moritherapy/environment

In case anyone had any questions about climate change (like the Guardian, for example)

Finanacial Permaculture removes our time, attention and money from investments in global corporations that destroy local culture and ecology for profit, and re-invests capital in local enterprises that put people and planet on their bottom line ledger.

Financial Permaculture is the conscious whole system design of human financial systems to create a zero waste economy that cares for the earth, the people and distributes surplus of material, currency and knowledge in a fair and equitable manner.

From the page: "BC Hydro has introduced, as of October 1, the conservation rate, a two-step rate structure that will raise the price of electricity for those who use more than 1,350 kilowatt hours of electricity in a two-month period. For 70% of us, that means our annual electricity spend should either stay the same or go down. But it should be a wake-up call to us all and help push us toward conservation."

The international Awakening the Dreamer movement is, like Transition, an organized approach to allowing communities to re-invent themselves in an energy-efficient, planet-protecting, and sustainable manner of living. Emphais is placed on spiritual and emotional change as well, and this is particular to the Awakening the Dreamer effort.

An incredible doodle essay about turning a driveway into a paradies

Floods in the UK affects 900 marathoners: "Emergency teams from across the Lake District were working to take the competitors from the Original Mountain Marathon (OMM) to safety. The manager of Honister Slate Mine, near Keswick, Cumbria, said he had sheltered up to 300 of the runners.

A spokeswoman at Mary Hewetson Cottage Hospital in Keswick said they had admitted 13 casualties suffering from hypothermia and minor injuries.

She said they had since been transferred for treatment at Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven."

The Prix Pictet is an international photography award for remarkable images that focus on sustainability. It launched this year and is presided over by Kofi Annan, Nobel laureate and former Secretary General of the United Nations.
Rizwan Sadir, a wrestler and factory worker, showers from a hand pump next to the Ravi river in Pakistan. Hand pumps are not deep enough to avoid the polluted water.

Bath time, Malcom Hutcheson

Rizwan Sadir, a wrestler and factory worker, showers from a hand pump next to the Ravi river in Pakistan. Hand pumps are not deep enough to avoid the polluted water.

"Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called "graphene" as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor devices, perhaps paving the way for the massive installation of renewable energies such as wind and solar power.

The researchers believe their breakthrough shows promise that graphene (a form of carbon) could eventually double the capacity of existing ultracapacitors, which are manufactured using an entirely different form of carbon.

"Through such a device, electrical charge can be rapidly stored on the graphene sheets, and released from them as well for the delivery of electrical current and, thus, electrical power," says Rod Ruoff, a mechanical engineering professor and a physical chemist. "There are reasons to think that the ability to store electrical charge can be about double that of current commercially used materials. We are working to see if that prediction will be borne out in the laboratory."