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I was sent this beautiful video by my fellow web explorer Delia. This is a magic example of how, with a little observation, one can come up with solutions of working with nature instead of trying to control with brute force. This family tradition takes place in the Meghalaya subtropical forests ecoregion of Northeast India. They get large amounts of rain so normal bridge constructions would be destroyed when the river level rises. So a local man had the idea of planting a fig tree and using it’s growing roots to create a resistant weave and build living bridges.

“Solar Roadways“ won the $50,000 prize in the GE Ecomagination Challenge. With the increase of cost for asphalt, there is a need to come up with a more intelligent solution. Roads already connect communities, so why not take advantage of this and have the roads be an intelligent conductor of energy? Solar Roadways proposes an “out-of-the-box” solution worth investigating. For more information visit http://www.solarroadways.com

OCTAGON Sustainable, Affordable Secure Housing Octagon offers an innovative response to the global need for sustainable building, affordable housing and secure shelter… visit their website for more information on Octagon products like the “CoreHouse (TM) Single” house, which can be built in 3 hours. www.octagoneu.com

The following time-lapse video shows the CoreHouse Single pre-fabricated building being built by normal people without specific building or physical skills. This represents the one day of work which it took to complete the build.

GMO expert Jeffrey M. Smith, author of the numbre one GMO bestseller “Seeds of Deception,” and “Genetic Roulette,” presents alarming evidence on why gene-spliced crops may lead to health and environmental destruction. We must learn to protect ourselves by discovering the “Campaign for Healthier Eating in America” — a genius plan to quickly end the genetic engineering of our food supply.

GMO scientists and the ruthless companies they work for are depending on your indifference and ignorance on this subject. Watch this video to learn about the dangers of these practices, try to educate yourself and those around you:

Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods from Jeffrey Smith on Vimeo.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.

Cold Fusion is the short name for the study of nuclear fusion at or near room temperatures. This hypothetical form of nuclear fusion does not require the extreme temperatures used in current day Nuclear Reactors. It’s a “hot” topic in scientific circles sparking controversy since 1989 when electro-chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced they had produced fusion in their lab. Cold Fusion is also called “Low Energy Nuclear Reaction” (LENR) or Condensed Matter Nuclear Science” Opponents and skeptics make arguments based upon initial replication failures and errors. I would say, these errors are simply part of the experimentation process and one should continue until exhausting all attempts, there is always something to learn in the process. Well some of these visionary scientists and inventors refused to give up and have recently been conducting new experiments which raise new questions about Cold Fusion as a commercially viable alternative. I can only think that technology has come a bit further since 1989 and new approaches can be taken into it’s investigation.

Architect Cameron Sinclair hopes to inspire architects and home designers to respond to the world housing crisis. Projects include transitional shelters like an Inflatable Hemp House, a Shipping Container and other ideas that will allow residents to eventually build a more permanent home or improve these sustainable homes. His focus is on how architecture interacts with the community and provides several plans for community centers. Countries include Africa, India, México, U.S.A., Brazil, China, Israel, Palestine, Vietnam.

His group provided Sunami relief shelters, community centers and schools. The parents and kids built and are now using theses schools. He worked with residents and volunteers in New Orleans after Katrina hurricane, to clean, redesign and rehabilitate homes without waiting for FEMA to tell them what to do. Quick assembly emergency shelters and tents, devemoped by hundreds of architects and designers and inventors that are getting involved around the world in humanitarian work.

A recent U.N. (United Nations) report described how the livestock industry’s misuse of resources makes it the NUMBER ONE CAUSE of GLOBAL WARMING. Not only this, but it is one of the top ten items on the list of problems contributing to world hunger. The amount of grains needed to produce a pound of meat greatly outweighs the end product, it is an expensive product destined to a small percentage of the world’s population.

Here’s an intelligent look at the situation by Professor Donna Quesada, this first part of the video has a quote from Paul MacCartney and his views on the vegetarian lifestyle.

Some years ago, I met a builder who told me about this method of contruction, using long sandbag tubes which are filled with a mixture of dirt and small amount of cement. I found this instructional video from calearth where architect and author Nader Khalili explains their Superadobe building method.