The color and flavor of honeys differ depending on the nectar source (the blossoms) visited by the honey bees. In fact, there are more than 300 unique types of honey available in the United States alone, each originating from a different floral source. Honey color ranges from nearly colorless to dark brown, and its flavor [...]
The following diary has been written by Ms AAF, who is currently going through her post-grad psychology master and has little time to squander on the tubes, as I do (though she patrols this site and DKos) and having read her latest essay, which fits nicely with today’s world food crisis, I have persuaded her [...]
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Simple ideas always are the best. This is a great contraption for people who live in remote areas, where no electricity is available. It’s also useful in any parts of the world, for the eco-minded person. The three most common types of solar cookers are heat-trap boxes, curved concentrators (parabolics) and panel cookers. Hundreds — [...]
The world never ceases to amaze me. Consider the following; Neanderthals speak out after 30,000 years! Talk about a long silence – no one has heard their voices for 30,000 years. Now the long-extinct Neanderthals are speaking up – or at least a computer synthesiser is doing so on their behalf. At one aquaculture facility, [...]
Or perhaps I’m an embittered one because I write about soaring food prices, organic farming vs the evils of Monsanto, impending catastrophes like a global shortage of water, the inanities and futility of wars so I suppose I am an elitist, and a bitter one at that! Whichever. The news we get in Europe from [...]
This week’s roundup of Eco news features our old friend, the Sun. Called Ra by the ancient Egyptians, Mithras by the Persians, and Apollo by the early Greeks, the sun with its magnificent prominence in the sky inevitably took the place of supreme deity among the ancients. Energy from the Sun, in the form of [...]