The Honey Bee makes the world go round – without them flora would die and all other life would quickly follow. And bees have done their job for a very long time. For perspective Homo sapiens (probably you) reached anatomical modernity about 200,000 years ago and began to exhibit full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years […]
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The book “Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment” by Hawkes and Forster is a little misleading in its title since it only covers large educational and commercial buildings for the most part. The residential buildings it covers are also large multifamily structures. It does not address smaller buildings at all and the title should make some
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I just read Ecocities by Richard Register. His definition of an eco city is: •An ecologically healthy human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining resilient structure and function of natural ecosystems and living organisms. •An entity that includes its inhabitants and their ecological impacts. •A subsystem of the ecosystems of which it is part — of
