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Wrath Of Gnon
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Beekeeping or apiculture has left a small but charming legacy in European agricultural architecture, from the early 12th century to roughly the mid 19th, when the modern Langstroth hives made
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Our old towns and cities have been bombed, vilified, slandered and made defenseless, but in terms of outright destruction, you can't have it worse than agricultural buildings. Let's have a
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By the 1960s, the old traditional merchant town of Kawagoe in Saitama Prefecture north of Tokyo was in steep decline as business and people abandoned the area in favor of
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I'll never forget the time I spent with a young Down Syndrom woman and her nomadic family in Mongolia. She pulled her load as much as anyone else, but constantly
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The famous U.K. communist editor Douglas Hyde (1911-1996) was assigned to infiltrate and smear the Catholic Church and their social teachings during the war, fell in love with the writings
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The story of how Italian fashion tycoon Brunello Cucinelli spent his own money to revitalize and rebuild a 12th century hamlet in Umbria is pretty amazing. Key points to follow...https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-cucinelli/italian-de
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Back in the 90s there was a Japanese TV documentary on street cleaning. A mobile hot dog stand served as a test. During two weeks the staff did not clean
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I visited a friend today, owner of a small chain of restaurants in Tokyo. He told me that although there had been no orders to shut his restaurants he had
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Everyone has heard of the people making an effort to live more natural lives, off-grid, usually deep in the country or far away from other people. What if I told
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Everyone loves a green roof, and done right and at the right places it can be by far greener and more sustainable than any other imaginable roof. Better yet, the
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I can think of no simpler way of constructing a durable, sustainable, well insulated natural home than the simple cordwood (or stovewood) method. Here is the 1884 Wisconsin Kruza house,
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While most of the developed world has lost the ability to make decent towns or cities, the famous thatched roof villages of Japan show how we might be able to
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