Sentences with phrase «even desert air»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but wringing water from the desert sky is now possible, thanks to a new spongelike device that uses sunlight to suck water vapor from air, even in low humidity.

While the toxins are likely to be most abundant in the air around lakes, they exist all over the planet, even in deserts.

After it rains, some of the rainwater evaporates back into the air, but much of it trickles down into the ground and stays there - even in the desert.

While travelling for his first visit ever to an arid zone (Egypt's Deserts, W / Napoleon), Fourier readily could FEEL, the rapidly chilling evening air, which contrasted so with his prior experiences in moist France.

Here in Italy's landlocked Lombardy region there was no sea whatsoever, nor even a telltale hint of a breeze in the air and, drenched under an intensely blinding noonday sun, the square felt spookily deserted.

The California also comes with two - zone climate control and air conditioning that kept the cabin cool even in 105 - degree desert sun.

Toyota Tacoma: every Toyota Tacoma near Des Plaines, IL equipped with the TRD Pro Series package gets a black chrome - tipped cat - back exhaust, a TRD skid plate, and an exclusive TRD Pro Desert Air Intake designed to keep this truck's engine running smoothly in even the dirtiest, dustiest landscapes.

We took the kids on an overnight train ride from Tangier to Marrakech, Morocco, rode camels in the desert, and even took a hot air balloon ride in Turkey.

Warm evening air, a desert breeze, cabañas by the pool — what's not to love about a luxurious wedding in the California desert, especially with choices like The Parker Palm Springs or Two Bunch Palms, both in the Palm Springs area, or Furnace Creek Resort in Death Valley National Park.

Or you could try a camel ride or even a hot air balloon ride over the desert.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

While travelling for his first visit ever to an arid zone (Egypt's Deserts, W / Napoleon), Fourier readily could FEEL, the rapidly chilling evening air, which contrasted so with his prior experiences in moist France.

Similarly, at night, you can freeze water by digging a hole in the desert to restrict convection even though air temperatures can be 20 °C +.

Fercrisakes Pekka thermal convection can be observed with the naked eye in deserts and even over tarmac where the surface becomes hugely warmer than the air in contact with it.