Items of Interest

Cloud-milking

The Life Nieblas project in the Canary Islands uses a plastic mesh to imitate how pine needles trap water, and is used to milk the clouds of fog on the islands for water. The captured water is used to irrigate reforested tree saplings until they are big enough to capture water from the air themselves. The system is also used in Chile to provide drinking water and water for irrigation.

Michael Collins & 1916 Prisoners In Welsh Internment Camp In Frongoch

This week I attended a fantastic talk at the Liverpool Irish Centre about Frongoch, the internment camp in North Wales where 1,800 revolutionaries from the 1916 rising were held for 7 months, including Michael Collins. It became known as the University of Revolution because the prisoners took classes while interned, but also made plans while all together for the war of independence that followed after their release.

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