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How to build a compost shower for free hot water
A heating system developed by a French innovator decades ago is gaining a new life as a sustainable way to get free hot showers in the modern world. The annual build of the compost shower has just been completed at the Fair Harvest Permaculture Farm in Margaret River WA. The system was developed by Read More...
Psychologist helps San Quentin prisoners find freedom through self-reflection
Jacques Verduin knows most of the men in San Quentin by name. And he's trying to make sure that when they leave the California state prison, just across the San Francisco Bay in Marin County, they don't ever come back. Verduin — a tanned man with silver hair, in his mid-50s — has been running Read More...
5 ways Ayurvedic practices can help make pregnancy easier
Ayurveda is an ancient medical science that puts the power of health and healing in your own hands. As a new mother, you can use the principles of Ayurveda to take care of yourself during pregnancy and support the critical recovery period after your baby is born. Here are five ways Ayurvedic Read More...
Campaign launched in Italy to preserve forests that produce world's most expensive truffle
A campaign has been launched in Italy to save the forests that produce one of the world’s most prized culinary treasures – the white truffle. The aromatic fungi grow in woods in the northern region of Piedmont and in particular in an area of rolling countryside known as the Read More...
Global trade in African grey parrots banned
Delegates at a global wildlife conference on Sunday voted to ban international trade in African grey parrots, one of the world's most trafficked birds. Prized for their ability to mimic human speech, the birds are a highly sought-after pet, but their numbers have been decimated in recent years by Read More...
Hydrogen cars and electrolysers: the dawn of Australia's hydrogen economy?
The hydrogen economy has been a long time coming. The use of hydrogen as a replacement energy source for oil and gas has been talked about since the early 1970s when the term was first coined by an engineer at General Motors in the US. It still hasn’t really arrived. And doubters remain. They Read More...
Lock-up to library: France reinvents its decrepit prisons
The ad on the French finance ministry website is deadpan and succinct: "For sale: late 19th century prison in the centre of Grasse, 1,277.42 square metres (13,750 square feet). No garage or parking space. Needs renovating." Prospective buyers of the site in southeast France are required to lodge a Read More...
Nasa uses robots inspired by geckos to climb pretty much anything in space
Robots in space have to navigate over uneven surfaces without the support of gravity. In zero gravity, even pushing tape against surfaces is a challenge. Nasa engineers are looking to nature for solutions. They copied the system geckos use to climb smooth surfaces. In this video you can see how Read More...
Saving the world with nonprofits run as startup businesses
Silicon Valley investors are increasingly treating nonprofits as conventional startup companies through accelerators. The number of tech non-profits worldwide is reaching record highs. Nonprofit tech startups differ from conventional charities because software or hardware has to be at the core of Read More...
Birds show aircraft how to avoid mid-air collisions
Birds have always been the inspiration for men when it comes to aviation. The Wright Brothers themselves spent a huge amount of time observing birds before achieving their first flight in 1903. Now researchers have been studying how birds avoid collisions. The birds have a simple rule: They always Read More...