Samovar Tea Lounge, a San Fransisco tea house, has created a 16-part video series called “Passage to Peace: Exploring Tea Culture Today”.
Press the image below to watch the trailer for this online series, which aims to show the connection between drinking tea and inner peace.
Environmental Architecture is a field that’s becoming more and more prevalent around the world. As our planet population constantly expands while available space is only getting more sparse, bold solutions are in dire need.
One such futuristic solution comes from New York-based architect Phu Hoang. His architecture firm is aiming to tackle the issue of the [...]
Vipassana meditation thickens parts of the brain responsible for awareness and sensation:
Our data suggest that meditation practice can promote cortical plasticity in adults in areas important for cognitive and emotional processing and well-being,” says Sara Lazar, leader of the study and a psychologist at Harvard Medical School. “These findings are consistent with other studies that [...]
We all know that oil isn’t endless. When all of it is dug up, we’ll be in a serious trouble — unless we develop reasonable sources of alternative energy. However, experts predict that we still have several decades before reaching “the point of no oil”.
This estimation is confronted, or rather supplemented, by the Peak Oil [...]
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From Natural News:
(NaturalNews) A non-psychoactive chemical that occurs naturally in the marijuana plant may prevent breast cancer from spreading, according to a study published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
Researchers found that a chemical called cannabidiol (CBD) affects the activity of a gene known as Id-1 in patients with hormone-independent breast cancer.
Because CBD occurs in [...]
Last week I described how the patterns of our brain waves control different states of consciousness. By altering these patters, we can induce many mental and emotional states, such as sleep, anxiety, calmness, and concentration. Several technological applications already try to take advantage of this mechanism for the treatment of humans.
As of today, we [...]
Although this hierarchy is very simple, it’s important to keep it in mind when moving from place to place. When talking about the ultimate “green car”, there’s nothing better and healthier than bicycles!
Learn more at Transportation Alternatives.
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Palm Oil Industry threatens the Rain Forests
Right now palm oil is the second, behind soybean, most produced oil in world. It is estimated that within the next five years, palm oil will surpass soybean oil to become the leading vegetable oil produced.
Because of this huge demand, thousands of acres of rainforest are being cut down [...]
