The resulting photographs—gorgeously illuminated and in vibrant color—capture copepods as they’ve never been seen before. Fitor caught the creatures doing a wide range of activities, including eating and mating and freeing themselves from predators. “It was like a window into a totally new world for me,” he says. “It’s a project that I don’t want to end, and it probably will never end, because every time I go into the sea I find a new form.” (Friday January 20th, 2023 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

Key updates to the rules include requiring certification of more of the businesses, such as brokers and traders, at critical links in organic supply chains. It also requires organic certificates for all organic imports and increases inspections and reporting requirements of certified operations. (Thursday January 19th, 2023 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

Certain checklists meet the requirements for government-approved certification, like organic and biodynamic. But generally speaking, natural winemakers follow the philosophy of incorporating techniques from a time before the industry was industrialized for widespread distribution. (Thursday January 19th, 2023 — Yahoo News)

Joan Almon, former Waldorf teacher and co-founder of the Waldorf School of Baltimore, as well as the Alliance for Childhood, was a passionate and life-long advocate for play-based preschools and kindergartens. Almon defined play as an activity that is freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated. It is play, not teacher-motivated instruction, she asserted, that is the cornerstone of the child developing a spirit of creativity. (Wednesday January 18th, 2023 — Baltimore Fishbowl - Baltimore, Maryland USA)

According to the septennial theory, a person’s biological, mental, and philosophical experiences are determined by cycles. ... One of the thinkers who developed a philosophy based on these cycles was Rudolf Steiner, who believed in the theory of the septennial and how the body regenerates itself every seven years and prepares itself for the situations to come. (Saturday January 14th, 2023 — Cultura Colectiva - Latin America)

Greek winemaking has been going through a renaissance in recent years with modern winemaking producing clean fruit-driven wines and lots of organic and biodynamic wine production. (Friday January 13th, 2023 — Irish Examiner)

More than 90 international museums, plus parks and other popular attractions, offer the vision-enhancing amenity (Thursday January 12th, 2023 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

Mum Emma explained: “Anthony has Downs Syndrome, is non-verbal and has limited understanding, so he needed an environment that was supervised but also gave independence and structure. Emma says Camphill is helping Anthony live life to the fullest. Image: Camphill School Aberdeen Emma says Camphill is helping Anthony live life to the fullest. “He joined Camphill School Aberdeen when he was 18, and it has been the best thing for both Anthony and me.” (Wednesday January 11th, 2023 — Press and Journal - UK)

Beekeepers will mix the vaccine, which contains dead P. larvae bacteria cells, into the food that worker bees eat. Then, when the worker bees secrete their milky royal jelly, the queen will ingest it and the vaccine. From there, the vaccine will make its way to her ovaries, where it will immunize developing larvae. According to the company, the vaccine is not genetically modified and can be used in organic farming. (Monday January 9th, 2023 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

To test this, the team made concrete using a Roman recipe and a modern recipe. They then broke the concrete and let water pass through it for 30 days. Afterward, the modern concrete still let water pass through, but the Roman concrete did not, suggesting the cracks had been filled. (Monday January 9th, 2023 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

The markings, when closely associated with animal images, further appeared to represent numbers for months on a lunar calendar and helped communicate the reproductive cycles of animals, the study noted. (Sunday January 8th, 2023 — Huffpost)

Within five years of the fires, the researchers found, 71 percent of trees in the most severely burned areas had died, compared with just 7 percent in areas that didn’t burn. But recovery after the fire was swift. Within five years, shrub cover had increased 70 percent. And despite an over 90 percent reduction in tree canopy in the severely burned areas, birds thrived in the aftermath. By the fifth year, the researchers write, the total abundance, number of species and diversity of birds had doubled in the most severely burned areas compared with the unburned ones. (Saturday January 7th, 2023 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

Known locally as the arrau or tartaruga da amazonia, the giant South American river turtle lives throughout the Amazon and its tributaries. During the dry season, thousands of females at once crawl onto beaches along the river to lay their eggs. ... But that’s not the case with the arrau. After nesting, females often hover by the shore for up to two months waiting for their eggs to hatch. (Friday January 6th, 2023 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

Great Britain produced a record amount of wind-powered electricity in 2022, according to the National Grid. More electricity came from renewable and nuclear power sources than from fossil fuels gas and coal, the second highest after 2020. (Friday January 6th, 2023 — BBC online)

The school primarily focuses on environmental education and using the outdoors, said principal Colleen Hoyne. For example, to bring environmental components into a math class one day, Eagleviille’s older students calculated how many plants would be needed for the school's butterfly garden. (Thursday January 5th, 2023 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin, USA)

In 2023 Grade 9 students at Nelson Waldorf School will be participating in an inter-cultural exchange with Ehattesaht First Nation students from Zeballos Elementary/ Secondary School on Vancouver Island. (Thursday January 5th, 2023 — The Nelson Daily - British Columbia, Canada)

... she has pledged to help them with their campaign to raise Ł15m so they can expand their facilities. Established in 1981, Camphill MK provides support, accommodation, and day workshops for adults (Wednesday January 4th, 2023 — Milton Keynes Citizen - UK)

Music intervals have fascinated many spiritually elevated people, mathematicians like Pythagoras or mediums like Gustavo Rol. All these renowned personalities have studied their characteristics and above all their ability to generate specific psychophysical effects in humans. Rudolf Steiner analyzed them to present his research at a conference in Stuttgart in 1923. According to Steiner with the “experience of the fifth” one feels an exit into the universe; with the “experience of the third” one feels like returning back home. Between the two lies the “experience of the fourth”, a very strong experience because it is in fact at the boundary separating the experience of the fifth (exteriority) from the third (interiority). (Monday January 2nd, 2023 — Auralcrave)

From Omicron’s spread to a revelation made using ancient DNA, these were the biggest moments of the past year (Wednesday December 28th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

Biodynamics: Is This the Future? ... Champagne Fleury has since become a reference in Champagne and across France, as much for its expertise as for its outstanding wines, drawing students and young winemakers from all corners of the country to learn the principles and practices of biodynamics. (Tuesday December 27th, 2022 — France Today)