Ocean waves and tidal currents are one of the most untapped and important, clean, cheap, rich, and reliable sources of renewable energy on the earth. UC Berkeley professor Reza Alam and his team at the TAF Lab (Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) have developed a “wave carpet” which can extract the energy of ocean waves and turn it into electricity and freshwater for households and cities.
Rafea: Solar Mama
Rafea is 30 years old with four children and a husband who is eager to take a third wife. She is a Bedouin woman living in a small Jordanian village close to the desert. With encouragement from the country’s Ministry of Environment, she leaves her village for the first time to go to the Barefoot College in India to train to become a solar-energy engineer.
Simple: Biomimicry
A 2 minute film highlighting a sustainable solution called biomimicry. http://asknature.org/ http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-dragonfly.html http://www.facebook.com/SustainableMan?sk=app_57675755167
The Farmery
The Farmery is a living urban farm and market. For more information, contact us at [email protected]
MONSANTO’s CHEMICAL GENOCIDE pt.2
BIG BUSINESS A wise man once said “more money, more problems”. This seems to be an understatement when it comes to Corporations like Monsanto. An inextinguishable urge to dominate industry and a feverish sense of competition, fueled Monsanto’s rise to the top. Their expansion into a diversity of markets , along with their willingness to …
Peso For Your Thoughts
http://www.valhallamovement.com Finally back in Montreal – the journey of the Earthship build in Ushuaia continues and transitions into the positive solutions side of the story. This is the first of a series of videos that are to follow about how Positive Sustainable change can come about.
10 raisons pourquoi une Communauté, c’est plus qu’extraordinaire!
Durant la dernière année, j’ai vécu en communauté avec les membres de Valhalla, ou dans différents écovillages que j’ai visités lors de mes voyages. Vivre en communauté peut signifier de partager une maison, un quartier, ou un village entier. Peu importe le genre de communauté où vous vivez, vous êtes assuré d’avoir une expérience folle …
10 Reasons why you want to live in a Community
For the past year, I’ve lived in community either with the gang at Valhalla or at the various Ecovillages I’ve visited on my travels. Living in community can mean sharing a house, a neighborhood or an entire village. No matter what kind of community you live in, you’re guaranteed to have a crazy experience and …
Do It Yourself JellyFish Plants
Suspended Beauty They’re called air plants, simply because they require good air to thrive. But contrary to what their name implies, they still need a good watering. They need to be completely soaked in water for about 45minutes to an hour every week or so and then completely dried. An epiphyte is a plant that …
MONSANTO’s CHEMICAL GENOCIDE pt.1
Hiding In Plain Sight Most of what we own, consume, and purchase, is made with products from the Monsanto corporation. Whether it is the packaging around your fruits, the fruits themselves, the acrylic floor tiles in your kitchen, anything and everything plastic, processing assembly lines, pharmaceuticals; a world of products just wanting to be marketed …
Barefoot We Will Return | Valhalla India
The Valhalla Team gets ready to leave the beautiful community and organization of “Barefoot College” but not for long. We’ve learned and been inspired beyond explanation and now we’re pumped and ready to continue our journey to the next discovery India has to offer.
Desert Areas May Never Suffer Famine Again
Driven by a long-standing desire for justice, American biologist Gordon Sato is spending his retirement helping some of the world’s poorest people, in Eritrea, to help themselves. His innovative Manzanar project harnesses two of the Eritrean coast’s most abundant resources – intense sunlight and seawater – to grow mangrove plants that can be used not only to feed animals, but also to provide a habitat for fish and shellfish.
Turning Campus Leftovers Into Meals for Thousands of Hungry Neighbors
At a time where fixes to America’s biggest problems often seem too complex, littered with red tape and protocol, college students across the nation are mobilizing to help feed hungry people in the most commonsense way possible – saving leftover food that would otherwise be thrown away.
Food Scarcity: A Looming Crisis
A Man Made Desert When i first set my eyes on Valhalla’s land, I was not impressed, to say the least. The over working of the soil had driven it to the brink of exhaustion. Not an insect in sight, as I combed the fallout looking for survivors; all I could find were degenerate soya …
Dr. Vandana Shiva – “Seed Freedom & Systems of Abundance”
Excerpts from “Seed Freedom & Systems of Abundance,” Dr. Vandana Shiva, environmentalist and anti-globalization author, who founded Navdanya, a network of seed savers and organic producers across 17 states of India, speaking in Los Angeles, CA, at the Watts Labor Community Action Center Saturday, September 14, 2013.
Meet the Super Cow
These gigantic cows resemble bovine body-builders. See how breeders have achieved such amazing results. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/?source=4003
Barefoot Explains “Whats Up” to Indian Gov
Valhalla Follows Indian Secretary around the Barefoot Campus while Bunker Roy shows her the facilities, methods and village people. This is an interesting moment to observe the government’s faculty concern when face-to-face with a world they would probably never consider of a cup of chai.
Building An Earthship Greenhouse In 10 Minutes
Valhalla’s Earthship Inspired Greenhouse This year I had the privilege to be part of Valhalla’s Earthship Inspired Greenhouse. It truly lived up to its name, and it was indeed a greenhouse made up of Earthship elements, but more importantly, IT WAS INSPIRING. So many problems seem to plaguing our world, and yet the solutions remain …
Redefining Education @ Barefoot College | Valhalla Movement
Sheila and Lawrence have now lived 1 week at the inspiring Barefoot College. Mark Twain once said “Don’t let school get in the way of your education” and you truly can’t embrace those words until you’ve felt and lived with the essence of self determined, dignified and humble villagers.
WiseWords From Bunker Roy
Founder of Barefoot College, Bunker Roy answers the question: What is your political ideology? To find out more about this initiative watch Bunker’s TED Talk :) http://www.ted.com/talks/bunker_roy.html