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Lakeshore drive is commonly known as the "road to nowhere," and used to lead to a farming community which thrived prior to the 1940's, before the national park service told the families to leave, and declared their land as belonging to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. This road was initially proposed to lead to the land that was taken over by the park, but due to environmental reasons it was never completed, thus leading to nowhere. However, the trails have woven around some of the remnants of the farms that the families used to own.
The self sustained community of Las Terrazas, one hour away from Havana, it's a perfect getaway from the big city. This woman stares at the tourists who are staring at her laundry, there's no getaway for her...
"Despite millions poured into the continent for the last 50 years, poverty has not been arrested. Instead it has escalated," says CMS' Serah Wambua. Kibera, where hit movie The Constant Gardener was filmed, is the scene of several 'seed projects' inspired by the Samaritan Strategy's vision.
(Photo source: Serah Wambua/CMS)
The Latille Waterfalls and Gardens is the vision of one man,John Selie,a native St. Lucian.He went away from the islands to attend college and came back to this area to land he inherited.His vision was to make this place eco-friendly and self sustaining.He generates all his power from the waterfalls,builds all structures from materials raised on the property,and grows most of his and his guests food.John is a colorful,friendly,and very interesting fellow,and was happy to share his knowledge and experiences in developing his "quest".
Latille was used as a location for some episodes of the TV show "The Bachelor".They had finished filming 2 weeks before we visited.
straight out of the camera :D no editing, touching or cropping.
looks good huh?
this was taken at a recent barbecue i went to. so most of it had to do with fire.
have a few more shots, but im too lazy to upload them now. wud post them later on.
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How my grandfathers garden looked. Potatoes and cabage, under a thin fleece to protect it from insects
Mamiya M645 1000s
Sekor C 80mm f/2.8
Fujifilm Pro 400H
An earthship is a home that is composed of natural and recycled materials. They are off the grid, utilize solar power, are built somewhat into the ground to help regulate temperature, collect water from rain, and are pretty much self sustaining constructions. This particular earthship also had a greenhouse inside that housed plantlife, turtles, birds, and fish. There were chickens in the backyard, too. It also had 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a waterfall, fireplace, and full kitchen. .There is a collection of these earthships out in that region North-West of Taos, New Mexico. As far as I could see in every direction was desert and mountains (Sangre de Cristo). The community is called the Greater World Earthship Community.
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Ecospheres is a self sustaining life-support system, developed by NASA ..Inside this glass sphere you can see shrimps living life to the full Completely self contained!
An earthship is a home that is composed of natural and recycled materials. They are off the grid, utilize solar power, are built somewhat into the ground to help regulate temperature, collect water from rain, and are pretty much self sustaining constructions. This particular earthship also had a greenhouse inside that housed plantlife, turtles, birds, and fish. There were chickens in the backyard, too. It also had 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a waterfall, fireplace, and full kitchen. .There is a collection of these earthships out in that region North-West of Taos, New Mexico. As far as I could see in every direction was desert and mountains (Sangre de Cristo). The community is called the Greater World Earthship Community.
For my official site and inquiries, please visit photography.JosephLekas.com
Eclipsis System metal shutter
Lumanhaus self sustaining and fully self reliant home built buy Virginia Tech
While traveling in India the author, a Dutchman, is introduced to the curative properties of urine while trying to heal a broken toe suffered from a rock falling on his foot. The wound treated with the usual antiseptic cream seemed to deteriorate and threatened to become infected. Applying his own urine to the wound by suggestion of another European was the only thing that worked. At the same time he read the book The Waters of Life written in 1940 by an Englishmen and decided to research further with more trips to India. This book first published in 1993 and again in 2019 is the culmination of his research. One of a handful of books in English on the practice of urine therapy, it has a wholistic spiritual approach that is gentle and soothing.
In India Shivambu, the word for urine, literally means the waters of Shiva and urine is considered one of the gifts of the body. A practice that is noted in a 5,000 year old document discovered in India. One hundred and seven verses describing the process and benefits of this practice within the larger disciplines of yoga and meditation. A translation of the full text is offered here in this book. The practice is still popular in India and an Indian prime minister famously boasted of his devotion to the regime. His good health up to his death at 100 years old standing as a testament. I first heard about this unusual health practice at the Pun Pun eco village in Thailand.
Chapters cover the history of urine therapy in both the West and the East. In the West urine was collected from laborers as part of the economy in the textile trades for washing and dying textiles. The ammonia in old urine being the key ingredient. Urine was also noted for its ability to cure colds, wounds, skin diseases, eye diseases, baldness, jaundice, deafness and numerous other ailments. And was used as an emergency cure in the front lines of war and in survival situations when there is no water available to drink.
In the 20th century scientific research revealed substances in urine that combats growth of cancer cells along with numerous other proteins, enzymes, hormones and vitamins. Urine is sterile and is the product of the kidneys whose purpose is to filter the blood of excess substances in order to keep the blood balanced. It filters out the overflow as it were and when ingested again the urea is broken down into other elements such as amino acids by the digestive system.
Pharmaceutical companies and skin lotion companies already collect urine from humans for use in the manufacturing of their products. In Shanghai the city government collects urine from public toilets and then sells this resource to pharmaceutical companies. The 500 million dollar market for certain substances collected from urine include Urikonase an enzyme that dissolves blood clots. Also insulin and growth hormones. These substance filtered out for use in manufacturing of products.
Scientific research of the efficacy of urine therapy itself is difficult to come by for a liquid with so many variables and substances and of course there is little profit to be gained from people’s bodies manufacturing their own medicinal cures for free. Thus it is only in the alternative medicine world that urine therapy is actually promoted as a practice. The author asks us to consider that for the 9 months of our gestation the amniotic fluids we swim in contains our urine which we drink and expel repeatedly and the lungs need to be filled with the fluid to develop fully. So we have already experienced the life healing properties of our own waters. Plus any surgeries done to babies in the womb leave no scars.
The author having taken up the practice himself provides a chapter on its many uses from massage to shampoo to drinking. Basic instructions are to catch the mid stream in a cup and drink while fresh. To avoid the toxins that come out first and sediments last. Applications to skin and for joint pain require the use of compresses soaked in aged urine. Can also be used in eyes when fresh to heal eye problems including vision. Three drops under the tongue for a homeopathic remedy. More deep seated diseases required fasting and drinking urine all day for many days. Drinking urine should not be done when allopathic drugs are being taken. Nor is it a cure all on its own, but part of a healing regime that may include diet and fixing what is triggering the problem.
He lists some of the substances in urine and what they can do. Includes melatonin and dopamine, both mood elevators. The chapter of testimonials from doctors and patients are filled with stories of rejuvenation, remission and recovery from cancer, AIDS, allergies, mono, chronic fatigue and an assortment of other ailments. The index of ailments fills seven pages. Further research by the same author beyond this book offered the discovery that the body’s urine when drunk stimulates receptors in the throat to trigger the body into producing needed substances to repair and rebalance the body.
The picture that he creates through these remarkable stories is one that shows the body to be a self sustaining organism that every few hours produces a report reflecting its status which is also a tonic that when drunk will stimulate the body to produce what is needed to cure and rebalance the body. The body can also thus self vaccinate using the toxins contained in the urine. It is a feedback system of intelligence that maintains the health of the organism. There is no reason why this cannot be the intent of the design given that other creatures also have powers of rejuvenation. But our culture has created such disgust with our bodily functions that we operate from a place of self hatred of the flesh. We are thus blind to our own ecstatic existence in the present moment in conjunction with the present environment.
Our attachment to the idea that the human mind was given us to “solve” problems of our earthly suffering renders primitive the gifts we already have for a full life. How different a world we would have if we used our brains as a a problem solver in tandem with natural feedback loops in order to rebalance and maintain the health of our natural world and ourselves. This would entail a spiritual movement based in nature rather than a political one based in a capitalistic economy designed to exploit nature for profit in order to “improve” on it. It is worth contemplating this vision of a self-healing world that begins with our body.
Regina Tervo, who raises goats on her Trenton farm, is surrounded by kids born born from this past year's breeding season on her farm.
For two weeks, a reporter and I traveled to a few local goat farms to photograph goats and those who love them. Here's the story- www.kinston.com/news/local/goats-bursting-onto-pop-cultur...
Chameli Deni , 35, who has received a d-light solar panel lamp, is pictured here using her wood burning stove, in Parrot Hill village, Jharkhand, India. She belongs to the Ghatwal caste, one of the lower castes.
This is the World Trade Center in Manama, Bahrain... a building made to be self sufficient... well to at least 15-20 percent less power usage.... it has 3 wind turbines in the buildings center to give it power since the city and country are on an island just off Saudi Arabia... The buildings shape is designed to provide wind equally to the three vertical turbines and they will provide the building with around 1.1 - 1.3 MWh a year, around 15 percent of the buildings needed power supply...
i think this is an amazing start to what this world needs, "Green" buildings that will power themself's as much as they can without using precious recourses.... and from what i understand, South Korea has made a pact to make each city and building thats new and current, self sustainable... a lesson learned for the rest of the world, go GREEN....
oh btw i am very much eco concieous person... i live in a city that requires strict emissions laws as well as i drive a car, even tho is not a prius, that gets over 35 MPG... I hate SUV's but ironically do love driving them (its that high commanding position you get with them) but have even made my family drive eco friendly cars... my dad just got a PZEV (Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle) car that seats 6' tall adults comfortably and gets 35 mpg (new honda accord V6, which goes to 3 cylinder at highway speed) green is the way to go people, we need to fix our planet back up...
oh btw, i so did not take this pic, i found it on wikipedia, and its a share pic so i can show it and will put the link about the building too...
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Victoria University of Wellington's First Light entry in the 2011 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC on September 21, 2011.
Eclipsis System outer panel
Lumanhaus self sustaining and fully self reliant home built buy Virginia Tech
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Lumanhaus self sustaining and fully self reliant home built buy Virginia Tech
The Tour de France is a nice event, where pro-cyclists are doing up to 230 km a day without any other care.
The TCR, however, is a totally different kind of race.
It started last Sunday at 8 pm in Roubaix, France and will end after about 4500 km in Istanbul, Turkey. The race is self-supported, there are no seigneurs helping the athletes along, no doctors who heal their ailments, no cooks who prepare exquisitely fine-tuned meals.
These guys have to do everything by themselves, this even includes road planning.
That's why I have encountered three of the 300 contestants on the roads around my village. They have covered more that 700 km so far and there are many more to go.
I like the Tour de France for the spectacle and for the wonderful views of France, but the true heroes of the road are the ones on this pic!
You can follow the race here
From left to right:
# 161 Fadi Alrais from Sweden,
# 212 Adrien Ponteville from France,
# 30 Leigh Timmis from the UK.
Good Luck and Godspeed!
Contains:
Stretch mark body balm, Sleep aid linen spray, Lavender baby powder, Herbal baby body/massage oil, Herbal diaper rash/irritated skin salve
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Chameli Deni's d-light solar panel lamp, in Parrot Hill village, Jharkhand, India. She belongs to the Ghatwal caste, one of the lower castes.
So this is her..
Four raised beds that measure 17 feet long by 3 feet wide.
If we were on Cribs this is where I would say "This is where the Magic Happens...."
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A feature unique to the First Light house is an innovative drying cupboard that is hidden away in a compartment located in the closet space off the bedroom. Rather than installing a dryer, the team chose a cupboard which functions by pumping solar-heated water through copper tubes and a heat exchanger that in turn dries clothes quickly.
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A Flexus concrete and wood table serves as the center piece of the house, creating a social space and inviting people to share meals together.
Members of a study group do their homework by the light of a d-light solar panel lamp in Lalpur village, Jharkhand, India.
On Humberto Gonzales's farm, Teustepe, Nicaragua, 11-Feb-1994 (my 29th birthday). Quick scan of a mediocre print.
Photo by Bob Ramsak / piran café
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Type:
Multipurpose boxshaped single/tweendecker Selfsustained Container Feeder
GT/NT:
3120/1733
Flag:
Bahamas
DWAT/DRAFT sfb: 4100 mt/6,47m
Built:
10/1985, Sietas Hamburg Type 111a
LOA/LBP/BEAM:
88,60/80,86/15,45m
Holds:
1 boxlike, steelfloored
Hatches:
1: 51,35 x 12,575 m. Hydraulic folding type.
Class:
BV+3/3 E cargo/container. Deep sea. Strengthened for heavy cargo.
Cubic (feet):
196.100/193.210 G/B
Gear:
2 NMF Cranes. Each up to 30 mt SWL. Combinable to 60 mt. H/L spreader on board.
Engine:
Wärtsila 6R32 2220kw/720r. Shaftgenerator. Bowthruster.
Cargo hold: Tweendeck adjustable 3 different heights. Electrically ventilated 25 airchanges. Certified for loading IMDG class 1 cargo.
Container load: Fully fitted for 256 TEU incl high cubes 9'6''. Able of loading about 170 TEU of 14 tons. Fitted with 20 reefer plugs on deck 380v/50 cycl. Bridgecontrolled anti heeling ballast system.
Speed/Consumption: 12,5 knots on 8,5 mt IFO 100CST.