Brazilian company Nucleário has created a biodegradable seed planter – mimicing some of the features of a tropical rainforest’s own species to help saplings grow – offering a faster and more sustainable way to replant tropical rainforests. The biodegradable seed planter helps seedlings to grow by capturing, storing, and releasing water to the seedling as […]
Nucleário: Biodegradable seed planter that could help advance reforestation projects in Brazil and beyond — Life & Soul Magazine
Have you ever seen a bunch of plastic bottles and bags floating in your local river or lake? Were you ever tempted to grab a mask in order to prevent smog from getting into your lungs? Pollution today is all around us, some results of it we can see (trash, landfills, smog) and some we […]
Environmental Crisis: Cities Fighting Plastic and Air Pollution — ecogreenlove — Life & Soul Magazine
GROVE, an online platform that uses blockchain technology to fund the planting of 1 billion mangrove trees across Southeast Asia and India by 2025, is expected to launch in the coming months. The Singapore-based Global Mangrove Trust will launch GROVE, an app and website in the next six months, according to Thomson Reuters Foundation. Users […]
GROVE: Global Mangrove Trust plan to launch online platform to crowdsource donations for the planting of 1 billion mangrove trees by 2025 — Life & Soul Magazine
The word Beltane corresponds to the modern Irish Gaelic word Bealtaine, the name of the month of May, and to the Scottish Gaelic word Bealtuinn meaning May Day.
Other names For the Day and the celebrations are:
May 1: Rudemas/Roodmas, Rood Day (the Christian term for Rood Day), St. Walburga’s Day; Beltane, May Day, Cetsamhain (opposite Samhain), Cershamain, Fairy Day, Sacred Thorn Day, Old Beltane, Beltaine, Beltain, Baltane, Walpurgis Night, Floriala (Roman feast of flowers from April 29 to May 1), Walpurgisnacht (Germanic-feast of St. Walpurga), Thrimilce (Anglo-Saxon), Bloumaand (Old Dutch) This holiday like many of the sabbats start on the eve and is celebrated thru the following Day.
There is no consensus on how the name was derived at but it is agreed that this Sabbat honors fertility and creation.
This was also a time when many cultures light Balefires. In some places that is still an honored tradition.
Beltane is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature, and it is associated with important events in Irish mythology. It marked the beginning of summer and was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect the cattle, crops, and people, and to encourage growth.
Classic Roots, a Toronto-based music producer and performer, will be kicking off the environmental film festival EarthxFilm today with EarthxDance, a live-streamed DJ set highlighting the intersection of urban and indigenous cultures. The virtual performance, which starts at 6pm EST, will begin with a screening of the documentary short, Turning Tables, about Classic Roots’ music and […]
EarthxDance opens environmental film festival with live-streamed DJ set from Turning Tables star Classic Roots — Life & Soul Magazine
A small earthen village near the Atlas Mountains of Morocco is now home to a women’s community centre, designed and built by local women and a group …
Moroccan women collaborate with architecture students to design and build women’s community centre near Atlas Mountains from earth and stone
How you decorate your bedroom shapes the ambiance of your sleep space, and the energy of the room reflects in the quality of your slumber. So whether it’s cute, boho, shabby chic or art deco that you’re aiming for aesthetic-wise, think about what materials, light fixtures and scents help you unwind at the end of……
These Soothing Candles for Your Bedroom Are Like Aromatic Lullabies — StyleCaster — Wyndesong Collectibles
A cross-border conservation programme in Africa, which boasts an ecosystem spanning the size of France, has been awarded €16.9 million ($19.1 million) funding from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. The Kavango Zambezi nature reserve, known as KAZA, is a unique place which stretches out over five countries in Southern Africa, straddling the borders of Angola, Botswana, […]
Africa’s largest Transboundary Conservation Area awarded a $19.1 million boost to create a cross-border nature reserve — Life & Soul Magazine
Found this in a small underpass. The colours are gorgeous. Here’s the east side. It is very different from any other native street art I have found. There are a lot of faces on the west side. The faces are in organic things, like tree trunks. I have turtle love. Pics taken by Resa – […] […]
Native Visions — Graffiti Lux Art & More — Life & Soul Magazine
Welcoming Spring with a few of my favorite things. I love springtime in my back yard when the plants are just beginning to show. Here in northern MI things are just beginning to pop out of the ground it is likely to be a few weeks still until there is color and spring greenery but…
Spring Back Yard — Wyndesong Collectibles
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