Reusable cups firm launches limited edition Portuguese Cork

The KeepCup, Australian company of reusable cups, has just released a limited edition portguesa Cork. Named KeepCup Brew Cork, glass uses the Cork which, according to Abigail Forsyth, CEO and co-founder of the company, is the best in the world.

"People buy KeepCup for re-use which transmit message while using it, but continue to use it because they love the way it makes you feel, for its color and design," explained the responsible.

Forstyh believes that the anti-bacterial properties of Cork, as well as its lightness and biogradável feature can take the brand to a wider audience ". "Our mission [to be] the same â€" reduce the use of disposable cups," he explained.

The new glass is ideal for coffee, because Cork protects your hands from burns. With a toughened glass and sturdy, a flexible lever and a larger hole, the KeepCup Brew Cork is on sale for €27 â€" in small size-and €29-in the middle.

The KeepCup emerged in Australia, after its creators if encountering a daily problem in the café where they worked â€" too many disposable cups ended up in the trash.In fact, every minute are thrown in the trash over a million disposable cups worldwide.

Most existing reusable cups were too large to fit in the coffee machines, and seemed too utilities and unappealing. Since 2009, the company has sold more than 3 million units, and its users managed to reduce by several thousand million the use of disposable cups. Currently, the KeepCup is available in more than 30 countries

In Portugal, the KeepCup has exclusive distribution of the Green Footprint, a Portuguese online store of sustainable products, which can be reused and have no toxic substances.

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The world of the magic mushrooms of Vyacheslav Mishchenko

Vyacheslav Mishchenko is a photographer and lover of mushrooms. The passion for both began in childhood, influenced by father, who was a freelance photographer and was picking mushrooms in his spare time.

As they grew, the photograph was losing space for painting, but a passion for mushrooms remained. However, with the advent of digital photography, Slava, short for what is known, turned to interest for photography and decided to combine the two tastes.

That's how I began to take shape the first macro photos of mushroom, a fungus present in almost everywhere, but often ignored. With your machine, Slava shooting until the most common mushrooms, but angles that gives them a kind of magic. The picture gets even more composed when he manages to portray the interactions of small insects with the mushrooms.

Here are some of the great shots of Slava and their mushrooms.

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Fourth generation of entrepreneurs in the salt meets surprise enemy: climate change (with video)

For four generations the same family works in salinas de Rio Maior. Louis and John Lee remember help grandparents and parents in the marine Salt, from which this is taken, and it is now their turn to develop the business: the Salt store.

Although the salinas de Rio Maior is a millennial business, a new stage of evolution starts now and Louis and John already knows the name of one of its greatest enemies in the development of the company: climate change.

"Later this year, with the time [uncertain], the production is much more reduced, which may pose a risk to the satisfaction of all the requests that we have customers," explained John Lopes. According to his brother, Luis, this is a business that is completely dependent on the weather: the production exists only in summer. "We're limited by weather conditions," he explained.

"We need heat and we are also limited to the salinity of the water: If the temperature is greater in winter, will have a lower quality of water in the summer," continues.

With superior training in electrical engineering and psychology, Louis and John know that his high-quality salt-the salt pans are in a protected region. "The salt does not have any kind of additives or processing. Has a quality of excellence, and a large part of the product goes to Germany and Northern Europe and is marketed to large heads and Delicatessens, "explains Luis Lopes.

In the coming months, the Lee brothers predict launch new products, including bath salts, taking the name of salinas de Rio Maior other geographies. This, of course, if the changing climate will allow them. If climate change continues its saga of disruption of temperatures and multiplication of extreme phenomena, then the likelihood is that this development of business is seriously affected.

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EMEL offers € 10 in parking lot until Tuesday

The company parking Municipal de Lisboa (EMEL) is launching an application to facilitate the payment of parking tariff via smartphone, the ePark, and offers € 10 to all users to install up to 30 September, Tuesday-Yes, you read well, offers.

According to minus one Car, the application allows a better management of our costs ", since you only pay for the actual time" parking lot ". The Park, the user should access the application, select the option ' Start ' and the time starts to count up to the maximum period permitted in that zone. When you return the car, simply select the option ' shutdown ' and complete the payment.

It is also possible to control the parking period, reducing or increasing remotely the same whenever necessary, that is, if you're away from the car and the time that had paid end, can extend it using the application; If, on the contrary, take less time than had paid initially, can stop counting and "only the value corresponding to the actual time that the car had been parked is charged".

The application of EMEL was tested at an ePark pilot project that began in June this year in some areas of Lisbon and has now been extended to the entire metropolitan area. The ePark application is also available for the Android and iOS devices.

The company also recently announced the launch of a project that signals where there are vacant parking places. This application, which was launched with the objective of facilitating the search for places to park their cars, has been tested on Avenida da Praia da Vitória (next to the Saldanha) and runs through sensors placed on the tarmac.

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Village "sunk" in 1935 reappears due to drought

In 1935, the village of Mardale Green, British in Cumbria was flooded to make way for the Haweswater reservoir, which serves the area of Greater Manchester. In recent days, however, the village returned to be visible, the result of a lack of rainfall during the dry months of summer.

According to British media, this is the first time that Mardale Green-or what about her â€" is seen in more than 80 years. This year, the villagers were expelled from their homes and part of the buildings were dismantled â€" several farms, a church and a pub. The stones were later used to build the water tower situated on the West Bank of the reservoir.

Now, what remains of Mardale Green can be seen finally â€" and photographed, which Vilarinho das Furnas. There are several ancient structures, gates to farms, bits of trees revealed.

"It was the driest September since 1960," explained a spokesman for the Met Office, admitting that the amount of rainfall was up by 2% compared to a normal September.

When Haweswater was built, the water level reached 29 meters â€" about 84 billion litres. The dam created a reservoir six kilometres in length and 600 metres wide. The wall measures 470 metres is 27.5 metres high.

Mardale Green was considered one of the most beautiful villages of Cumbria and the reservoir was highly criticized at the time.

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Ana Ferreira: "water as real development factor"

"Water is a RESOURCE ESSENTIAL to life, so even if climate change continue to condition the access to this resource, we need to find solutions to make it reach all the people of the world.

The assertion is Hans Rosling, health expert and President of Gapminder Foundation, who spoke at the opening plenary session of the first day of the world water Congress, taking place in Lisbon until September 26.

During sixty fun minutes, which prompted several laughs from an audience, Hans Rosling tried to explain how water can be the solution for the development of countries and their communities.

Although in recent decades have elapsed several economic and social transformations, which, in most continents, reflected in increase in population and in improving the levels of education and income, poverty persists.

According to Hans Rosling, for the eradication of poverty contribute several factors, such as better provision of education, health services, infrastructure, technology, electricity, and how could not miss, coupled with access to water sanitation.

As regards water quality, major changes have taken place during the last half century. However, diseases associated with its scarcity or characteristics still persist, such as diarrhea or malaria. Thus, it is important to adopt policies that ensure widespread access of populations to adequate sanitation conditions, both in developed countries and in emerging societies. "

Born in Port-de-Mos, Ana Ferreira has 18 years and was one of three winners of the contest "reporter from Water", organized by Águas de Portugal to promote the world water Congress, to be held this week in Lisbon.

Green Savers has a news crew in this Congress. Follow us daily at www.greensavers.sapo.pt, on Facebook or Twitter.

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Researchers discover gene that may slow aging

A team of biologists has discovered a gene that may slow aging. The discovery was made during a study on fruit flies and everything indicates that there is a mechanism that stimulates the body's ability of flies in clean the Junk cell phone â€" what causes aging disorders â€" and to regenerate. Such mechanism may not only correspond to an increased longevity but also a healthier old age.

The discovery was made by a team of scientists at the University of California Los Angeles and the gene, known as AMPK, is being studied in order to understand how helps slow aging.

Scientists have known for some time that caloric restriction prolongs life and this is due to a gene called Sirtuin 1, which is activated when calories are restricted. Apparently the AMPK has a similar operation, entering into operation when the energy provided by the food is limited, referred to Inhabitat.

If it is possible to identify a way to delay human aging using this gene of flies, the AMPK would be quite useful to treat various types of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and cancer, which increase as the cells are aging and lose their ability to regenerate.

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