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Posted by Michael McKenzie on July 18, 2009 at 8:30pm

Yo-Yo Ma, right, at a performance with the Silk Road Ensemble of the classic Arabian love story of Layla and Majnun, known and beloved throughout Central Asia.
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Special School in Niamey
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Motorbike parked in Sion - it was covered last evening to protect it from rain at night.
Goods Tempo with blue tarpaulin lashed down.
Verandah cover to protect the daily washing
Dawn riding at the Mahalakshmi Race Course
Riding in the summer was hot and sweaty even at 6:30 am.
After the first showers, during the riding class, our instructor said "Aaj ghode fresh hain... mausam thanda hai na."
Indeed they were up to more tricks than usual... (prancing around, tossing their heads.. and the more badmaash ones bucking and almost throwing off their riders).
As for me, I enjoyed the cool, almost cold breeze at dawn.
They call it the Net-Zero Energy home. It has ground source heat pumps (promising a 30% reduction in energy use), photovoltaic arrays, supplementary wind power, high efficiency appliances and battery storage, all talking to each other through a Home Energy Manager.
That's a lot of impressive technology. But are green gizmos the best way to achieve net zero energy?
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All the blogs are covering the Hydralux-4 liquid cooled LED being distributed by EternalLEDs. Ariel at Fast Company thinks it won't be an instant hit; Wired just craps all over it, saying "We don’t really see the advantage of this over other LED bulbs. If Eternal LEDs had put a mini lava-lamp inside, though, we’d be happy to pay the $35."
Or, ...
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BedZED Residents' Footprints Analyzed
Back when TreeHugger was young, there was an awful lot of talk about BedZED - or Beddington Zero Energy Development - a groundbreaking housing project designed to reduce residents' impact through the holistic lens of ecological footprinting. It wasn't without its problems - BedZED's biomass regional heating system packed in, and there were rumors of a rift betwee...
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