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2.08.2014

New solar grill develped at MIT cooks with the sun day or night. link.

A solar grill developed by Professor David Wilson at MIT allows users to cook emissions-free day or night. The grill uses a Fresnel lens and solar energy to melt down a container of Lithium Nitrate, which acts as a battery storing thermal energy for up to 25 hours. The stored heat can be used to cook at temperatures above 450ºF. http://tinyurl.com/mf8x2o9Carolyn Scott shared EARTH-The Operators' Manual's photo.
a miracle of the SUN!
A solar grill developed by Professor David Wilson at MIT allows users to cook emissions-free day or night. The grill uses a Fresnel lens and solar energy to melt down a container of Lithium Nitrate, which acts as a battery storing thermal energy for up to 25 hours. The stored heat can be used to cook at temperatures above 450ºF.
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Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal For Homeless To Use Blankets. thelibertarianrepublic.com

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Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal For Homeless To Use Blankets. thelibertarianrepublic.com

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Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal For Homeless To Use Blankets. thelibertarianrepublic.com

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2.06.2014

Teresa of Calcutta: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

♥ 'Love Ninja': Mom shares one teacher's amazing strategy to combat bullying, loneliness A few weeks ago, I went into Chase’s class for tutoring. I’d emailed Chase’s teacher one evening and said, “Chase keeps telling me that this stuff you’re sending home is math – but I’m not sure I believe him. Help, please.” She emailed right back and said, “No problem! I can tutor Chase after school anytime.” And I said, “No, not him. Me. He gets it. Help me.” And that’s how I ended up standing at a chalkboard in an empty fifth grade classroom staring at rows of shapes that Chase’s teacher kept referring to as “numbers.” I stood a little shakily at the chalkboard while Chase’s teacher sat behind me, perched on her desk, using a soothing voice to try to help me understand the “new way we teach long division.” Luckily for me, I didn’t have to unlearn much because I never really understood the “old way we taught long division.” It took me a solid hour to complete one problem, but l could tell that Chase’s teacher liked me anyway. She used to work with NASA, so obviously we have a whole lot in common. Afterwards, we sat for a few minutes and talked about teaching children and what a sacred trust and responsibility it is. We agreed that subjects like math and reading are the least important things that are learned in a classroom. We talked about shaping little hearts to become contributors to a larger community – and we discussed our mutual dream that those communities might be made up of individuals who are Kind and Brave above all. And then she told me this. Every Friday afternoon Chase’s teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they’d like to sit the following week. The children know that these requests may or may not be honored. She also asks the students to nominate one student whom they believe has been an exceptional classroom citizen that week. All ballots are privately submitted to her. And every single Friday afternoon, after the students go home, Chase’s teacher takes out those slips of paper, places them in front of her and studies them. She looks for patterns. Who is not getting requested by anyone else? Who doesn’t even know who to request? Who never gets noticed enough to be nominated? Who had a million friends last week and none this week? You see, Chase’s teacher is not looking for a new seating chart or “exceptional citizens.” Chase’s teacher is looking for lonely children. She’s looking for children who are struggling to connect with other children. She’s identifying the little ones who are falling through the cracks of the class’s social life. She is discovering whose gifts are going unnoticed by their peers. And she’s pinning down — right away — who’s being bullied and who is doing the bullying. As a teacher, parent, and lover of all children — I think that this is the most brilliant Love Ninja strategy I have ever encountered. It’s like taking an X-ray of a classroom to see beneath the surface of things and into the hearts of students. It is like mining for gold — the gold being those little ones who need a little help — who need adults to step in and TEACH them how to make friends, how to ask others to play, how to join a group, or how to share their gifts with others. And it’s a bully deterrent because every teacher knows that bullying usually happens outside of her eyeshot — and that often kids being bullied are too intimidated to share. But as she said — the truth comes out on those safe, private, little sheets of paper. As Chase’s teacher explained this simple, ingenious idea, I stared at her with my mouth hanging open. “How long have you been using this system?” I said. Ever since Columbine, she said. Every single Friday afternoon since Columbine. Good Lord. This brilliant woman watched Columbine knowing that ALL VIOLENCE BEGINS WITH DISCONNECTION. All outward violence begins as inner loneliness. She watched that tragedy KNOWING that children who aren’t being noticed will eventually resort to being noticed by any means necessary. And so she decided to start fighting violence early and often, and with the world within her reach. What Chase’s teacher is doing when she sits in her empty classroom studying those lists written with shaky 11 year old hands — is SAVING LIVES. I am convinced of it. She is saving lives. And what this mathematician has learned while using this system is something she really already knew: that everything — even love, even belonging — has a pattern to it. And she finds those patterns through those lists — she breaks the codes of disconnection. And then she gets lonely kids the help they need. It’s math to her. It’s MATH. All is love — even math. Amazing. Chase’s teacher retires this year — after decades of saving lives. What a way to spend a life: looking for patterns of love and loneliness. Stepping in, every single day, and altering the trajectory of our world. TEACH ON, WARRIORS. You are the first responders, the front line, the disconnection detectives, and the best and ONLY hope we’ve got for a better world. What you do in those classrooms when no one is watching — it’s our best hope. Teachers, you’ve got a million parents behind you whispering together: “We don’t care about the damn standardized tests. We only care that you teach our children to be Brave and Kind. And we thank you. We thank you for saving lives.” http://www.today.com/moms/love-ninja-one-teachers-amazing-strategy-stop-bullying-fight-loneliness-2D12035654 Shared by Amanda.Klear Ly shared Ripple Kindness Project's photo.
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2.05.2014

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

Something to consider?Start Loving shared Intellectual Takeout's photo.
Wonderful !
Something to consider?
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pic. Debating Creationism vs Science is like debating TV watching vs tennis. They are two different ways to spend, have, a life. They have different external outcomes, but at the heart of it, they come down to how to ‘experience’ as positive a life as possible. Point to ponder - if creationists were the vast majority we would not be on the brink of destroying earth with scientific rape and plunder. Just sayin. Science, as ‘religion,’ Truly, is a basis of that, and it’s cousin, materialistic greed / addiction. No?

Debating Creationism vs Science is like debating  TV watching vs tennis.  They are two different ways to spend, have, a life. They have different external outcomes, but at the heart of it, they come down to how to ‘experience’ as positive a life as possible.

Point to ponder - if creationists were the vast majority we would not be on the brink of destroying earth with scientific rape and plunder. Just sayin. Science, as ‘religion,’ Truly, is a basis of that, and it’s cousin, materialistic greed / addiction.

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pic. It is not Pr. Obama’s addiction to fossil fuel that is doing this to our children’s future. It is Y/OURS: EVERY TIME YOU USE OIL. EVERY TIME YOU USE COAL ELECTRICITY. OR NAT GAS. EVERY TIME. EVERY USE. EVERY TIME. YOUR ADDICTION. DIVEST YOUR LIFE, NOW, TODAY, FROM THE USE OF COAL, NAT. GAS, AND OIL. IF YOU HAVE TO WALK, DO IT. IF YOU HAVE TO BUY SOLAR, DO IT. IF IT COSTS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE... ISN’T YOUR CHILD HAVING A LIVABLE EARTH, WORTH IT?? NO?

It is not Pr. Obama’s addiction to fossil fuel that is doing this to our children’s future.  It is Y/OURS:

EVERY TIME YOU USE OIL.
EVERY TIME YOU USE COAL ELECTRICITY. OR NAT GAS.

EVERY TIME. EVERY USE. EVERY TIME. YOUR ADDICTION.

DIVEST YOUR LIFE, NOW, TODAY, FROM THE USE OF COAL, NAT. GAS, AND OIL. IF YOU HAVE TO WALK, DO IT. IF YOU HAVE TO BUY SOLAR, DO IT.  IF IT COSTS
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE...

ISN’T YOUR CHILD HAVING A LIVABLE EARTH, WORTH IT??
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2.04.2014

ETOM Quote of the Day: “We are on track for having the worst drought in 500 years.” B. Lynn Ingram, University of California, Berkeley The American West is in the 3rd year of a crippling drought that is affecting what is regarded as the most important agricultural region in the nation. No doubt a warning sign of trouble ahead for much of the West (and the world).

ETOM Quote of the Day: “We are on track for having the worst drought in 500 years.” B. Lynn Ingram, University of California, Berkeley The American West is in the 3rd year of a crippling drought that is affecting what is regarded as the most important agricultural region in the nation. No doubt a warning sign of trouble ahead for much of the West (and the world). http://tinyurl.com/kwv52jvEARTH-The Operators' Manual
ETOM Quote of the Day:
“We are on track for having the worst drought in 500 years.” B. Lynn Ingram, University of California, Berkeley
The American West is in the 3rd year of a crippling drought that is affecting what is regarded as the most important agricultural region in the nation. No doubt a warning sign of trouble ahead for much of the West (and the world).
http://tinyurl.com/kwv52jv
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link. “There is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.” Pope Francis

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“There is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.” Pope Francis
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Cancer: A global threat bbc.co.uk The World Health Organization is warning of a global "tidal wave" of cancer and says that by 2035, around 24 million people will have the disease.

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Heat-related deaths will rise 257% by 2050 because of climate change theguardian.com Number of heat-related deaths expected to rise by 2050 as temperatures rise, with elderly people most at risk

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pic. Jesus - Healing the psychological pain and suffering is at least equal the duty of healing the physical pain and suffering... of the global neediest. I’m not talking about cheap ‘recreational drugging’ here, not ‘opiate of the masses.’

Healing the
psychological pain and suffering is at least equal the duty of healing the
physical pain and suffering...
of the
global neediest.

I’m not talking about cheap ‘recreational drugging’ here,
not ‘opiate
of the masses.’
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2.03.2014

Poverty Looms for Millions of Middle Class Texans. www.woai.com

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5 minutes ago near Washington, DC
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***** Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 cbsnews.com Study By Ecologists, Economists Predicts Collapse of World Ocean Ecology. THIS IS WHY GEO-ENGINEERING, AND PROTECTING CITIES IS INSANE. DEAD OCEANS MEAN A DEAD EARTH. CO2 MEANS A DEAD OCEAN.

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Gas project could endanger indigenous peoples in Peru - International - Catholic Online catholic.org

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Ten-year-old Danny DiPietro was on his way home from lacrosse practice with his dad on Saturday night when he thought he spotted a dog...

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How the U.S. Exports Global Warming rollingstone.com While Obama talks of putting America on the path to a clean, green future, we're flooding world markets with cheap, high carbon fuels

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Lake Ice In Northern Alaska Shows A ‘Dramatic’ Decline In 20 Years, Study Finds thinkprogress.org

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The abortion rate fell by 13% under Obama, according to a new study. The abortion rate peaked in 1981 and is at the lowest rate since 1973 under President Barack Obama.

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2.02.2014

Urban Activist Grace Lee Boggs: "I feel so sorry for people who don't live in Detroit." exopermaculture.com

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98-Year-Old Urban Activist Grace Lee Boggs: "I feel so sorry for people who don't live in Detroit."
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"Detroit and places like it, Boggs believes, are where the future is being mapped. They’re places in which our assumptions about age,
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Is "Peecycling" the Next Wave in Sustainable Living? news.nationalgeographic.com

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It should be.
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How To Build a 400 Square Foot Solar Powered Off Grid Cabin for $2,000. whydontyoutrythis.com

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How To Build a 400 Square Foot Solar Powered Off Grid Cabin for $2,000
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How to build a nice small cabin powered by solar panels. Lamar Alexander built this cute little 400 square foot cabin for approximately $2000, and powers it
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2.01.2014

***** vid. There are two Americas. In one, bankers get golden parachutes, insider traders return to society as well-paid consultants, and influence is for sale. In the other, opportunity is scarce and forgiveness scarcer, jail awaits those caught possessing recreational drugs, and cries for help are ignored. Society preaches forgiveness for the rich and retribution for the poor. Entrenched inequality and its companion, poverty, are the dark side of the American dream for a citizenry united by name, but not by rules. details

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U.K.’s January Flooding Surpasses All 247 Years Of Data On The Books thinkprogress.org Rainfall was 35 percent above average in January as many communities struggled with the impacts of sustained flooding. Climate

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U.K.’s January Flooding Surpasses All 247 Years Of Data On The Books
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Rainfall was 35 percent above average in January as many communities struggled with the impacts of sustained flooding. Climate
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***** David Simon tells Bill Moyers: "There was a class war, and the poor people lost. We are Reagan’s children, and we are Thatcher’s children. There is no society, there’s just you. We bought this stuff hook, line and sinker and we are building that. We’re getting the America we’ve paid for.” David Simon tells Bill Moyers: ‘There was a class war, and the poor people lost’ | The Raw Story

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David Simon tells Bill Moyers: "There was a class war, and the poor people lost. We are Reagan’s children, and we are Thatcher’s children. There is no society, there’s just you. We bought this stuff hook, line and sinker and we are building that. We’re getting the America we’ve paid for.”

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vid. Inexpensive 3D-printed limbs could be the answer for the 50,000 people in Sudan missing an arm or a leg. It could be the answer for so many in poor, violence-ravaged countries around the world.

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Inexpensive 3D-printed limbs could be the answer for the 50,000 people in Sudan missing an arm or a leg.
It could be the answer for so many in poor, violence-ravaged countries around the world.
I think it's something quite wonderful.
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Nikola Tesla: "Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists."

One of the earliest of great men ...Dani Rain shared Fukitol Real's photo.
One of the earliest of great men ...
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‘Kenyan government forcing us into extinction’: evictions of Sengwer... owl.li A Kenyan government campaign against one of the few hunter-gatherer tribes left in east Africa has escalated

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The Sengwer have cared for the Cherangany Hills of western Kenya for centuries, but the government is forcing them from their homes in the name of safeguarding urban water supplies and protecting the forest.
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Uncontacted Nanti could be decimated by plans to detonate thousands of explosive charges and allow hundreds of workers to flood onto their land. Peru approves gas project, spells disaster for uncontacted tribes owl.li Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of uncontacted Amazon tribes.

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Uncontacted Nanti could be decimated by plans to detonate thousands of explosive charges and allow hundreds of workers to flood onto their land.
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