Skip to the middle of this video for the animal estates bit.
What do you think about this? It kind of makes me want to cry but its so germane I had to post it. Does it matter that most of those animals are never actually going to move in?
The images of the animal estates are [...]
Hundreds of pigeon towers or dovecotes, dating largely to the Safavid reign, dot the fields in the vicinity of Isfahan. Distinct examples of secular architecture in Iran, these structures played an important role, much alike the subterranean canal system (qanats), in sustaining the hinterland that made possible an urban center at Isfahan. The turrets built [...]
The Synergism Hypothesis, On the Concept of Synergy and It’s Role in the Evolution of Complex Systems an article by Peter Corning. May help or hinder?
“The Darwin Centre Phase Two is designed around an iconic eight-storey “Cocoon”, encased within a glass atrium.
The temperature-controlled Cocoon will house 20 million of the museum’s 34 million plant and insect specimens, and laboratories for up to 200 researchers.
Visitors will watch these scientists in action cataloguing rare specimens, when the centre opens in September 2009. [...]
Field trip?
Renzo Piano’s new California Academy of Sciences
The Green Mountain Dairy farm in Sheldon, Vt., like all dairy farms, is in the business of producing milk. But the farm is also part of a growing alternative energy program that converts the methane gas from cow manure into electricity.
In the barn, a mechanical scraper sweeps the cows’ waste into a large drain.
Waste is [...]
Georgia Straight article
The article appeared in this week’s issue of the Straight. It discusses “nature” and the stewardship of the park. A good’n if you get a chance.
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The “medicinal” uses listed here are mostly traditional folk remedies. In some cases they are backed by scientific evidence, but in most cases not. I am making no claims here- just pointing out traditional uses.
Hi Friends,
David Guenter sent me this project that his friend, Michael Banman, did for a competition in Japan. It was an “ideas” competition centred around zoo’s and specific habitats. There was no site in particular.
They chose to focus on a penguin habitat which, in his words, “had a particular interest in:
01 the changing topography as it relates to [...]