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Top Questions About Solar Everyone Asks Us
At AYKA Solar, we believe that educating our customers about the benefits of solar power is paramount to helping more Australians invest in renewable energy and our success as a business. That's why we focus on educating our customers and help them understand how all our solar Sydney products will benefit you and the environment.
By AYKA Solar5 years ago in Earth
5 Tips to pick the best Solar Company in Sydney
Switching to solar can be a wise and a big decision. The important question is – which solar company should I choose to install my solar panel system? There are many Solar Companies Sydney-wide to choose from. The task of picking the best solar company for you can become overwhelming. So, in order to help make your decision easier, here are five tips you should consider when deciding on solar companies.
By AYKA Solar5 years ago in Earth
Celebrating My Farmer Nick Journey During National Gardening Week. Top Story - June 2021. Created with: Fiskars.
It only took 32 square feet to change my life. That’s how big the plot of land was in my childhood backyard where I first learned to garden. We had lost a tree during Hurricane Sandy two years prior, and that patch of Earth had laid bare and forgotten ever since, that is, until my mother posed this question to me:
By Farmer Nick5 years ago in Earth
The nature weather is nice outside!
Well, the weather outside is pleasant, but that doesn't have to ruin the exercise routine you've been enjoying since spring, even if you love to exercise outside. Of course, as always, there are some guidelines to follow when exercising outside from the home in extreme weather.
By CK blog5 years ago in Earth
Regal, Yet Also Ridiculous. Top Story - June 2021.
King Henry VIII had a bum-wiper. And if you're wondering what the heck that has to do with a somewhat strange photo of an elk, hang with me because we're going on a bit of a ride.
By Linda Caroll5 years ago in Earth
Finding a Buck
Washington, D.C., our nation's capital, is rich with people and locations that invoke the past, resonate with the energy of the present, and hint at the future of our country. During my time living in Northern Virginia and working in the District, I enjoyed many walks through the bustling city viewing memorials to heroes of our past while brushing shoulders with individuals who were working for a better today...and tomorrow.
By Leigh-Anne Dennison5 years ago in Earth
Gardening
The act of growing your own food or tending to plants in a garden is an act of love. Bell Hooks, an activist, and writer that I admire says in her book, All About Love: New Visions, that “Love is ‘the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.’” (Hooks 1999). Apply this statement to gardening and we can see that when we are gardening we are extending ourselves (our energy and time) to nurture the growth of the plant, the soil, and the creatures living within the garden. And what does this realization teach us about ourselves, our community?
By Carli 5 years ago in Earth
The Forager
My internal alarm clock wakes me up to another early morning; I stretch as I rise. I move past my sister who is just stirring. We both have a lot of work to do today, as we did yesterday and the day before. I move quietly through our home as I prepare to leave, not wanting to wake anyone.
By Shelby Rider5 years ago in Earth
Birds of Eden
Legend has it that an $800.00 black pearl earring is hiding somewhere in Birds of Eden, the world’s largest free-flight aviary in South Africa.
By Jess5 years ago in Earth
The Singing of Summer
The tweeting of a bird....no, not that blue icon for the platform geared and driven by hate, racism, and fake news. The bird is found in the forest, high above the world in the mountains, high up in the trees of strong and glorious pines or soft and swaying maples. Lilacs and daisies prance their dance and sing with the bird ever so softly as the movements of the wind bring to them a sound of pure joy and ecstasy. Such peaceful bliss I find in the summertime mountains. Such resounding and infinite bliss, such erotic spiritual awakening I find within myself, pleasuring not my flesh but the very core of my soul. Published are the works of many a great poet, storyteller, artist, musician but the greatest song to never be recorded in it's full beauty is truly the song that nature sings as winter fades, spring germinates the seeds of life, and summer resurrects the dead hope that we have lost in the cold months before. The song of the bird starts this melody and begins the great concerto of summer, but it is only the opening voice of this sweet lyrical hymn of Summer.
By Zenith5 years ago in Earth
Lose Your Self. Find the World.
It happens every year Calendars turn. Leaves crumble and rust. Summer’s silent hallways fill with footsteps and laughter. The clocks miss a stuttering step.
By Ryan Frawley5 years ago in Earth
The Pounce
As the sun shone on the grasslands and warmed the treeless ground, an ocelot crouched in the tall grass. He moved his paws through the closely clumped-together blades, trying to touch the ground as quietly as possible. He couldn't afford to make even the quietest of sounds. He had a target to pin to the ground and there was no chance he was going to let it get away under his watch. He had promised himself he was going to practice stalking and get better at hunting on his own to prove to himself that he could do it, and he would be as quiet as it took to make that happen. To minimize the rustling of the grass, he used the pads of his paws, moving forward as slowly as he possibly could. He kept his gaze straight ahead of him, his eyes focused on his primary objective and his head completely stationary. He wasn't going to break his concentration under any circumstances. He was going to get this right.
By Jamie Lammers5 years ago in Earth