Sharing the Ascension Experience
Making art is hardly easy. We struggle to express truth among the ruins of our culture, to bring beauty into disordered lives. Sometimes, circumstances just roll over us, flattening our creative energies. What can we do? Much, because the Word became flesh. At the beginning, our Triune God had worked with such joy and wisdom … Read more
The sun has produced energy for billions of years. Solar energy is the solar radiation that reaches the earth. This energy can be converted directly or indirectly into other forms of energy, such as heat and electricity. It is used for heating water for domestic use, space heating of buildings, drying agricultural products, and generating … Read more
In manufacturing terms, exponential population growth means more factories taking up more land, using more raw materials, and allowing more emissions and waste into the environment. Demand for products and services will grow, but the availability of supplies isn’t guaranteed. Competition for Earth’s finite resources will heat up and it’s easy, yet unsettling, to imagine … Read more
Looking for creative depth, poetry, substance, thoughtfulness and leadership in both the culture and the Body of Christ, many believing artists have left evangelical churches and connected with higher liturgical ones. Others have stayed, and find great joy in serving the community of faith in worship leadership or in other expressions of creative worship leadership. … Read more
Andrew Bishop of Noggins Corner Farm has turned a quarter-of-an-acre of his cherry crop into an experiment under sheltering tunnels. The 14-foot tunnels arc over the cherry trees, protecting them from birds and rain. Since installing the tunnels, Bishop says these problems are close to non-existent. His trees get water from a small irrigation system, … Read more
Specifically designed and built to meet the requirements of Higashi Nihon Ferry, the Incat 112 metre Natchan Rera (Incat Hull 064) delivers a craft well equipped to handle the demanding challenges of a providing a vital ferry service between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. In 1998 Incat conceived that a larger Wave Piercing Catamaran … Read more
The seven projects to receive funding from the Carbon Trust are: * Aluminium smelting technology with the potential to reduce energy consumption by up to 20% – Coventry University* Technology to explode paint into moulds, eliminating the need for paint shops in the manufacture of plastic components – Warwick Manufacturing Group* Energy efficient kilns, which … Read more
New phosphors can lead to improved color rendering and significant energy savings in high-efficiency, led-activated lamps and displays according to a project report by the U.S. Department of Energy. The report is available as a PDF through the “Reveals the Source” link below. AEVIA Reveals the Source
On April 12 the Ellsworth (Maine) American reported that an Ellsworth housewife, Brandy Bridges, dropped and shattered a fluorescent tube-bulb on the carpeted floor in her daughter’s bedroom. Aware that compact fluorescent light bulbs [CFLs) are potentially hazardous, Bridges called the local Home Depot store to ask for advise. Home Depot told her that the … Read more
Fewer than one percent of architects in the latest survey of the American Institute of Architects (500 of 58,000 members) listed affordable housing as a primary interest. It takes vision, innovation, and dedication to reconcile good environmental practices with cost-consciousness. Knitting person-centered and earth-conscious values together with affordability and universal access is not unattainable or … Read more