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The Future in 100 years! What are your thoughts?…
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This is a story about two men who lived on the shores of Lake Alexandrina. They belonged to the Ngarrindjerri people.…
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Added by Reid Falconer on April 26, 2010 at 7:15pm —
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Min-na-wee (Why the crocodile rolls)
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Added by Reid Falconer on April 26, 2010 at 7:06pm —
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Agent Dyer and I made a collaborative mission to Soil for Life . We did not know how to create a blog post in collaboration (any ideas) , so please go to the link which will take you to the blog and read about this amazing initiative.
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/soil-for-life-helping?xg_source=activity
Added by Reid Falconer on April 26, 2010 at 2:00pm —
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In 2020 Cape Town will have constructed many new resilience (Shown in Map) features such as:
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Added by Reid Falconer on April 25, 2010 at 3:57pm —
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Cape Town is 350 years old. It is an isolated city that hugs the furthest tip of Africa. It is far from Europe and Asia, whose people established it, far even from Pretoria, whose apartheid government forced segregation upon it and whose new government would like to see it become more 'African'.…
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Added by Reid Falconer on April 24, 2010 at 7:30pm —
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When I first read the mission objective I immediately thought about the time a made a didgeridoo with my uncle Riccardo Moretti (
http://www.myspace.com/tribalneed). He is a musician and commonly uses the didgeridoo as one of his instruments. When offered me the opportunity to help make one with him I was thrilled because being a musician myself I love these kind of things.
The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu or didge) is a wind…
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Added by Reid Falconer on April 23, 2010 at 6:30pm —
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Name: The Recycling Bank
Headquarters: Cape Town, South Africa. Franchises spread throughout South Africa
Designer: Reid Falconer
Operating System: Exchange Recyclable good for shopping vouchers
What Community does it serve: The entire local community
What Problem does it Solve: The problem of Waste and Food security
The Recycling Bank is an all new initiative to fight the war against waste. This system will…
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Added by Reid Falconer on April 23, 2010 at 4:23pm —
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My Chosen Case Study:
PROMOTION OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES' STRATEGIES FOR THE CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL-PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES IN AFRICA.
In Africa more than 80 per cent of the continent's population relies on plant and animal based medicine to meet its health care requirements. For the most part the plants and animals used in…
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In an effort to identify indigenous plants consumed by the local population in Kwa-Zulu Natal that hold potential antihypertensive properties, researchers have examined 16 plants to identify ACE inhibitor activity.…
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Added by Reid Falconer on April 23, 2010 at 9:30am —
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Scientists in Israel have apparently been hard at work engineering a stretch of road with embedded piezoelectric crystals, that will generate electricity from cars rolling across its surface. The road will be unveiled in a few weeks by Israeli company, Innowattech.
The technology is similar to that used in… Continue
Added by Reid Falconer on April 22, 2010 at 9:46am —
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While on holiday in London I met an amazing man "Brian Haw". He is a peace activist campaigning peace against the 'war on terror' I met with Him and we talked for a
while. I also gave a donation to his brilliant cause.
Brian has been protesting in Parliament Square since 2nd June 2001.
Initially he was campaigning against the economic sanctions on Iraq
and the bombing of the country…
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Added by Reid Falconer on April 12, 2010 at 4:00pm —
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Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (Empowering Woman)
What
would you do with 40 million dollars? Would you retire and travel
around the world? Would you feed the hungry? The possibilities are
infinite. With 40 million dollars, Oprah Winfrey has built the school
of her dreams in order to fulfill the dreams of 450, and… Continue
Added by Reid Falconer on April 12, 2010 at 3:30pm —
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