Tiny House Designed To Be Elderly / Disability / Mobility Friendly

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Growing older is a gift. Unfortunately that gift also comes with it’s own burdens, often meaning a lack of mobility and thus a loss of independence. This spectacular tiny house design has helped to give mobility and independence back to one very special lady though, through some very clever small space design to create an elderly, disability and mobility friendly tiny house on wheels.

Music in this video: http://www.youtube.com/brycelangston
Presented and Produced by: Bryce Langston
Camera: Bryce Langston & Rasa Pescud
Editing: Rasa Pescud
‘Living Big in a Tiny House’ © 2019 Zyia Pictures Ltd

Bird Protections Under Siege

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After successfully protecting birds for 100 years—saving millions of birds every year and even bringing species like the snowy egret, wood duck, and sandhill crane back from the brink—the landmark Migratory Bird Treaty Act is now being radically reinterpreted to allow companies to get away with preventable bird deaths. We must protect this law to protect our magnificent birds.

Take action: https://on.nrdc.org/2IVu2EC

Simulated Clouds and Aerosols

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Tiny solid and liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere are called aerosols. Windblown dust, sea salts, sulfates, smoke from wildfires and pollution from factories are all examples of aerosols. Depending upon their size, type and location, aerosols can either cool the Earth’s surface or warm it. They can help clouds form or inhibit cloud formation. And if inhaled, some aerosols can be harmful to people’s health.

To study aerosols and their impact on clouds, researchers from NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office ran a simulation of the atmosphere that captured how winds transport aerosols around the world. This simulation, produced by the Goddard Earth Observing System Model Version 5 (GEOS -5), shows clouds (white), dust (brown shades), sulfates (purple shades) and organic black carbon (green shades) at 7-kilometer resolution from September 1, 2005, to December 31, 2005 (hourly). Simulations like this allow scientists to better understand how different types of aerosols travel in the atmosphere, impact cloud formation and influence weather and climate.

Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio