The 'GrowUp Box' Automatically Raises Fish and Plants in a Small Area: https://www.growup.org.uk/
The 'GrowUp Box' Automatically Raises Fish and Plants in a Small Area: https://www.growup.org.uk/
Garden Fresh Farms grows basil year-round in these tanks at its 20,000-square-foot warehouse in Maplewood (2013): http://www.startribune.com/inside-track-garden-fresh-farms-cultivates-more-honors/229301201/ #Regenerative #Infrastructure
Making SmartCities Smarter: Nature-based-Solutions for Climate Resilience: https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/video/37c4e1d5-a68d-431a-831e-57648589d267
"The hidden empire": https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/das-verdeckte-imperium/ (DE only). Excellent investigative journalism by @Tagesspiegel on how the UK-based Billionaire family "Pears" has been using a network of shell companies, to buy up thousands of apartment in Berlin and pay zero tax. Corruption 100x. #Infrastructure #Politics
China sees national coverage of smart grid in 2021. #Regenerative #Infrastructure #IOT
British plumbing companies accused of witchcraft: http://earth-chronicles.com/science/british-plumbing-companies-accused-of-witchcraft.html
The journalists applied to various companies and found out that in 9 out of 11 water companies use the method of biolocation when searching for underground communications or water breakage areas from rotten pipelines.
Bilocation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilocation
Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers: https://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers.html
Built in 1936, this machine was “the world's first computer for solving differential equations,” which “for half a century has been the only means of calculations of a wide range of problems in mathematical physics.” Absolutely its most amazing aspect is that solving such complex equations meant playing around with a series of interconnected, water-filled glass tubes. You “calculated” with plumbing.
Garden historians usually characterize the technical control of water in stately gardens as part of a system of social control. As an alternative, or at least to offer another layer of meaning, this augmented timeline presents a crypto-historical narrative of gardens as gigantic water computers.
Making Money Flow: The MONIAC:
Open source - Europe's battle for basic water rights:
"Fortune magazine predicted in the year 2000, that water was about to become one of the world's great business opportunity. Fortune commented that water promises to be the 21st century, what oil was to the 20th. This means that we'll probably get all the bombing, shooting and invading which has characterised the global struggle for control of the oil
Wikifactory is a social platform for collaborative product development. Designed for open source communities, designers and product companies: https://wikifactory.com/ #OpenSource #P2P #Design #Infrastructure
Power of Siberia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_Siberia
A natural gas pipeline under construction in Eastern Siberia to transport Yakutia's gas to Primorsky Krai and Far East countries. On 21 May 2014, Russia and China signed a 30-year gas deal worth $400 billion which was needed to make the project feasible. As of 2019 the pipeline is not operational but "on track" for start by the end of the year.
Gazprom chief says slight changes to Nord Stream 2 timings possible: Ifax:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gazprom-nordstream-2-miller-idUSKCN1SP0CS
Council of Europe to Allow Russia to Vote Again: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-05-17/council-of-europe-restores-russias-voting-rights
Chinese president, Saudi king talk over phone on bilateral ties:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/08/c_138043810.htm
Russia Grinds Out Wins in Europe:
https://tomluongo.me/2019/05/19/russia-grinds-out-wins-in-europe/
There were simply too many issues coming to a head this year that this policy would continue beyond this point.
Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation - Vladimir Putin attended the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/60378
China-Laos Railway opens new horizons for fruit growers in Southwest China’s Yunnan: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1150603.shtml
On Puerto Rico’s ‘Forgotten Island,’ Tesla’s Busted Solar Panels Tell A Cautionary Tale:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-tesla-puerto-rico-renewable-energy_n_5ca51e99e4b082d775dfec35
"Global Information Society Watch. 2018 - Community Networks" - by @APC_News: https://www.giswatch.org/community-networks https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf 43 country reports selected based on definition: “communication networks built, owned, operated and used by citizens in a participatory and open manner.”
The growing outrage about rampant economic inequalities and rise of total surveillance police states run by mega-corps more powerful than nations, is largely wasted energy if no practical actions follow: It's time for a p2p take-over of infrastructure - the kleptocrats bank.
Open Streets are programs that temporarily open streets to people by closing them to cars:
https://openstreetsproject.org/ #OpenSource #Urban #Infrastructure #Politics
"In London, scientists are testing the “BioSolar Leaf”, which uses carbon-hungry organisms to help clean the air better than trees can–all while providing an excellent source of protein":
https://www.fastcompany.com/90342084/these-biosolar-panels-suck-co2-from-the-air-to-grow-edible-algae #Regenerative #Infrastructure
Enviro Rights Map - by @JoshGellers: "a Google Maps-based website that catalogs constitutional environmental rights around the world": http://envirorightsmap.org/
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination - by @davidbollier:
The City as a Commons - talk by @davidbollier