Artist Compiles 3 Million Images Into A Year-Long Mosaic of Time-Lapsed Skies (Video)

Artist Compiles 3 Million Images Into A Year-Long Mosaic of Time-Lapsed Skies (Video) www.treehugger.com Using a camera programmed to take pictures every ten seconds for a year, artist Ken Murphy creates a beautiful visual montage of San Francisco’s changing skies.

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How to forecast weather without gadgets

source [marisys.com]

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Sizing Solar Hot Water Systems

Solar hot water can be one of the most cost-effective renewable energy technologies, if you size your system correctly. Here’s how. [homepower.com]

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How to Repair the World

We’re pleased to announce that we’re partnering with the makers of the video above,WeForest, to help establish self-replicating permaculture reforestation demonstration sites in accordance with our Permaculture Master Plan, in several worldwide locations – starting in Zambia in the first instance. Our Geoff Lawton has just agreed to be on their advisory board, and we’ll be [...]

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Get involved with ClimateWatch

ClimateWatch was developed in order to understand the effects that climate change is having on Australia’s plants and animals. Climate change is affecting rainfall and temperature across Australia. As a consequence, flowering times, breeding cycles and migration movements are also changing. Scientists have very little data available to understand the impacts of this. Your task [...]

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Climate, Weather and Aboriginal Culture – Indigenous Seasonal Descriptions

Australia’s climate is diverse. Monsoon tropics, desert, savanna, alpine and temperate regions can all be found in various locations. The sheer diversity of ecological zones negates the concept of a rigid European seasonal calendar for the entire continent. The Aboriginal people of Australia inhabited distinct regions that were usually concordant with geographical and ecological regions. [...]

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Solar Power Zapped From Space By Lasers

      Japan is aiming to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth using laser beams or microwaves. The island nation’s government has picked companies and researchers to turn the multi-billion pound dream of unlimited clean energy into reality by 2030. Japan has few energy resources of its own and [...]

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Forest Interactions and Climate

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James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss

Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.

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World Climates (analogues) & What is a Biome?

A biome is a large geographical area of distinctive plant and animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment. The climate and geography of a region determines what type of biome can exist in that region. Major biomes include deserts, forests, grasslands, tundra, and several types of aquatic environments. Each biome consists of many [...]

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