Using pee an "au natural" again toxic chemical fertilizer.

Should We Return The Nutrients In Our Pee Back To The Farm?

  

Let me guess how you feel about your urine: Get that smelly stuff away from me as fast as possible?

A small group of environmentalists in Vermont isn't as squeamish. Instead of flushing their pee down the drain, they're collecting it with special toilets that separate No. 1 and No. 2.

Then they're pooling the urine of the 170 volunteers in the pilot project (a quart or so, per person, daily) and eventually giving it to a farmer, who's putting it on her hay fields in place of synthetic fertilizer. The goal is to collect 6,000 gallons this year.

The logic driving this avant-garde project of the , based in Brattleboro, Vt., is that it's foolish and wasteful to part with the precious nitrogen and phosphorus that moves from the food we eat right through us — especially when farmers have to buy fertilizer at great expense to put those very same nutrients back into the soil.

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Serenading the cattle with trombone..

Farmer Plays Lorde’s ‘Royals’ Till the Cows Come Home “This farmer has udderly moo-ving musical talents.
Farmer Derek Klingenberg serenades his cattle by playing the pop hit “Royals” by Lorde on his trombone. The dulcet tones of his brassy instrument call his cows from clear across the horizon for an all-bovine concert.”

KITCHEN ONLY FOR SHOW OFF...........

Kitchens are now worth showing off
 
 Brands are responding with stylish, practical and individual designs. For the style-savvy, the look, feel and functionality of the kitchen is becoming increasingly important. No longer is the...

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China's mega-rich

Superyachts the latest prestige purchase for China's mega-rich

 

 With a fortune made in Chinese finance, Li Wang already has six cars, including a Bentley and a Porsche, and now has his eye on his next multimillionaires' toy: a boat. And not just any boat.

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Microsoft confirms China probe.

Mainland business authorities are investigating Microsoft, the US technology giant confirmed yesterday, with reports that the focus was on antitrust behaviour.

Investigators of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce yesterday made unannounced visits to Microsoft's offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu , news portal Sina reported citing a source familiar with the matter.

It was unclear why the company was being looked into, it said, though the portal ran another story quoting a source as saying the investigation might have to do with antitrust matters.

The Microsoft investigation comes just days after the mainland's antitrust regulator said that Qualcomm, one of the world's biggest mobile chipmakers, had a monopoly.

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