Girl, Rio '92. Printer-friendly version Send to friend Transcript source: Editor's note: The following is the transcript of the speech that Severn Suzuki gave to the Plenary Session at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio Centro, Brazil. Severn was twelve years old. SASS feels there is no better example of a young person standing up and speaking on behalf of something in which they truly believe, for the betterment of themselves and the world around them. Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. - The Environmental Children's Organisation.
We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds from Canada trying to make a difference: Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. Biodiversity. X Witness. Bearing witness to the whole “Accepting death on the scale of extinction is precisely what humanity is called to. That acceptance is part of our learning to live well and is absolutely essential for Earth’s present transition. Wisdom teachers of the ages have spoken to the acceptance of death on the personal level as an essential part of the soul’s evolution and liberation. None before the teachers of our time were faced immediately with Earth’s precarious state as we know it. What the ancients pointed to applies still and urgently for the individual so that humanity may come to this acceptance on a scale grand enough to foster a gentle world of plenty.”
~megan hollingsworth, excerpt from megan’s forthcoming book Wail Dance ~ a soul’s memoir the mission To foster the light of compassion that shines through humanity’s dark night. the project monthly witness February 2014, Extinction Witness began a monthly witness to a common group of individuals for the remaining eleven months of the year. Large rise in CO2 emissions sounds climate change alarm. Hawaii's Mauna Loa observatory, where record CO2 increases are being documented (Photograph: Richard Vogel/AP) The chances of the world holding temperature rises to 2C – the level of global warming considered "safe" by scientists – appear to be fading fast with US scientists reporting the second-greatest annual rise in CO2 emissions in 2012. Carbon dioxide levels measured at at Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii jumped by 2.67 parts per million (ppm) in 2012 to 395ppm, said Pieter Tans, who leads the greenhouse gas measurement team for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The record was an increase of 2.93ppm in 1998. The jump comes as a study published in Science on Thursday looking at global surface temperatures for the past 1,500 years warned that "recent warming is unprecedented", prompting UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, to say that "staggering global temps show urgent need to act. Rapid climate change must be countered with accelerated action.
" The Savory Institute: Healing the World’s Grasslands, Rangelands and Savannas. 9inShare Share This is the first of a two-part interview with Allan Savory, President and Co-Founder of The Savory Institute, an organization based in Zimbabwe that works with farmers, pastoralists, and ranchers to restore degraded lands through holistic management practices. Savory is a winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, which awards recipients for innovative thinking to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Livestock production, particularly cattle, has been blamed in recent years for environmental degradation on both the local and global scales. Do you agree with this perspective? A desert grassland in southern New Mexico, photographed in 1961. Yes, livestock are blamed for environmental degradation, and rightly so. It was for this reason that I, in my days as a young scientist, hated livestock and the people running them. People who are critical of livestock are right to be deeply concerned. Is the third tool, technology, an option? Similar posts: HMI. Grazing chart. A Four Dollar Grazing Chart by Troy Bishopp An image of my grazing chart. Photo by Troy Bishopp My farm teetered between a D1 and D2 (Moderate to severe) on the U.
I know what you’re thinking; a piece of paper (and not money) is credited with getting a farmer through the grazing season. On a trip to Missouri visiting Greg Judy’s farm the light really clicked for me. This led me to Allan Savory’s Holistic Management Handbook with associated grazing charts but like many farmers, I had to tweak the chart to fit my needs and environment.
Parched grass before the rains. Invaluable in this process is that you need to know what you’re managing towards, know your paddocks and acreages, know your forage and animal needs and know your financial picture. From there I plugged in known forage inventory from all paddocks and what recovery period I wanted to achieve given the heifer’s forage demand. Lush pasture after the rains. Comments Leave a Reply. Bézier curve. The basis functions on the range t in [0,1] for cubic Bézier curves: blue: y0 = (1 − t)3, green: y1 = 3(1 − t)2 t, red: y2 = 3(1 − t) t2, and cyan: y3 = t3. A Bézier curve is a parametric curve frequently used in computer graphics and related fields. Generalizations of Bézier curves to higher dimensions are called Bézier surfaces, of which the Bézier triangle is a special case. In vector graphics, Bézier curves are used to model smooth curves that can be scaled indefinitely. "Paths", as they are commonly referred to in image manipulation programs,[note 1] are combinations of linked Bézier curves.
Paths are not bound by the limits of rasterized images and are intuitive to modify. Bézier curves are also used in the time domain, particularly in animation and user interface[note 2] design. The mathematical basis for Bézier curves — the Bernstein polynomial — has been known since 1912, but its applicability to graphics was understood half a century later. Applications[edit] Animation[edit] Let or. Bézier Curve. Given a set of control points , the corresponding Bézier curve (or Bernstein-Bézier curve) is given by where is a Bernstein polynomial and . Bézier splines are implemented in Mathematica as BezierCurve[pts]. A "rational" Bézier curve is defined by is the order, are the Bernstein polynomials, are control points, and the weight of is the last ordinate of the homogeneous point .
The Bézier curve always passes through the first and last control points and lies within the convex hull of the control points. And at the endpoints. Undesirable properties of Bézier curves are their numerical instability for large numbers of control points, and the fact that moving a single control point changes the global shape of the curve. Home. Earth System Science. Earth Center. Partnerships between NGOs and companies can protect ecosystems. Companies' share in the responsibility for the destruction and degradation of nature on our planet is considerable. At the same time, these firms – especially those that produce commodities – depend on nature to stay in business. Most of them do not know how to reduce their negative impact on nature, nor do they know how to benefit from nature in a sustainable way.
NGOs can help them out. Companies and NGO's have a mutual interest in nature conservation. Responsible use of nature, secures a continuous provision of important services to companies and is vital to maintain the level of biodiversity in the region in which they operate. Services provided through nature are called ecosystem services.
There are also regulating services such as waste treatment through wetlands that purify water and detoxicate and decompose waste. NGOs as a source of advice and guidance They can explain the ecological, economic and in some cases the financial value of ecosystems and ecosystem services. Earth system science Wiki. Earth system science seeks to integrate various fields of academic study to understand the Earth as a system. It considers interaction between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere (geosphere), biosphere,[1] and heliosphere.[2] In 1996, the American Geophysical Union, in cooperation with the Keck Geology Consortium and with support from five divisions within the National Science Foundation, convened a workshop "to define common educational goals among all disciplines in the Earth sciences.
" In its report, participants noted that, "The fields that make up the Earth and space sciences are currently undergoing a major advancement that promotes understanding the Earth as a number of interrelated systems. " Recognizing the rise of this systems approach, the workshop report recommended that an Earth system science curriculum be developed with support from the National Science Foundation.[3] Definition[edit] Inspiration in the Gaia theory[edit] The programmes have stated the following: Earth System Science. Earth spheres Wili. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to earth science: Earth's spheres[edit] The Earth's spheres are the many "spheres" into which the planet Earth is divided. The four most often recognized are the atmosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere and the geosphere.
As a whole, the system is sometimes referred to as an ecosphere. Listed roughly from outermost to innermost the named spheres of the Earth are: Branches of earth science[edit] Geology[edit] Geography[edit] Soil science[edit] Atmospheric science[edit] Oceanography[edit] Glaciology[edit] Glaciology Geoinformatics[edit] History of earth science[edit] Main article: History of earth science; see also History of geology Earth science topics[edit] Main article: List of earth science topics See also[edit] List of geoscience organizations References[edit] External links[edit] Earth Policy. #WIFNY Standard. Journal of Earth System Science.