Out of the grid and into the passive house

Clayton Community Center built with passive building design
With energy costs on the rise around the world, more and more people are looking for ways to be less dependent on external, imported or manufactured energy sources. Some even wish to take themselves off the grid completely.
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Making it rain: how trees talk to the clouds

According to SciShow, “trees produce monoterpenes, using carbon dioxide that they collect from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.” Trees are able to store certain types of these monoterpenes, which researchers believe the trees release into the atmosphere in times of dryness or drought to help stimulate cloud creation:
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An apple a day keeps the food insecurity away

Apple farm
People around the globe are finding ingenious ways to improve food security for themselves and others.
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Humans are the key(stone) to regeneration

People are powerful, and that fact comes with both blessings and curses. Thankfully, people are putting that power to good use more and more. Because, we’ve all heard the seemingly endless stories about how humans are destroying our planet, wrecking our soil and polluting our ocean.
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