Built in 2025, three rammed earth houses outside SΓ£o Paulo, Brazil.
3 Rammed Earth Homes in Brazil Just Solved Sustainable Living – Yanko Design
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Rammed earth wall, built sometime in the 7th or 8th centuries A.D., Nara, Japan. Completely unreinforced. Clay. sand, soil. Tile roof covering, fieldstone base. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f535eccac077104cfd5498229b444b6fff57ab5979676eb7f868fdee6ddbaee4.file
Built in 2017, the tallest unreinforced rammed earth wall in the world, in the home of Belgian architect Peter Van Impe. Finally an architect with skin in the game! 15m tall maybe 45cm thick? Great photos of how it was built.
The Wall | BC materials
Rammed earth consultancy for what could be the highest contemporary earth wall in the world at 15 meter high.
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The Ricovero di MendictΓ  (Shelter for the Poor) was built in 1861 in Bologna, Italy, to house and treat 600 beggars, sick, homeless, of all ages. It was a consolidation of several medieval and more modern services for the indignant poor and sick and a response to increasing urban poverty in the wake of industrialization. It was funded by the shelter's own economic activites (agriculture and crafts), donations from the church, nobles, charitable funds and the city government itself. Brick, stone and timber construction. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bd83d80fde5703a02e44e8ca352c833b7a6f735351ada30e8b84c49c42237116.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2bbabac506cbee1ba4872e421322ff06595837baea8f93dbef33e10349c3def1.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a390109520567ebb3b8d36f84f2e21e5c96781c5c2a0a5591f237993b9865624.file
It is almost as if we ought to try and make our lives less stressful, and create calmer more harmonic cities and societies. The douse everything in chemicals and challenge yourself theory of life and happiness isn't working: "Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic commonly used to treat infections and acne. Previous studies suggest it can reduce inflammation in brain cells and influence synaptic pruning – a natural process where the brain refines its neural connections. Excessive pruning has been associated with the development of schizophrenia."
The University of Edinburgh
Common antibiotic may reduce schizophrenia risk | News | The University of Edinburgh
A commonly prescribed antibiotic could help reduce the risk of some young people developing schizophrenia, new research suggests.
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Ronald Searle! https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4b18f663cd51dcdd900a007f7c499d096bcbce54ea93204f6bbe9f7a15646299.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c1772b2bd839b0ea78f2b5546f95b50b3d7ae4245819648058583d064bf85c7c.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/55f9d69424a4da1cdaa071e9318682a941bfc5f597d70089a1484812cf7a2d20.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b4d303d7d347e28a5bdd14704deac4e71f55baa757e0bc33665a03261dbee29c.file
Every day on this app: "Modern architecture is demoralizing and ugly. The architectural establishment have made it illegal to build beautiful and sustainable environmentally correct buildings and places that we can prove almost everyone will love and care for. What's more those of use who notice this and complain are marked out as evil." "That is so divisive and dumb. There are many good architects who build beautiful. I don't want to provide any good examples though and anyway you reactionary scum are just anti-progress populists who live in the past." They just can't help themselves, utterly unable to tolerate any other viewpoint than that of the "Elites".
In Kenya, drought makes more and more herders switch to dromedary from their cows. Probably a good idea over all. Dromedary produces milk consistently.
France 24
Camels replace cows as Kenya battles drought
"God, God, God, protect them," chanted two herders, their eyes following a dozen camels rushing toward acacia trees, oblivious to the dry riverbed ...
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These people at the COP can't even figure out HTML, don't hold your breath for them to figure out COβ‚‚.
The University of Edinburgh
COP websites bigger emitters than average pages | News | The University of Edinburgh
Websites produced for COP conferences emit up to seven times more carbon than average internet pages, new research suggests.
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In Cambodia, a difficult choice: preserve a lake ecosystem that feeds 6 million people or keep sand mining to manufacture concrete for a decade or so until it is destroyed forever. Climate change isn't the issue. Again it is reckless destruction by humans.
Sand mining threatens the future of critical SE Asian ecosystem
Sand mining threatens the future of critical SE Asian ecosystem
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