Master’s Thesis 2006, Institute for Ecopreneurship IEC, FHNW, Switzerland
HANDLING WATER an approach to holistic river rehabilitation design
Niels Werdenberg
Conservation biologist, environmental engineer

“…A wholly excellent work and highly recommended reading for any serious student of river engineering and water resources management generally.”
Callum Coats, Ecotechnology expert

Abstract

Because we are comprised of about 70% water, making sure that we stay hydrated with pure water may seem obvious and intuitive - 8 glasses per day, right? Wlel, no. Not exactly.

TERRA video of a presentation by Jay Harman with visuals by Michael Green on biomimicry at Bioneers 2007. more info on bioneers from http://www.bioneers.org/
WWND = What Would Nature Do?

Designing the Next Golden Age

By Jay Harman

The following text is from a speech given at Bioneers 2004.

Welcome to the new Golden Age! Yes, here, today, right now, in what may feel for some of us like the darkest of times, we are creating a new Golden Age. I think we’re ready for this. We know, deep inside, that a better age for our world is absolutely crucial, and we know it’s possible. That’s why we continue to get up in the morning—to strive for a better world. For me, I know this new Golden Age is possible because of what I’ve learned from nature.

Nature.

To begin this introduction I would like to thank the people who made this book possible. First, my wife Alison, who did an excellent review of LIVING WATER, which is probably the best book in english on Viktor Schauberger. Secondly, I wish to thank Borderland Sciences Research Associate Bodo Capeller for his great help in translating a series of articles on Schauberger from the German magazine "WELTE SPIRAL", or World Spiral. The readers of this book will be well served by their efforts.

Expansions are retarded explosive effects in the realm of basic substances, in which decentrating (expanding) reactive effects of a subordinate order are freed.

Impansions are slow processes of densation, which for example, can be exploited in so-called chillers or refrigerating machines and are to be viewed as normal de-stressing processes.

Explosion is chemical reaction that takes place extremely rapidly, in which a large increase in pressure occurs due to large quantities of hot gases. Explosions are always innately destructive. They therefore function in a life-harming way.

How does lightning occur?

We've been doing the ceiling fan thing all wrong for all these years. Turns out the best design for a fan blade is to twist it into the shape of a seed pod from a Sycamore tree. Spin it around at just 70 to 130 revs per minute, and you get the same airflow as a regular fan cranking its heart out at twice that speed. We're also digging its weirdo looks, too.

Learning from Nature How to Create Flow Without Friction

THE SUN WEEKLY (Australian paper) Date - Thursday Feb 22 1996 Recent UFO sightings in the area "are quite possibly the work of government and military intelligence organisations" which are testing technologies that have been kept secret for more than 50 years.

The startling claims have been made by a Kincumber engineer who once worked with an English-based professor who invented an energy source in the 1940s.