July 13th, 2013 | Blog, Travel, arborsculpture, Arbortecture, biotecture, bridge, D.I.Y., Ficus elastica, grow, India, living, living architecture, living art, Meghalaya, monsoon, pooktre, river, roots, tree sculpture, tree shaping, tree training, trees, War-Khasis, water
The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily strong – strong enough that some of them can support the weight of fifty or more people at a time.
Because they are alive and still growing, the bridges actually gain strength over time – and some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the War-Khasis people of the villages around Cherrapunji may be well over five hundred years old.
June 1st, 2012
Dr. Masaru Emoto found that thoughts will change the structure of water, and the words love and thank you create the most beautiful crystals. Water is receptive to thoughts and vibrations, and humans are more than 70% water. Many scientists are confirming this discovery of the amazingly receptiv ...
May 22nd, 2012
This fascinating documentary, directed by Saida Medvedeva and released in 2008, spans the globe to reveal recent discoveries about water, the most amazing yet least studied substance in the world. Researchers, scientists, philosophers and theologians speak of their understanding of this unique l ...
March 11th, 2012
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly b ...
February 3rd, 2012
This is an issue that it seems is finally getting more attention in the mainstream media, but it is very true this is something that we should have been concerned about for a very long time already. Personally I take a bit of bentonite clay first thing every morning as it is good at removing unw ...
January 23rd, 2012
The best way to get your coconut water is fresh from a tree in the tropics. If you can't I have found that coconut water makes a great probiotic and making pasteurized coconut water into coconut kefir is a great way to be sure you get the best from your coconut water. Bruce Fife, N.D. is ...
November 27th, 2011
I have been experimenting with various ways to make coconut water kefir. My first step was to rehydrate some water kefir grains I had been given by a local fermentation fan last year and get them bubbling. I had previously made coconut kefir with dairy kefir grains which also works quite nicely, but ...
November 5th, 2009
I recently read a book I have been waiting a while to get my hands on. Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen. I first read Derrick Jensen's work in 2006 when we moved to Neversink in the Catskills, among the reservoirs that supply New York City with its world renowned water. ...
September 1st, 2009
Published in Far West Almanac, September 2009. Perhaps I have been watching too much Al Jazeera, but that, along with the film Blue Gold: World Water Wars, has got me worrying about folks down in LA. I honestly still can't believe that Arnold Schwarzenegger is really the governor of California— ...
August 4th, 2009
I stumbled across this really practical and well done video on how to make water kefir. Although I have been reading about kefir for years, I hadn't had an opportunity to make it myself until this year when my sister brought some up to me from a friend who had given her some. This stuff is fantastic ...
