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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Color of Food: Normandy Vegetable Soup! Take a stroll down a country lane where small-scale growers of local gardens nourish a family farm with adventurous dishes. Simple vegetable consumption combined with milk, butter, and cheese appeals to the taste buds. Perhaps it’s a throwback to our childhood where nothing […]

Normandy Vegetable Soup

1. Open the refrigerator door and stare into it.   It’s still all the same stuff that was in there the last twenty times you looked, but if you stare hard enough you will notice something that you haven’t seen in a while. You probably won’t want to eat it, but at least it’s something […]

10 Things to Do While Waiting for an Inspirational Blog Idea

When i am out in society sometimes — like grocery shopping, for instance — and see people, sometimes my eyes almost start tearing.  One just feels sorry for them.  It’s a tough life out there, and many people are really struggling, really suffering.  You, if you at all observant, can see it in their eyes.  […]

On the State of Humanity

Are you trying to balance studies, job, social life, self-development, and eating healthy? Feeling overwhelmed and frustrated? Here is a comprehensive guide to eat healthy when you are extremely busy. There is a bonus meal plan designed to boost your brain!

Healthy Eating [Best Foods + 1Day Meal Plan]

“But if seas rise 20 feet or more over the next 100 to 200 years—which is our current trajectory—the outlook is grim. In that scenario, there could be two feet of sea level rise by 2040, three feet by 2050, and much more to come.”

Wild Exaggeration and Egregious Lies

Professor Mark Maslin of UCL’s sermon to the climate believers, promising fire, floods, famine and devastation unless they all make good on their commitments to cut their carbon footprints, and cut back on meat consumption.

Climate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?

The world of automated farming may be an unglamorous one to those not invested in its attractions, but like the robots themselves that quietly get on in the background with tending crops, those who follow that path spend many seasons refining their designs. The Acorn is a newly-open-sourced robot from Twisted Fields, a Californian research farm, and it provides a fascinating look at the progress of a farming robot design from germination onwards. The Acorn is not a CNC gantry for small intensive gardens in the manner of designs such as the Farmbot, instead it’s an autonomous solar-powered rover intended for larger farms which will cruise the fields continuously tending to the plants in its patch. It’s a work in progress, so what we see is the completed rover with the tools and machine vision to follow. It pursues the course of a low-cost lightweight platform, an aluminium chassis surmounted by the solar panel, with mountain bike front fork derived wheels at each corner. It has four wheel drive and four wheel steering, meaning that it can traverse the roughest of farmland. We can see its progress since a 2019 prototype, and while it seems as slow as the seasons themselves to mature, we can see that the final version could be a significantly useful machine on a small farm. It’s not the first autonomous farming robot we’ve seen over the years, as for example this slightly more robust Australian model. We’re guessing that this is the direction autonomous farming is likely to take, with the more traditional tractor-based machinery projected by some manufacturers taking on repetitive loading and hauling roles.

A New Open-Source Farming Robot Takes Shape

Yoga exercise is a terrific way to stop anxiety problems, solve anxiety attack and loosened weight and also enhance your fitness and health. Yoga is a 5,000 years of age technique that includes reflective practices and also physical exercises and postures to accomplish a emotional as well as physical tranquility. This method has actually come […]

Anxiety Strikes Signs – The Symptoms That Control Your Life!

“No matter how old we become, we will always be that child who needs help, love, care, and most importantly, can cry when everything is not going well.”

The Boy Who Tamed Fire

If you’re like me then you weren’t born with a phone in your hand, a laptop at your desk and a Bluetooth speaker in your car. No. You were likely born with a tree branch sword and your mother told you to go outside to play. Things have changed and so have the devs. That’s […]

How to deal with Prodigies – The Upcoming Generation

1 Chronicles 28: 8“So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek after all the commandments of the LORD your God so that you may possess the good land and bequeath it to your sons after you forever. David, being a […]

May 7th-David was to begin using his gifts—writing and music, in this case— as God intended: to further His word.

This topic is to change the orientation of parents, who re always thinking that their children basic need is food, cloth, and shelter, which apparently isn’t. You need to understand as parents your children basic need is YOU. Children are very smart and extremely sensitive. So therefore they know what they want at all times, […]

Basic need of the children

Most of us we know that fruits and vegetables are good for us, but are we sure we know the real difference between these two?

What Is the Difference Between a Fruit and a Vegetable?

Feeling majorly depressed and trying to cling to hope that it will end soon.

DEPRESSION CYCLE AGAIN

I clicked into the online class because the title said, “20 Minute ZUMBA Fitness.” I said to myself, “I can do anything for twenty minutes.” From the first downbeat, the instructor Ayhan Sulu is high energy. His sleevless shirt says, “EGO IS NOT YOUR AMIGO.” And his smile—well—you might just need to click play to […]

Zumba?

When visiting Germany in 2010, I was staggered to see solar panels on so many roofs and farms across the country, especially in the rural areas. It put my own country, Australia, to shame. Why? With plenty of strong sunlight year-round, Australia would presumably be at the forefront of engaging with solar technology early on, […]

Solar Energy in Australia

I don’t currently do therapy and haven’t had a lot of success with it in the past, but I’m very pro-therapy in general. I’ve picked up a collection of therapy tools from CBT, DBT, and various others that are handy to pull out of the toolbox as needed. This post is a sample of a […]

Therapy Tools for Mental Health

According to a Washington Post article, Americans spend $35 billion per year on vitamins and supplements. Unlike pharmaceuticals, which have to demonstrate effectiveness and safety to get approved, supplements only need to demonstrate safety. That’s a lot of money to spend on things that may or may not be helpful. Just because they’re “natural” doesn’t […]

Do You Take Supplements for Your Health or Illness?

Winter Dragonflies wrote quite a while back about creating your peace. It made me think about the relationship between non-acceptance and suffering in the context of mental illness, and I started this draft that I’ve finally gotten around to writing. Mental illness isn’t fun, that much is clear. How we relate to illness, wellness, and […]

Non-Acceptance, Suffering, and Mental Illness

In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms.  This week’s term is the shame compass. I first heard of the shame compass quite recently in a post by Zoe of Serious Mental Health. It was first described in 1992 by psychiatrist Donald Nathanson, and it identifies four different types […]

What Is… the Shame Compass

World Animal News Lauren Lewis 5 hours ago In what was an extremely busy weekend for apprehending poaching suspects in Kruger National Park (KNP), South African National Parks (SANParks) released information about two incidents that resulted in the arrests of numerous would-be poachers and the death of one poacher by a breeding herd of elephants. “It […]

Breaking! Alleged Poacher Is Trampled To Death By Elephants in Kruger National Park; Other Suspects Have Been Arrested

actionnetwork.org END the suffering of farmed animals in mobile torture chambers No food, no water, no rest, no room to even move. For up to 28 straight hours, animals are packed into trucks and trailers so tight that millions die in transport every year! Others suffer terribly, they are injured, bruised, broken, and gored. Then […]

END Inhumane Farmed Animal Transport

The experiment is a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate. Derrick L. Turner/Michigan State University Cara Giaimo has a talent linking science and history, and this article demonstrates it as well as any we have linked to from her. Saving seeds […]

Seed-Saving & Science

Just 20,000 lions remain in Africa according to multiple experts, meaning that hunting them, no matter how +/- impactful it is, shouldn’t be happening with such dangerously low populations. https://t.co/XuZQKg2TaC — Paul Tully (@paul__tully) April 29, 2021

Wild Lions are in Danger of Going Extinct And It’s Not Because Of Global Warming!

How much do you know about the #hummingbird life cycle – from egg to adult? Test your #ornithology knowledge in the latest #BirdCallsBlog: https://t.co/sMMgh1vcpQ pic.twitter.com/LNojPIlw83 — American Bird Conservancy (@ABCbirds) March 27, 2021

Learn more about these amazing hummingbirds

A plantation site for the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Project in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. BILLION TREE TSUNAMI PROGRAMME KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA We have committed to planting trees. And we know that getting to a trillion trees planted is not going to be easy. But the effort has obvious and less obvious upsides. Every […]

Planting Trees Is Not A No-Brainer

Becoming a mom for the first time is an experience that cannot be justified with words. It is special, it is magical, and it completely changes your life. However, a lot of first-time moms also have a lot of anxiety. What if I am doing this wrong? What if I make a mistake? This is only natural, but you have no reason to worry. We all make mistakes, and we all learn as we go. Here are some great tips to help you get started…

4 TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME MOTHERS

Today’s post comes from Ben. Well not exactly day one. But the first day in the field doing spring work so it’s day one from that point of view.  Spent the morning doing my usual stuff on the computer: emails, newspaper, moms banking, our banking. A few phone calls, etc. before I’m finally out the […]

Farming Day 1 Part 1

My nose is running a marathon. It has done more running this period than I have. Now I’m not sure if it’s just a runny nose or my brain is leaking out. You don’t realize how much you take breathing for granted until your nose is stuffed up. I’ve got a runny nose, a raspy […]

Running Barefoot

Fiber will fill you up and keep you full longer. I posted an article on the benefits of fiber.  This is going to be a multiple part series on high fiber foods you need to add to your diet on a regular basis.  I have found that if I get 30-50 grams of fiber in […]

List: 5 High Fiber Foods to Help Keep You Feeling Full, Part 1

Everything you must know about, Do sand Don’ts  of diet in Corona disease. Diet for Covid patients This blog is dedicated to the all the front warriors, volunteers and people who are coming forward to help and sort the disaster of Covid 19 at their best level. Among them I want to mention and thanks […]

Everything you must know of diet in Corona disease.

People want to hear good things about their bad habits. Combine this fact with the power of industries that desperately want to keep people hooked on their products and you have a recipe for nutrition misinformation. Low carbohydrate diets have reared their heads again and again over the past few decades. Whether they are in […]

The Unfortunate Persistence of Low-Carb Diets: An Explanation & Critique

March 18, 2021 Lemons and limes have endless uses, not just for eating or flavoring! People store lemons and limes in a few different kind of ways. I have the perfect lemon and lime storage hack that will help keep your lemons fresh and wrinkle-free! Let me show you how to store lemon and lime […]

How To Store Lemons and Lime for 3 months

By Mark Nicol Defence Editor For The Daily Mail 22:00 25 Mar 2021, updated 22:43 25 Mar 2021 http://www.dailymail.co.uk Five elephants, including a calf, have reportedly been killed in the fires started by UK soldiers in Kenya The fires continued to rage over 8,000 acres of the Lolldaiga training area  The fire reportedly started when […]

Five elephants are feared dead after Kenya fires ‘started by British soldiers cooking’

Protesters have argued that you shouldn’t try to profit off the end of the world. New analysis shows that, in any event, you won’t. Photograph by David Grossman / Alamy This is a short read with a big implication; as always we are grateful to Bill McKibben for his weekly newsletter: The Powerful New Financial […]

Fossil Fuel Divestment Debate Settled

A swarm of desert locusts in Meru, Kenya, in February. Yasuyoshi Chiba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images We respect all things natural, but we acknowledge there are phenomena that test our principles. Historic swarms of locusts, for example, make us believe that getting control over their impact is essential for communities where they can lay waste […]

The Locus Of Locust Control

A plantation site for the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Project in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. BILLION TREE TSUNAMI PROGRAMME KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA We have committed to planting trees. And we know that getting to a trillion trees planted is not going to be easy. But the effort has obvious and less obvious upsides. Every […]

Planting Trees Is Not A No-Brainer

Fossil fuel divestment is easier said than done. Some in the creative sector have fostered skepticism about climate change. A message from some creative folks that we are inclined to believe: OUR PLEDGE: — Clean Creatives is bringing together leading agencies, their employees, and clients to address the ad and PR industry’s work with fossil […]

Clean Is As Creative Does

Forests are beautiful. From flourishing plants to tranquil wildlife to decaying logs, all parts are beautiful, vital, and connected. Dead logs are responsible for maintaining a healthy forest thanks to teams of fungi and wood-dependent insects inside. These organisms break down plant material to add nutrients back to the ecosystem. Forests are essential for human health and well-being, but human disturbance could threaten these ecosystems. To keep our forests healthy and beautiful, we depend on these decomposers, but can they rely on us?

Without insects, we wouldn’t have all of the edible plants that we rely on as important parts of our diets and entire ecosystems would be in trouble. Despite their importance, insects face many threats, including climate change. Through a literature review, a group of scientists found that increasing temperatures due to climate change and the resulting ecosystem changes are a leading cause of insect population declines globally. Some species have disappeared completely. However, different species respond to climate change differently. Monitoring and understanding their responses can help us prevent their loss.

Increasing Temperatures and Decreasing Insect Populations

Reduce emissions, save energy… what lifestyle can implement to combat global warming?

Six actions preventing Climate change.

Climate change is a proven fact. Global warming has caused serious changes to the planet, such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events, deforestation, disappearance of species… But, as individuals we can slowdown global warming by implementing small more sustainable actions within our communities.

Let’s tell you about daily habits that can be adopted to fight global warming locally, through six (6) simple actions that can result in big changes.

1. Reduce emissions: Use your car less, whenever possible, instead use sustainable transportation more often.

2. Save energy: Take a look at the labels on your appliances, and never leave them on standby. By being careful how we use home appliances, we can save energy and, of course, money at the end of the month.

3. Put the 3R’s of sustainability into practice.

– Reduce: consume less, more efficiently.

– Reuse: take advantage of second hand markets, to give new life to items that you don’t use anymore or find something that someone else has gotten rid of that you need. Bartering is also a practical solution.

– Recycle: packaging, waste from electronics, e.t.c.

4. What about your diet? Eat low carbon.

A low carbon diet results in smarter consumption:

– Reduce your meat consumption: it is said that livestock is one of the biggest contaminators of the atmosphere.

– Eat food that is local and in season.

– Avoid excessive packaging and processed foods as much as possible.

5. Act against forest loss. As far as possible, avoid anything that may be a fire hazard.

If you want to buy wood, choose wood with a certification or seal showing its sustainable origin.

Plant a tree! Throughout its life, it can absorb upto a ton of carbon dioxide.

6. Make demands from the government: demand that they take measures toward a more sustainable life, any way that you can.

Think globally, act locally. Your actions are needed in the fight against climate change.

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