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23 Apr 2007 @ 14:06, by redstar. Environment, Ecology
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
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In a time when concerned activists and ecologists continually point to mankind's progressively selfish destruction of the planet, the thoughtless eradication of countless species, and the decadent waste of vital resources, it would now appear that mobile phone users have shifted into the spotlight of criticism where impending doom is concerned.More specifically, certain scientific quarters are suggesting that the proliferation of the mobile phone could pave the way to huge food shortages caused by failing harvests around the world, reports the Belfast Telegraph.Although April 01 has already passed, the worrying theory offered up by scientists is no prank, and it points out that the levels of radiation emitted by mobile phones could well be a defining influence in the sudden decline of crop-pollinating honeybees. Odd as it may sound, the swift disappearance of the honeybee has spread from the U.S. through to mainland Europe, and is now also said to be having an impact on the United Kingdom.Scientists, armed with compelling evidence, are now implying that the massive amounts of radiation produced by mobile phone use is actually frying the usually razor-sharp navigational skills of the honeybees and preventing them from returning back to their hives.
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22 Apr 2007 @ 07:00, by skookum. Environment, Ecology
At the close of the day... my thoughts creep into my mind when the house is quiet. More >
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20 Apr 2007 @ 21:19, by Unknown. Environment, Ecology
Global Warming is a classic example of a collective delusion that feeds on itself and which is getting alarmingly out of control.
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17 Apr 2007 @ 16:15, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
What is a climate friendly economy though?
Draft Def: A Climate Friendly Economy is an economy that monitors, controls and limits its' greenhouse gas emissions, to being under a certain standard or target.
What target?
Well as stated a previous less disruptive target say the year 1850. More >
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12 Apr 2007 @ 18:41, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
Discussion
A proposal has been made for a "DECLARATION OF WAR" against greenhouse gases with troops being diverted to use in the enforcement of a manditory global moratorium and freeze on greenhouse gas emissions. This may even constitute a "Just War" as it seeks to address climate change as a crime not only against humanity but against the whole planet as we know it. More >
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6 Apr 2007 @ 14:38, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
April 6, 2007
Earth
Good Friday
Dawn
Morning , well I thought the children would save humanity but alas they have been silent, perhaps to far removed though not as much as we from the Planet.
I was thus in ponderation? New Climate Report out, somewhat disturbing but...
The animals, the birds and bees thus, they should know as they "knew" about the Tsunami in 2004, we must follow their lead.
It is perhaps backed by the realization that climate change has occurred before.
The 10 to 12,000 BC the climate was changing. Some nomadic tribes in Asia moved to the North and then to the East perhaps following the buffalo herds or ? their food . Then and there they found the land bridge at the Bering Sea and the aboriginals "discovered" America. They over the years thus found refuge here until the climate change that conquered the Mayans and Incas.
Let us watch then the animals and birds and bees and ants and live more like them. They are still more in touch and intuitive with the planet. They might act as guides as how to live in a sustainable and climate freindly manner. Apparently though we may lose 1/4 of the earths 50 million species but perhaps new ones will emerge.
sir ed More >
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 31 Mar 2007 @ 09:37, by jhs. Environment, Ecology
Last month my better half worked in the garden and all of a sudden started screaming, nearly passing out. A bit overreacting, I thought at first, before locating the source of her excruciating pain: a moth caterpillar, see photo (and see Lonomia in wikipedia).
A few people are killed everyday in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo by this cute little bugger but strangely there are no good pictures of how it actually looks like.
This moth caterpillar is not straight from Mothvana land, hehe, (see Polar Dynamics by Sandor&Dawson if you want to know about Mothvana Land). Still trying to isolate its exact location Orisha (archetype) system. Apparently belonging to the Ossayin class but the colors and other indicators are pointing towards a 'lone rider' Shango type.
In any case, it has NO natural enemies that would dare to eat it. Only one rare type of fly manages to leave their eggs in it (how?) and the eggs will eventually eat the caterpillar from the inside. Since this kind of fly is nearly extinct, it can be expected that this killer caterpillar may be even more of a problem in the future...
In the language of Tupi, the caterpillar is called Taturana, 'fire hair', sometimes also called Ruga. The only known antidote exists in the Instite of Butanta, away only 30 minutes or so, risking a few radar tickets, oh well, but luckily it wasn't necessary for us to get there.
After looking at their webpage... More >
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27 Mar 2007 @ 12:05, by nraye. Environment, Ecology
This is part of Positive Liberty or Complex Democracy. These are the reasons for sustaining the effort for these two philosophies entertained by Isaish Berlin, who also explained why they would not work, by the way. But those who have taken up his thoughts as raison d’etre for foreign policy, chose to ignore his reasons for why they should not be applied en masse and have done so anyway.
For some beautiful pictures of Earth, click on the Powerpoint link below: Takes a minute or two to load. Please send on as they request in the show. Switch on the speaker volume for music.
www.kirklees-ednet.org.uk/subjects/geog/resources/ks1/BLUEBEAUTY.pps
This is part of paying one’s Earth Dues. This is playing a part. And this is the reason for the taking up of Positive Liberty and or Complex Democracy, it is not the easy path of life, it is the difficult one. And it is dictated to the world by groups of people who have taken it as their bible for the time being.
The following extract is taken from a wad of papers sent to me today on matters around global warming and what is being done about it. This extract is a summary of the situation up to February as delivered to the conference. More >
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 19 Aug 2006 @ 19:50, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
August 19, 2006
Canada, Earth
Saturday
Noon
EMERGING ECONATIONS
Iceland, New Zealand, China and Cuba would seem to be on their
courses of becoming the Earths' first Econations, Iceland and New Zealand
being small but democratic nations as well.
Essentially I would envision that an Econation being a sustainable
nation that lives in global harmony and within its ecological ways
means and budget.
This opinion is based somewhat on research and media reports
and hence is not first hand but would seem to be somewhat consistent
over about 10 to 20 years of received reports.
A.G.Jonas More >
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10 Aug 2006 @ 16:09, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
August 10, 2006
Canada
THE CHRIP HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
Ah, that is a deep, powerful and comforting memory, about my dear departed parakeet "Grassy".
You see, some six months before he passed on, I was having some troubles with the new owner of my apartment building in around the end of 2005. It was regarding my lease and pets. I feared he was going to evict my beloved companion birds or have them confiscated by trickery.
So after much heartache and despair, I secreted them some ninty miles north, to my parents place for safe keeping and there they stayed , we apart for some 2 to 3 months. I quite missed them but also I guess it was a good and needed break for me after some 5 years of constant company. I got a lot more done. Well, eventually, after the 3 month break, things quieted down and sorted themselves out and I arranged for some friends to bring them back down to me. I guess they had been well behaved under my parents keeping and care and my neice also had looked in on them too.
Well they arrived safely back to me in my friends with his girlfriends truck and as we were getting them out of the truck, Grassy, sweet grassy heard my voice after 3 months absence and let out such a cheerful sound or chirp of absolute glee and joy that even my friends were astounded.
And over and over would he chrip at the top of his lungs that I thought ? well not sure what I thought. I hadn't thought that they, animals nor birds no less were capable of "missing" some one and now the full realization dawns on me how amazing that scenario really was.
Here this bird I had never dared to touch out of respect, touched me in such a deep and profound way, with a cry as to recognize and "miss" me. A spontaneous cry of joy, of heart unbroken and with absolutely no pretense. A companions cry of love. Wow... well it was wow for me.
I hadn't realized how close we had bonded in those 5 years together. How treating a fellow creature as a person of equal rights and status formed such a deep strong yet not physical bond.
I can hear that cry now and I think it not only warms a heart but somehow brings something good to the entire world or perhaps universe akin to setting the female Angel free this year. Something innocent, spontaneous and unpretencious and unjaded happened. Something pure and true. A true ? expression?
Well anyway tis a deep marvelous mysterious and unfathomable universe aye?
Oh grassy my dear friend where ever you are, thankyou
thankyou.
Thankyou for the sheer agony and pain of your loss and this.
It could not have meant so much without it.
I guess we did finally touch then, on some distant, deep and perhaps sacred level, where few have gone before.
My my, that such a small, seemingly insignificant creature can wield such a might. Amazing simply amazing
thankyou
Sadly it is a sound I will probably never have the honor to hear again but perhaps it was eonough to have heard, once upon a time, the chrip heard round the world.
Did you hear it?
A. G. Jonas More >
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