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Indonesians use Koran to teach environmentalism

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:52:18 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: Whatever works!

Sitting cross-legged in the dirt beneath a canopy of jungle vegetation, Nasruddin Anshory, with his Koran open in front of him, was telling a group of visitors about their ordained responsibility to protect the environment.

"As a Muslim," he said, "you have to do something."

His visitors were a mix of people from universities and mosques all over the island of Java, seeking to broaden their understanding of Islam. Off to the side were several students from Gajah Mada University nearby, eagerly taking notes in preparation for their dissertations, all of which will focus on promoting conservation through Islam.

Nasruddin founded Ilmu Giri, an Islamic school devoted to environmentalism, five years ago. But in the past couple of years, as global awareness of climate change and related problems has increased, interest in the school has swelled.

Tags: environment, muslims, islam, quran, indonesia

Audrey Hepburn

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:39:19 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.audreyhepburn.com

You hippy-crites! When it comes to saving the planet do celebrities practise what they preach?

Tue, 06 May 2008 16:57:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Is the hot air emitted by celebrities when they spout ecological platitudes a greenhouse gas?

If so, then the melting of the polar ice caps just moved a step closer, following calls by Trudie Styler, a leading celebrity ecological hypocrite - call them hippy-crites for short - for the general public to eat more locally grown vegetables.

Campaigning against food miles might seem an unlikely cause for Styler, given that a tribunal last year heard how she ordered her personal chef to travel over 100 miles to make a bowl of pasta for her youngest child and has sold olive oil and honey from her Tuscan estate, Il Palagio, 1,000 or so miles away, in Harrods in London.

So it was hardly surprising that an alert journalist present at the lecture, which was being staged as part of the Earls Court Real Food Festival, had the wit to question the environmental record of Styler and her husband Sting.

Twister

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:20:51 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii

Clip Source: www.thetopthebest.com

Most people connect twisters with Tornadoes, but tropical actually come twisters from the hurricanes. Hurricanes are, which scientists call “strong tropical eddy towers”. They are formed, if large ranges of the ocean are heated, and the air pressure surplus this range drop. This causes Thunderstorms and strong surface hoist. Eddy towers develop tropical or subtropical excessive water (e.g., in the Atlantic away of the coast of Africa or in the Pacific). Since they travel the long distances, which seize energy of the ocean, they are probable as strong tropical eddy towers to be classified. If 74 MPH reach the hoist of a tropical storm, then the storm is classified as hurricane.

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Urban Gardener Thinks Higher: A Rooftop Garden for Room to Grow

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:53:35 GMT

clipped by: urbanlife
clipper's remarks: Why should you consider a rooftop garden?

* Increase access to private outdoor green space within the urban environment
* Support urban food production
* Promote individual, community, and cultural diversity
* Improve air quality and reduce CO2 missions
* Delay stormwater runoff
* Increase habitat for birds
* Insulate buildings
* Increase the value of buildings for owners and tenants alike
* Create job opportunities in the field of research, design, construction, Iandscaping, gardening, health, and food production

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Tags: roof, green, environment, heat island, farm, community garden

Suicide may kill more U.S. soldiers than combat

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:07:59 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Not sure what to make of this news, or how reliable these numbers really are, but it's fairly shocking. It also says that one in ten U.S. veterans will suffer from untreated PTSD.

Clip Source: www.bloomberg.com

Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths, U.S. Says (Update1)

May 5 (Bloomberg) -- The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said.

Community mental health centers, hobbled by financial limits, haven't provided enough scientifically sound care, especially in rural areas, said Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He briefed reporters today at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington.

Insel echoed a Rand Corporation study published last month that found about 20 percent of returning U.S. soldiers have post- traumatic stress disorder or depression, and only half of them receive treatment.

Tags: war, violence, psychology, u.s.-news, iraq, gwot, military

The New Acropolis Museum

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:27:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://www.newacropolismuseum.gr/eng/
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=537580
http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/marbles/museum.htm

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

] “No sane architect,” Nicolai Ouroussoff writes, “would want to invite comparisons between his building and the Parthenon. So it comes as little surprise that the New Acropolis Museum, which stands at the foot of one of the great achievements of human history, is a quiet work, especially by the standards of its flamboyant Swiss-born architect, Bernard Tschumi. But in mastering his ego, Mr. Tschumi pulled off an impressive accomplishment: a building that is both an enlightening meditation on the Parthenon and a mesmerizing work in its own right. I can’t remember seeing a design that is so eloquent about another work of architecture.”

Tags: athens, acropolis, parthenon, museum, art