Soil, farmers, consumers, communities
and the circle of life... The linkage of these elements is essential to
organic farming. The nuclear disaster in Fukushima violently severed
these ties overnight.
This film focuses on how people goes on in this enourmous pain, to take the bonds back.
"As nossas relheiras aqui estão, feitas
monumentos dos duros tempos em que cada pedaço de pão, cada grão de
novidade, cada rama de cedro para acender o forno, eram arrancados à
terra com o suor dos corpos mal nutridos, talvez com o sangue,
seguramente com as lágrimas, dos nossos antepassados que por estas ilhas
desbastaram mato, arrotearam terras, abriram caminhos, definiram modos
de trabalhar a natureza sem lhe retirar a alma, e de nela viver. Elas
trazem-nos a memória disso -- a memória de tempos e pessoas e modos de
trabalhar que não estão assim tão longe de nós, porque muitos de nós
ainda viram, em plena utilidade, aquilo que para os nossos filhos nada
mais será do que ecos de um passado que o asfalto escondeu -- e as
carrinhas e tractores tornaram desnecessários. Mas elas existem, as
relheiras. É disto, desta epopeia do homem que faz da natura cultura,
que nos falam estes singelos monumentos que são as nossas relheiras. E
nós, que tantas vezes passamos por elas sem as reconhecer, ficamos mais
prezados: elas são uma regra da cultura que fez de nós aquilo que somos.
Sem elas, sem a memória que nos trazem, e sem a alma que nos constrói a
memória, ficaremos uma espécie de cadáveres que procriam. Felizmente,
as relheiras ainda existentes no basalto da Terceira são objectos
resgatáveis e significativos por si só, sendo o seu levantamento
possível através da recolha de informação documental e testemunhal,
neste caso sobretudo junto de velhos lavradores e condutores de carros
de bois que ainda subsistem em todas as freguesias da ilha.
O que
se designa por relheiras são os sulcos deixados na pedra pelas rodas
desses carros puxados a bois (ou vacas) que durante séculos serviram a
actividade agro-pecuária nos Açores (na ilha Terceira, no caso que nos
interessa). As relheiras são marcas vivas feitas na pedra pelos aros em
ferro que forravam as rodas dos carros de bois (e forram os que ainda
existem). Foram precisos anos e anos (séculos, mesmo) sempre a passar
pela mesma cama para formar uma relheira. Esculpidas na pedra, as
relheiras assumiam-se como uma espécie de carris em baixo relevo por
onde os carros, gerações atrás de gerações, faziam sempre o mesmo
percurso."
Ficha Técnica do Projecto:
Edição . Edition ART - Associação Regional de Turismo
Agradecimentos . Special Thanks Câmara Municipal de Angra do Heroísmo, Câmara Municpal da Praia da Vitória, Câmara do Comércio de Angra do Heroísmo, Dimas Costa, Elias da Costa, Hélio Nunes, João Ângelo, Montanheiros (Paulo Barcelos e José Maria Botelho), Gilberto Vieira, Basílio Simões e António Baldaya
Inspirado no povo Guarani que sempre
teve a sabedoria de sair caminhando em busca da Terra Sem Males, o
documentário apresenta as lutas pela Reforma Agrária no Brasil e as
tentativas de se evitar o envenenamento da humanidade pelos agrotóxicos,
à partir da palestra de João Pedro Stédille, líder do MST - Movimento
dos Sem Terra, durante a 37a. Jornada Internacional de Cinema da Bahia
em 2010. Direção de Noilton Nunes
Enseña la forma de vida de esta tribu
amazónica, que incluye un sistema económico colectivista y respetuoso
con el medio ambiente. Documental de la serie "Amazonia, última
llamada", emitida por Canal +.
Un modo de vida pacífico
Los zo’és son una pequeña y aislada tribu que vive en las profundidades de la selva amazónica en el norte de Brasil. Tan sólo mantienen un contacto continuo con foráneos desde 1987, cuando misioneros de Misión Nuevas Tribus levantaron un puesto en su tierra. Ésta ha sido oficialmente reconocida por el Gobierno, que controla el acceso a ella para minimizar la transmisión potencial de enfermedades como la gripe y el sarampión.
Presentation teaching people how to
build their own electric motorcycle. As seen at the Mother Earth News
Fair in Puyallup, WA in June 2011. http://300mpg.org/
This
motorcycle was designed for use in the city I live in. I is geared for a
top speed of 45 mph (could easily be geared higher, I'm in all 25 mph
zones, and have gotten a speeding ticket in my electric car... ) The
cycle goes 20-30 miles per charge with 4 off-the-shelf batteries, and
recharges in 8 hours or less.
Little Help .
Building and Materials .
Total floor size 8'x5' ft ( long x wide)
Sleeping area 4.5'x5'
Sleeping aera from floor 19" ( inch)
Roof top hight 8' ft
Roof left 5'x4'
Roof right 5'x8'
Laying box ( inch) 15"x10"x 60" (WxHxL)
Glass Window 34"x12"
Service Door 17,5"x33"
Hen enter door 12"x13,5"
Hen Egg box Doors 22,5"x10" /pice
Front air Hole 42,5"x12"
Back air Hole 12,5"x10"
Hen Ladder 48"x12" ( WxL)
All Material
1.5"x2" ( inch) x 8' (ft) = 30 piece
Wall & Roof Board or panel = 140 sqft
Roof Cover = 60 sqft
Sleeping Box Floor 23 sqft
If You Buy New material
Cost estimate .
50 pice 5,5"x 1/2" or 3/4" X 8'(ft) = close to $ 250
30 Piece 1,5"x2" X8'(ft) = close to $ 60
Roof Metal 60 sqft = close to $50
Nails+Hardware +varnish or Paint =close to$100
If you buy or have new treaded wood no need to painting .
ALL COST for new material Close to $ 460-$ 500
I'M SPEND ONLY $ 50 for Hardware plus $ 15Gas and 6hr work time to find recycled material
The
video show in first 3 min how I prepared recycled found wood and
material to be ready to use to build the chicken coop . The second part
3 to 10 min show how I built the hen house (chicken coop) step by step Total building time
This hen house take longer time to build .
Here is some estimate .
-Thinking and Planning 2.5 hr
-Material prepare ( clean and cut ) 3 hr
-Framing 3 hr
-Wall paneling 2hr
-The windows ( air circulation) and doors 5hr
-Floor 1.5 hr
-Roof paneling 2hr
-Roof metal cover 2hr
-Scraping and Staining 2.5hr
All time 23.5 Hour plus 4 Hour material find and transport
Total work time 27.5 hr
Video record 3 Hour and 10 Hour editing.
All best from Sandor
Existe una creencia general asentada que en una tecnología mas avanzada es siempre mejor a todas sus predecesoras. Esta creencia quita de la ecuación factores como el ámbito de aplicación de esa tecnología o lo que se requiere de ella, como factores para determinar si una tecnología es mejor que otra.
Esta creencia es la que lleva a pensar que el corte por laser es siempre mejor que el corte por sierra, que el tractor es siempre mejor que el arado, o que el cemento es siempre mejor que la arcilla. Ello conlleva asumir toda una serie de prejuicios asociados en los que probablemente exageremos las virtudes de la tecnología o material novedoso, y los defectos del antiguo.
Contra esa inercia debemos luchar, pues un estudio mas profundo nos puede dar muchas sorpresas sobre las mejores herramientas, tecnologías o materiales a los que acudir en un contexto especifico. Como bien nos muestra el concepto de "tecnología intermedia" desarrollado y estudiado desde hace varias décadas por organismo como el Soluciones Practicas.
Después de la reflexión os dejo con un documental muy instructivo y didáctico sobre la construcción con arcilla.
Se centra en Jorge Belanko, albañil, docente y capacitador argentino que nos enseña el oficio, técnicas y posibilidades de este material. Muy recomendable para derribar prejuicios adquiridos por vivir en la meca del culto a la ciencia y la tecnología.
Melissa is interested in the many ways
that microscopic organisms support the health and vitality of our
oceans. Although invisible to the naked eye, there are five million
bacteria and fifty million viruses in an average teaspoon of clean
seawater. These unseen communities are the masterminds behind the
beautiful blue, vibrant, productive oceans we can see with our naked
eyes. Much of her work to date has focused on the ways in which coastal
pollution disturbs these healthy microbial processes, particularly on
coral reefs, with the aim of finding more sustainable solutions for land
and coastal water use practices. She is currently delving deeper into
coral-microbe interactions by studying the ways humans can influence
individual pathogen behavior. As a postdoctoral fellow at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is applying cutting edge
microfluidic technologies to understand how and why microbial diseases
are infecting so many corals around the globe. By combining tools from
engineering and biophysics, she is able to study coral disease at the
scale on which it actually occurs: the microscale. She ultimately hopes
to work at the interface of research and policy by facilitating the
integration of microbial processes into conservation planning. Melissa
holds a B.S. in molecular biology from Yale University and both an M.S.
and a Ph.D. in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego.
Flowers. Trees. Plants. We've always thought that we controlled them.
But what if, in fact, they have been shaping us? Using this provocative
question as a jumping off point, The Botany of Desire, a two-hour PBS
documentary based on the best-selling book by Michael Pollan, takes us
on an eye-opening exploration of our relationship with the plant world –
seen from the plants' point of view.
Every schoolchild learns
about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: to make
their honey, the bees collect nectar, and in the process spread pollen,
which contains the flowers' genes. The Botany of Desire proposes that
people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal
relationship. "We don't give nearly enough credit to plants," says
Pollan. "They've been working on us – they've been using us – for their
own purposes."
The Botany of Desire examines this unique
relationship through the stories of four familiar species, telling how
each of them evolved to satisfy one of our most basic yearnings. Linking
our fundamental desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control
with the plants that gratify them – the apple, the tulip, marijuana,
and the potato – The Botany of Desire shows that we humans are
intricately woven into the web of nature, not standing outside it.
Shot
in stunning high definition photography, the program begins with
Michael Pollan in a California garden and sets off to roam the world:
from the potato fields of Idaho and Peru to the apple orchards of New
England; from a medical marijuana hot house to the tulip mecca of
Amsterdam, where in 1637, one Dutchman, crazed with "tulipmania," paid
as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price for a town house. How
could flowers, with no real practical value to humans, become so
desperately desired that they drove many to financial ruin?
The
Botany of Desire argues that the answer lies in the powerful but often
overlooked relationship between people and plants. With Pollan as our
on-screen guide to this frankly sensuous natural world, The Botany of
Desire explores the dance of domestication between humans and plants.
Through the history of these four familiar plants, the film seeks to
answer the question: Who has really been domesticating whom?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K.
Barber Learning Centre. Author David Montgomery has discovered that the
three-foot-deep skin of our planet is slowly being eroded away, with
potentially devastating results. In this engaging lecture, Montgomery
draws from his book 'Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations' to trace the
role of soil use and abuse in the history of societies, and discuss how
the rise of organic and no-till farming bring hope for a new
agricultural revolution.
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.
Biocelos é uma empresa fundada em 2005, certificada na produção e distribuição de produtos biológicos. Faz distribuição de cabazes às quartas-feiras, estes são feitos pelo cliente de acordo com as suas necessidades semanais.
Entre €10 e €20 por semana, pode consumir legumes e saladas. Também pode receber juntamente com o cabaz frutas da época.
Venda ao Público às quintas-feiras todo dia e sábados de manhã.
Un agriculteur de 47 ans, atteint d'un cancer, s'exprime : «Quand on découvrira toute la vérité sur les dangers des pesticides, ce sera un scandale pire que celui du sang contaminé». Des centaines d'agriculteurs sont victimes des produits phytosanitaires, jusqu'à récemment présentés comme «anodins». Ils les ont utilisés pendant des années, jusqu'au jour où les maux de tête, la fatigue, les comas successifs les ont conduits à l'hôpital. Une épidémie de cancers et autre maladie de Parkinson liés aux pesticides apparaît au grand jour. Ce documentaire est une immersion auprès d'agriculteurs atteints de maladies mortelles.