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We celebrated Earth Day with a wonderful afternoon of art, music and talks about protecting our environment. Hundreds of activists, artists, environmentalists and youth gathered to pay tribute to Mother Earth at Tamalpais High School’s Student Center in Mill Valley on April 22, 2018. Photo by Fabrice Florin.
We started the day with the first public showing of our Art Float for Social Change -- a unique parade float created to inspire more people to participate in democracy. A large globe spun over a circle of hands and a carousel of art, pulled by a colorful dragon. Singers and speakers of all ages stood on the decorated stage to share their ideas for a better world. Many more painted original posters about the earth, which were featured on the float carousel.
Dozens of environmental partners showed participants how we can all take action to reverse global warming -- organizations like the Sierra Club, Resilient Neighborhoods and 350 Marin, to name but a few. Our guest speakers were Mark Squire from Good Earth, Crystal Chissel from Project Drawdown, Marin Supervisor Damon Connolly and young local activists: they gave informative talks on a wide range of solutions to curb climate change. Participants also learned to plant a veggie garden, ride an electric bike, while others registered to vote.
We ended the day with music performances by the charming Twinkling Stars of Singers Marin, young singer Emma Spike, and sing-alongs led by Reed Fromer with the Freedom Singers and Redwoods Seniors for Peace.
Earth Day 2008 brought together diverse groups of people who might not have connected otherwise: activists, artists, environmentalists, makers, children, teenagers, teachers and parents. We are particularly grateful to all the young people who participated in our celebration.
This community gathering was produced by Democracy Cafe, Eco Warriors of MVCAN and Tam Makers, with the gracious support of Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley Community Action Network, Good Earth, Driver’s Market, Sloat Garden Supply and all our partners.
Thanks to event organizers Fabrice Florin, Jennifer Tomkins, Carol Korenbrot, Geo Monley, Grace Severtson -- and all the wonderful volunteers who helped produce this inspiring event. We think making art, playing music and talking with people of all ages and backgrounds can build mutual understanding and engage us to take meaningful political action together.
Join your neighbors to make political art and music, join good causes -- and keep democracy alive!
View more photos from Earth Day: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72157666187468057
Learn more about Earth Day: fabriceflorin.com/earth-day
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Although coastal ecosystems are already among the most valuable on the planet, the current estimates of the economic value for some of the oceans blue carbon sinks are surprisingly low. How should human perception of these important ecosystems change as we learn of the vast benefits of maintaining healthy coasts and oceans.
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2009 World Environment campaign for Landcare Australia - celebrities Candice Falzon and Brent Staker wearing Landcare WED promotional t-shirts and jeans in Kings Park. Various poses with an inflatable world globe which ties in with the national campaign. Perth city skyline in the background.
1 June 2014. El Fasher: A technician from the Ministry of Environment in North Darfur inspects a massive oven used to dry during the brick production in El Fasher, North Darfur. The production of bricks in Darfur is one of the most contaminating activities and erosive for the soil.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net
Camouflage is the concealment of otherwise visible objects by any combination of methods that allows them to remain unnoticed. It may be used by animals, soldiers, military vehicles and other objects to blend with their environment, or to make them resemble something else.
Petroglyph expert Paul Nevin uses a wet sponge to reveal carvings made up to 1,000 years ago on rocks in the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2020. Made by an Algonquin-speaking group known as the Shenks Ferry people, many petroglyphs on a stretch of the Susquehanna were flooded by dam construction decades ago, but sites like Big and Little Indian Rock are now on the National Register of Historic Places. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Kyle Rittenburg, manager of Binghamton Urban Farm, sorts lettuce at the farm's headquarters on Tudor Street in Binghamton, N.Y., on Oct. 8, 2020. Operated by the nonprofit Volunteers Improving Neighborhoods, Inc. (VINES), the farm has been able to expand into adjacent vacant lots as well as other lots throughout the city following a buyout program for flood-prone residences. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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An illustration of a tree defending itself from a moving bulldozer.
Talent: M. Pulkeria Ratih
Lighting: Rendy S.
Make up/Wardrobe: Diene P. and Irine Yusiana R.
Photographer/DI: AM
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DSM).
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Dutch Gap Conservation Area is seen in Chesterfield County, Va., on Aug. 12, 2019. The area protects 810 acres of woods, wetlands and wildlife bordering the James River, and in 2017 a boardwalk for hiking and viewing, as well as a paddle craft launch were installed. The Audubon Society names Dutch Gap one of the top birding sites in Virginia. Home to a large heron rookery, it attracts bald eagles and other hard-to-find species. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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The Dick and Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain is seen in Lackawanna County, Pa., on Aug. 28, 2019. Once planned for partial commercial development, the 2,200-acre preserve was purchased by the Nature Conservancy in 2001. It features rare heath barrens marked by stunted pine and oak trees and low-lying shrubs such as huckleberry and blueberry. It is home to 18 rare species like the sallow moth and barrens buckmoth, as well as snowshoe hare, ruffed grouse, turkey, deer and bear. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Cattails grow at Dutch Gap Conservation Area in Chesterfield County, Va., on Aug. 12, 2019. The area protects 810 acres of woods, wetlands and wildlife bordering the James River, and in 2017 a boardwalk for hiking and viewing, as well as a paddle craft launch were installed. The Audubon Society names Dutch Gap one of the top birding sites in Virginia. Home to a large heron rookery, it attracts bald eagles and other hard-to-find species. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Agastache 'Apricot Sprite'
Pennisetum villosum
Dahlia 'Honka'
Coleus 'Chocolate Mint'
Rudbeckia 'Prairie Sun"
Dahlia HS 'Date'
Foeniculum vulgare
Tagetes 'Linnaeus'
Gladiolus nanus 'Nathalie'
Nicotiana langsdorffii 'Lemon Tree'
Salvia coccinea 'Lady in Red'
Gladiolus nanus 'Amanda Mahy'
Lilium 'Parryi'
Tigridia pavonia 'Speciosa'
Lilium 'Orange Marmalade'
Dahlia 'Bishop of Auckland'
Lilium henryi
Gladiolus ramosus 'Robinetta'
Tigridia pavonia 'Canariensis'
Lilium 'Sunny Morning'
Lilium 'Manitoba Fox'
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
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Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
The tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska, fills most of this image. The Malaspina lies west of Yakutat Bay and covers 1,500 square miles (3,880 square kilometers).
Informal meeting of transport and environment ministers on 29 October 2018 - Family photo. Copyright BMVIT/Mike Ranz
"Natural" stream.
Notes:
Harder to define. Maybe need several examples. Many types of streams depending on many factors such as slope, ground, soil, climate, riparian vegetation, surrounding vegetation, saltiness, tides, etc... (see Rosgen stream classification)
However healthy streams have the characteristics that they find the lowest energy state that balances the flow and the sediment load (silt to boulders) against the slope and stream discharge (Lane's scale).
This takes time to establish and is fluid (no pun). Rivers will always work to reattain this low energy state in response to changes. In natural state rivers meander around and require this area to relieve pressure due to heavy precipitation, spring melts droughts and other factors.
Confining rivers with too much engineering changes the character of the river in ways that may alter the rivers discharge and flow causing it to readjust. This fast flows in places may cause erosion, channelization. Disrupted flows will facilitate sedimentation and shallows in other places. Both conditions require heavier and heavier engineering to control.
Perhaps leaving rivers a wider unsettled area to allow natural flooding and meandering would be beneficial. The costs of engineering to protect infrastructure, especially a few private homes is especially high. The decreased need to build and monitor levies and other control structures would certainly offset the losses due to tax losses from this land. Property rights is a big issues - perhaps as much of rivers' ~ 500 year flood plains (maybe ~1000 if considering climate change) should be bought out over time and put into national trusts or turned into national parks.
As carbon concentrations in the atmosphere increase, so do concentrations in the ocean, with resultant acidification as a natural chemical process.
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Columbia Crossing overlooks the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2020. Featuring access to hiking trails on the river, Columbia Crossing also uses several stormwater-friendly practices, like permeable pavement in its parking lot, to reduce pollution reaching the Susquehanna. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) signe this Seal the Deal 2009 ( UNEP ) during the openning of this exhibition " Greening the United Nations in Geneva " at the Palais des Nations.
(UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre)
A recent report by UNEP and GRID Arendal, Protecting Arctic Biodiversity, highlights the four major areas relating the Arctic region and biodiversity that need strengthening and further funding. The primary arising issue is climate change and its effect on wildlife and ecosystems.
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New York ironweed blooms at a restored grassland in Loudoun County, Va., on Sept. 9, 2020. The Piedmont Environmental Council conserved and restored the seven-acre property along Howsers Branch, which is near Gilberts Corner and the nonprofit's Roundabout Meadows farm. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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