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November 2011 Blog Posts (5)

Banana Peels Can Clean Water

According to Wired, many studies have shown that banana peels can repeatedly filter water (up to 11 washes) "by absorbing toxins, especially heavy metals in industrial waste like lead, copper, cadmium, and chromium." (Photo from Wikipedia)

Info from Wired magazine, "Three Smart Things About Banana Peels", page 50,…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 30, 2011 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Vertical Herb Gardens

Merete Mueller writes about herb gardening here. If you've got limited space and some time to enjoy working with your hands, the payoff is worth the… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on November 25, 2011 at 4:59am — 2 Comments

Some things to think about...

(Original art work by William Rafti of the William Rafti Institute)

Every once in a while, I see something that gets my blood curdling, my skin into goosebumps. I don't want to look. I keep looking for a while and feel a sense of revulsion, or voyeurism, of even a bit of…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 22, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

HAWK WINGS FOR SHEL

I know why I try not to have idle thinking. It’s a waste of my mind-time. Today while driving from Palm Coast, Florida, where I spend 4/7th of my week with Batina my love, to Gainesville, Fl. where I spend the other three days, I looked at the feathers I have hanging on my rearview mirror and thought about the closeness I feel towards the Native American way. That has been part of my way of life for many years. As I drove on I thought of my grandparents from Romania and Russia and how I knew so… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on November 21, 2011 at 4:23pm — No Comments