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Neal Sharma and his research team at Post's Wildlife
Linkages Program monitor 50 remote control cameras near
major roadways in the Santa Cruz Mountain areas. Culverts
under the highways allow animals to cross safely between
habitats. Creating a network of protected open spaces in Post's
mission so that the regional wildlife can thrive.
This interaction between a playful coyote and a badger has
never been seen before as the coyote appears to invite the
badger to follow him through the culvert.
HOUSES FROM
RECYCLED PLASTICS
This sounds like an awesome idea. A
company formed in 2013 in Puebla, Mexico,
called Eco Domum, is using discarded
plastic trash to form panels to build houses.
It is the brainchild of Carlos Daniel
Gonzalez who identified the need for
low cost housing in the area and came up
with this solution. He partnered with local
trash collectors to take their discarded
plastic—a process that keeps the plastic out
of landfills as well as paying higher wages
to the local trash collectors. Molten liquid
plastic is baked and then molded and then
sent through a hydraulic press where it is
crystallized and compressed into panels.
One small house requires around 80
panels which amounts to approximately
two tons of plastic. Each panel is 8' by
4' by I inch. It takes about a week to
construct a house (walls and a roof) and
the cost is around $300. (Habitat for
Humanity takes about 8 months to build
a house.) This is, of course, the basic
structure and everything else must then
be added. And it's very small ranging from
430 to 460 square feet.
Only time will tell if this will be a lasting
solution to a worldwide need for cheap
housing.
Source:
Inhabitat
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