Almost poetic in its simplicity, Perfect Organics' $12.99 All-Natural Orange Ginger Shea Butter contains a mere four ingredients: wild-grown pure Shea butter, organic orange and ginger essential oils, and Vitamin E. And, true to the instructions on the 1-ounce jar's label, a little of this superconcentrated salve does go a long way.
Cerno visits a historic cave temple – the Ridi Vihare -”Silver Temple” in Sinhala and writes about it.
Duarte 101 [es] celebrates the gold medal of Félix Díaz for his win in the Olympics. It was the first time since 1984 that a boxer from the Dominican Republic brought home a gold medal.
Since moving into the Los Angles half-way house two years ago, residents of the Rainbow Apartments have been devising a plan to start their own urban garden. After a few trials and errors, the novice gardeners have now succeeded in creating a 34-foot-long plot bursting with strawberries, tomatoes, basil and other herbs and vegetables, which grow vertically against their cinder block building.
Sunroofs to Live Up to Their Name?
Sunrise Solar has introduced its Solar Sunroof, a replacement for regular car sunroofs that includes solar PV cells to produce electricity. This can help recharge the vehicle's battery, but it can also cool down the car when it's hot, and warm it up when it's cold.
Yvette Hurt of Art in Motion in Lexington, Kentucky, notes that a Federal study concluded that more people used public transit systems that incorporated art. So they held a competition to design an arty bus shelter, which was won by Aaron Scales of McKay Snyder Architects, a local firm.
It is made of bottles of a local favourite beer ginger ale called Ale 8 One, donated by the brewery. “I'm from Kentucky, and Ale 8 One is something I've kind of grown up with,” said Scales, an architectural intern at McKay Snyder, who was a senior at the University of Kentucky when the shelter design was done.
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LJ user viking-nord (RUS) reposts photos of toilet seats with portraits of Putin, Lenin, Stalin and others on them, produced by Irkutsk region resident Evgeny Rybachenko.
photo by Nic McPhee
Expanding the amount of the wind power deployed in the United States via proposals such as The Pickens Plan may face a number of hurdles, but one which is being lowered is educating the future engineers wishing to work in wind. The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has announced the first of six universities to receive funding to develop Wind Applications Centers and Montana State University in Bozeman is it.
Madonna urged us all to save our planet at Live Earth. But, obviously her claim to care doesn't apply to her own material needs. ...Not much eco-friendly noise on Madonna's Sticky and Sweet tour. Her crew released the goods needed on her 45-day world tour on the singer's website. ...Among the items: 3500 pieces of clothing, 120 powder puffs, 100 pairs of kneepads, 12 traveling trampolines, 200 makeup sponges, 69 guitars. ...AND 4 YSL lipsticks. ....Only 4 lipsticks to cover entire tour? Perhaps, that's Madonna's way to reduce her carbon footprint.
Read Entire List: madonna's website
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Both Sin bin and DM said that they would vote for Long Hair in the coming Legco election.
An ongoing initiative (RUS) to compile a list of “those who died in the war of 2008, whose names are found on the web” - by LJ user hunu: “The list is incomplete, of course. […] I've placed the names of the dead on the same page - of civilians as well as of the armed participants of the war from all three sides. Some people may not like it, but I don't see any other way of doing it.”
As part of a new effort to reach out to our friends over at GreenBiz.com, this is the first installment of our weekly Friday wrap of interesting things we’ve found this past week on GreenBiz. Follow the links to find out more and join the conversation below this post. We’re all in this together!
photo: QinetiQ
It may not have been the weeks of air time potential we were touting two years ago when we first wrote about the Zephyr——an unmanned, solar-powered aircraft developed by UK firm QinetiQ—but at the US Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona a new unofficial solar-powered flight record was set: 82 hours, 37 minutes.
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2008) — A scientific research and development programme worth more than NOK 300 million is being launched in Norway with the aim of generating more cost effective technology for CO2-capture. The project is one of the biggest of its kind to date.
SINTEF, the independent research organisation, The Norwegian University of Science and [...]
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