Pieter Makes A Sisal Rope 06-25-07 5:11 pm CAT
WE game drive...Pieter makes a rope.
Protect your plants from harsh weather
Tip 1. Do nothing and let nature take its course. Sometimes this may be the best course to take. Definitely, the least expensive up front but there may be replacement costs to consider afterwards. As the tip would suggest, plants in the landscape are allowed to adapt to the snow or ice storm and bounce back accordingly. Some woody plants, especially conifers, may experience breakage. After spring arrives, these broken branches should be removed and the plants allowed to shape back up on their own.
Tip 2. Stake or tie up conifers to reduce breakage. This is done before the snowfall or ice storm and allows the plant to weather the storm better than doing nothing. Strips of cloth, strapping or sisal rope are often used to wrap the shrubs and keep them tightly bound until after the storm is over. Staking can also be done to keep the plant from falling over.
Tip 3. Construct burlap or snow-fencing barriers around prize specimen landscape plants. Some landscape plants may need a little more TLC than others. These plants can be protected by simple fence-like structures built with burlap or snow fencing attached to wooded post or stakes. These structures can reduce snow loads as well as desiccation from cold, drying winds. Dark plastic or white frost protection blankets can also be used, particularly for those plants that may be marginal for your area.
Zimbabwe – Elephant Pump prevents water contamination « Sanitation ...
Zimbabwe – In 1999, when Ian Thorpe was teaching English in rural Zimbabwe, two pupils at his primary school died of dysentery after drinking water from a local well into which a snake had fallen and decomposed. The shocking incident drove Thorpe – with two former teacher colleagues, Tendai Mawunga and Amos Chiungo – to develop an inexpensive (US$400) contamination-proof pump.
Thorpe’s team adapted an ancient Chinese technology that used bamboo for pipes and sisal rope and discs of leather to bring buckets of water from hand-dug wells. The “ Elephant Pump ” has a concrete casing protecting water from contamination. It is simple enough for a five-year-old to use.
Winning a Development Marketplace grant of US$120,000 in 2006 allowed Thorp’s PumpAid – a U.K.-based international charity – to expand its nascent program beyond a few schools and villages and install 1,000 pumps that benefited 250,000 Zimbabweans.
Development Marketplace funds were also used to create the Elephant Toilet , an innovative, low-cost, low-maintenance approach to sanitation.
Below are links to “Elephant Pump” and “Elephant Toilet” videos:
Pump Aid – The Elephant Pump Pump Aid – Elephant Pump Animation Pump Aid – How to Build an Elephant Pump Pump Aid’s Elephant Toilet featured on CNN Pump Aid and the Elephant Toilet XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <pre> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> December 18, 2009 by GTZ GTZ has published a new booklet entitled: “Technology review on urine...Sisal Rope - News
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Protect your plants from harsh weather Strips of cloth, strapping or sisal rope are often used to wrap the shrubs and keep them tightly bound until after the storm is over. |
A working Christmas in Mogadishu
Back then, only a sisal rope separated the departure from the arrivals section. Pleasantly, the airport has been renovated, expanded and neatly painted, and more »
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Development Marketplace Grants: Three Success Stories - Zimbabwe, Malawi, Viet ... Thorp's team adapted an ancient Chinese technology that used bamboo for pipes and sisal rope and discs of leather to bring buckets of water from hand-dug |
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Moving an outdoor cat inside Some like the texture of sisal rope; some may prefer carpet or cardboard. Sprinkling catnip on the post may also help make it more attractive. |
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Southwest Florida treasures: Reinvent, restore, repurpose and art will come “I work with sisal, the rope from the agave plant,” says the Gulfport-based artist. Ruso can knot anything you commission of sisal (using no pattern, and more » |
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Boom and bust of Shannon flax mill Unfortunately, it was too late to stop an inevitable decline, from both the leaf disease and increasing overseas competition from the East African sisal |
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Make a wreath from items from the yard you can also make a garland (or rope of greenery) to go over your front door. Provost ties bailing twine (two-ply sisal twine) to a support above her |
