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This is a preview from "Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction," a feature documentary now in production

Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction

9 min 17 sec - Aug 2, 2006
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Description: This is a preview from "Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction," a feature documentary now in production. The loss of biodiversity on earth has become so acute that scientists are now calling it a "mass extinction event." The crisis has many causes, all of which are related to human activity. Through interviews with eminent biologists, psychologists, anthropologists, historians, and many others, the film not only presents the facts of the shocking decline, it also explores the ways in which culture and psychology have conspired to determine our collective and individual response to this situation, and how the latest insights into natural systems could help us turn back the tide. The film weaves biology, psychology, and cultural history into a clear and accessible story of our changing world. The audience is taken into the depths of the human psyche, through the toughest problems of our times and into the cutting edge of what nature has to teach us. The mass extinction is quite possibly the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced. Those of us alive today have been given a choice—one last opportunity to save the diversity of our planet. The decisions we make or fail to make in the next few years will affect the habitability of earth for millennia to come. This is the greatest adventure of all time—with the future of life itself in the balance.

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World: UN Program Aims To Plant One Billion Trees - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY

World: UN Program Aims To Plant One Billion Trees
Dig a hole to get out of one.... or many!

Moon setting at dawn

Stonington sunset

A Pale Blue Dot (reminder...~A.)

On October 13, 1994, the famous astronomer Carl Sagan was delivering a public lecture at his own university of Cornell. During that lecture, he presented this photo: http://www.bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.htm
The photo was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance. Having completed it primary mission, Voyager at that time was on its way out of the Solar System, on a trajectory of approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the Solar System. Ground Control issued a command for the distant space craft to turn around and, looking back, take photos of each of the planets it had visited. From Voyager's vast distance, the Earth was captured as a infinitesimal point of light (between the two white tick marks), actually smaller than a single pixel of the photo. The image was taken with a narrow angle camera lens, with the Sun quite close to the field of view. Quite by accident, the Earth was captured in one of the scattered light rays caused by taking the image at an angle so close to the Sun. Dr. Sagan was quite moved by this image of our tiny world. Here is an enlargement of the area around our Pale Blue Dot and an excerpt from the late Dr. Sagan's talk:
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

The Consultants-E are proud to launch the first private island simulator in Second Life dedicated to online training seminars and conferences, and the use of Second Life in Education. EduNation is a 65,000m2 island in the Second Life virtual world with seminar, powerpoint, audio and videocast facilities. Use of the seminar facilities is free. It also features small land and accommodation rentals for other educators to rent and use on a weekly basis.

http://www.theconsultants-e.com/

old tapes...tunes still in the repertoire! ~A.

from the Philadelphia airport...Design studies!!!

Fwd: Watch "Charlie Rose - Alternative Energy / Internet Technology" on Googl...

you need to catch this.....

Charlie Rose - Alternative Energy / Internet Technology

56 min 40 sec - Dec 22, 2006
Average rating:   (32 ratings)
Description: Segment 1: The pursuit of alternative energy and breakthroughs in green technology with John Doerr of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, and K.R. Sridhar of Bloom Energy. Segment 2: A conversation about the developments in the internet and the promise of web 3.0 with Brian Halla of National Semiconductor, Reed Hastings of Netflix, Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, and Charles Giancarlo of Cisco.

 

2007: from dusk to dusk and dawn to dawn

Change
is
beautiful
and
endless

early Happy New Year!

Through Williamsburg and on to CT...

still on the road

SnowDays Greetings

Hey, I made you a snowflake! Check it out at
http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/index.html?id=3574957

Post a reply to let me know what you think!

- ADRIENNE

(Larger SW picture set:)

share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AaMmzVi5bNGYP

 

http://flickr.com/photos/adentex/

Caution: objects in mirror are closer than they appear...

nevermind sex, humor is much better...

Click here: YouTube - Dead Parrot

or ginseng for the brain:

Rhizome is an online platform for the global new media art community.

柿(insert little japanese symbol not translated by Blogger)

~pretty much the expression on my face after biting down on the third tow-truck call in 10 days... the vehicle god offerings look better than they taste and apparently don't respond to adoration OR money, much less suffering. Think a spiteful blog will help?

postsecret

I didn't know about this until I saw two books in B&N yesterday, what a cool thing! http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Innovation Playground is the world's leading Idea Generation Program. Managers from a cross-industry selection of companies are personally invited to immerse and interact with 90 demo's of emerging and existing innovations. 30 November, SenterNovem, The Hague http://www.innovationplayground.net/

Crosspring is an internationally oriented business creation platform committed to enabling ambitious organisations to optimally explore en exploit their growth potential. www.crosspring.com

GrowthTalk Live is an unique format aimed at business professionals concerned specifically with growth.

"During GrowthTalk Live several discussions which we call GrowthTalks take place. Parts of these GrowthTalks (containing insights provided by invited speakers and a live interview) will be recorded. These recordings are called GrowthTalk Insights and will be shared with the world. Note. All participants of GrowthTalk Live will get access to these insigts before the rest of the world." Paricipating Company list: GrowthTalk - PARTNERS GROWTHTALK LIVE

Practical projects, presented by the people that made them happen, provide inspiration for the live discussions. 29 November ING Bank, Silver Tower, The Hague. http://www.growthtalk.com/

Palace of Fine Arts

(here's the video from last week...)

~Another:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVYDnx3TjM

From the Berkley Hills down to the Bay... a little hazy, but great to be UP! ~A.

Thanks to the persimmon gods for only making a cosmic hiccup in my car...much better than a '162k urp'... And I got to walk last week! As you can tell, the weather cooperated. ~A.

» A Russian floating nuclear plant? Emerging Technology Trends

about your sustainability?

http://kbrooks.stayinhomeandlovinit.com/

obviously and MLM, but with a conscience?

Maybe Amway has come full swing....~A.

 

GREEN SHIFT: Stop Corporate Abuse

http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/greenshift.cfm

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Video Description (click the picture to play...)

James Lovelock says Global Warming is now at point of no return. Other top climate scientists are more hopeful but say we only have less than 10 years before it's irreversible and time is running out. We all need to speak up NOW or the Human Race will join the MILLIONS of other Species that will be extinct by 2050 from Global Warming.
www.climatecrisis.net
www.greatemergence.blogspot.com

Personal Message

This is someone's personal video response to The Bush Administration's approach to Global Warming (7mins. Please watch!) Thanks, ~ME

Being there...

Sunday drive out to the coast,

along the Russian River

(road still under construction)

and Goat Rock w/ Arch views.

Sunny in the woods, cloudy

@ the beach.

Shoulda been there,

but you can see it here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puQwO87bUF0

~A.

more Left coast...

here

or

the beachweb

grains of datasand

take an imprint

between tides.

~A.

http://www.redesigndesign.org/

"for designers who don't want to make landfill"

The Infinite Mind interview with Kurt Vonnegut live from Second Life

37 min 59 sec - Sep 22, 2006
Average rating: (10 ratings)
Description: Author Kurt Vonnegut interviewed by host John Hockenberry, live from Second Life for the national, weekly public radio program, The Infinite Mind. These live broadcasts were the first from virtual 3-D cyberspace...where else can you get a good Vonnegut inerview?

Fantastic Planet scored by everyone.doesntexist

1 hr 11 min 30 sec - May 23, 2006 (okay, I have too much time on myhands...)
Average rating: (314 ratings)
Description: René Laloux's french trippy animated, cartoon, film from the 70's. soundtrack rescored to idm, and experimental types music.

-coroflot-
http://www.coroflot.com/public/spy.asp
...a real time feed of site activity at Coroflot.com. The images scrolling past are the pages currently being viewed or uploaded. While the majority of the entries show portfolio files being viewed, when a new project is added it will be labeled "New Upload." Use it for inspiration, or just a great way to have designs pushed to you.

POP!TECH
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For the first time ever, the entire event is live online. You can even submit questions to speakers and contribute your ideas in real time.
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more cool stuff:

...a design student video about Industrial Design:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba9zxsz2V2k

Core77 - Industrial Design Supersite:
http://www.core77.com/

How Microchips are made (presentation)
www.alliedmaterials.com/HTMAC/html

< from Clos Pigas / Henry Moore

KurzweilAI.net

http://www.kurzweilai.net/
KurzweilAI.net is at the forefront of the debate over the ethical and social concerns facing the rapid rise of technology, bringing the curious mind “the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas.” Led by site’s editor-in-chief, author, ethicist and technology developer Ray Kurzweil, a staff of similarly lauded visionaries discuss demanding and controversial topics such as artificial intelligence, cloning, brain augmentation and how they affect the nature of life and death, in a variety of thought provoking articles. The “Mind-X” section of the Web site allows viewers to join in on the debate. Other site features include Ramona, a photo-realistic, virtual avatar hostess and performing artist (a la the film S1m0ne) who is available for conversation and has mp3s and videos for download. KurzweilAI.net is a truly progressive look at a future that may not be so far-fetched. – James Barone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZupkiavLE2Y

Check out Obadiah Parker - Hey Yeah (Outkast Cover) - Google Video

Click here: Obadiah Parker - Hey Yeah (Outkast Cover) - Google Video

PRINCIPAL VOICES ~ Environment

Click here: PRINCIPAL VOICES ~ Environment "There might be debate about the precise extent of the problem, the timescales involved, the most effective solution. On the over-arching issue, however, a clear majority of the world's scientific experts are in agreement: Our natural environment is in trouble. And the trouble is getting worse as each year passes"....

 

Re: Escalating climate change impacts

BrightSurf: Study shows escalating climate change impacts surveys existing and future costs associated with climate change and the growing potential for abrupt, widespread impacts. The study reports that the insurance industry will be at the center of this issue, absorbing risk and helping society and business to adapt and reduce new risks....

Researchers link Ice Age climate-change records to ocean salinity Sudden decreases in temperature over Greenland and tropical rainfall patterns during the last Ice Age have been linked for the first time to rapid changes in the salinity of the north Atlantic Ocean...

http://www.worldchanging.com/
I thought I was a little lost - only to discover I really don't have a clue...
In Britain: "It is FREE for you to switch your electricity supply to renewable energy. Use the "switch to renewable energy" tool on the website and by doing so reduce your CO2 emissions by a third or more, and drive investment for renewable energy." Does your utility co. offer that?

a little tedius (the video runs about an hour), but interesting stuff...historic and modern uses for herbs 'medicinally'.

Hot and Cold: Crucial Aspects of Herbalism
Description: Lecture by Simon Mills on crucial aspects of Herbalism (Phytotherapy), given at Schumacher College in Devon, England in February 2005. Simon Mills is a Cambridge graduate in medical sciences who has been a herbal practitioner since 1977. In 1987 he co-founded and then directed the Centre for Complementary Health Studies at the University of Exeter, the first ever University unit dedicated to studying therapeutic options outside the conventional medical curriculum. He was recently appointed as Nelson/Barcapel Teaching Fellow at the Peninsula Medical School with responsibility for developing the first taught MSc programme in Integrated Healthcare in any medical school in the UK. Since January 1997 he has been Secretary of the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP) which is the major European body working to ensure quality, safety and efficacy for herbal medicinal products. He has written many books and articles, including a modern classic and best-selling textbook with Kerry Bone, The Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy, published by Churchill Livingstone in early 2000.
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