Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Natural building construction
Pattern observation and site analysis
Renewable energy and appropriate technology
Reading the land and natural cycles
... ...and much, much more!

William Greider: Will It Matter That Janet Yelle...
Dave Zirin: Chris Kluwe, Aaron Rodgers and LGBT ...
John Nichols: Five Reforms to Make Democratic Po ...
A Look Back at the Year in Crazy, Part Two
... entists predict i

For me such localism is the cornerstone of what environm... about in the 21st century. Not the top-down imposition o... agenda, but the nurturing of people working as a communi... concerned by local environmental impoverishment come tog... and enhance

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from ...
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Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rig ...
... The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor b... View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to... and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind t...
Frayne's device, which he calls a Windbelt, is a taut me ...
Frayne hope

DERA GHAZI KHAN: At a worl(place dealing with Arabic and... Saudi Arabia, one day Akbar Makhmoor started with the Se... and its definition in Urdu and Seraiki. Now, after almos...
He has never been to a college or a university. A tyre r ...
`One doesn`

This post is by Rebecca Willis, independent adviser on e... sustainability and Green Alliance associate, working wit... Leadership Programme. This is a shortened version of her... presentation to the Tyndall Centre’s Radical Emissions... conference.

In Albrecht’s view, the residents of the Upper Hunter ... just from the strain of living in difficult conditions b... something more fundamental: a hitherto unrecognized psyc... condition. In a 2004 essay, he coined a term to describe it: “solastal

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the lates... local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech us... Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology craft... mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a d...
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If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us ... Advances have indeed made a huge difference in the lives...
The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going t ...
But I'm hardly a naysayer when it comes to tech. I agree ...
The trick i

Konekta is an open development initiative focused on the... community web services that meet social needs. The proje... Development Goals and the objectives of Primary Health C...
The Konekta project is rooted in experience gained from ...
We're inter

In a new report, Simon Roberts outlines why poor househo...
The poorest fifth of the population have already signifi ...
So why is it they are carrying more of the burden of cut ...
Based on detailed analysis of the Government's own figur ...
So lower in

A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a... New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fo... nuclear power — including for transportation — by 20... charts the contributions played by improved efficiency a... renewable e

GAKAWA Senior Secondary School is located in Kenya's wes... Province, about 10 kilometres from Nanyuki town. It is n... live. There are no cash crops, no electricity, no phone ...
"For internet access we had to travel the 10 kilometres ...
Not for muc

TEG is an acronym for ‘thermoelectric generator’. A ...
When heat is applied to the hot side of a TEG, electrici ...
Can you really generate that much electricity from waste ...
You may be surprised just how much you can! Here is a sm ...
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The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of i...
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...

The Rapid Commute system, as he calls it, would enable l... commuters to hop aboard a train instead – while still ... personal vehicles with them. Drivers already similarly u... waterways. So why not deploy the same concept, Farooq fi...
A diagram o

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. We’ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

This article summarises the issues in conducting corpora... research in rural locations covering logistics to resear... communities are far from homongenous.

Test-driving the 'World's Cheapest Computer'
India's 'Aakash' project, a tablet billed as the cheapes ...
Euphoria over a cheap tablet with a 'Made in India' labe ...

I'll bet you didn't know that aluminum (the same stuff t...
The alchemists at a company called Alchemy Research are ...
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To get this to work, you need water to be superheated in ...
... hout all the nasty side-effects that come

Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with ... policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report e... policies, institutions and industries that are driving r... innovation. It measures how India's research strengths a...
Innovation

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti...
“Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants no ...
Here’s an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
“With some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ...
The developing world is

M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mo... money transfer service for Safaricom, Kenya's largest mo... operator.[1] Currently the most developed mobile payment... developing world, M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdr... money easil

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Sustainable, but cheap
We calculate the best location live, based on your susta ...

This year, both the North-west and North-east passages w...
Last month, the 74,000-tonne STI Heritage tanker passed ...
The north-east sea route, which links the Atlantic to th ...
Further evidence of dramatic change in the Arctic came l ...
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