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 13 May 2005 @ 13:57, by scotty. Environment, Ecology
I know that I'm always advocating seeing good despite all the seeming bad that seems to be our daily lot ... that doesn't mean though that I have my eyes closed and live on a cloud over there in never never land LOL !
I realise that things really are getting quite bad - and if we don't soon do something about it very soon our kids won't be able to breath clean air drink clean water or eat healthy food !!
So instead of just talking about it - I've decided to take a wee stand and actually try to do something for the earth every day !
I'm going to pay just a wee bit more attention to what I buy for example ... maybe choosing something which has recyclable packaging for instance ! I'm going to Stop using supermarket plastic bags (they're all over the place here in Guada - fields beaches roadsides - it's almost as if they're multiplying overnight !)
It might not make all that much of a difference - but then again it just MIGHT ! It's only a start - maybe it'll catch on !
Here's a [link] for anyone who thinks that maybe they'd like to start making a difference too ! More >
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 1 May 2005 @ 10:44, by jazzolog. Environment, Ecology
Stand in awe, and sin not;
commune with your own heart,
and in your chamber, and be still.
---Psalm 4:4
To sit without emotion, hope, or aim,
In the loved presence of my cottage-fire,
And listen to the flapping of the flame,
Or kettle whispering its faint undersong.
---William Wordsworth
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of a spiritual truth.
---Harry Emerson Fosdick
The old photos are of my country grandmother in her garden, and of little Dickie learning about the flowers from Mom.
Whenever I attempt an essay about my early days in Western New York, I usually can expect an email of corrections from my sister, Ann. She seems to remember the facts of what, where, and when better than I do, burdened as I was of course with being such a visionary. And also she's a few years younger than I am. (Correction #1 may come regarding the word "few".) But last evening she wrote me a note requesting some things out of my memory. Here it is~~~ More >
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24 Apr 2005 @ 02:21, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
2005 State of the Biosphere Address
As Nations annually have their State of the Nation Addresses, I think it only fitting
that as a responsible planet that we also have a regular "State of the Biosphere"
Address. Now who is responsible for this and when and how often it might occur is
perhaps up for debate. I think it could be a UN or an Earth Day Network Initiative occurring at least once every 5 years and most probably on Earth Day or April 22.
So in order to get the addresses rolling I will give a short introductory address for this the year of 2005.
State of the Biosphere for 2005
Is the Biosphere any further ahead or better off than it was 20 years ago, is a question that could be asked. It is not a simple question to answer, as the biosphere along with its humans is a rather complex entity.
In some ways no, we have seen the destruction of important and even essential habitat and even the extinction of important species. It is said rain forest is lost on a hourly basis and species lost at a daily rate. So no in this respect the biosphere is still under siege to some degree.
We must make greater efforts then to preserve and sustain at least some standard of biodiversity as it is essential to our quality and standard of life here on Earth.
As well in the years to come the issue of clean and healthy water and health itself will be an issue to. We must all work together to define and promote a healthy environment and paradigm for the world. What this exactly is, is perhaps best described by a balanced and cobalanced relationship between ourselves the planet and the biosphere. Work needs to be done still to educate one and other in this regard.
What is the good news though? Well we have survived some pretty bad world wars and famines and droughts and natural disasters and the cold war and the nuclear age. As well we battled the Y2k situation, and the turn of the millennium and the 9/11 attacks and terrorism and energy shortages and perhaps a kind of attempt at global suicide. Yet genocide's and ethnic cleansing still go on. And actions of bad faith and poor democracy. Our brinkmanship's between our selves have led us at times to certain destruction and devastation and some feel it is only luck that has let us, as humanity and part of the biosphere survive. Now to we have acted fairly well in responding to the natural disasters that have and are occurring. We have conceived and implemented Kyoto and gave considerable aid in the recent Indonesia earthquake and tsunami. And slowly we are beginning to address climate change and the aids crisis. So inroads are being made. We shall though have to continue to progress in order to lessen our eco- footprints on the planet. We will have to address the climate change and the water situation and the energy needs and the decreasing biodiversity and loss of species and habitat. We shall have to practice a more benign symbiosis to this planet we call Earth and home.
And somehow we have developed the internet which is a mixed blessing at times but might prove useful in these regards.
So in conclusion we are doing somewhat okay but it is somewhat relative in some respects. As we reach a kind of global maturity though we will have to pass and teach these concerns to the next generation so that we and our legacy, as a part of the biosphere will impart to the next generations the need and desire in retaining this Earths natural wonder, beauty, health and mystery.
Thank you
A Global Citizen from Canada
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17 Apr 2005 @ 21:00, by paretokid. Environment, Ecology
The first tragedy -- A couple of weeks ago, we had a big rain that dumped nearly two inches in less than twelve hours. There were a number of traffic accidents, people were hurt and there were also a number of homes with flooded basements. All tragedies of a sort to those involved but not the one that effected me.
[link] More >
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 2 Apr 2005 @ 16:51, by jmarc. Environment, Ecology
(Pic - Audubon's Chickadee)We've seen two robins hanging around out there in
the rain this morning. a sure sign of spring. More >
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21 Mar 2005 @ 08:00, by redstar. Environment, Ecology
This is my current mission. Progress is starting to happen.
Here is the initial project report. Follow up coming shortly. More >
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16 Mar 2005 @ 22:10, by craiglang. Environment, Ecology
I just got done reading Whitley Strieber's new journal entry: "The Year of the Death Wish." And it is a chilling read. Unfortunately, I beleive it is all too accurate. Read it and cringe. And then act your conscience... More >
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 11 Feb 2005 @ 08:18, by redstar. Environment, Ecology
Clues about earth shifts and changes have been showing up on the web at a very frantic pace.
It seems that the planet is increasingly undergoing shifts in her energetic frequencies yet
vast majority of people planetwide seem to be oblivious to encroaching realities.
I have been trying, for some time, on this blog, to make an attempt at connecting some of the seemingly unrelated events and thankfully, it seems, that others are also making the links, and painting quite a picture.
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29 Jan 2005 @ 22:22, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
EARTH DAY 2005 INITIATIVE
Greetings fellow earthlings
and many blessings to you.
We come before you this day to seek your participation in a
Global Earth Day event for the year 2005.
In homage to the planet and to cleanse its electrical and communications fields,
We the participating citizens of Earth and the netizens of Webville.biz
Hereby pledge to perform a "power fast" or "green out" on April 22, 2005 for approximately a 10 minute period anytime between 8 A.M. and 9 A.M. in the Standard Time Zone of our abode or home. Please do not all turn your power
box off at the same time as this could unduly strain the system and grid. Try to space out your outages according to your location in your particular time zone,
therefore if you are near the eastern edge of your time zone you would go first at around 8:00 A.M. and those around the western edge would go later at around
8:50 A.M. or so.
We shall during this break light a candle and give an offering of some tobacco or incense in homage to the Great Mother Earth "Gaia" with the intention and prayer of thanks and to draw upon her natural energies and cleansing ability to realign and reconfigure and cleanse the planetary energy fields.
We do this with all good intent and will and to rid the planet of any disruptive energies that have become or may be trapped and linger in the semi-natural planetary hardware.
Please join us in this action and if it proves over the season, to have been effective and worthy, let us be allowed and let us henceforth adopt it for the following opposite solstice or between 8;00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. on September 22, of the year 2005.
In addition... it might be appropriate and worth while to play the appropriate musical season for your hemisphere, from the Classical artist Vivaldi's Four seasons musical composition some time as well during that hour.
In hopes that you will join us in this global earth day celebration and such event
the green citizens and netizens of Earth.
January 29th, 2005
Webville.biz
Please feel free to copy and distribute at will and heart. More >
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 17 Jan 2005 @ 11:34, by ashanti. Environment, Ecology
A while ago, in some blogs, the idea was posited that the tsunami could have been artificially induced. This idea was greeted with much sceptism. Here, from Jean Hudon's Earth Rainbow network, we have some interesting information. For those interested in exploring other possibilities, and not just accepting consensus reality without question. More >
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