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New Chip Could Eliminate Batteries: Power from Heat, Vibration & Light
Emma Hutchings |
Thursday, 12th July 2012

MIT researchers have developed a chip that doesn't require battery power but instead runs on a combination of light, heat, and vibration. Energy is harvested to provide low impact power for monitoring systems like biomedical devices, environmental sensors in...

 
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Brighton Permaculture Trust Funding
Tony Rollinson |
Wednesday, 11th July 2012

National Lottery funding has recently been awarded to the Brighton Permaculture Trust for its fruit work.

 
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Let Mushrooms Sunbathe for Increased Vitamin D
Brittany Keiffer |
Wednesday, 4th July 2012

Vitamin D is essential for our metabolism and boosts our immune system. Paul Stamets, author of Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, showed that mushrooms, either store bought or home grown are a very effective source of vitamin D.

 
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First ever British Festival of the Working Horse supported by The Prince of Wales
permaculture.co.uk |
Friday, 29th June 2012

The Prince of Wales is Patron of the British Horse Loggers (BHL), a group of professionals and their supporters who use horses by choice in modern forestry and woodland management.

 
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Coming Soon! Blood of the Amazon film nights

permaculture.co.uk |
Monday, 25th June 2012

As we all hear about the effects of fracking and resource extraction few realize the extent of the devastating humanitarian effects of the oil industry. How many people know that the worst oil spills on Earth are in the Amazon?

 
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Rio+20 & Beyond: Ecocide & the key to triggering the green economy
Polly Higgins |
Wednesday, 20th June 2012

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development takes place 20 – 22 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro. It is also referred to as Earth Summit 2012 or Rio+20 due to the initial conference held in Rio in 1992.

 
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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought - The Solutions presented to Rio+20
http://www.facebook.com/InternationalPermacultureDay |
Tuesday, 19th June 2012

TODAY, 17th June 2012, is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought and permaculture is one of the solutions being presented for this at Rio+20 this week.

"It's possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems," John D. Liu, founder of the...

 
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'Voicemail' discovered in nature: new research on the 'secret' life of plants
Netherlands Institute of Ecology |
Tuesday, 19th June 2012

Insects can use plants as 'green phones' for communication with other bugs. A new study now shows that through those same plants insects are also able to leave 'voicemail' messages in the soil. Herbivorous insects store their voicemails via their effects on soil...