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if ANYONE has the right to own patents on plants, it is the farmers themselves who've been working on plant breeding for more than 10000 years, not Monsanto which simply builds on all that work done by those farmers. (b.t.w. I did a short 5Q-interview with Vandana Shiva: http://www.turtugablanku.com...

View from my solar powered music studio 'the Green Machine'. The lizard was sitting on the screen as an extra way to keep mosquitos out

[quote="demi"} This is a fantastic french group called 'Zaz' Have a look at some of their other stuff, I think they're just fab! Zaz, la toy session : je veux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ9zeDd0mpg[/quote] Ah, yes, I've seen another version of this song by Zaz somewhere on the internet...

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage (and other albums) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2b0OIkTraI) Manau (Keltic French rap music) (best know for this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDJ0McwKCwQ) And it would be pretty strange if my own music was not among my favorites, wouldn't it? :icon_smile: It's su...

I live in the tropics and most of the mosquitos show up in the rainy season. However, for those using a drip-system to water their plants or those keeping plants in pots which are placed on a dish and/or for those having old tires/other stuff in which rain water stays, it can be a yearround pain. Mo...

Hi folks, I recently found out about a website similar to facebook, but for "green"/eco people and businesses. I am still getting to know the site myself, but so far it seems very nice. It could us a bit more (active) members, though, which is why I thought I'd share it with you here to se...

http://youtu.be/Y4MnpzG5Sqc

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

And forward the link!

Hi folks, I was very happy that Alan Weisman took some time to participate in my 5Q-interview series. Alan Weisman is an (international awards winning) American author, professor, and journalist. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed The World Without Us , which describes a post-human sce...

There's a great documentary which I would like to recommend called "The Corporation" (by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan). Inspired by this film, I made a song called 'No More'. Several prominent people are featuring in this documentary, including Naom Chomsky, Milton Friedman,...

"solar power is going to be the wallet-friendly option as soon as 2013": http://tinyurl.com/3guqxj4 "Once grid parity is reached, it becomes economically stupid for power companies to not be installing large fields of solar panels to generate the cheapest form of available energy.&quo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_xET5iZSy0

Turning deserts green.

They're lucky. The engine is sort of protected from frozen cooling water by the freeze/core plugs (they are pushed out of the engine when the cooling water expands while freezing up), but replacing those freeze plugs can mean taking out your entire engine to be able to reach them. Normal water inste...

Another interesting documentary is Crude - the incredible journey of oil . It is a television documentary by filmmaker Dr Richard Smith.

A short summary of the documentary can be found here:

http://www.turtugablanku.com/news.php#Crude

Interesting read: Eating Animals http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51k5Tz5FZNL._SL500_AA300_.jpg "Eating Animals explores the many stories we use to justify our eating habits—folklore and pop culture, family traditions and national myth, apparent facts and inherent fictions—and how such tales can l...

Happy new year

and to you, and all others on this board!