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21st Century Farm House

21st Century Farm House

My parents have been on a huge renovation kick at my childhood home. I’m pretty proud because all of the improvements have been eco-friendly and more energy efficient!

As seen above – New heating and hot water system (yellow) and self powered osmosis water purification system. They now have cut their oil heat consumption down to 1/3 and are able to get rid of the bottled water system we had before.

Spiderweb Trees in Pakistan

Spiderweb Trees in Pakistan

Photograph courtesy Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development

Seen in December 2010, a young girl stands next to a tree covered in spider webs in Sindh, Pakistan, near the intersection of two roads that had only recently reemerged from floodwaters.

At the height of the crisis, the flooded region covered an area the size of England. Nearly 2,000 people died during the disaster and 20 million people were affected, according to the Pakistani government. (Related: “Pakistan Flooding Because of Farms?”)

“More people were affected by the flooding than the combined total of the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami, 2005 Pakistan earthquake, [2010] Haiti earthquake, and Hurricane Katrina,” John Barrett, head of DFID’s Flood Response Team, said in a statement.

As part of the international response, DFID mounted the U.K.’s largest humanitarian operation yet.

(via Pictures: Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs After Flood)

Photo and Caption by Leona Boyd

“Kauai’s Mount Waialeale; generally considered the rainiest spot on the planet, drops much of its water down 3,000-foot walls so sheer, that there are only two days per year where the sun passes overhead; leaving no shadows on all of its walls. Lucky indeed to be overhead in an open cockpit airplane when this occurs. Luckier still to be there after one of the rainiest days of the year and after the clouds part for your photographic dream of a lifetime.”

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