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A classical E3 moment. Some girls walk onto a big stage and start blabbering into a microphone about a competition, and the next second a huge group of gibbering guys are jumping around, behaving like ... well, you get the picture. I've concluded that it is probably just an American thing, this standing in big groups and making some NOOOOOISE (which the blonde girl was constantly asking for) in order to have some T-shirts or other kinds of swag thrown at them. E3 in a nutshell.
Specially dedicated to Jose, happy birthday to you!!!
Especialmente dedicado a Jose, felicidades!!! :))))
Brush-turkey Alectura lathami
A pair of juvenile scrub turkeys on my back deck. At
first I thought they were dying, but when I walked over to them, they ran
away. A few minutes later they were back doing the same thing so, as you do,
I ran in and got my camera. I've seen doves do the same thing in winter, I
have been told it's to try to rid themselves of parasites.
This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow field of the Jakobshavns fiord until I found what, to my eyes, was a wonderful place. From a little hill I could see massive icebergs impassably floating by, some of them breaking up from time to time with a loud bang. The sea below was deep grey, which made the icebergs stand up in all their beauty and fragility. The sky was a merge of pale grey and cerulean with a yellow glow just behind the skyline. Lichen and small berry plants could be felt under the powdery snow as I walked by.
I though: this is perfect!
I walked to the top of the small hill, I put the cylinder down, got on my knees and opened the valve. The CO2.came out violently, freezing the air around the nozzle and producing an unpleasant whistle. When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off all around me under the pressure of the air jet, almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf because of the Carbon emissions generated somewhere else.
Reading this you might think I am an evil horrible woman. I would like to reassure you, I am not! I haven't done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!! One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her 'bad' actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!
Don't you think this is great?
Do you?
Personally I think it is appalling.
A lot has to be done before we can revert to Carbon offsetting as an effective mechanism to reduce global Carbon emissions.
Fundamental changes in societal behaviour are necessary to reduce our environmental impact, looking at the way we live, travel, eat, consume, go on holiday and warm our homes. Only after we have significantly reduced our environmental impact to the minimum possible, only then Carbon offsetting can start to be used efficiently.
With my performance I am seeking to throw a serious comment on the contemporary practice of Carbon Offsetting as a mean of green washing conscience and excusing bad behaviour. I am also seeking to provoke debate on why society is so resistant to change and how a collective behavioural shift could be achieved.
The cost of Carbon is still too low to drive change.
Change must come from within.
Francesca Galeazzi
WARNING: this video will consume nearly 5 minutes of your life.
... internet says: ‘huffing happens when two hedgehogs meet, and is part of a hedgehog's courtship behaviour, where they huff and circle each other’ ...
Lucia limbaria on Oxalis perennans. This female butterfly was displaying what I have come to regard as classic egg-laying behaviour. She had fed at the flower and then proceeded to walk across the foliage. Note how she drags the tip of her abdomen across the foliage. About half-way through the video she tucks her abdomen behind a leaf and pauses for a few seconds. Was she laying an egg.? Unfortunately I didn't notice this until I reviewed the video when I got home, so I failed to check the leaf. As eggs are usually laid in groups (which takes some time) it is possible that she did not, and had rejected that location. Egg-laying also seems to take place where the obligate ant (Iridomyrmex rufoniger) is active, and ants at this spot were notably absent.
The ants are essential to the survival of this species as they herd the newly hatched larvae to their nests, escorting the growing larvae to and from the Oxalis foliage to feed until they eventually pupate underground and emerge as adult butterflies. In return for their protection the ants receive drops of a sugary 'honeydew' from a nectary gland at the rear of the larva.
Photographed at Beaumont Common in Burnside, where this colony has only recently been discovered.
The behavioural aspect of green technology investments: a general positive model in the context of heterogeneous agents. Knobloch, Mercure arxiv.org/abs/1603.06888 #q-fin
Compiling studymaterial at work. "Exponering" means exposure in swedish...probably not the kind of exposure most of the people here think of first though. ;)
Red Kite with one or two missing feathers. The Muddy Boots Cafe on the Harewood estate, Leeds.
New edit with shadows lifted slightly in LR
If dogs can be trained to drive cars, it also means human behaviour can be changed. #transportchoice
Check out the You Tube clip for some background. www.youtube.com/user/TheDrivingDogs
The whole campaign is bloody brilliant. Trust the motor car industry to have all the best ideas.
I got a whole sequence of these little cuttlefish mating and feeding - even the passing of the sperm packet...........
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
I know it's garbage, but I think it's too big for this gull to swallow, and he/she played with this ball for the whole hour I was at the pond.
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Sleeping Beauties Series: Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) bedding down for the night.
Martin County, Indiana, USA.
September 14, 2013.
I noticed this GSF behaving oddly in the late afternoon as shadows were lengthening in the "secret garden" at my friends' property in southern Indiana... Turned out that it was looking for a place to roost for the night! Once it chose just the right spot I waited for it to settle in, then took a photo. :-)
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Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com