Interesting facts about why aphids are such prolific little pests.
Thermosiphoning Passive Solar Water Heater
Build it Solar brings it again! This might be common knowledge but, heat rises and cold falls. This is the action behind thermosiphoning. The short and sweet of it is that you run some cold water through metal pipes that are being hit by the sun to heat it. You have a circulating system where…
Good Weeds # 2
Lamb’s Quaters or Goosefoot (Chenopodium Berlandieri): This little known “weed” (to me at least) is of the same genus (closely related to) as Quinoa. It is part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex, a group of plants the Eastern Woodland Native Americans were foraging for as far back as 6,000 BCE. By 1,800 BCE they were…
This Radio Programme is AWESOME
Sustainable World Radio is by far one of the best things I’ve heard coming out of the radio lately. Most stuff I listen to is all about injustice, government, and all around bad news. Very interesting and necessary so as to be informed on what’s going on in the world. However this can get to…
Book Shelf: Growing Plants From Seed
Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko coined the term Jarovization in 1928. This translates to Venalization, vernum being the latin word for spring. This study left my head spinning. What it boils down to is that plants know when to flower in spring because of sensors telling them it’s been cold for a prolonged period of time.…
RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
Makes sense to me. Why is it that the society at large continues to stick with patterns that don’t benefit the whole or that just plain no longer work for us?