View allAll Photos Tagged MATTER
Frame from an unexpected encounter with Saturday's Black Lives Matter march through downtown Baltimore City.
Time Matters
Miniature Handsewn Book
1.5" x 2"
Mixed media: paper glass, ink, acrylic
Catherine L. Mommsen
2011
In private collection, Iowa, USA
You may see inside pages here:
www.flickr.com/photos/imajica1817/5737430287/in/photostream/
www.flickr.com/photos/imajica1817/5737981314/in/photostream
Photo credits: Hippittee at onefortoday.blogspot.com/
From Hat Matters series done in collaboration with Finnish millinery artists.
www.wearethepeople.fi/fashion/hat-matters/
Model: Riina / Modelpoint
MUAH: Kasper Vähä-Ojala
Hat & style: Joni Leppiniemi
Accessories: Musta Höyhen Boutique
Scala eXchange 2016, Thursday, 8th - Friday, 9th December at Business Design Centre, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7432-scala-exchange-2016#pro.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Another detail of the Coyote Buttes landscape, here an eroding banded bentonite mound subject to heaving from dry-wet cycles.
Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. How times have changed since World Environment Day was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned. Agriculture and deforestation account for 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. These two sectors can therefore contribute to reducing emissions if agricultural practices are changed.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress.
We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster. We should find a way to measure the general well-being of the people and planet rather than just raw economic growth.
You Can Easily Green Your Daily Routine. View Tips “here”.
Your Planet Needs You!
Unite to Combat Climate Change!
------------------------------------------------------
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
This Indigenous woman is acknowledging a rally taking place on the traditional hereditary lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation of the Anishinaabek Peoples, upon which the city of Guelph is built.
There were about 1000 people in attendance at this rally in downtown Guelph, to honour the children who lost their lives in residential schools and those survivors of these horrific institutions. Key roads were cordoned off by city police.
There are over 630 First Nations' communities in Canada representing over 50 different First Nations people and 50 different Indigenous languages. Some people refer to the continent of North America as Turtle Island, based on an Indigenous creation story.
Find the Dark Moon tattoo at DarkHold Store:
marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Darkhold-Dark-Moon-Tattoo/27...
Recently two small civil society organisatons, the SA Faith Communities' Environmental Institute (SAFCEI) and Earthlife Africa sued the South African government for doing a secret (and probably corrupt) multimillion dollar deal with Russia around nuclear energy. The court ruled in April that the deal was unconstitutional because it was done in secret, and set it aside [ie nullified it]. This photo shows 2 activists outside the High Court on April 26, immediately before the court ruling.
Leica MP; Kentmere 100 film; Ilfotec HC developer 1+31; Heiland split grade print on Ilford MGIVRC paper; print scanned with Canon flatbed scanner; dust spots removed with Lightroom.
"Blood" was painted on the stairs leading up to Guelph's main catholic church as symbolism for the catholic church's association with the heinous crimes of abusing, even killing, Indigenous children.
Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. How times have changed since World Environment Day was launched by the United Nations General Assembly 36 years ago. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty. The world has yet to figure out how it will deal with global warming, changing rainfall patterns, melting glaciers, rising sea-levels and climate refugees. In many countries defence forces might find themselves torn between humanitarian relief operations and guarding their borders against climate refugees, as climate change and scarce resources, forcing millions of climate refugees across the borders.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned. Agriculture and deforestation account for 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. These two sectors can therefore contribute to reducing emissions if agricultural practices are changed.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress. Experts predict climate change-related stresses -- including disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over scarce resources -- could permanently uproot 200 to 250 million people by mid-century.
United Nations demographers estimate that the world’s population will grow from today’s 6.7 billion people to somewhere between 7.8 billion and 10.8 billion by 2050. The solutions of global warming, climate refugees, extreme poverty and high levels of population growth will require entirely new relationships between the world’s human and natural systems.
According to new technique and research our planet's continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago. We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster.
You Can Easily Green Your Daily Routine. View Tips “here”.
Your Planet Needs You!
Unite to Combat Climate Change!
Encourage Slower Population Growth!
You can view slide pages from Social Geographic. “here”.
***********************************************************************************************
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj75Arhq5ho
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
So close no matter how far
It couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
I never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters
Villasimius (CA).
The thrill of shooting with a Leica M6, thanks NyYankee
Leica M6
Noctilux 50 mm 1.0
Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Color 100
Epson Perfection V500
Clojure eXchange 2016, Thursday, 1st - Friday, 2nd December at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7430-clojure-exchange-2016 Images copyright www.edtelling.com