I first learned about aeroponics from the book Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World, which supposedly uses far less water than any other grow method:
JZ Liszkiewicz: Aeroponics
01 AgricultureMongoose: Did CIA Steal the Panama Papers from the German BND? Is Germany Breaking Away from Vassal State Status?
03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War
PANAMA PAPERS HEIST BY CIA-NSA AIMED AT BERLIN, BRICS, ALBA, …
In Summary: The CIA routinely betrays and abuses German interests. The last straw is the Snowden revelation of NSA intercepts of every email out of the Chancellor’s office and eavesdropping on their phone conversations by bugging optical fiber. Germany retaliates by shutting down the joint Wharpdrive project for monitoring communications on the super-fast DE-CIX network and then expelling the Berlin CIA station chief. CIA Munich then bribes a BND file clerk to steal the Mossack Fonseca archives. After vetting the legal papers for Agency spooks, the archive is trucked to CIA-controlled Suddeutsche Zeitung, to put a stick in Merkel’s eye on her home turf. MossFon is redacted to target the leaders of the BRICS group and ALBA alliance. Read more.
Daniel Araya: Chinese Invent Solar Panels that Charge from Rain
05 Energy
These Solar Panels Can Generate Electricity Using Rain
Solar power has always been spotty in less than ideal weather conditions. Are cities just going to shut down when the clouds start appearing? Alas, it seems so. But there is hope. Fortunately, a team of Chinese scientists are working to solve this problem. In a study published in Angewandte Chemie, Chinese scientists note that they are now able to create electricity with the assistance of raindrops. This is thanks to a thin layer of graphene they use to coat their solar cells during testing.
Dave Witzel: Save the Bees with Seed Bombs
01 Agriculture
Seed bombs began as a fun and friendly tactic for greening abandoned lots in urban spaces. “Guerrilla gardeners” throw balls of seeds and fertilizer into fenced-off spaces that are otherwise neglected, such as brownfields or land in zoning limbo.
Now, a California company is using seed bombs as a strategy to fight the disappearance of bees. Ei Ei Khin and Chris Burley started Seedles with the aim of spreading bee-friendly wildflowers in neighborhoods around the country. Their goal is to grow 1 billion wildflowers with the help of colorful seed balls, a project they call “Grow the Rainbow.”
Sepp Hasslberger: Plumbing (Not Vaccines) Eradicated Disease
07 Health
Basic hygiene… so why was it again that we needed vaccines?
How Plumbing (Not Vaccines) Eradicated Disease
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This resistance to bathing was brought across the Atlantic to America, influencing habits all the way into the 1800s. In 1835, Philadelphia almost passed an ordinance forbidding wintertime bathing. Ten years later, Boston did outlaw bathing, except by medical directive. (Though this law was not widely enforced, it does illustrate the American resistance to bathing as late as the mid 1800s.)
Mongoose: Are CalTech and Northrup Grumman Building an Electromagnetic Death Ray in Space?
05 Energy, Commerce, Corruption, Idiocy, Military, Officers Call, Peace IntelligenceCaltech’s 2500 Orbiting Solar Panels Could Provide Earth With Limitless Energy
The Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI), a collaboration between Caltech and Northrup Grumman, has developed a system of lightweight solar power tiles which can convert solar energy to radio waves and can be placed in orbit to beam power to an energy-thirsty Earth.
Sepp Hasslberger: Wheat is Toxic Because of Monsanto Round-Up Applied Right Before Harvest
01 Agriculture, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Earth IntelligenceHow come you allow and even recommend (it's the harvest ‘protocol') glyphosate poison to be applied to a food grain 7 to 10 days before harvest? Is it any wonder people get sick eating foods containing wheat?
The Real Reason Wheat is Toxic (it’s not the gluten)
Wheat harvest protocol in the United States is to drench the wheat fields with Roundup several days before the combine harvesters work through the fields as withered, dead wheat plants are less taxing on the farm equipment and allows for an earlier, easier and bigger harvest
