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Bert. 19. Atheist. Liberal. Humanist. Opinionated. Studying Environmental Science at Uni. I have a weird love for frogs.
botanicalbalthazar: xsugarcatx: noiiir: hovercrab: xsugarcatx: sidoniethefairy: No stranger to controversy and publicity stunts, PETA is back – and this time, the animal rights group is putting money where its mouth is: PETA is offering a $1 million reward to the first scientist to produce, and bring to market, lab-grown meat.Scientists around the world are researching or seeking funds to research ways to produce meat in the laboratory—without killing any animals. In vitro meat production would use animal stem cells that would be placed in a medium to grow and reproduce. The result would mimic flesh and could be cooked and eaten. Some promising steps have been made toward thistechnology, but we’re still several years away from having in vitro meat be available to the general public.  What is HAPPENING to nature :(  This just makes me hate PETA more. Why not continue to showcase the benefits of a diet with no animal products (low sat fats, low cholesterol, low calorie, etc) instead of spending pointless money on something that is stupid.  Why would anyone want to eat that =/ Why not just eat normal meat like normal omnivores :S  The meat will be exactly the same as a meat from an animal without the suffering, its quite obvious the entire world isn’t going to go vegetarian or vegan so I think this is an excellent alternative.  Yer, and they’ve done it already and its more efficient than growing cattle themselves. It wouldn’t be a food of rich people but i think it helps solve the problem that more and more people want meat. People already eat Quorn, which is basically grown the same way but its fungi rather than animal cells. It can also have essential vitamins etc added and would be less fatty.

botanicalbalthazar:

xsugarcatx:

noiiir:

hovercrab:

xsugarcatx:

sidoniethefairy:

No stranger to controversy and publicity stunts, PETA is back – and this time, the animal rights group is putting money where its mouth is: PETA is offering a $1 million reward to the first scientist to produce, and bring to market, lab-grown meat.

Scientists around the world are researching or seeking funds to research ways to produce meat in the laboratory—without killing any animals. In vitro meat production would use animal stem cells that would be placed in a medium to grow and reproduce. The result would mimic flesh and could be cooked and eaten. Some promising steps have been made toward thistechnology, but we’re still several years away from having in vitro meat be available to the general public. 

What is HAPPENING to nature :( 

This just makes me hate PETA more. Why not continue to showcase the benefits of a diet with no animal products (low sat fats, low cholesterol, low calorie, etc) instead of spending pointless money on something that is stupid. 

Why would anyone want to eat that =/

Why not just eat normal meat like normal omnivores :S 

The meat will be exactly the same as a meat from an animal without the suffering, its quite obvious the entire world isn’t going to go vegetarian or vegan so I think this is an excellent alternative. 

Yer, and they’ve done it already and its more efficient than growing cattle themselves. It wouldn’t be a food of rich people but i think it helps solve the problem that more and more people want meat. People already eat Quorn, which is basically grown the same way but its fungi rather than animal cells. It can also have essential vitamins etc added and would be less fatty.

slatercombes: Photos: If All of Earth’s Water was put into Single Sphere This picture shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, has a diameter of about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) , with a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers). The sphere includes all the water in the oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and rivers as well as groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.

slatercombes:

Photos: If All of Earth’s Water was put into Single Sphere

This picture shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, has a diameter of about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) , with a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers). The sphere includes all the water in the oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and rivers as well as groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.

The BAFTA award winning short film The Eagleman Stag by Mikey Please. Well worth a watch, its brilliant!

botanicalbalthazar: I found this gigantic bug at work while cutting back the heather. I thought it was a one off but then I found 4 more, a couple even bigger than this in the heather bushes. It was really funny because the way it moved its head round really slowly it looked like a little robot bug? Any idea what this is anyone? I’ll ask bug girl too. Sorry for the poor photo the iPod doesn’t cope too well with close ups. Its an Oil Beetle baby :) They secrete an oil out their joints when disturbed which is poisonous and can cause blistering of the skin so be careful haha

botanicalbalthazar:

I found this gigantic bug at work while cutting back the heather. I thought it was a one off but then I found 4 more, a couple even bigger than this in the heather bushes. It was really funny because the way it moved its head round really slowly it looked like a little robot bug? Any idea what this is anyone? I’ll ask bug girl too. Sorry for the poor photo the iPod doesn’t cope too well with close ups.

Its an Oil Beetle baby :) They secrete an oil out their joints when disturbed which is poisonous and can cause blistering of the skin so be careful haha

fuckyeahtoronto: Toronto becomes first city to mandate green roofsToronto is the first city in North America with a bylaw that requires roofs to be green. And we’re not talking about paint. A green roof, also known as a living roof, uses various hardy plants to create a barrier between the sun’s rays and the tiles or shingles of the roof. The plants love the sun, and the building (and its inhabitants) enjoy more comfortable indoor temperatures as a result. Toronto’s new legislation will require all residential, commercial and institutional buildings over 2,000 square meters to have between 20 and 60 percent living roofs. Although it’s been in place since early 2010, the bylaw will apply to new industrial development as of April 30, 2012. While this is the first city-wide mandate involving green roofs, Toronto’s decision follow’s in the footsteps of other cities, like Chicago and New York. Under the direction of Mayor Richard Daley the city of Chicago put a 38,800 square foot green roof on a 12 story skyscraper in 2000. Twelve years later, that building now saves $5000 annually on utility bills, and Chicago boasts 7 million square feet of green roof space. New York has followed suit, and since planting a green roof on the Con Edison Learning Centre in Queens, the buildings managers have seen a 34 percent reduction of heat loss in winter, and reduced summer heat gain by 84 percent. But lower utility bills aren’t the only benefit of planting a living roof. In addition to cooling down the city, green roofs create cleaner air, cleaner water, and provide a peaceful oasis for people, birds and insects in an otherwise polluted, concrete and asphalt-covered environment.

fuckyeahtoronto:

Toronto becomes first city to mandate green roofs
Toronto is the first city in North America with a bylaw that requires roofs to be green. And we’re not talking about paint. A green roof, also known as a living roof, uses various hardy plants to create a barrier between the sun’s rays and the tiles or shingles of the roof. The plants love the sun, and the building (and its inhabitants) enjoy more comfortable indoor temperatures as a result.

Toronto’s new legislation will require all residential, commercial and institutional buildings over 2,000 square meters to have between 20 and 60 percent living roofs. Although it’s been in place since early 2010, the bylaw will apply to new industrial development as of April 30, 2012. While this is the first city-wide mandate involving green roofs, Toronto’s decision follow’s in the footsteps of other cities, like Chicago and New York.

Under the direction of Mayor Richard Daley the city of Chicago put a 38,800 square foot green roof on a 12 story skyscraper in 2000. Twelve years later, that building now saves $5000 annually on utility bills, and Chicago boasts 7 million square feet of green roof space. New York has followed suit, and since planting a green roof on the Con Edison Learning Centre in Queens, the buildings managers have seen a 34 percent reduction of heat loss in winter, and reduced summer heat gain by 84 percent.

But lower utility bills aren’t the only benefit of planting a living roof. In addition to cooling down the city, green roofs create cleaner air, cleaner water, and provide a peaceful oasis for people, birds and insects in an otherwise polluted, concrete and asphalt-covered environment.

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