Burlington Free Press: It makes Bob Vasseur chuckle that people from around the world have “adopted†maple trees in his family’s Bragg Hill sugarbush through his neighbor Dori Ross’s year-old Tonewood Maple business. Vasseur, 80, has been sugaring, he said, “as long as I can remember and then some.†The three-generation operation sells most of […]
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Tents hunting blinds and hunting blind chairs traditionally sit on the ground, a fact that my wife like’s to point out as why she won’t sleep in one. But I have a surprise for her: the Tentsile Hanging Tent is a tent that hangs in the trees like a hammock. By employing tension forces rather
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Cheaper solar cells will be coming soon, if new research out of Georgia Tech holds up: Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees. Just as importantly, by fabricating them on cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) substrates, the solar cells can be quickly
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Someday soon, you’ll be able to ask your trees whether they need more water… and they’ll answer you. They won’t use human voices, rather the bubbles that form insides of water-stressed trees create a unique ultrasonic sound that is detectable with the a carefully tuned microphone. To figure out how to listen to trees, the
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