Davis college of agriculture natural resources and design articles
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What is Biophilic Design? How to Reconnect with Nature through Web Design
In a world where we're constantly glued to screens and distracted by digital noise, it's easy to forget about nature. But here's the exciting part: biophilic design offers a cool solution. Usually, it's all about bringing nature into buildings, but now nature is branching out into web design as
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How to get Trump to agree to foreign aid: A loan, with a country's natural resources as collateral
WASHINGTON — Working to salvage an aid package to Ukraine, Republican senators pitched an idea to former President Donald Trump that they thought he’d like: Instead of a grant, the U.S. would give the country a loan that would be backed in some fashion by Ukrainian rare earth minerals worth trillions of dollars. GOP lawmakers knew they needed Trump’s support if they were to ensure the ex-president wouldn’t use his clout in Congress to sink the aid package that Ukraine needed to fend off Russia’s...
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Should Trump and the GOP Make Foreign Aid a Loan Tied to a Nation's Natural Resources?
It's a common complaint, the billions of taxpayer dollars poured into almost every corner of the globe by the United States government. And it's a justifiable complaint. We have our own problems here at home, with our major cities descending into chaos, deteriorating infrastructure, and our national debt past the stratosphere--out of near-Earth orbit, and well on its way to Saturn and points beyond.