Category: Health

The Future of Agriculture – URBAN SKY-FARM

Source: APRILLI Seoul, Korea Vertical Farm, Agricultural Center Winner, Concept Category @ Green Dot Design Award 2013 Second Prize, Urban Concept Category @ Rethinking the Future 2014 Special Mention @ WT Smart City Award 2014 Finalist, Place by Design @ SXSW Eco Awards 2014   The Urban Skyfarm is a vertical farm design proposal for a site located in … Continue reading The Future of Agriculture – URBAN SKY-FARM

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Solar roof and Powerwall 2 from Tesla

The company wants you to harness the power of the sun   Roberto Baldwin , @strngwys   At Universal Studios in Los Angeles Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off the company's solar roof-top panels, new $5,500 Powerwall 2 high-capacity residential battery pack and Powerpack 2 for businesses. Musk and company have been teasing the photovoltaic … Continue reading Solar roof and Powerwall 2 from Tesla

The Many Ways to Harness the Power of Garlic as a Natural Antibiotic

From the Healthy Home Economist As problems with antibiotic resistance and fear of superbugs like MRSA increase, interest in the use of natural antibiotics for routine infections continues to skyrocket. Of all the dozen or so natural antibiotics, raw garlic tends to be the most popular for several reasons. First, garlic is easy to obtain and widely … Continue reading The Many Ways to Harness the Power of Garlic as a Natural Antibiotic

The War In Afghanistan Is A Good Thing (If You’re A Drug-Dealer)

The “War on Drugs” and the “War on Terror” are more intertwined than the media and our elected officials would like us to think.

from Zero Hedge: 

Submitted by Mnar Muhawesh via MintPressNews.com,

The “War on Drugs” and the “War on Terror” are more intertwined than that media and our elected officials would like us to think.

And this became full front and center when the U.S.-led global crusades overlapped in Afghanistan, leaving in their wake a legacy of death, addiction and government corruption tainting Afghan and American soil.

In the U.S., the War in Afghanistan is among the major contributing factors to the country’s devastating heroin epidemic.

Over 10,000 people in America died of heroin-related overdoses in 2014 alone– an epidemic fuelled partly by the low cost and availability of one of the world’s most addictive, and most deadly, drugs.

Despite our promises to eradicate the black market…

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The War on Weed: Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for “Corporate Cannabis” Part II

California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” (AUMA) is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use. But critics warn that it will actually make access more difficult and expensive, squeeze home growers and small farmers out of the market, heighten criminal sanctions for violations, and open the door to patented, genetically modified (GMO) versions that must be purchased year after year.

by Ellen Brown, Global Research: 

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As detailed in Part I of this article, the health benefits of cannabis are now well established. It is a cheap, natural alternative effective for a broad range of conditions, and the non-psychoactive form known as hemp has thousands of industrial uses. At one time, cannabis was one of the world’s most important crops. There have been no recorded deaths from cannabis overdose in the US, compared to about 30,000 deaths annually from alcohol abuse (not counting auto accidents), and 100,000 deaths annually…

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