For a while, Williams lived out of his car and kept a journal on a
laptop. Once he fell behind on the car payments, he took shelter in a
dumpster. The situation hit him hard.
Williams came up with the idea while resting in one of the only safe places he could find: a dumpster. He'd even drawn up the plans for a self-contained survival pod — a 6-foot by 6-foot structure with a single bed and a chemical toilet.
Chen signed on, and they formed a company to start working on a prototype pod. They also envision other applications — FEMA could use them for emergency housing, and airports could rent them to travelers with long layovers.
Todd Heisler/The New York Times
City Moves to Stop Foraging in Parks
Williams came up with the idea while resting in one of the only safe places he could find: a dumpster. He'd even drawn up the plans for a self-contained survival pod — a 6-foot by 6-foot structure with a single bed and a chemical toilet.
Chen signed on, and they formed a company to start working on a prototype pod. They also envision other applications — FEMA could use them for emergency housing, and airports could rent them to travelers with long layovers.
Todd Heisler/The New York Times
City Moves to Stop Foraging in Parks
By LISA W. FODERARO
The rising cost of food has led to an increase in foraging in city parks, according to New York officials say. At right, Leda Meredith leads foraging tours in Prospect Park.
California in My Mind
By JEFF GORDINIER
Memories of
grilled shrimp, vinyl records and surf culture pull a writer back to the
Orange County coast of his youth. How do the beach towns of today hold
up against those memories?
Urban foragers go dumpster diving in Amsterdam
We follow a group of dumpster divers as they go scavenging at a market in Amsterdam. They can afford to buy groceries but say this is a lifestyle choice aimed at saving the planet.
Where Fish Outnumber Phones
By GISELA WILLIAMS
A remote Indonesian archipelago - long an in-the-know spot for snorkeling and diving - is now attracting travelers looking to unplug from the modern world.
snorkel
(snôr'kəl)

n.
- A breathing apparatus used by swimmers and skin divers, consisting of a long tube held in the mouth.
- A retractable vertical tube in a diesel-engine submarine that contains air-intake and exhaust pipes for the engines and for ventilation, permitting extended periods of submergence at periscope depth.
To dive using a snorkel.
[German Schnorchel, from dialectal, nose (from its resemblance in shape to a nose).]
snorkeler snor'kel·er n.Dumpster diving (known as skipping in the UK)[1][2] is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential trash to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but which may be useful to the dumpster diver.
2月中旬,美國記者知道加州當地有一位陳榮良醫師,
pod
2 [often with modifier] a detachable or self-contained unit on an aircraft, spacecraft, vehicle, or vessel, having a particular function:the torpedo’s sensor pod
dumpster
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌmpstə/
Definition of dumpster
noun
US trademarkOrigin:
1930s: originally Dempster Dumpster, proprietary name (based on dump) given by the American manufacturers, Dempster Brothers of Knoxville, Tennesseeforage
(fôr'ĭj, fŏr'-)

n.
- Food for domestic animals; fodder.
- The act of looking or searching for food or provisions.
v., -aged, -ag·ing, -ag·es. v.intr.
- To wander in search of food or provisions.
- To make a raid, as for food: soldiers foraging near an abandoned farm.
- To conduct a search; rummage.
- To collect forage from; strip of food or supplies: troops who were foraging the countryside.
- Informal. To obtain by foraging: foraged a snack from the refrigerator.
[Middle English, from Old French fourrage, from forrer, to forage, from feurre, fodder, of Germanic origin.]
forager for'ag·er n.- forage
- [名]1 [U](牛馬の)飼料, まぐさ, 飼い葉;(軍馬の)馬糧 forage crops飼料用作物.2 [C][U]飼料集め, (軍馬の)馬糧徴発;食べ物捜し.3 [C][U]略奪.━━[動...
- forage cap
- (歩兵の)略帽.
- forager
- [名]馬糧徴発隊員;略奪者.
