For billions of years rainwater was drinkable. Capitalism has ended this. - Art by GadzooksB
tag > Regenerative
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Léon Krier on how well buildings age, using the example of Yale U. By now we are near, or passed, building maintenance singularity: buildings need urgent repairs as soon as, or before they are completed.
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Nature Deficit Disorder
People spend a staggering amount of time daily interacting with flickering lights emitted from screen and talk with great passion about the latest flickering light tech trends. What would happen if they focused their attention on nature for only half that time instead?
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Earth Has 20 Quadrillion Ants, Study Says" - That is 20,000,000,000,000,000, or 20,000 trillion ants. Their weight is estimated at about 12 megatons of dry carbon - more than all the wild birds & mammals together.
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Daisugi (台杉) - A technique used in Japan for 600y to produce wood without cutting down the trees.
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"In a glass of drinking water there is a network of micro bubbles that is about 1000 bigger than neurons in the human brain." - From the Documentary "The Mystery of Water - What we know is a drop"
#Nature #Regenerative #Complexity #Science #FFHCI #ML #Complexity #Documentary
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Energy use in terms of KJ per KM and per Mass for various modes of transportation and animals
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US Army engineer Harold Fisk’s 1944 map of the changing course of the Mississippi River over thousands of years.
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Community service announcements - by jeremyville
"Lost in music, there I found YOU, ME, EVERYTHING, and NOTHINGNESS. When I draw, I open my mind to possibilities, and that’s when ideas find me, not the other way around. The process of my art involves taking away lines, rather than adding them. Saying less, says more. By getting lost in a nothingness, you find yourself, you find love, and a reason for being. That’s what my art is to me: It’s the artifacts that I find on my journey into getting as lost as I can be." - Jeremyville
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Learning from Nature and emulating her, to a large extent means letting go of naive ideas of control
