Wow, king crabs are moving to Antarctica for the first time. They hadn’t gone there before simply because it was too cold for them.
Stop sitting. Start standing. I did a while back.
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Tuesday’s Broccoli Soup
March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
9 Steps to a No-dig Garden
March 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In my previous post about mandala garden I mentioned that “you can grow all the vegetables you want without any digging”. In this post, you’ll see how to do it, step by step. You’ll be growing delicious vegetables in your back yard in no time. Let’s get to it.
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Tuesday’s Broccoli Soup
March 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The last major block has been removed. In five years, all bulbs could be LEDs.
Would you rather live somewhere that’s hot or somewhere that’s cold?
Did you know you can cook food in your compost pile?
Check out the bag monster from my home town! 
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How To Design Your Own No-Dig Mandala Garden
March 20, 2011 By 4 Comments
Mandala is a geometric symbol. The art of Buddhism and Hinduism often takes the mandala form. Etymologically, mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle”.
Mandala garden is a garden design, first proposed by Linda Woodrow in her book The Permaculture Home Garden.
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Tuesday’s Broccoli Soup
March 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Did you know there are effectively less than 14 Amur tigers (also known as Siberian tigers) in the wild?
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How to Make Pumpkin Marmalade
March 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I admit, pumpkin marmalade doesn’t sound all that inviting. If I were to choose, I’d much rather have a pumpkin soup. Surprisingly, that one is actually REALLY good.
But, we had a quite large pumpkin and it was too big to make just soup out of it. Therefore we decided to make marmalade. Again
Here’s how to make it.
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SWOC analysis, PASTE sheet
March 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Argh, another post with strange sounding words in the title. I’ll try very hard not to write another one for a while now .
Let’s keep this as short as possible.
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Tuesday’s Broccoli Soup
March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’ve never thought about this, but it’s true. Electricity that we’re so dependent on is completely artificial and not sustainable in any way. Here’s why. A human being, lying down, uses 90 Joules every second (i.e. Watts). Back in the days when people were hunter-gatherers, they used about 250 Joules per second, hunting down prey. What about a modern American? 500 Joules? Maybe 1000 Joules?
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