Living a sustainable lifestyle can simply start from the comfort of your home. We all agree that installing solar panels can help you in so many ways. A solar system is a great way to reduce your electricity bill and help the environment. But it’s not as effective if you don’t have...
outdoor kitchen, barns for animals, sheds for storage, gardens, and fruit trees. The traditional dwelling was the portable boz-ui, made of wool felt on a collapsible wooden frame, which people still live in when they take their animals to the summer pastures. Furniture is a Western adaptat...
In the group of people active in politics and living in a city in Finland, all participants used the internet and social media but among the Finnish participants living in rural area only two out of six used the internet and nobody used social media. However, the sample does not allow us...
Land reforms in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries broke down the communal villages, but the newly created individual farmsteads retained a modified courtyard arrangement with dwelling units, sauna or bath-house, grain and food storage buildings, livestock barns, and hay sheds enclosing an inner...
The wind billowed down from the north for days at a time, rattling the tin storage sheds, whipping the Eucalyptus trees, and throwing dust in our eyes. Days like that we stayed inside. My sister and I shared a room because the third bedroom was a dangerous rat’s maze of boxes and ...
because I enjoy the health benefits of not living destitute and starving in the mountain winter, fed only by a handful of juniper berries to die of the frigid cold. However, I spend quite a lot of time being scolded over the things I cannot affect — whether by the simple fact of the...
These four macromolecules are the lifeblood of biology. From the hair on our heads to the energy that powers our cells, they play a crucial role in making life possible and maintaining its complex balance. Understanding them provides insight into the inner workings of living systems, and it is...
Residents living within the 9-kilometer radius around Mayon volcano continue to be evacuated to safer grounds as the volcano continue to erupt for the second straight day Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018 in Legazpi city, Albay province around 340 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines....
Rapid transformation of ecosystems combined with anthropogenic climate change are driving global declines in biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (NCP)1. While habitat conversion for economic development has raised standards of living for many, the loss of NCP has negatively impacted million...
And as always, many thanks toPeiafor the use of her song The Old Ways Restored in the introduction. #25 Addressing the Other Leg of Climate Change, 1st Panel The understanding that we can restore weather and climate systems by protecting and restoring the living surface of the Earth is an...