Sea Shepherd FR Manual of Architectural Possibilities As many people who attended my book launch this past weekend in New York will already know, I had on hand a fantastic new publication by architect David Garcia: the Manual of Architectural Possibilities, or M.A.P. [Images: M.A.P. by David Garcia]. I had the pleasure of meeting David back in Sweden earlier this month at the ASAE conference; David's presentation and our subsequent conversation – ranging from the architecture of déjà vu and haunted house novels to the possibility of sonic archives and the work of David Gissen – were more than enough to show that he is pushing forward through some incredibly interesting ideas and is already someone worth keeping an eye on now, not just in the future. He's even just completed a cool children's playground in suburban Denmark. Issue One of M.A.P. – or poster #1, really, as it all unfolds into a double-sided A1 sheet – is about Antarctica. [Image: M.A.P. by David Garcia].
Sea Shepherd Rights of Mother Earth - Gaia Psychology Rights of Mother Earth Proposal Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth Preamble We, the peoples and nations of Earth: considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny; gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth is the source of life, nourishment and learning and provides everything we need to live well; recognizing that the capitalist system and all forms of depredation, exploitation, abuse and contamination have caused great destruction, degradation and disruption of Mother Earth, putting life as we know it today at risk through phenomena such as climate change; convinced that in an interdependent living community it is not possible to recognize the rights of only human beings without causing an imbalance within Mother Earth; conscious of the urgency of taking decisive, collective action to transform structures and systems that cause climate change and other threats to Mother Earth;
What I learned the day a dying whale spared my life | Paul Watson | Environment The greatest gift that I have ever received is also my great and enduring curse. It was June 1975 and I was a crew member on the first Greenpeace campaign to protect the whales. It was off the coast of northern California, 60 miles offshore. Before us, spread across the waters like some invading foreign armada, was the Soviet whaling fleet. The ships were grey, black, and freckled with rust. We felt pretty small on board the 85ft Phyllis Cormack, the halibut seiner we had chartered out of British Columbia, skippered by big no-nonsense Captain John C Cormack. We were a crew of 13 and I was the first officer. This was before the 200 territorial limit had been imposed and when the Russians freely fished and whaled up to 13 miles off the shore. We had been searching for them since April starting in the north off the Queen Charlotte Islands. We caught them hunting, arriving on the scene just as a harpoon tore into the backside of a young sperm whale. Our strategy was simple. He screamed.
Interspecies Homepage The End of the Line :: Home Page Energy [R]evolution The Energy [R]evolution Scenario has become a well known and well respected energy analysis since it was first published for Europe in 2005. In 2012, the fourth Global Energy [R]evolution scenario was published; earlier editions were published in 2007, 2008 and 2010. The Energy [R]evolution 2012 provides a consistent fundamental pathway for protecting our climate through investment in renewable energy. It's about getting the world from where we are now to where we need to be by phasing out fossil fuels and cutting CO2 emissions while ensuring energy security. The expert consensus is that this fundamental shift in the way we consume and generate energy must begin immediately and be well underway within the next ten years in order to avert the worst impacts of climate change. Policy changes To make the Energy [R]evolution real and to avoid dangerous climate change, Greenpeace, GWEC and EREC demand that the following policies and actions are implemented in the energy sector:
Microbial Life - Educational Resources Teaching and learning about the diversity, ecology and evolution of the microbial world; discover the connections between microbial life, the history of the earth and our dependence on micro-organisms. The expansive Sunset Lake of the Black Sand Basin is one of the largest thermal bodies of water in Yellowstone National Park. Details This site contains a variety of educational and supporting materials for students and teachers of microbiology. You will find information about microorganisms, extremophiles and extreme habitats, as well as links to online provides information about the ecology, diversity and evolution of micro-organisms for students, K-12 teachers, university faculty, and the general public. Microbial Life in Extreme Environments: Mammoth Terraces, Yellowstone National Park. Microbial Life in Marine Environments: Pancake ice in Ross Sea, Antarctica. Find out more about the myriad of microorganisms that live in marine environments. Microbial Observatories: Research Methods:
MRes in Marine Mammal Science: Overview Whether because of their sheer size, complicated behaviour, social structures, historic persecution or simply due to their taxonomic closeness to humans, marine mammals in particular have come to symbolise issues in marine ecology. Conservation of endangered marine mammal species and management of marine populations, especially those interacting with the human food chain, often have prominent positions in the news, and in the attentions of both governmental and non-governmental agencies. The need to know more about the lives and behaviours of marine mammals, driven by many agendas, coincides with a period in which improving technology is making it increasingly possible for us to probe the marine environment, and learn more about its inhabitants. As a result, the rapidly developing, and highly topical, discipline of marine mammal science is an area in which many excellent biology graduates seek to conduct research. It is, first and foremost, a course in quantitative marine ecology.
Distopía - Alt64-wiki De Alt64-wiki, la enciclopedia libre. Así, si según el DRAE, utopía significa "Plan, proyecto, doctrina o sistema optimista que aparece como irrealizable en el momento de su formulación", y coloquialmente se entiende como aquello que es ideal e irrealizable, su antónimo, "distopia" viene a significar algo no sólo "no ideal", sino indeseable. Obviamente, cualquier catastrofe (la caída de un asteroide, una guerra nuclear, una plaga que asola a la humanidad...) es un escenario distópico, en el sentido de que es indeseable, pero no es esto lo que en ciencia ficción se entiende como distopía. En ciencia ficción, una distopía es una tendencia de parte de la sociedad, o de todo su conjunto, hacia algún rasgo aparentemente utópico, pero que esconde aspectos no deseables. Por ejemplo, la tecnificación de la sociedad puede favorecer las relaciones interpersonales, mejorar la fluidez comercial u otros innumerables beneficios en cualquier área imaginable. Esto sería una utopía. Críticas políticas: