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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Dave Brelick, Cathy Brelick and John Vallejo attend Dignity Health Foundation’s Humankindness Gala 2017 on May 18th 2017 at City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Jenks for Drew Altizer Photography)
There are no easy fixes nor can business as usual continue, if humankind is to reduce the climate footprint of global agriculture while intensifying farming to meet rising food demands, according to an international scientist who has studied agriculture and climate interactions for nearly three decades.
“Climate change is a threat multiplier, intensifying the challenges of population growth, food insecurity, poverty, and malnutrition,” said Clare Stirling, a scientist in the sustainable intensification program of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). “With almost 60% of global food production coming from rainfed agriculture and more than 650 million people dependent on rainfed farming in Africa alone, our food system is already highly vulnerable to changing climates.”
Stirling, who is CIMMYT’s liaison with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), believes that agriculture—including smallholder agriculture—can play a key role in meeting greenhouse gas emission targets, but only with combined and coordinated efforts that cross institutional and disciplinary boundaries.
CIMMYT contributes through a systems approach to developing and promoting climate smart technologies—including drought tolerant maize and wheat varieties, conservation agriculture, and precision nutrient and water management—as well as research on climate services, index-based insurance for farmers whose crops are damaged by bad weather, and data and models for greenhouse gas emissions in India and Mexico.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Tierra Wallace, Carrie Moss, Joe Laska, and Fiora Gasky attend Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Arthur Kobin for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Atmosphere at Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
Model Crystal Morris, for Revenge Fashion Magazine. Fashion for all humankind. Revenge.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Elizabeth Keith, Holly Gibbs, and Kevin Lofton attend Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Arthur Kobin for Drew Altizer Photography)
Cotton warp and wool tapestry, Humankind, 1988, interpretation of an original design by Sir Robin Philipson, woven by the Edinburgh Tapestry Company
Acquired by Glasgow Museums in 1992
The specific theme of this tapestry is apartheid, set within the landscape of South Africa and showing the love of a white boy for a black girl. It was woven by master weavers of the Edinburgh Tapestry Company, David Cochrane, Shirley Gatt, Harry Wright and Johnny Wright, to mark their 75th anniversary. The subject expresses the humanity evident in Philipson’s work throughout each phase of his long and successful career as both a teacher and artist. Glasgow City Council chose this work from its collection to send to the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in July 2005 as an expression of support for the aims of the 31st summit which focused on debt relief and aid for Africa.
Picture credit: CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection. © Dovecot Tapestry Studio.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Lloyd Dean, Sr. Carol Keehan, and Keivn Lawson attend Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
There are two defining forces behind the majority of my days. The first is abandonment, in all its wonder, the things that humankind leaves behind. The second is running water. I feel pulled along the rush of streams and creeks, brooks of all description. Anything less than a river has a way of calling me out. Constrained passion, I consider it a journey worth making. High blood pressure, keep those banks tight and see what water makes of restriction. I've always tried to create with uncontained restraint. Pouring out my heart, but I write in bursts of twenty minutes. Give all you've got, but it's okay if you're short on endurance. There's a better depth of feeling found in a series of short sprints. Sure, maybe life is the marathon that ties them together – but I love living in a rush. Just got to make certain each step is sure.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Aaron Cullinui and Geetha Vallabhaneni attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
It's PEOPLE I can't stand!
Sguardo schifato, un must-have della sottoscritta per la stagione fall winter 2011!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0bM0TNxhI
...o diventi come me che sono debole,
che non ho regole,
che ho roba demodè!
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Wes Champion, Judy Champion, Sister Judy Carle, David Cyganowski, Daniel Chazen, Shawna Kenan, Chad Kenan, Jeannette Price, Jessie Lombardi, and Chuck Gallegos attend Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
How can humankind arrive at an eminently livable future? Which pioneers are already blazing trails in that direction and can make it accessible to all? These questions are being posed by the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival, and there’ll be no shortage of potential answers to them either!
Credit: tom mesic
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Gary Greensweig and Barbara Greensweig attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
An inter-dimensional door
Connecting humankind to the chaotic universe
This cropped photo was shot from a Hasselblad 500C with a Carl Zeiss S-Planar 1:5.6 f=120mm lens mounted on a 10mm Extension Tube using Adox CMS 20 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Entrance into the Tumulus Building
From www.maropeng.co.za
"On arrival, you will see a massive burial mound called the Tumulus, which is your entrance to learning the secrets of our ancestry.
The Exhibition
On the way
Along the pathway to the Tumulus building, stop to have a look at the site of an archaeological excavation. The Stone Age site has been excavated since October 2005 by scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand. The early stone tools found here belong to the Acheulean period and include handaxes and cleavers.
Early humans and their ancestors came to the Maropeng area to use the local rocks for tool-making as they pursued a hunter-gatherer way of life. The technology of these tools suggests they were made sometime between 1.0 and 0.5 million years ago during the Earlier Stone Age, prior to the appearance of modern Homo sapiens.
These stone tools are periodically on display in the Maropeng Original Fossil Area. Please ask a guide about this display area as the original fossils on display change regularly.
Pause, too, to read some of the messages about our past engraved on rocks as you walk up to the entrance. They include, among others:
The universe was formed about 14-billion years ago. The Earth is about 4.6-billion years old.
Life first emerged about 3.8-billion years ago. Our journey begins in South Africa, where fossils of some of the earliest known life forms on Earth have been found.
All of humanity shares an African heritage. We are one, diverse species across the globe, with our roots in Africa.
Maropeng architecture
The architecture of Maropeng, designed by GAPP Architects and MMA (Mphethi Morejele Architects), was based on the theme of discovery. When you approach the site, you see seven concrete fingers or 14m high concrete columns, signifying the centre, which moves in and out of sight along its approach. The concrete fingers have words on them that hint at the major themes of the exhibition, such as “Imagine”, “Explore”, “Contemplate”, and “Discover”.
The marketplace where you buy your tickets and a grassed amphitheatre that accommodates 10 000 people are sunken into the grounds around the Maropeng Visitor Centre, housed in the Tumulus Building. The Tumulus Building is evocative of a giant burial mound or perhaps an enormous buried fossil, with concrete “bones” sticking out the top. There is a learner centre and a hotel inside the development, which are mostly hidden in the rolling hills. All these aspects of Maropeng encourage the visitor to discover more, to dig deeper as a palaeoanthropologist would while looking for fossils embedded in rock, to find Maropeng’s many diverse aspects.
As you walk through the exhibition itself, you move in a journey of discovery from the beginnings of the world, through the history of humankind, right into the future. As you emerge, you discover one of the best views in Gauteng.
When you first see the tumulus, it looks like a giant burial mound. At the end of the exhibition, when you turn and see it again from the back, it’s totally transformed – it’s silver, grey and glass, hi-tech and futuristic. You get a feeling that you’re not at the end of history, but at the beginning of the future."
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - ? attends Dignity Health Foundation’s Humankindness Gala 2017 on May 18th 2017 at City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Jana Asenbrennerova for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at Dignity Health Foundation’s Humankindness Gala 2017 on May 18th 2017 at City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Jana Asenbrennerova for Drew Altizer Photography)
Photo taken at the "STUDIO(dys)TOPIA – At the Peak of Humankind" Exhibition.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Sun shining through parking garage. The darkness is humankind's most cherished abode. Humans fell in love with the caves thousands of years ago and love the darkness so much that our species has never left the cave. Is it any wonder that humankind needs a god and a savior and an eternal torment whereas all of the animals that prefer to live in the light have no need for any of these?
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Bob Rose and Kathy Tinios attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Atmosphere at Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Sarah Chaffin, MD, attends Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Jolyna Loanzon, Benji Loanzon and Craig Gooch attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
Cradle of Humankind comprises many palaeontological sites – all together, there are 15 sites which make up the World Heritage Site.
Fisherman gathering the fish he caught that night. I spent an early morning on the shore. What struck me was how small the amounts of fish were in their nets. So much work and so little to show for it. A situation that probably will be getting worse in the future. In their nets they also catch baby fish, to small to sell. Fish that never would reproduce.
India is getting to feel the results of overfishing. It is emptying their seas right now. Especially the shrimps are getting scarcer and scarcer. And why? Because of the endless demands from the West. So sad...