Flavors galore: the biological farm that you want to spend to sell directly to the public

The Flavors of Sauces is an organic farm located in Oliveira de Azeméis. The project was born from the hands of Isabel Malheiro Araújo, an agricultural engineer who in 2010 decided to fulfill the dream of making real a draft organic farming not only produces and should market vegetables and fruit, but were an engine of environmental education and sustainability.

Through a contract of lending, Isabel Araújo rented the land where today is located the Flavors of sauces and, from 2011, began planting various vegetables and mixed orchards. In August 2012, the project has gained a new partner, Raul Santos, agricultural engineer.

The challenge for 2014 is to get society to the fifth. In 2013, the mentor of the project won the approval of a project of the PRODER, for recovery of premises in ruins that the land offers. The aim is to deliver this year's grocery store on the farm.

With the birth of this Bodega, Isabel Araújo and Raul Santos intend that the fruits and vegetables grown on the farm can be sold to consumers directly at the premises of fifth and not just once a week, through the Agrobio market hampers of Aveiro.

The goals for this year include the creation of a library and a teaching kitchen, the idea is to promote organic farming and environmental protection, as well as promote the creation of jobs and "make increasingly the difference in rurally de Aveiro".

In addition to the biological products that produces sauces, Flavors still invests in educational environmental actions, being assiduous presence in schools and in different municipal initiatives.

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The beauty of the abandoned bus stops of the United Kingdom

Recently, the News Magazine of the BBC visited one of the abandoned bus stops of rural Cumbria zonal and asked readers if they considered that that was the nearest abandoned the United Kingdom.

This stop serves the village of Milburn, in Eden Valley, the location of the United Kingdom that has the more sparse population and is utilized by about six to seven passengers per week.

Several readers responded to the challenge of the BBC and suggested alternatives even more abandoned than this stop of Cumbria.

1 and 2. stopping the sheep nuts from North York Moors, England

Located in Dale, on the border of the North York Moors National Park, a small concrete shelter serves as a bus stop. The nearest homes are miles away, on the other side of Dale, and who want to catch a bus subject to wait hours and can only do only on Tuesdays. The only route that serves this stop has as destination the town closest to Guisborough. To pass the time, who waits for the bus, you can always admire the scenery or the stop graffiti, including a sheep nuts.

3. removal from Islay, Scotland

This stop is located at Glenegedale Airport, one of the airports of the island of Islay, in Scotland. Although this airport several flights per week to Glasgow, Oban and Colonsay, this stop was claimed for the sheep. Still, there are a few buses that serve this stop, but more often to see if you look at the stop than passengers.

"3300BA0497", England 4.Paragem

The Cricket Ground is located in Clumber Park, in England. Isolated in the middle of the natural park, the site is also known as "3300BA0497" Transport Department of Nottinghamshire, since most of the people who know this stop are the employees of this Department. Several years ago that has no regular bus stop. However, the site still has some utility, since it can serve as a point of rest or park visitors shelter on rainy days.

5 and 6. stopping the 23A, England

Once a year, a bus part of Salisbury Plain to the abandoned village of Imber. The trip, which began to be made five years ago by a group of bus enthusiasts, takes passengers to the site which was evacuated by the British Ministry of defence, in 1943. The old location was evacuated to serve as a training ground for American soldiers during World War II and remains to this day training camp for the British army.

7. removal of Cape Wrath, Scotland

This bus stop is not ticked. It's just a stopover of minibuses that are the rails of Cape Wrath, the Northwestern most point of Britain. Access to the site is done only by ferry and minibuses are the only non-military vehicles that run through these tracks. There is no regular schedule in passing and using these minibuses is only for tourist purposes and made with markup.

And dear reader, do you know any semi-abandonada bus stop in Portugal? Send us this forum and site for info@greensavers.pt.

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Green House: an ecological and sustainable hostel made in Peniche

The Portuguese coast, especially the Western region, is increasingly on the route of the surfing world, bringing thousands of practitioners per year and, with them, investment and boosting the local economy.

With the arrival of tourists, the local hospitality industry had â€" and have â€" to restructure its offer and services. And the best way to do that is through the sustainable tourism-linked deals, or they weren't real surfers ambassadors of the sea and the environment.

One of the most recent offerings is the Green House, a hostel that promotes a sustainable and ecological concept. "Both the furniture as decoration result from the use of recycled materials, which gives us a natural and inviting environment," explained Green Savers responsible for hostel, Ana Cabral. All existing parts can still be purchased by the guests or visitors, according to the charge.

On the other hand, the lamps used in illumination of the hostel are low consumption and Green House favours the use of ecological detergents. There is also a "system services" in which volunteers from various countries perform small jobs, according to their experience and motivation. "In Exchange for bed and breakfast, they contribute little works of creation and improvement of furniture, support for promotional activities or management", explains Ana Cabral.

Breakfast served daily is homemade: the bread is made in own hostel, being the fruit of the season purchased direct from the producer. "With her do the natural juice and jams", stresses the responsible.

The Green House is also responsible for promotion of exchanges related to solidarity. "We were pioneers in this type of action, in Baleal Beach and Peniche. We changed his clothes and books (available year-round); sale of gourmet products whose sale reverts in favor of IPSS (like CERCI Peniche, which produces gourmet products); collecting donations in genera for IPSS (as the Association, receiving clothing and other donations for children at risk); and bet on local artisans ", concludes the responsible.

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Connect4Climate offers €11 Grand Prize best documentary on climate change

Until April 1, the Action4Climate invites young filmmakers and film lovers to make a documentary about climate change, that shows the perspective of younger age groups about climate change.

The documentary should have between one to 12 minutes and must also address how the changes associated with global warming and other climate issues influence the everyday life of young people and the measures that can be taken to sensitize the population to these problems.

The competition is divided into two categories by age groups: from 14 to 17 years and 18 to 35 years. Participation can be done individually or in groups, with the maximum of five elements. The best short of category 14-17 years takes home professional video equipment, whereas the category 18-35 years enables a prize of €11, 000 (Annual thousand). The second and third classified in this category receive £ 7,300 and £ 3,600, respectively.

The documentaries distinguished will still be inserted in circuits of film festivals and made available on the platform MTV Voices.

The competition jury will be chaired by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. Among the members of the jury are still other familiar names of the seventh art: Fernando Meirelles, Wim Wenders, Marc Forster and Atom Egoyan.

The Action4Climate is a project launched in 2011 by the World Bank, Global Environment Facility and by the Italian Ministry of environment, with the aim of creating an open and participative platform that involves young people in a global debate about climate change in order to promote greater local action geared towards this theme.

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The lone owner who challenges the market

Charlie Wright, 62, still lives in the same house he was born in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, UK region and refuses to abandon it â€" even when pressed for all: autarchy, real estate and, indirectly, by their neighbors, who have sold their own homes.

A few years ago, Wright was just one of the existing 600 on site, a popular neighborhood. Now, the British â€" who grew up with nine siblings in property â€" is alone. "I was born here and live here for 62 years. My mother bought the House after the second world war and lived here with my nine brothers. I'm not leaving, "explained to the British press.

The Wright House is surrounded by garbage and demolished buildings â€" the region tried to build an industrial zone on the ground but, with the crisis, the investment failed. Now, the area is desolate â€" but Charlie stays in your House.

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Tesla Model S arrives in Portugal tomorrow

The Tesla Model S electric car will be tomorrow, for the first time, on display in Portugal, according to ZEEV, company dedicated to the commercialization of electric mobility solutions â€" bicycles, motorbikes, cars and charging stations.

According to the company, the vehicle will be exposed in the shopping centre Amoreiras in Lisbon tomorrow until February 23, Sunday. "[At the show] we will meet some of our electric mobility solutions, taking advantage of the occasion to present exclusive and firsthand, the Tesla's Model S electric car in Portugal," says the company.

In addition to the Tesla, the electric bike also will be presented A2B Alva â€" in this case, will be a European premiere.

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Scientists track whales from space

The observation satellite WorldView-2, the American company DigitalGlobe, are using high resolution photos of the Earth and image-processing software to detect whales near the surface of the ocean, according to the report published in the journal PLoS ONE.

A team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey tested the WorldView-2 with Southern Right whales-southern Gulf Coast in Nuevo argentina, and found that the automated system captured 89 percent of whales during a manual search of images.

"With the increased resolution of photos captured by satellite and the improvement of our analysis, we started to be able to monitor more species and in other types of locations," said study author Peter Fretwell to BBC. "It will be possible to make total counts of populations and, in the future, follow the trajectory of the same," he added.

The waves and the cloudy water can confound the WorldView-2, having been due to these aspects that the Frankish-southern whales were chosen for the tests â€" because they are slow swimmers, too shallow and can be used to control other animals.

"The other aspect is the fact that many researchers of marine mammals have been killed flying in small planes while they were researching whales," said Vicky Rowntree, Director of the program of the southern right whale in the Ocean Alliance, the BBC. "I want the scientists let the small planes that circulate about the whales and start doing it from a distance".

Photo: NOAA

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