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This initiative by a company in Portugal appears to be moving in the right direction:

https://www.yahoo.com/realestate/self-s ... 24399.html

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The day-by-day process of sending email to all the "registered members" in the forum database reached record #68 today. Most of the "members" appear to be robot generated memberships, but one or two (apparently) "real people" are in the mix. Hopefully the number of &quo...

The link to this report was contributed by a member of this forum who sent the link to me privately.


http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/11/sky-gree ... ical-farm/


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The movie "The Martian" (and the book upon which it is based) contain the elements of an idea which might be of interest to a number of people. The focus of this message is the proposition that potatoes can be grown indoors. Those were real plants, and that was a real garden shown growing ...

A recovering civilization, let alone the existing one, would do well to study the work of W. Edwards Deming, who is credited with giving the Japanese a way of thinking about the manufacturing process that allowed them to out perform their American competitors, and to secure a lasting place on the gl...

"Avuncular Pumpkin" was defined as a search term for this forum, on September 13th. As of October 16th, the term was still not found by Google. Elapsed time now exceeds one month. The challenge for Dr. Dartnell's IT support team may be the fact that the forum exists as a branch from the ma...

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http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/migaloo-kokomo-ailand-is-a-moveable-man-made-private-island The link above shows animation of architectural visions for a floating habitat. While the focus of this particular visualization is comfortable living, the overall scope in which this item fits is an entire...

The good news is: A pdf file arrived today. It contains what appear to be copies of original documents, followed by detailed drawings to make a loom. The bad news is: The gent who sent the file says it still contains a Smithsonian marker of some kind, so it can only be used for personal study. I ** ...

It is time to bring this topic back to the active display. A documentary about Edward O. Wilson ran on a local station recently. Wilson's thesis that humans share eusociality with ants, bees and a very small number of other insect species rang true for me. It supports my belief that the key for succ...