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Poverty

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:22:15 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

The only people I ever heard talk about my Lady Poverty
were rich people, or people who imagined themselves rich.
Saint Francis himself was a rich and spoiled young man.
Being born among the working people
I know that poverty is a hard old hag,
and a monster, when you're pinched for actual necessities.
And whoever says she isn't, is a liar.
I don't want to be poor, it means I am pinched.
But neither do I want to be rich.
When I look at this pine-tree near the sea,
that grows out of rock, and plumes forth, plumes forth,
I see it has natural abundance.
With its roots it has a grand grip on its daily bread,
and its plumes look like green cups held up to the sun and air
and full of wine.
I want to be like that, to have a natural abundance
and plume forth, and be splendid.

Poverty

(D.H. Lawrence)

Sustainable Home's free ebooks

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:09:34 GMT

clipped by: deb2012
clipper's remarks: how to buy a solar hot water heater, and how to mitigate pollution inside your home

Clip Source: sunhomedesign.wordpress.com

This first post is a book about the high level of air pollutants found in American homes. This book outlines the common sources of indoor air pollution and the actions you can take to mitigate the levels of pollution within your home.

Ever try to buy a solar hot water heater? Combine a bewildering array of competing technologies with a shortage of clear, understandable consumer information and it’s no wonder that the U.S.A. lags countries like Albania and Slovenia in the adoption of this very simple and effective technology. This free eBook will take you through the basics and includes a decision tree to help you select the right system for your climate. Enjoy.

Tags: environment

Yikes

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:56:52 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Balloonist Survives 9,000-Foot Fall at South Carolina Festival

ANDERSON, S.C. — Authorities say a Michigan man survived after his hot air balloon plunged thousands of feet at a South Carolina festival because the basket caught a tree limb 10 feet before it hit the ground.

Great Southeast Balloon Fest officials say pilot Chuck Walz, of Munith, Mich., broke his leg and pelvis Sunday morning, but has undergone surgery and his recovery is promising.

Anderson Fire Chief Jack Abraham says Walz's balloon may have been 9,000 feet in the air when it deflated.

Abraham says the balloon's basket was skewered by a tree branch 10 feet from ground, stopping its fall. Walz then fell from the basket to the ground. He was conscious when rescuers arrived.

Federal aviation officials are investigating the incident.

Do animals have emotions?

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:30:20 GMT

clipped by: dmtherob
clipper's remarks: An article with some examples of why people think that animals have emotions like love, spite and awe.

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

Do animals have emotions?

Spite

After a fight in which he trounced another young male, Reuben, the latter retreated with "his ass up in the air", a sign of submission. Instead of letting him be, Nick slashed Reuben's rump with his canines. "He harassed the females, swatted at kids and bullied ancient Gums and Limp," writes Sapolsky. One day, Nick took exception to a female baboon, Ruth. When threatened by a male, a female usually runs up a tree and to the end of a flimsy branch, where the heavier male cannot follow her. "So Ruth gallops up the tree, Nick after her, and Ruth leaps out to a safe edge," Sapolsky recounts. "Nick promptly climbs onto a stronger, thicker branch directly above her. And then urinates on her head."

Tags: animals, research, emotions

PanAmerican Properties: Restoring the Environment One Tree at a Time

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:38:02 GMT

clipped by: ibsinc
clipper's remarks: A sustainable economic development program of reforestation for the underserved peoples of Panama www.paulownianow.org

Clip Source: www.startupnation.com

WORLDS FASTEST GROWING HARDWOOD SHADE TREE!
THE ROYAL EMPRESS TREE
Also known as Sapphire Dragon Tree, Paulownia, Kiri Tree, Foxglove Tree & Princess Tree

With the decline of our native forests to the lumber industry, Paulownia trees have come into the spotlight worldwide for their ability to produce high quality timber at a much faster rate than any other hardwood tree.

With an extraordinary growth rate and huge air filtering leaves that convert carbon into oxygen at a higher rate than almost any other tree, Royal Empress Trees are rapidly becoming an important part of the solution to reducing our impact on the Earth.

PanAmerican Properties is developing a reforestation initiative designed to create a neutral zone between the indigenous reservations, legitimately established by both international and national law and the non indigenous communities that are invading these reservations and are cutting down the forests to grow grass for grazing cattle.

Tags: start up nation, paulownia, reforestation, agriculture, environment, sustainable development, underserved peoples

Raining Forests - Discovery Project Earth

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:01:22 GMT

clipped by: bsykora

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

Following the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, thousands of acres of Gulf Coast mangrove forests have been left bare. The huge swath of land presents a perfect proving ground for scientist Mark Hodges. Hodges believes he has devised a way to reforest large areas of Earth from the air. His idea? To use an aircraft to drop tens of thousands of canisters, each holding a tree seedling. The task force will carry out a series of tests to determine the type of aircraft, the delivery mechanism, canister design and whether or not the seeds will self-plant.

Raining Forests
Premieres Friday, Aug. 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Tags: projectearth, global warming, environment

The Pastor's Cat

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:57:10 GMT

clipped by: murieleileen

Clip Source: www.crazyeh.com

The Pastor's Cat

Dwight Nelson recently told a true story about the pastor of his church. The pastor had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc.

The kitty would not come down. The tree was not sturdy enough to climb, so the pastor decided that if he tied a rope to his car and drove away so that the tree bent down, he could then reach up and get the kitten.

That's what he did, all the while checking his progress in the car. He then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree would be bent sufficiently for him to reach the kitten. But as he moved the car a little further forward .. the rope broke.

The tree went "BOING!" and the kitten instantly sailed through the air ... out of sight.

The pastor felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they'd seen a little kitten. No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten. So he prayed, "Lord, I just commit this kitten to your keeping," and went

Tags: cat, story, kitten, funny, pastor

Landscape Shading

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:21:02 GMT

clipped by: Tylast

Clip Source: www.eere.energy.gov

Solar heat absorbed through windows and roofs can increase your air conditioner use. Incorporating shading concepts into your landscape design can help reduce this solar heat gain, reducing your cooling costs.

Shading and evapotranspiration (the process by which a plant actively moves and releases water vapor) from trees can reduce surrounding air temperatures as much as 9° F (5°C). Because cool air settles near the ground, air temperatures directly under trees can be as much as 25°F (14°C) cooler than air temperatures above nearby blacktop.

A 6-foot to 8-foot (1.8-meter to 2.4-meter) deciduous tree planted near your home will begin shading windows the first year. Depending on the species and the home, the tree will shade the roof in 5–10 years. If you have an air conditioner, shading the unit can increase its efficiency by as much as 10%.

Tags: eco, energy, efficient

Usa Canada Uk Craft Projects Artist Painters, Drawings

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:40:57 GMT

clipped by: dpsubi1

Clip Source: www.artsupplycraft.com

Need art supplies and craft materials and don’t know where to search them? Your searching is over after you will visit this website. Find numerous art supplies, air brushes, art goods, art equipment, colors, pigments and numerous craft materials suppliers. Read about artificial flowers, tree manufacturers, beads retail, candle making process, decorative posters, arts accessories, material art supplies, metaphysical distributors, occult supply, color print dealers and other materials needed for plaster crafts. Search specialty stores if you want to buy tattoo equipment, piercing supplies, wax, woodcrafter tools, rare & collectible books and if you want companies that can help you with prints on canvas.

Tags: art supplies, air brushes, art goods, wholesale, suppliers, artificial flowers, beads retail

Happy Birthday Mr. President

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:38:01 GMT

clipped by: sahara

Clip Source: blog.puppetgov.com

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Bush celebrates 62nd birthday on the fly

Wedged between America's Independence Day and a summit of world leaders, President Bush's 62nd birthday got shortchanged this year.

His advisers tried hard to mark his milestone.

As he flew to Japan, White House press advisers quietly gathered in a darkened conference room aboard Air Force One. A steward stuck a single candle in a coconut cake. Bush and first lady Laura Bush were invited inside.

"Surprise! Happy Birthday!" they exclaimed.

"He dutifully pretended to be surprised," press secretary Dana Perino said.

The party for his birthday Sunday was informal; the gift was not.

The staff presented him with a wooden box made from a giant oak tree that fell on the White House lawn in 2007. Some of the wood from the tree, planted by Benjamin Harrison's daughter in 1892, had been sent to Texas to be fashioned into a box about 12-by-18 inches. They filled it with notes and cards from members of his senior staff.

Clip Source: www.jewishgraveside.com

Dancing through the "o" in God!

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:34:01 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Outer world is also tree root and river rock, anthill and cloud. At some point the distinction between inner world and outer world itself dissolves.

Years ago I worked with a dance teacher who took us outside to dance under the sky, and we discovered that dancing outside is a special ecstasy, to dance in and with nature. One night she invited us to dance through the o in God. Another night she said we usually assume the soul is a tiny element somewhere inside the body, a bright light in the mind or in the heart. What if the soul is big, bigger than the body, and the body rests inside the soul? As we dance through space, extending feet, hands, elbows, ribs, we are brushing up against our soul, moving in an energetic circle that is our soul. The body inside the soul! Everything turns inside out. The soul becomes as immense as the sky. Dancing with each other, we are moving together in this soulful air.

Clip Source: cathy-edgett.livejournal.com

I love the idea of dancing through the o in God.

I am reading J. Ruth Gendler's book, Notes on the Need for Beauty.

Gendler writes:

Walt Whitman wrote:

Was somebody asking to see the soul?
See your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts,
the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.

The double gaze opens out into the world, into the self. Moment to moment we are looking out, looking in, breathing out, breathing in. Our task becomes simultaneously to attend more to the inner world and to find ourselves in the world around us, like our ancestors, who knew that memory is stored not only in our brains but in our landscapes. Often we speak of inner life as the life of dreams and yearnings, intuitions and emotions, the world of the spirit in contrast to the outer world of time and taxes, deadlines and dishes. Inner life also suggests the inner life of the body - muscle and bone marrow, vertebra and capillary, nerve cell and lung tissue.

Practical statistics for paper consumption

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:45:02 GMT

clipped by: babs99
clipper's remarks: These statistics ar more user friendly and refer to daily life

Clip Source: www.uaacog.com

*If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!!

*The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!

*The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.

* Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution! **

* The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.

Bamboo: Cool, Fresh Fashion

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:30:57 GMT

clipped by: pitim
clipper's remarks: It is a great resource.

Clip Source: myitthings.com

Bamboo: it’s not a tree; it’s a woody grass. It’s also one of nature’s most abundant renewable resources. Cut it down, it grows back—and quickly. A 60 foot bamboo tree cut down for market will renew itself in 59 days. Cut down a regular 60 foot tree for market it takes 60 years to replace and requires the replacement tree to be planted.

There are some 1,400 known species of bamboo. The most abundant resources are found in India and China. The amazing thing about bamboo is that it can be and is used for thousands of things from food, to framing houses, to furniture, to paper, to clothing. And its demand is growing rapidly.

Fabric made from bamboo is incredibly soft and luxurious and remarkably breathable. It’s also very cool—in both the fashion and temperature sense. Some call it “air conditioned clothing.” In the heat and its natural state, bamboo is naturally cool and this property is maintained in the fabric form. Bamboo fabric stays around two degrees cooler in hot weather.

Tags: green, environment, fashion

12 Ways to Build with a Smaller Carbon Footprint

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:30:19 GMT

clipped by: urbanlife
clipper's remarks: Buildings consume 76% of electricity generated & they create 48% of our greenhouse gases. Main Points:

* Every brick in building required the burning of fossil fuel in its manufacture, every piece of lumber was cut and transported using energy

* Aim for a complete ban of formaldehyde use in building products

* Building demolitions account for 48% of the waste stream (65 million tons a year), renovations account for 44% and renovations account for 8%

* A solar water heater can save $ 450 a year and keep a ton of CO2 emissions out of the air; multiply that by 80 million houses in the USA

* While smaller is better almost every city has minimum floor area requirements

* The losses are higher in AC than in DC because it grounds so easily

* The average 1950’s house was 983 sq feet; by 1970 it was 1500 SF; last year it was 2350 SF

* We can no longer afford to lose agricultural land close to our cities and towns

Clip Source: www.treehugger.com

1. Ban Demolition.

2. Ban Formaldehyde

3. Deconstruct, Don't Demolish

4. Put Solar Hot Water Heaters on Every Roof

5. Get Rid Of Those Radiator Fins

every one of those balconies

is a giant radiator fin, constantly losing heat to the cold

6. Make Natural Ventilation Mandatory

7. Install Gray Water Recovery Everywhere

water coming from bathtubs, showers, lavatories (read sinks), and clothes washers are no longer required to discharge into the sewer main

8. Ban Minimum Floor Areas

"If you stay smaller and simpler, you can come up with a good design at a much lower cost, use fewer resources and minimize your impact on the environment."

9. Change Our Wiring to 12 Volt DC

Edison was right; direct current is better than alternating current

10. Change our Building Codes from Relative to Absolute

Encouraging smaller homes, like smaller cars, would save a lot of energy, but codes applies the same standard across the board.

11. Survival, Not Suburbs

moratorium on any construction on farmland

12. Plant a Tree

Tags: build smart, green, carbon footprint, development, sustainable, future

The mysterious forest rings of northern Ontario

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:19 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4

Clip Source: www.cbc.ca

The mysterious forest rings of northern Ontario

Last Updated May 21, 2008

By Elle Andra-Warner

It is a strange phenomenon: thousands of large, perfectly round "forest rings" dot the boreal landscape of northern Ontario.

The Cheecka Ring is a ring measuring about 1 kilometre in diameter, located 20 km east of Hearst, Ont. Scientists believe it was formed by a natural gas deposit. (Courtesy S. Hamilton, OGS)

From the air, these mysterious light-coloured rings of stunted tree growth are clearly visible, but on the ground, you could walk right through them without noticing them. They range in diameter from 30 metres to 2 kilometres, with the average ring measuring about 91 metres across. Over 2,000 of these forest rings have been documented, but scientists estimate the actual number is more than 8,000.

What causes these near-perfect circles in the forest?

Some explanations put a UFO or extraterrestrial spin on the phenomenon.

Tags: odd