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My Buns Hurt! by BodyRock.tv
Here's the latest grueling and effective home exercise workout by Zuzana from...
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Green Office Week starts Monday 18 April 2011
Tomorrow is the beginning of Green Office Week and it's the chance...
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Yoga is for everyone
The health benefits of yoga can be enjoyed by anyone at any...
Treating bumps and blisters on lemon trees
Lemon trees will often get little bumps and blisters on their leaves. This is most likely caused by tiny insects called gall makers. The appearance of these insects, Tryoza erytreal, is a common problem in citrus trees. Linda B asks: I have a lemon tree and a small lime tree in a pot and I ...
Grow fruits and vegetables to beat recession
UK newspaper The Telegraph has reported that more than a quarter of people in the UK are growing their own fruit and vegetable in efforts to survive the recession. Rising food prices, retrenchments and overall economic downturn has prompted this move to “The Good Life”. Most of the 1,000 people surveyed said they would save ...
Earthwise Living
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Everyone wants to live a life that is happy and balanced.You want to feel fit and healthy, save money on your monthly household expenses and reduce the negative impact you have on the environment. You can do all of this by changing your habits and living an earth-wise life. Earth-wise living simply means that instead ...
Get fit with 100 pushups
One hundred push ups is all it takes to get super fit and healthy – according to http://hundredpushups.com/. The site offers a six week training program that promises to increase your strength to the point where you can do 100 consecutive push ups. Sound crazy? It actually seems to work…and if you think that you’ll ...
Hybrid Construction
Hybrid construction combines multiple building techniques to form a livable structure. Materials and techniques used in hybrid construction are usually decided based on several factors including, cost, visual appeal, structural integrity, natural resources and production time. Hybrid construction could include traditional forms of masonry combined with recycled materials and natural building techniques. Some of the ...
Wood Frame Construction
Wood frame construction is possibly one of the most common building techniques used world wide however in South Africa wood is only used in far more expensive applications. Buildings using wood frame can be constructed to be load bearing or non load bearing and plans are more likely to be approved by local banks as ...
Cordwood Construction
Cordwood construction, also known as cord wood masonry, stack wall construction or stackwood construction is a a natural building technique where cordwood, logs or short lengths of de-barked tree are laid with masonry usually concrete to build a wall. The wood is stacked one piece at a time and concrete fills the gaps between each ...
Straw Bale Construction
Strawbale construction is a technique that utilizes straw bales as building bricks and insulation in the straw bale structure. Straw bales are being more often used in new “natural building” structures. The straw construction has several advantages over standard construction methods due to its low-cost, high-availability and thermal-insulation properties. The basic techniques used in straw ...
Earthbag Construction
Earthbag construction is a cheap, strong way of building. It uses a natural construction method based off army style bunkers and flood-barrier building techniques. The earth bag construction requires very basic materials: sacks (hessian, canvas, cotton, plastic), filler (gravel, sand, concrete, clay) and wire or barbed wire (using the sharp points in the wire as ...
Poured Earth Construction
Poured earth is mixed and formed similar to concrete and uses cement as the main binding agent. So instead of using gravel or sand as is the usual in aggregate in building with concrete, poured earth uses ordinary soil and less cement. The poured earth mixture is pumped into a pre-built shutter system and left ...
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