamentally, culture is the behavior of management. Engage, don’t mandate
Neceser natural para viajeros | Viajeros reverdes Cuando introdujimos el veganismo en nuestras vidas, éste vino acompañado de muchas cuestiones que nos empujaron a ampliar nuestra visión en las cosas del día a día, extendiéndose más allá del plato que teníamos delante. Salud, ética animal, medioambiente, cosmética, productos de limpieza… Después de algunos años, esta teoría la hemos ido aplicando a nuestra cotidianidad viajera. ¿Queréis saber qué nos llevamos? Siguiendo la tónica de consejos saludables durante el viaje, os presentamos nuestro neceser reverde, formado por elementos altamente naturales clave y con menos química de la habitual, que pueden sacar del apuro al viajero sin la necesidad de abusar de pastillas a la mínima de cambio. Hemos intentado reunir a los más importantes y que combinados entre sí, dan lugar a un abanico más amplio de posibilidades. Por supuesto que todo esto son consejos personales y no incitamos a nadie a llevar o dejar de llevar lo que soléis incluir de por sí en vuestra bolsa de viaje. Higiene personal
Free Winter Heat! - And It Goes Like This - Plan ahead now! This is one great way to take advantage of nature and keep warm in the winter, or warm your greenhouse. It can be used to heat water, and cut the cost of bills. Composte and warmth go hand in hand. Other Great Stories From Offgridquest.com: A Kale Smoothie That Tastes Like Ice Cream I'm a blendaholic. And when it comes to passing my addiction on to others, I'm also an enabler. But fear not. Our lives are hectic and we've taken to bottling, canning, boxing and vacu-packing all of our foods for convenience, a way to fill up on the fly, and it's only human that we make this trade-off. Enter the blender...a phenomenal machine, the greatest culinary gift bestowed on us since fire and spoons! This is why I wrote The Blender Girl, a collection of love letters to the power of whole foods, to the power of balance, and to everything you can make in the miraculous blender. The recipe from my book that I've included here was inspired by a smoothie created at SunCafe, my favorite local raw restaurant that won the SeriousEats Best Smoothie in L.A. Still the most popular recipe on my website, this is the Holy Grail of Kale. Tastes-Like-Ice-Cream Kale Serves 2 Note: With a conventional blender, you’ll get the smoothest consistency if you use maple syrup or chop the dates finely.
I bought a woodland with 60 strangers When I tell someone that I bought a wood with more than 60 people I didn't know, reactions vary from "Brilliant!" to "You must be nuts!" We moved to Stroud eight years ago and one of the pulls was the picturesque woodland nearby. I wanted to do more than just walk in the woods – I wanted to develop a connection to the beautiful landscape and learn woodland skills. Finding our wood Once we'd settled in, I put an ad in the local paper saying I was thinking of buying a bit of woodland and wondered if anyone had some to sell. We bemoaned the fact that there's such little woodland for sale, and that it's so expensive. About a year later, a 1.5-hectare wood came up for auction around 30 minutes' walk from Stroud. Creating our group Martin had experience of collaborative community projects, so we set out to find a group of people to buy it with us. It was clear that we all had quite similar interests and values, and we were very upfront. Sealing the deal The day of the auction was very exciting.
Paneer Recipe - Real Food Ready to eat in less than 2 hours, paneer is the quickest curd you can concoct. Mild-flavored paneer is typically added to highly seasoned Indian dishes, but it can shine in a multitude of recipes. It does not melt when heated. Don’t use colored vinegar unless you want colored cheese. Ingredients: 1 gallon milk (cow’s milk is traditional)1/4 to 1/2 cup lemon juice or distilled white vinegar1/4 tsp salt, or to taste Instructions: 1. 2. 3. 4. After an hour, check to see whether whey still runs out when you push the cheese with your fingertips. 5. Interested in other homemade cheese recipes? Photo by Tim Nauman: Paneer doesn't melt when heated, so it's a great candidate to fry and serve with a dip.
10 Practices Showing That "Sustainability" is More Than Just a Buzzword! Sustainability is the buzzword that’s making the world a better place! You have probably realized that the way we manage our resources is gaining more space in the media and transforming our means of production and development. On the other hand, you may also have bought some products being advertised as sustainable and, later, discovered that certain stages of their production were contrary to this principle. A sustainable world. You may wonder if sustainability is just another marketing ploy or whether it is being seriously practiced. So, to better understand how individuals, designers, environmentalists, and communities are using this concept, you should read the following 10 practices that are among the most important examples of sustainability. 10. Large scale conservation project. 9. Green roof. To make your roof a successful green space, you would rather use the Scandinavian tradition of planting hardy species, such as several kinds of grass that can thrive with low maintenance.
Diet 8 ANCIENT BELIEFS NOW BACKED BY MODERN SCIENCE The Earth may not be flat nor is it the center of the universe, but that doesn’t mean old-world intellectuals got everything wrong. In fact, in recent years, modern science has validated a number of teachings and beliefs rooted in ancient wisdom that, up until now, had been trusted but unproven empirically. Here are eight ancient beliefs and practices that have been confirmed by modern science. In their never-ending search for the best way to live, Greek philosophers argued over the relative benefits of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year, found that while both types of happiness can make you feel good, the latter could promote physical health and longevity as well. The traditional Chinese medicine technique is believed to address imbalances in a person’s qi (pronounced chi), the circulating energy within every living thing.