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28 Oct 2004 @ 09:03, by redstar. Environment, Ecology
11.15
Out here in the outer quadrant(Malawi,Central Africa) at this time of the year, we should be experiencing very dry, hot conditions but it seems that the weather is no longer following her usual patterns of behaviour and we are having disturbing changes in the weather patterns. More >
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8 Oct 2004 @ 13:45, by scotty. Environment, Ecology
I'm becoming more and more confused about what is Ecology - can being more ecology concious really help the planet - and do ecologists themselves really know what they're talking about !! More >
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 8 Oct 2004 @ 09:30, by magical_melody. Environment, Ecology
Volcanic Update: Mount St. Helens Update, October 7, 2004, 6:15 p.m., PDT -Current status is Volcano Advisory (Alert Level 2); aviation color code ORANGE.
In Rinjani, Indonesia: Tremor quakes were registered since 23, 24, 25 and 26 September 2004, in number of 6-36 per day with range of amplitude between 12 mm - 14 mm, duration between 94 - 1450 mm. Based on increasing of hazards at Rinjani after explosion, the authorities have risen the Alert level to III (Orange) since 1 October 2004 at 06.00 WITA.
Thursday, October 8th, 2004 -All volcanoes below active:
St. Helens in WA, Colima in Mexico, and Asama in Japan, Fuego in Argentina, Fuego in Guatemala and Rinjani in Indonesia
and Etna in Italy. Unknown Country Links of Active Volcanoes
We have our own active major volcano right here in New Zealand only 4 hours away from Auckland! Scientists concerned More >
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 4 Oct 2004 @ 12:39, by kay. Environment, Ecology
"Near the day of the Great Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
~~pre-Columbian Hopi prophecy
The inside military codeword for the pilots who man the planes that spray the chemtrails is
"Sky Spiders"
Many of the chemtrails have been found to contain polymers that act like spider webs.
Wayne has compiled a lot of info about Chemtrails. what they are and how they are used.
[link] More >
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 1 Oct 2004 @ 13:28, by scotty. Environment, Ecology
What surrounds you?
Did you ever walk into a public washroom that smelt so bad you wanted to choke?
But you were so desperate to go to the bathroom you had to carry on.
Did you notice something? By the time you left five minutes later, it didn't smell quite so bad!
And what if you had accidentally locked yourself in there for an hour? You might be saying, "What smell?"
There's a principle operating here. More >
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 25 Sep 2004 @ 21:35, by mre. Environment, Ecology
We are making good progress on the programming for the Jewish / Muslim email dialogue.
For the best writeup yet of the Voice of Humanity vision, see the earlier article entitled "A New Heaven".
The New Visions for Culture and Society Committee of the Threshold Foundation has offered a $50,000 grant "to proactively address societal awareness of mass extinction and our responsibility in creating and reversing it." The current mass extinction is very serious, with projections of loss of 50 percent of all species by 2100 at the current rate. I have applied for the grant with the following LOI (Letter of Inquiry): More >
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 21 Sep 2004 @ 00:42, by scotty. Environment, Ecology
It's SO WRONG !
As most of you know I live in the West Indies and as you've probably seen in the news several of the Islands have been hit particularly hard by the spate of recent hurricanes and tropical storms.
The poorest of the West Indian Islands is Haiti and the people there live mostly in shacks which can't withstand the onslaught of the cyclones. Reports are still coming in about the many deaths that the tropical storm Jean has caused - more than 250 dead with many people unacounted for!
Haiti isn't the only island that's been hit - in fact few of the island have escaped unhurt!
The Guadeloupians like many of the Islands here are going all out to try and send as much aid as they can - so what's wrong with that you might ask !
Well - we're just finding out that some of the aid that's being sent out to Grenadad is only reaching a selected part of the islands population !!
Only the people who belong to the Grenadians political party are recieving any aid - the rest of the population are going without food water clothing .... this is so WRONG !
Quite a lot of people here are so disgusted that they are begining to have second thoughts about contributing anything at all to the islands in need !
Once again 'solidarity' looks as though it's going to die because of nepotism and corruption !
I can't personally do anything about it - except to register here that I PROTEST ! IT IS WRONG ! More >
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 23 Aug 2004 @ 01:24, by i2i. Environment, Ecology
"If plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, 'Why are we here?' Plastic...asshole."
---George Carlin, The Planet is Fine More >
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 12 Aug 2004 @ 08:38, by ming. Environment, Ecology
It is so easy to forget how magical and amazing life is. Not just my life, but the life in nature. You drop a seed in the ground, water it a bit, and the sun shines, and this seed strangely knows how to turn into a big plant, and to reproduce and make more, ad infinitum. I kind of wouldn't believe it if it wasn't so normal. And, ok, I'm not really much into gardening, but I do go out and water every day, which I can just about handle. And I can't miss all the stuff that comes up all by itself from what was just a piece of soil. OK, we dropped a few seeds and little plants in there, but the weeds are just as interesting.
People who're into technology often have little regard for nature. Messy, primitive, dirty stuff, which we think we can do much better. Where really we have little clue. Most of our technology is horribly primitive compared with the technology of nature. We are incapable of making anything like a seed. We can dream about it, in the form of nanotechnology, but no real results. A little unit, weighing a few milligrams, and you drop it into some random soil, and on its own power it extracts building materials from the surroundings, and reproduces cells, and builds a rather fancy construction with billions of parts and a whole infrastructure. Which is then solar powered, in addition to the water and minerals it keeps extracting. All at room temperature or worse. And not only that, but it is self-replicating, and will produce new seeds that do the same.
The best competition we can come up with is to mess with these things, and poke inside them, and see if something different comes out. Kind of typical for how our technologies work. We know how to poke around and learn to exploit something, by seeing what happens if we poke it different ways. You know, like psychiatry by cutting off different parts of the brain and seeing what happens. But we're very ignorant on how to actually make any of the stuff we're messing with. We haven't succeeded in making a single cell, despite having taken many apart to see what they consisted of. We don't really get it yet. Life, on many levels. More >
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 29 Jun 2004 @ 10:45, by jazzolog. Environment, Ecology
The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
---Chuang-Tzu
The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits.
---Albert Camus
Great is Mind. Heaven's height is immeasurable, but Mind goes beyond heaven; the earth's depth is also unfathomable, but Mind reaches below the earth. The light of the sun and moon cannot be outdistanced, yet Mind passes beyond the light of the sun and moon. The macrocosm is limitless, yet Mind travels outside the macrocosm. How great is Space. How great the Primal Energy! Still Mind encompasses Space and generates the Primal Energy. Because of it heaven covers and earth upbears. Because of it the sun and moon move on, the four seasons come in succession, and all things are generated. Great indeed is Mind!
---Zen Master Eisai
A female summer tanager
I observed myself talking to a young mockingbird yesterday. This is the time of June when new birds hit adolescence and start venturing on their own. He was rather closer to me than mockers ordinarily get, and so I just wanted to make sounds that would indicate that it's OK . Of course it's not OK, and what he really should learn is to fly for his life whenever a human comes near---but who among us who admire birds and love to watch them can bring himself to scare away a bird to verify its genetic instinct? We long to return to the Garden when birds and beasts frolicked with us...and all was innocent. More >
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