AARON WHEELER'S BLOG
1000 years to 3 months - biodegrading plastic
Tags: Waste / Technology
There’s an article on TheRecord.com” that describes a Canadian teenager, Daniel Burd, who has won the Canada-wide Science Fair with a project that demonstrates a way to isolate and utilize microbes that can decompose polyethylene plastic bags in 12 months.
http://news.therecord.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/354044“
What’s interesting when reading this article is that the experimentation and methods the student followed aren’t that difficult, and the steps to reproduce his work are easy to reproduce.
Which raises a lot of questions for me. Number one, why wasn’t this research done ten years ago? Why has a student discovered this instead of an …
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Love Fiji, Vorovoro and the Tribewanted Dream Foundation? Want to help raise thousands of desperately-needed pounds for our work to support the wonderful people of Mali Province? Read below to find out how:
If every member of Tribewanted donated £25 or $49 (USD) to Tribewanted Dream Foundation we raise …
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“As you all know that most of us are unemployed and we cant find the money for these projects anyhow. We have to sweat and it is difficult for us to meet our family needs” Kesiano Rokocika, Vesi Village.
The TribeWanted Dream Foundation has been set-up to enable the …
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The Tribewanted Dream Foundation is governed by a group of experienced trustees” and is autonomous from Tribewanted. Although the Dream Foundation is in its infancy, it already has a strong track record of both raising money and achieving its goals.
The Dream …
Read More >>>Culinary delights - Va's cooking makes headlines
Tags: Press / Fijian / Food / Fiji
Tribal surrogate mother Va’s” cooking has aroused more than just the appetites of on-island Tribe members. This time, she’s caught the attention of the Fiji Times”.
In the article Vasiti’s cooking proves a winner”, the Fiji Times has Va tell her story of how her volunteering as a chef …
Read More >>>Photographing the island
Tags: Technology / PicturesThere is some cool technology being developed that fills in the holes between photos. Pioneered by Microsoft, it’s called Photosynth”. What it does is take a group of photos of the same thing and determines what relationship the photos have to one another.
“Here’s a cool video of Photosynth …
Read More >>>Wind power and biodegradable plastics
Tags: Energy / Sustain / Global
Technology is great because it allows us to not only invent, but also reinvent. From bio-fuels to reusable vehicles for space flight, there is a lot of work going into finding better solutions to problems that were solved decades.
Today I came across two new exciting technologies: smaller, more …
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- Observer Top 500, 2007
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