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Filed under  //   9.01.10   humor   music   Old Age  

Drosera anglica, or great sundew

 

Filed under  //   8.31.10   Flora  

Mataiva Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, South Pacific Ocean

"The Tuamotu Archipelago is part of French Polynesia, and forms the largest chain of atolls in the world. This astronaut photograph features Mataiva Atoll, the westernmost atoll of the Tuamotu chain. An atoll is a ring-shaped island that encloses a central lagoon."

Filed under  //   8.31.10   Earth   Islands   Ocean   places  

Iowa egg recall hatches more business in Colorado

 

WELLINGTON - Grant Family Farms has grown its business over the years through word of mouth. In the last few weeks, as a nationwide egg recall sparked fears of salmonella, that word of mouth has grown louder.

Filed under  //   8.31.10   Agriculture   animals   Celebration   Community   Health  

The War on Food

Dear Friend of Liberty,

Power-hungry statists are never satisfied.

Now they’re attempting to use a massive egg recall to shove S. 510, the so-called "Food Safety Modernization Act," down our throats.

S. 510, through a patchwork of rules and regulations on the food "industry," will throw America’s heartland under the government-subsidized corporatist bus as it crushes local and community producers of healthy food.

Filed under  //   8.31.10   Agriculture   Government   Political  

Living Walls and Vertical Gardens | Woolly Pocket

 What is a Woolly Pocket?

Woolly Pockets are flexible, breathable, and modular gardening containers. They`come in two styles: those designed to be placed on horizontal surfaces, and those designed to be hung on walls for vertical gardening. You can use Woolly Pockets both indoors and out; they have built-in moisture barriers to help protect furniture, and they're equally at home outside in the elements. They're perfect for creating urban gardens where you have space to garden but no land to garden in. Woolly Pockets are lightweight and can be folded flat, which makes them very easy to use, move, and store just about anywhere.

Filed under  //   8.30.10   Ecology   Gardening   Recycling  

Hole in the Sun

This ominous, dark shape sprawling across the face of the Sun is a coronal hole -- a low density region extending above the surface where the solar magnetic field opens freely into interplanetary space.

Filed under  //   8.30.10   Astronomy  

The Freecycle Network - Posts on the Cheyenne Group

Find things you need for free,

or give away what you don't need...

Filed under  //   8.30.10   Community   Network   Trading  

Dactylicapnos scandens

Dactylicapnos is a group of scandent (vine-like) herbaceous annuals and perennials, containing twelve species from the western Himalayas to China. Dactylicapnos scandens is distributed widely throughout the region, occurring from northwest India to northern Thailand, and reaching southern China.

Filed under  //   8.30.10   Flora