Source – goldenageofgaia.com – A large wheel has been strolling the Baltimore Inner Harbor the past month, doing its best to clean the trash that has littered a city landmark and tourist attraction. It’s called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, and though it moves slow, it has the capability to collect 50,000 pounds of trash.…
Source – youtu.be – Kp comment: I personally enjoyed viewing this as well. Pepe tells it like it is. Video notes: Published on Jul 15, 2014 New Development Bank will provide money for infrastructure and development projects in BRICS countries, and unlike the IMF or World Bank, each nation has equal say, regardless of GDP…
Source – naturalnews.com – The age of human delusion is rapidly coming to an end. A civilization that has deluded itself into believing so many of its own lies on pivotal issues — agriculture, fossil fuels, economics, finance, water supply, food, pharmaceuticals and more — sooner or later runs headfirst into reality. All the theatrics…
Source -.trueactivist.com/ – New machines have been installed in Sydney, Australia that rewards people for depositing their empty plastic bottles or cans. Each machine can hold up to 2,000 containers before they automatically email the council informing them when it is full. Currently 15,000 bottles and cans are littered or thrown into landfill every minute across Australia.…
Source – time.com – The ‘Iron Man’ device could work like Nespresso Pretty soon, treating your Vitamin D deficiency could be as simple as firing up your espresso machine. Or so Nestlé hopes. The research arm of the Swiss food and beverage company, Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS), is hard at work on a…
Source – ecowatch.com – Elon Musk’s alternate-energy aspirations don’t end with Tesla’s electric vehicles. Musk is also chairman of SolarCity, a firm responsible for three times the solar panel installations as its closest competitor. Along with executives Peter Rive and Lyndon Rive, Musk announced this week that the company will create a solar plant that…
Source – earthtechling.com – large wheel has been strolling the Baltimore Inner Harbor the past month, doing its best to clean the trash that has littered a city landmark and tourist attraction. It’s called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, and though it moves slow, it has the capability to collect 50,000 pounds of trash. The…
Source – nakedsecurity.sophos.com – A strong majority of the US House of Representatives on Thursday night voted to cut funding for surveillance on citizens. The vote came in at 293 to 123 in favor of an amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would cut funding for National Security Agency (NSA) operations that include warrantless…
Source – wakeup-world.com, by Ethan Indigo Smith – Many of the layers and subtleties in Orwell’s 1984, though fixed for the sake of fiction, so perfectly reflect the non-fictional world – the impulses of totalitarian institutions and the spirit of individuals – that it has become a near timeless representation. Arguably the most significant political…
Source – vr-zone.com – Renewable energy is not necessarily free, as it does come with some costs, in terms of money spent for equipment, and other environmental costs. For example, windmills do not operate at 100 percent efficiency, because the windmill structure itself blocks the movement of the wind, and the moving parts are subject to…
Source – goldenageofgaia.com – Stephen: We must be back on the Tesla timeline this weekend – 71 years later. This story follows yesterday’s story on Tesla cars (no relation) allowing its technology for powering and building electric vehicles to be open sourced. By Beverley Mitchell, inhabitat – June 12, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/mqfwrpv “Tesla was right…
– Viva Espana!, once one of Europe’s most ardent conservative Catholic states – now a social progressive leadrer.
Source: theguardian.com – Thai ‘ghost ships’ that enslave, brutalise and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain, Guardian investigation discovers – Slaves forced to work for no pay for years at a time under threat of extreme violence are being used in Asia in the production of seafood sold by major US,…
Source: ingienous.com – Below is replicated in it’s entirety a letter from Permaculturist David Blume that shows the potential of Permaculture to compete with agriculture. David has decades of highly successful realworld permaculture experience. He wrote this insightful letter in response to a woman at ATTRA who said something like “Of course you couldn’t feed…
Source: solarroadways.com – How much electricity can we really produce? – We’re in the process of updating this page daily with more current information. Please come back often. We took down our numbers page recently as we hadn’t updated it since our Phase I contract with the Federal Highway Administration. Many things have changed since…
Source: Take Part, Berlin – Everyone wants to contribute a smaller carbon footprint, but it’s quite difficult when 80% of stock sold in supermarkets is wrapped in toxic packaging. In effect, Americans still produce near 3 pounds of trash every day, and this is a big problem. So what could be an intelligent solution? How about a…
Source: naa.org – Did you know the average adult uses four different devices or technologies to access news in a given week? In today’s media landscape, readers are changing the way they access and interact with newspaper media content. And newspapers continue to innovate and transform, reaching new audiences and discovering new revenue streams.
Source: naturalsociety.com – Algae has already been touted as a natural healing wonder. Not only does have its high chlorophyll content and special plant compounds been shown to defeat cancer and heart disease, it also shows promise as a replacement for butter and eggs in gluten free and vegan baked goods. Even giants like Unilever, which make unhealthy…
Source: polidics.com – Been some time since Dennis Klein has gone public and talked about his Water to Gas converter that is now being sold on-line at his website: Dennis Klein’s website. Early testing yielded 100 miles per 4 .oz of water. Initially, as you’ll see in this video, Dennis Klein tells us that we…
Source: o.canada.com – This handout photo, taken Dec. 2012, in Brazil, provided by Stuart Pimm, Duke University, shows a baby golden lion tamarin. Once thought to be extinct, this tamarin is a success story because biologists have helped set aside land for them. Species of plants and animals are going extinct 1,000 faster than they…
Source: nasa.gov – The book is titled Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication. It was edited for NASA by Douglas Vakoch, Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute. Amazingly NASA offers up what many consider UFO and Extraterrestrial Disclosure. With the help of other experts he tackles a number of topics including the prospect…
Source: worldbank.org – The May 2014 Issue of Food Price Watch finds that international prices of food increased by 4% between January and April 2014, putting an end to the declining trend of food prices sustained since August 2012. The thematic section of this report discusses the role that food prices and food shortages may…
Source: bullionbullscanada.com – Regular readers are familiar with my narratives on the U.S. Greater Depression, and (in particular) some of the government’s own charts which depict this economic meltdown most vividly. The collapse in the “civilian participation rate” (the number of people working in the economy) and the “velocity of money” (the heartbeat of the…
Source: rumormillnews – The Eurasian Union will adopt a new currency: Altyn (Rus: Алтын). Vladimir Putin announced that Altyn as the new Eurasian currency was originally planned for 2025, but now, due to the US/EU sanctions against Russia, the transition to Altyn may occur within 3-5 years. Effectively, Russia is sending a signal to its…
Source: voltairenet.org, by Webster G. Tarpley – April 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, which began when Confederate forces opened fire upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The following essay by Webster Tarpley, tells about the largely untold alliance between President Abraham Lincoln and Russian Tsar Alexander II, which by…
Source:.dw.de – The Global Freedom Network, a new working group of religious leaders, aims to put a stop to slavery. Gina Dafalia is hopeful that the brainchild of an Australian billionaire and her Walk Free Foundation will succeed. DW: What inspired Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest to take up the fight against slavery in the first…
Source:SUNY.edu, by Holly Richmond – A family home with a minuscule energy bill? Yep — and thankfully it’s not just one big solar panel attached to a shoebox. A group of students from three Syracuse, N.Y.-area colleges designed a home that only racks up $2 in energy costs each month — and it’s a 1,925-square-foot craftsman-style…
Source: bloomberg.com – Swiss voters rejected the world’s highest national minimum wage, striking down a proposal for an hourly rate of 22 francs ($25). The initiative was opposed by 76.3 percent of voters, the government in Bern said yesterday. Polls, including one by gfs.bern, forecast that outcome. “It’s a strong sign to Switzerland as…
Source: grist.org – High gas prices got you down? Your problems are a tiny fraction of those faced by our whole fossil fuel–addicted global society. A new report from the International Energy Agency considers the cost of remaining hooked on antiquated, polluting, and climate-changing energy sources. First, here’s what might seem to be bad news…
Source: expandedconsciousness.com – Simon Dale is a family man in Wales, the western part of Great Britain. His interest in self-sustainability and an ecological awareness led him to dig out and build his own home—one of the loveliest, warmest, most inviting dwellings you could ever imagine. And it cost him only £3,000, about $4,700 American…
Source: vorige.nrc.nl – The Dutch justice ministry has announced it will close eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty. During the 1990s the Netherlands faced a shortage of prison cells, but a decline in crime has since led to overcapacity in the prison…
Source: naturalsociety.com, by Elizabeth Renter, May 11th, 2014, Image from http://www.npr.org. – The value of gardening is one that’s often underestimated and under-appreciated. One recent study found gardening can reduce your risk of dying from all causes by as much as 30%, and you only need to ask a gardener about how their hobby effects…
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