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Hill Station Blues: Blue Beauty |
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28 Mar 2007 @ 10:07 by gravitonring : countless TRILLIONS of TONS of methane 28 Mar 2007 @ 12:01 by jmarc : Yi Ching say: Heaven and the lake Heaven and the lake show a difference of elevation that inheres in the natures of the two, hence no envy arises. Among mankind also there are necessarily differences of elevation; it is impossible to bring about universal equality. But it is important that differences in social rank should not be arbitrary and unjust, for if this occurs, envy and class struggle are the inevitable consequences. If, on the other hand, external differences in rank correspond with differences in inner worth, and if inner worth forms the criterion of external rank, people acquiesce and order reigns in society. ********* Ah So! N. But this is serious stuff, and for the people putting it all together on the warming. You may or may not believe it but there is not much room for complacency or warming conspiracy, such as mentions of yours before. For instance the villagers in North east India, have taken on the chemical giants who wanted their land, and won their court case. They said what good was a giant chemical factory to them, and what good was some little horrible job in such a place. They want their farming land and they achieved a judicial victory India with their case. (Friday's news last week DT). In the battles leading to the court case, 23 villagers lost their lives, but they said it was worth it. This message of certain victory of the villagers has passed to millions of others in a similar predicament with the chemical giants and an India wishing to cash in on the "Progress" in China. Somewhere in my recent papers it talks about Democracy being linked to Environmentalism, and this surely has to be it. 29 Mar 2007 @ 09:27 by nraye : Gorillas get sky Blue for the first time. An international agreement among world zoos is seeking to put all gorillas in the outdoors with naturally growing habitation that is also gorilla edible. this is the first time many gorillas in captivity will see the blue sky. According to the TV commentator this morning, the gorillas in the new enclosure at London Zoo absolutely love their new place. I believe is shared with some other smaller primates too. Here is the link with lovely pics of captive gorillas enjoying the greenery naturally grown. [link] Is this setting a new trend in consideration for others, or is it a result of Global Warming which SOME PEOPLE HERE DO NOT BELIEVE IN?? Moving the large primate outdoors. 29 Mar 2007 @ 11:34 by jmarc : Guerrilas are interesting creatures. I'm sure we can learn much in observing them in a more natural habitat. I think more can be accomplished to fight POLLUTION if we leave out the hype and the people playing prophet(profit?) and approach things in a more even handed manner and less polemics. Evn as we look at these pictures, thousands of people are rushing off to the stores some by edict like in Australia and soon parts of Canada, and some because they believe it is the right thing to do, so that they may replace their incandescents with compact flourescents. To offset carbon footprints or something, I guess. No consideration is given to the tiny bit of mercury that is in each one of these new "environmentally friendly" bulbs. 20 years from now I can easily forsee another washed up politician playing messiah and a whole huge economy based on getting rid of those awful compact flourescents (and I hate the light they put off too). Anyway, I love the gorillas. I think one of the first non fiction books I ever read was about Jane Goodall and her chimp studies. We like to think we're alot brighter than them, but that's questionable. ****************** Thank you for the explique. Of course you are right. But I do personally know of and have seen myself some very good efforts to create a common reference base say within UK, so that some sort of coherent discourse can take place, with people roughly relating to the same efforts. Seeing this as a whole new "Profession" with "professional expertise" there is no other way anything meaningful, on a large scale, including the DTI (Dept of Trade & Industry) supporting and being made aware of the intiatives (so that they do not block them by mistake or something), can take place. For instance the developments at BedZed are already being replicated throughout the world to develop small self supporting communities, ie working, living, growing, and recycling, all in one place. In China, this is being applied to communities of about 4,000. When all of these have been completely each country will have experienced professionals in this field to go out and do more projects, in a mushroom fashion. This mushroom fashion of developing the eco initiatives at least in the UK, is the modis operandi of the BedZed, and it is great to see. This is NCN stuff, this replacing the old form of new housing, office development, with minimum driving about and commuting for inhabitants. There will be others taking advantage as you say, but my expertise is outside of this area as I seek to promulgate the former. However, your warnings are still nonetheless important. Glad the real Gorillas are OK! :} N 29 Mar 2007 @ 22:29 by vaxen : Dear Nicola... I suggest you take a good, long, deep look into HAARP and Project Omega. Of course much of it is secret but... the Omega grid shouldn't be so tough to track down. The wretches can blame the phenomena on everything from Loup Garoup to farts but the facts remain that Militaries, mostly ours, worldwide are blowing up neutron bombs, and other types of nuclear bombs, in the atmosphere and under the sea. And the fools have been doing this since before WWII ended and went cold... The rest of this stuff (the greens) should be viewed in the light of those facts and the rest of the iceburg that you aren't seeing nor are you being told about it. Space war... [link] I have a few papers on this and will hunt up some more infotel as time allots. Thanks nicola for your concern. jm has a point, too, of course... Cheers PS: Here's an interesting link but is not the Omega I mentioned above... "In writing about a future World Order in 1955, Arnold Toynbee observed that it would inevitably be very different from the United Nations Organization. His view was that the new World Order would more likely take shape through the development of some other "older and tougher 'going concern'." History has borne this view out. Current efforts to effect a "world government" along the lines of the United Nations has proved to be a tragic and dismal failure, with respect to saving the planet's ecology and assuring mankind's long-term survivability. "World peace" and a "community of nations" and "economic development" are rapidly destroying the planet's biodiversity and ecological stability ("balance of nature"). As Toynbee noted, the world has witnessed incredible technological and economic success, but has failed politically and culturally. As fossil fuels exhaust, global war is inevitable. The future will belong to a group that is not afraid to wage war. The fate of the biosphere -- and mankind -- will depend very much on whether those who assume control of the post-industrial world are committed to maintaining a small human population. The goal of The Omega Project is to ensure that those who assume control of the post-industrial world will possess a commitment to a small, environmentally sustainable, global human population, and the knowledge to bring it about." --- [link] PS: Thanks, I think, for the presentation. I downloaded it and will view it later. Cheers, VAX ************ Just downloaded the Omega stuff. thanks. N 30 Mar 2007 @ 01:56 by vaxen : Wow Nicola! That is a very lovely presentation. Thankyou so much for sharing that with us. 30 Mar 2007 @ 10:06 by nraye : Dear Vax Hope you do not mind the editing some of these wordly exchanges, right here, just a bit shifting in the focus. The Omega paper, is certainly quite interesting, allowing amendment to another paper in waiting accordingly with confidence!! Thank you. :)) N. 4 Apr 2007 @ 09:44 by nraye : Indian Sustainability Projects Here is a comprehensive list of environmental projects being undertaken by the Indian Government and with UK help [link] I am off to the Nehru Centre this evening for a lecture on the Western Ghats, essential research serving two purposes. 12 Apr 2007 @ 14:30 by nraye : Forests' link here: [link] The book featured here has sold out and on second printing. We were shown a clip of the film done with the book. A place without the faintest hint of tourism, the pictures were out of this world, pictures of rain falling on the animals living in the forest and an elephant swooshing itself in a clean rocky pool. The single photographer must have been hidden in a tree to get such pictures with the shafts of sunlight striking down from the incredibly high tree tops canopy. The Indian gov., is draconian in attempts to protect these forests, ordering mining companies to stop activities and move out. Full Stop. This work is being undertaken with a new canopy tops research organisation and is of the highest order. This presentation is rated as the supremo in terms of importance in the category's current affairs, and the absolute best ever. They do have and are putting worldwide plans into action to safeguard remaining forests and grow more. The canopies have never been studied before and harbour a unique and precious biosphere. Forests is the next political buzz word on the world's agenda, watch this space. 26 Apr 2007 @ 09:11 by nraye : Bee Utiful Shelter for Bees This link provides an interesting picture showing a level of importance giving in some areas to the Work of Buzy Bees in the 24/7 world of Nature: [link] these pics seem to be freely available. 26 Apr 2007 @ 09:15 by nraye : Bow Bee "Boles" the Link to more wonderful pics here: [link] The pics are not freely available on second reading. This has to beat walking ones legs off trying to find these places in the countryside and burning up all that fuel getting stuck in traffic jams and chasing big trucks down the motor ways for fun! Have a lovely vist to these BEE sites. 3 May 2007 @ 11:28 by nraye : Same Gorillas get Rock Music but Brussles monkesy get Sad The new Inmates at the London Zoo Gorilla enclosure with sky and edible natural folliage as mentioned above, it was revealed this morning on the news, are to get a rock band playing a gig in their enclosure. Missed the name of this band, and just wonder what will these poor PRImates be wondering now?? Hope they don't get the same trouble besetting the monkeys in a Brussels Zoo who apparently are suffering from withdrawal symptoms from being starred at all the time. The Spectators and visitors are being commanded not STARE at the monkeys because this causes them to feel outsiders and not part of the community and makes them SAD and mopey. 15 May 2007 @ 10:42 by nraye : Go ape A new concept in Fun for People: [link] I have a personal invite!!! will report back. 27 Sep 2007 @ 13:56 by Mike Drake @64.128.213.172 : name of song can you tell me the name of the song being played on the power point presentation BlueBueaty ? 11 Oct 2007 @ 09:17 by nraye : Well, guess the org add in the url is the best place to locate this. Recently I bought a CD from a American Red Indian Street groupe replete with tasslelated leather outfits and feather headress. Actually, the music on Blue Beauty, by instrument and tone is quite similar. These guys are hard to track down, I sent them an email as I wished to buy other CD's after hearning the first. The reply sometime later merely said "on holiday now". They were unmoved that someone had liked the music so much that they bothered to ask which street they were currently playing to in order that that person could travel there just to buy more CDs. However, having said this, such a reaction is not surprising if one takes in the calibre of their music and singing. Watching their performance they were completely into their music and lost heritage, including that heritage of natural wilderness which is actually the lifeblood of the whole human race too. This is not a prosaic homily, and neither were they. So you see, perhaps, as I do, that these people could be the originators of this music. It fits, if one was setting out to search a suitable music track, people such as these would be perfectly matching the pictorial lament of Blue Beauty. Later I will at least the names of the tracks (tracks like footprints in the wilderness?!!). 12 Oct 2007 @ 19:50 by lrwrbikb @80.72.128.34 : lrwrbikb qscddzpt cdiusttv [link] zotpumem bftkybap [URL=http://jhqrhpdq.com]dtdbmaug[/URL]
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