Sentences with phrase «dry dung»

The choice of nesting material is perplexing — dry dung is fragile and offers little protection from the cold Patagonian winters.

I heard upon his dry dung heap That man cry out who can not sleep: «If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God; Take the even, take the odd...»

Do It Yourself ● For a true Mongolian barbecue, you need a sheep, a huge stock pot, a bunch of rocks, a dried dung fire, and several hungry Mongolians.

It was here where I saw 62 - year - old Dolgorsuren Chimeddulam stacking dried dung to fuel her stove.

[ADDED 1/14] Finding renewable sources of energy that are cheap and do not come with significant environmental or security risks or social costs is a good thing, particularly in a world adding roughly 80 million people a year, and where two billion people today only have firewood or dried dung as an energy choice.

The smoke is rising mainly from cooking fires fueled with firewood or dried dung.

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

In India, the main danger is indoor cooking and heating fires fueled by dried dung or firewood.

[ANDY REVKIN asks: On the poison front, have you ever been in the home of someone cooking on firewood or dried dung without ventilation?

But that is only the first baby step given the need for far more energy to supply human needs, even with spreading efficiency (recall that 2 billion people are cooking on firewood or dried dung at the moment).

More than 2 billion people rely on firewood or dried dung for cooking and often burn these fuels in unvented stoves or fireplaces.

The poorest — the 1.3 billion in developing countries who depend on wood and dried dung as primary cooking and heating fuels, smoke from which kills 4 million and temporarily debilitates hundreds of millions every year — will be condemned to more generations of poverty and its deadly consequences.

The other obstacle is the unmet demand for basic energy needs of the some 2.8 billion people who still burn firewood, charcoal, or dried dung for cooking and heating, and of the 1.2 billion who can't reach for a light switch.

Not exact matches

Then smooth, round, fist - size river stones are heated in an open fire made from dried animal dung.

The dung, collected from digs, zoos and various hikes around the world, is dried out and stored in archival - quality cardboard boxes.

The moisture in dried - out elephant droppings isn't much to live on in a dry environment, so desert - dwelling dung beetles have had to evolve clever ways to conserve water.

The Ancient Egyptians used dried crocodile dung as a contraceptive.

In Inagua, large piles of dried donkey dung are the only evidence some people see of the southern island's famed wild donkeys; one day, though, in a clearing deep in the bush, I was lucky enough to spot them.

The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili has been a bit chary, let's say, of showing in New York City ever since a certain Mayor Rudolf Giuliani threatened to defund the Brooklyn Museum for showing his absolutely gorgeous The Holy Virgin Mary — a 1996 painting of a black Madonna with a bared breast made from dried elephant dung, surrounding by putti made from female genitalia cut from porn magazines — as part of the 1999 stateside leg of Saatchi Gallery's «Sensation» show.

Though Ofili's detractors often state that he «splatters» [7] elephant dung on his pictures, this is inaccurate: he sometimes applies it directly to the canvas in the form of dried spherical lumps, and sometimes, in the same form, uses it as varnished foot - like supports on which the paintings stand.

Evocative of the Western tradition of religious painting, in which the Madonna is often depicted with a suckling infant at her breast, The Holy Virgin Mary draws upon this repository of source imagery, with Ofili forming his Madonna's breast from dried elephant dung.

To a lesser extent, the term «controversy» also relates to Ofili's notoriety as an artist known, or remembered, for regularly (and some might say «irreverently») fixing dried orbs of elephant dung to canvases, as well as positioning them as spherical stands upon which works are placed to transform them from two - dimensional artworks into more complex three - dimensional mixed - media sculptures (adding to its potentially troublesome qualities, The Holy Virgin Mary utilized both techniques).

In 1999, after Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani threatened to cut off city funding to the Brooklyn Museum because of an exhibition featuring a painting by the British artist Chris Ofili that depicted a Virgin Mary figure and incorporated collaged pornographic elements and clumps of dried elephant dung, Mr. Trump joined in the criticism.

A lump of dried, varnished elephant dung forms one bared breast, and the painting is displayed leaning against the gallery wall, supported by two other lumps of elephant dung, decorated with coloured pins: the pins on the left are arranged to spell out «Virgin» and the one on the right «Mary».

Ofili's oeuvre portrays Mary wearing a blue cape parted to reveal a breast made of dried and varnished elephant dung.

Recent discoveries of the dung deposits of Pleistocene animals in dry caves and alcoves on the Colorado Plateau, including those of mammoth, bison, horse, sloth, extinct forms of mountain goats, and shrub oxen, have provided floristic assemblages from which temperature and moisture requirements for such assemblages can be deduced in order to develop paleoenvironmental reconstructions tied to an absolute chronology.

So, for each person who might die from global warming, about 210 people die from health problems that result from a lack of clean water and sanitation, from breathing smoke generated by burning dirty fuels (such as dried animal dung) indoors, and from breathing polluted air outdoors.

A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung) reduce indoor air pollution by 80 %, reduce fuel usage by 50 % and decrease cooking times by 40 %.

I may appear to be a hypocrite to the hot - air balloon - blower in question, but because I haven't put fear into the hearts of listeners with my words whilst spouting off at the podium, as this guy has bragged about doing, I can't compete in the bull - shit hunger games, because... I ain't no bottom - feeding Dung Beetle feeding off of such dried - out crap.