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sustainable-sam:

The Beauty of Bacteria

Designers habitually copy nature. The examples pile up faster than beetle species and include things like Antonio Gaudí’s soaring architecture, William Morris’s floral wallpaper and George Nakashima’s rough wood tables. Cutting-edge technology takes away nothing from nature-inspired designs, but instead enhances them. In 2006, the Dutch designer Joris Laarman introduced a chair modeled by computer along the principles of bone tissue development, so that the parts of the chair subjected to the greatest stress were thickest, while those subjected to the least amount of stress were carved away. The result was an efficient use of material and a spectacular form.

But bio design is not about merely taking cues from organic structures and operations. It’s about harnessing the machinery of the natural world to perform as nature does: storing and converting energy, producing oxygen, neutralizing poisons and disposing wastes in life-sustaining ways.

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hermannview:

In a dusty book written in 1969 by Jack Wood I had picked up in an outdoor book sale, the Introduction to Neo-Colonialism had an interesting statement wrote, neo-colonialism is “a strategy of imperialism” which strives to “continue the economic exploitation of the Third World.” Instead of…

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archiemcphee:

From the Department of Awesome Anthropomorphic Foodstuffs come these wonderful photos taken by a farmer in Hyogo prefecture, Japan, who unearthed a daikon radish that strongly resembles a figure swinging its arms and running for its life. It looks like it would be right at home as a creature in a Miyazaki film.

The imaginative farmer, who goes by the twitter handle @konsai_umemama, decided that such a fantastic vegetable deserves a more interesting fate than ending up on someone’s plate. And so they’ve set about placing the radish in a variety of humourous situations and then taking these great photos. 

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Happy Monday, Internet! We salute you with this anthropomorphic radish running for its life. Or getting ready to dance the day away? You decide.

—Yowei

sustainable-sam:

Preserving Herbs for Best Flavor

did-you-kno:

Source

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Industrialization 

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Nourishing Traditional Diets with Sally Falon

brandef:

forest garden

the apocalypse. 

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brandef:

Infertility Georgia guide stone. No wifi in Switzerland ba nk

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mrsevilgenius11:

great way to keep no fuss herbs and easy take home low maintenance project to do with kids to get them interested in the garden 

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c0quettes-temporary:

Live Moss Carpet is a soft grass carpet that thrives from the few drops of water you leave behind when stepping out of the shower or bath.

I dig the fuck outta this.

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dailyresillience:

iggymogo:

A trellised Italian Tree Tomato.

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