Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at
5:33 pm
Urban Beekepers Trying To Save Bees
We depend on them for much of our food supply, but bees are dying off. The good news is there are a lot of people, even in urban environments like Detroit, doing their part to save the bees.
Read more on WXYZ-TV Detroit
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010 at
5:40 pm

- 150 clip-maps are perfect “cut-outs” of people for depictions of garden and patio scenes. They blend into their respective background and surrounding beautifully and naturally, don’t look artificial or super-imposed, and can therefore become a credible part of the overall scene.
- The high-resolution images have a size of around 2000×4000 pixel per person.
- Each picture comes with the matching alpha-channel.
- As usual with Dosch Design products all Dosch Viz-Images are license-free, and can therefore be used in commercial pictures & designs at no extra charge. All images are provided in the popular TIF format (uncompressed), as well as JPG and PSD (Photoshop)..
- For complete compatibility guide and PDF-overview please check @ DoschDesign.com/products/vizimages/People_Garden.html
Product Description
Note: Sample-Downloads and Tutorials for Dosch Viz-Images can be accesseed @ DoschDesign.com/samples.php !
DVI contain perfect 2D-cutouts (photos or rendered) of people, cars, road elements, interior furniture, trees or plants. They support CG-artists by facilitating professional visualizations for architectural use, catalog-design and more. Loading DVIs into Photoshop is a breeze, and direct use in 3D-scenes is often possible through included planar 3D models. … More >>
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at
5:39 pm
People today are becoming much more health conscious than in the past and the craze for natural, organic, and locally grown (or raised) foods has never been higher. Not surprisingly, this has led to a lot of increased interest in vegetable gardening, especially in urban and suburban areas. In fact there are whole movements designed to encourage and help with urban gardening, neighborhood and community gardens, and other creative ways of growing vegetables for personal consumption closely and easily. The precise instructions on how to grow a vegetable garden depend on a lot of variables, such as what you want to grow and where your want to grow it, so the instructions are bound to vary extensively.
There are two primary determining factors that should be taken into account when planning your vegetable garden: what you want to grow and where you plan to grow it. If you decide that what you want to grow is more important than the where, then the first step is to read up on the requirements of the plants you intend to grow. Once you know what these plants require, you can make a more informed decision about what you will need and where your can plant your garden. The requirements of a tomato are very different than the requirements of a cabbage, so if you are intent on growing specific vegetables, the requirements of these vegetables will dictate the rest of the gardening process.
Conversely, if you have a plot of land available and just want to plant a vegetable garden – meaning the where is more important than the what – the process is a bit different. Essentially what you will want to do is analyze the plot first: see how many hours of light it gets each day, have the soil tested to see if it is acidic or alkaline, and see how easy it is to get water to the plot (and how easy it is for water to drain away from the plot). Once you have this information, your should have everything you need to determine what will grow in your plot and what will not.
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