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El día 13 desde el puerto de Vigo zarpará rumbo al puerto de Szczecim en Polonia. A bordo del Buque “Morning Calm” de la Naviera Eukor viajarán unos 40 contenedores de carga de la Brigada de Infantería “Galicia” VII y Brigada de Sanidad, así como alrededor de 250 vehículos entre los de la #BRILAT, los del Cuartel Fuerza de Respuesta Aliada(HQ-NRDC-ESP) de Bétera y el resto de Unidades participantes.
The equipment and vehicles have been transported to the Port of Vigo. The materiel of the VJTF Brigade has been loaded onto the vessel.
The ship Morning Calm, of the shipping company Eukor, will set sail from Vigo to the Port of Szczecin in Poland on 13 May. It will transport around 40 containers of the 7th Infantry Brigade ‘Galicia’ (known as BRILAT) and of the Medical Brigade and around 250 vehicles belonging to BRILAT, the Headquarters of NATO Rapid Deployable Corps Spain (HQ-NRDC-ESP), from Bétera, and the other participating units.
My brothers and sister wolves in the wild need your help. wolves only hunt to eat, no trophies - just survival.
Let's put the word kind back in humankind... please stop the slaughter.
thanks for all you do.
Kachina the Wolf
does she look worried - yes, and me too. How could mankind slaughter these beautiful animals? Aerial hunting... really?
I received this email from NRDC today.
Please sign the petition, and donate if you can.
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( from NRDC )
The last time I wrote you, 37 wolves had been slaughtered since
the Bush Administration stripped them of their endangered
species protection in March.
Now I'm sorry to report that a terrible new milestone has been
reached: 106 wolves have been killed in the past 118 days.
That's nearly one wolf killed every day. And if Wyoming, Idaho
and Montana have their way, at least 900 wolves -- nearly 60
percent of the population -- could be exterminated this fall,
when a massive public hunt begins.
Make no mistake: This will be the very last summer for many of
Yellowstone's wolves -- unless immediate action is taken to stop
the killing.
That is why I am urging you to sign our petition to the Interior
Department demanding that it restore protection for wolves now:
www.nrdconline.org/ct/f7S6OqK1SuTD/
Tourists visiting Yellowstone have been horrified to learn that
the very wolves they've traveled hundreds and thousands of miles
to see are being gunned down just outside the park. Hundreds of
tourists a day are signing petitions to protest the slaughter.
And as I write, our partner organization, the Natural Resources
Defense Council (NRDC), is circulating those petitions in the
park AND taking court action -- along with 11 other conservation
groups -- to compel the Bush Administration to restore
protection for the wolves.
What can you do to help the wolves of the Northern Rockies from
where you live?
First, be sure to sign our petition:
www.nrdconline.org/ct/f7S6OqK1SuTD/
Then, if you'd like to do more, you can donate to help the NRDC
Action Fund build a national outcry against the slaughter:
www.nrdconline.org/ct/v7S6OqK1SuTC/
Your support will help us broadcast the wolf's plight and
mobilize America against the Bush Administration's heartless,
wolf-killing policy.
Swift action is imperative since the wolf death count rises
higher every day.
Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are planning public hunts for the
region's remaining 1,400 wolves this fall -- the first in more
than three decades. Once the leaves fall from the trees, wolves
will be easy targets for aerial sharpshooters who can gun down
entire packs in a matter of minutes.
That is why we must act quickly this summer to compel the Bush
Administration to restore the wolf's desperately needed
Endangered Species protection.
Your petition -- and any contribution you can give to our Call
Off the Guns campaign -- will help us put an end to this
wolf-killing rampage:
www.nrdconline.org/ct/v7S6OqK1SuTC/
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
NRDC Action Fund
Governor Moore Speaks at the NRDC Green Leaders for Change Advocacy Summit by Joe Andrucyk at Sofitel, 806 15th St NW Washington DC
Was a huge honor to illustrate this childrens book with Chronicle Books in San Francisco.
The book written by Molly Smith in conduction with The NRDC which is the Nation Resource Defense Council and a wonderful cause.
The book is an activity book that teaches children ways they can help protect their environment and some the species within it. Was really fun to work on a great project. Not to mention the last two pages has more than 80 full color stickers to use throughout the book! So fun!
Please go buy the book here and help support a great cause : www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/p...
Bread and Butter Stream Cleanup 11/5/16: We have perfect weather to work with over 50 volunteers as we completely filled 5 dump trucks with trash and debris we removed from the stream and the surrounding fields behind the shopping centers!!! This included 185 bags of trash, 26 boxes of rotting food from behind Sava-A-Lot Grocery Store (in the field next to J.D. Byriders Fence), a huge file of trash in the middle of the field, 5 couches, 4 shopping carts, 4 broken mirrors, 2 dressers, 2 headboards, 2 mattresses, and much more but best of all – we even caught someone dumping in the stream not 15 minutes after we completed our cleanup! We did call the police on this individual and they gave him a $1,500 fine!!!Thank you everyone so very much for all your incredible hard work under such tough conditions! Our volunteer’s dedication of working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment is without equal! Thank to everyone who volunteered with us today.
We would also like to thank the Ocean Conservancy, American Rivers, National Public Lands Day and Trash Free Maryland for all their assistance and support on this cleanup. We also wish to thank Entenmann’s Bakery Outlet for donating donuts, Tradepoint Atlantic and Walmart for your generous donations allowing is to purchase much needed supplies! We would also like to thank Towson University Women’s Soccer and the community for all the incredible volunteers they supplied! Thank you also to Baltimore County Highways for supplying us 5 dump trucks and a backhoe when their roll off dumpster truck broke down this morning!!! Their help was invaluable with all the furniture we removed!
Was a huge honor to illustrate this childrens book with Chronicle Books in San Francisco.
The book written by Molly Smith in conduction with The NRDC which is the Nation Resource Defense Council and a wonderful cause.
The book is an activity book that teaches children ways they can help protect their environment and some the species within it. Was really fun to work on a great project. Not to mention the last two pages has more than 80 full color stickers to use throughout the book! So fun!
Please go buy the book here and help support a great cause : www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/p...
Note: this photo was published in an Oct 29, 2009 blog titled "In improving communities, small steps can make a big difference." It was also published in an undated (early Aug 2011) blog titled "DeMystifying Remote Access."
Moving into 2015, the photo was published in a Jan 28, 2015 blog titled "Facebook Employees Reveal 22 Awful Things About Working At Facebook."
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I had a lunchtime dentist appointment in midtown Manhattan the other day, and when it was over, I decided to walk a couple blocks over to Bryant Park, behind the New York Public Library. It was a sunny day, and I thought I might see some gorgeous babes sunbathing on the park lawn in their bikinis (even being an amateur photographer is a tough job, but someone's gotta do it). If not, I thought perhaps I'd find some photogenic tourists or oddball New Yorkers that I could photograph.
As it turns out, almost all of the central lawn was being covered over with some kind of wooden platform -- presumably for an upcoming concert performance of some kind -- so nobody was sunbathing out on the grass. But since that area was unavailable, and since it was still the lunchtime period, the periphery around the central lawn was chock-a-block with people. There's now a cafe immediately behind (i.e., to the west) of the library itself, and it was doing a land-office business. And all along the north and south sides of the park, as well as the broader western side, there were tables and chairs and benches where people could enjoy their lunch with whatever food or entertainment they had brought along.
I was already aware of the pentanque court on the western side of the park, and knew that I'd find one or two good pictures there. But I didn't realize that the Parks Department had set up two ping-pong tables, as well as several tables for chess-players. In addition, there were a few card games underway, and there was also a section set aside for people who wanted to borrow local newspapers to read.
As for the people: I had to remind myself that because Bryant Park is smack in the middle of mid-town Manhattan (a block away from Times Square, filling the square block between 41st/42nd street, and 5th/6th Avenue), most of the people enjoying their lunch were office workers. So the men typically wore slacks and dress shirts, and a surprising number of them were also wearing suits and ties. The women wore dresses and skirts, and generally looked quite fashionable and presentable. Of course, there were also tourists and students and miscellaneous others; but overall, it was a much more "upscale" bunch of people than I'm accustomed to seeing in my own residential area on the Upper West Side.
I was surprised by how many people were sitting alone -- eating alone, reading alone, listening to music alone, dozing alone, or just staring into space alone. You'll see some of them in this album, though I didn't want to over-emphasize their presence; equally important, many of the loners just weren't all that interesting from a photogenic perspective. So you'll also see lots of couples, some children, a couple of families, and occasionally larger groups of people who were eating and chatting and enjoying the warm summer day.
Three activities dominated the scene, all of which were fairly predictable, under the circumstances: eating, reading, and talking on cellphones. You would expect people to be eating at lunch-time, of course; and you wouldn't be surprised at the notion of people reading a book as they sat behind the New York Public Library on a warm, sunny day. But the pervasiveness of the cellphones was quite astonishing ... oh, yeah, there were a few laptops, too, but fewer than I might have imagined.
I've photographed Bryant Park several times over the past 40 years, going back to some photos of 1969 Vietnam War protest marches that you can see in this album. I was here in the summer of 2008 to take these photos; I came back in January 2009 to take these photos of the winter scene; and I returned again for these pictures in March 2009 and these these pictures in the late spring of 2009; all of these have been collected into a Flickr "collection" of albums that you can find here. But if you want to see what New York City's midtown office workers are doing at lunch, take a look at what's in this album.
Was a huge honor to illustrate this childrens book with Chronicle Books in San Francisco.
The book written by Molly Smith in conduction with The NRDC which is the Nation Resource Defense Council and a wonderful cause.
The book is an activity book that teaches children ways they can help protect their environment and some the species within it. Was really fun to work on a great project. Not to mention the last two pages has more than 80 full color stickers to use throughout the book! So fun!
Please go buy the book here and help support a great cause : www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/p...
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The white squares are drill sites....somewhere between San Antonio and Houston, TX.....I suspect this is what Ohio will soon look like too! Along with each square, millions of gallons of water is removed from the available hydrogeologic cycle,100's of heavy trucks come and go to the sites on roads not designed for such use, toxic chemicals are not disclosed by drilling companies and earthquake activity has increased.
Fracking Demands Effective Safeguards for All
Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City
Natural Resources Defense Council
"....To extract gas through fracking, a well is drilled vertically, typically several thousand feet deep – and sometimes as deep as a mile - then cut horizontally beneath a bed of shale. Water is injected at high pressure to crack the shale and open up pockets of gas. The water is mixed with sand and chemicals, some of which are toxic or carcinogenic, to make what is called fracking fluid.
The process is destructive. A single well requires at least four acres of land to be cleared, plus access roads and equipment staging areas, as well as between 2.4 million and 7.8 million gallons of water.
After a well is fracked, between 10 percent and 40 percent of the fracking fluid returns to the surface, carrying toxic heavy metals and volatile organic compounds, high levels of salts and, in some cases, radioactive elements from deep underground.
In the eastern United States, this "produced water," as it's called, is usually then pooled in an impoundment pond and/or sent to wastewater treatment plants generally unequipped to deal properly with these pollutants. Because the fluid contains a lot of salt, it is sometimes sold to public work crews to be used to clear icy roads, leaving the harsh chemical residue to run off into nearby fields and streams.
All of this means that, even when fracking operations go well, they put our water at risk - underground, on the surface and at our tap - as well as plant and animal life that depends on clean water.
Exxon CEO Comes Out Against Fracking Project Because It Will Affect His Property Values.....MORE - Feb 2014
thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/21/3316881/exxon-ceo-pr...
In drilling, moreover, accidents happen....."
MORE: switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/fbeinecke/fracking_demands_eff...
a good overview of the fracking process, waste and disposal and more. "....Supporters of the process are influenced by the billions of dollars to be made from fracking, plus a boom in production and jobs. Opponents are concerned about pollution and the harm to public health and the environment. The public is being misled by both sides, a recent Associated Press article reports. Some scientists researching the issue say opponents of fracking as well as its supporters are coming up with misleading information....." MORE:
www.waterpollutionlawyers.com/hydraulic-fracturing/
the best commentary I've read on disclosure:
‘Fracking’ bosses would choke if tables turned- A “fracking” executive, a state legislator and an oil-and-gas-industry lobbyist walk into a bar..... more www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2...
United State Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) www.epa.gov/hydraulicfracture/
"....FracFocus, the (voluntary) hydraulic fracturing chemical registry website. This website is a joint project of the Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission...." fracfocus.org/
About 3.8 million acres in Ohio have been leased to or acquired by drilling companies....Drilling is expected to heat up during the next three years, with 160 wells drilled in 2012, 650 in 2013 and 1,075 in 2014....companies include Chesapeake Energy Corp., Chevron Corp. XTO Energy Ltd (aka ExxonMobil)EnerVest, Anadarko, Devon Energy, Gulfport Energy and more.... Akron Beacon Journal: www.ohio.com/business/new-players-staking-claims-to-ohio-...
Bill allows some hiding of ‘fracking’ chemicals - Columbus DIspatch March 27, 2012 www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/03/27/bill-al...
‘Fracking’ is thirsty work - But groundwater isn’t plentiful in eastern Ohio Columbus Dispatch March 25, 2012
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/03/25/frackin...
Pipeline was launched in February of last year and is dedicated to coverage of the Marcellus Shale boom in Pennsylvania. Since the site's launch, Pipeline was also named Best Specialty Site at the 2011 Online News Association award ceremony in Boston. shale.sites.post-gazette.com/
April 2012 Dispatch - "Rules on drilling in parks got more lenient" www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/04/24/rules-o...
August 2012 - "The Facts about Fracking Fluid and its Disposal" you can die if you brush your teeth, but fracking fluid is ok according to OilPrice.com "....let’s deal in facts rather than mindless cut and pastes that naysayers righteously proclaim to an unwary public who go about brushing their teeth, driving behind salt spraying trucks, sitting in aircraft during deicing procedures, sending their clothes to the local dry cleaner, buying toys for birthdays and holidays, and shopping to feed and clothe the family without thinking of the potential harm they are doing to themselves and mother earth....." MORE: oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Facts-about-Fracki...
November 2012 - Columbus Dispatch - Is there enough water for "fracking" boom www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/27/is-ther...
November 2012 - On Point with Tom Ashbrook - Fracking for natural gas booms on. But it uses and pollutes a lot of water. We’ll look at the push to reduce, reuse, and recycle “frack water.” more onpoint.wbur.org/2012/11/26/better-fracking
January 2013 ....and we trust that the "big guys" will care for our towns and environment?! - "Chesapeake CEO among Forbes' worst for 2012....Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon did an abominable job managing the company and his image in 2012, according to Forbes.....Chesapeake (NYSE:CHK) has the most wells drilled in Ohio with 134 and plans to drill up to 4,000 in the next 20 years....". MORE: www.bizjournals.com/columbus/morning_call/2012/12/chesape...
January 2013 - New York Times - what started as an effort to protect her family farm, became a larger effort to combat fracking. Yoko Ono and her son Sean. "....Speaking of his father, Mr. Lennon said, “He loved it there because we had our own well water.” ...." MORE www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/nyregion/yoko-ono-in-albany-ra...
Sean Lennon NYTimes op ed - "Destroying Precious Land for Gas - .....In the late ’70s, when Manhattanites like Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger were turning Montauk and East Hampton into an epicurean Shangri-La for the Studio 54 crowd, my parents, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, were looking to become amateur dairy farmers......I was lucky enough to experience trout fishing instead of tennis lessons, swimming holes instead of swimming pools and campfires instead of cable television....." www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opinion/sean-lennon-destroying...
One of the bigger challenges in candid/street photography is the need to capture poignant moments and unique perspectives, especially when visiting crowded areas. Complex scenes can be constructed by allowing the eye to follow human activity in the scene, and hence capturing the right slice of time is crucial to showcase this drama. This is what separates a great street photographer from a moderate one.
While wandering through the hallowed hallways of the famous Kailasanatha temple, dating back to the 6th century AD, at Ellora caves in India, I came across a open courtyard (carved into sheer granite) where a visiting tourist was trying to capture the thick supporting columnwork. What made the scene more interesting was an onlooker standing by one of the columns gazing at this tourist. The immediate surroundings, with elephants carved into the rock and adornments festooned on the temple walls above, as well as the sheer overhang of the bedrock above, made the entire scene even more dramatic.
This scene existed but for a fleeting moment; the tourist in saree walked away while the onlooker disappered between the multitudes of supporting pillars. It highlighted the importance of capturing at the right time, and for keeping my eyes open for the right moment.
Ellora Caves
Maharashtra India
Check out my 2018 Photography calendar here: goo.gl/Nd7p9G . All proceeds from the purchase of this calendar go to NRDC (www.nrdc.org/) and WildAid (www.wildaid.org/)
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NRDC, Okinawa, Japan
Navy Medicine Historical Files Collection - Facilities
Photo by Joel Sartore Not me...Gingko7 (I don't live in Wolf Country nor will anyone else if Bush and Butch get their way)
Bush handed down a ruling allowing the slaughter of the Gray Wolf, an endangered species. It is going to happen this winter.
UPDATE: "The New York Times" is running an ad to save the gray wolves from mass murder. (In the Friday, Feb1 edition)
UPDATE Bush baby gives the green light on wolf slaughter.
UPDATE The slaughter has begun. Hoppy, a wolf injured in a coyote trap was one the the first know victims.
Hopefully the last update Environmental groups have taken the matter to federal court and won. The protected status of the wolf as an endangered species has been restored. The Bush Administration threw in the towel. Of course now it is reneging on it's promise to save the Polar Bears.
Update: Nov. 13, 2008 Bush is once again trying to get the wolves killed before he leaves office. He never stops. Never.
Update May 8,2009 Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar handed the fate of the wolves over to the states. They will be slaughtered once again. The wolves aren't safe under the Obama Administration either. Apparently decisions made my judges in federal court can be discarded like a dirty crumpled napkin.
Update 8/10/2009: Alaska has been one big killing field for wolves. Thanks to Palin and the new bloodthirsty governor. The PAW act, cosigned by big hearted politicians will hopefully be passed.
Governor Moore Speaks at the NRDC Green Leaders for Change Advocacy Summit by Joe Andrucyk at Sofitel, 806 15th St NW Washington DC
Was a huge honor to illustrate this childrens book with Chronicle Books in San Francisco.
The book written by Molly Smith in conduction with The NRDC which is the Nation Resource Defense Council and a wonderful cause.
The book is an activity book that teaches children ways they can help protect their environment and some the species within it. Was really fun to work on a great project. Not to mention the last two pages has more than 80 full color stickers to use throughout the book! So fun!
Please go buy the book here and help support a great cause : www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/p...
Rising high above Bogota is the Monserrate, topped by an ancient shrine that atracted many pilgrims for decades. While they had to endure a strenuous climb to the top, a modern tramway whisked me to the top in a few minutes, and the view from above was something else.
On one side of the divide, there lay an endless array of rolling mountains draped with lush forests, with nary a sign of civilization. And on the other, the forests gave way to a concrete jungle - towering skyscrapers, gleaming glassy high-rises, and an endless ocean of humanity. And straddling both of these was the unique environment of the Monserrate
As I lay at the top pondering this juxtaposition, moisture-laden clouds rolled in from the mountains, accompanied by increasing gusts of wind. Crepuscular rays streamed from the sky highlight patches of the cityscape below, while a foreboding grayness took over the rest. I didn't stick around long after, just enough to capture this beautiful scene of the clouds unfolding over the cityscape of Bogota
Monserrate
Bogota Colombia
Check out my 2018 Photography calendar here: goo.gl/Nd7p9G . All proceeds from the purchase of this calendar go to NRDC (www.nrdc.org/) and WildAid (www.wildaid.org/)
$4.019 per gallon. Alma Street, Palo Alto, CA.
Note the fenders and rack on the bike.
This photo made it to Flickr Explore on April 9, 2008.
Seen at NRDC Switchboard on March 13 2011, where they misspelled my name.
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RED ALERT: America's wolves are facing a grave new threat.
Senators Baucus and Tester of Montana have introduced legislation that would circumvent our latest court victory by stripping wolves of their endangered species protection in both Montana and Idaho.
The bill would lead to open season on wolves. Hundreds of them could be gunned down.
There is no time to lose. The Baucus-Tester bill could be attached to a spending bill and voted on in the next two weeks -- without public hearings or debate.
This threat is so dire, we are urging all NRDC Members and activists to call your two senators immediately and express your strong opposition to this measure.
Click here to get the simple information you need to place those two calls. It will take only a few minutes of your time but could help spell the difference between life and death for wolves across the Northern Rockies.
Do NOT assume that your senators will defend wolves because they are pro-wildlife or pro-environment. Many such senators will be under tremendous pressure to support this measure if it is attached to a spending bill.
Tell your senators to protect wolves by opposing the Baucus-Tester bill (S.3864) and any attempt to attach it to a spending bill.
This bill is a blatant attempt to bypass court orders and good science, which say that wolves should remain on the Endangered Species List, protected from mass killing, until they're fully recovered.
Congress has never before removed an animal from the Endangered Species List. The Baucus-Tester bill will not only lead to the slaughter of wolves, it will set a terrible precedent by replacing scientific judgment with political calculation -- undermining the very basis of the Endangered Species Act.
The return of wolves to Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies is one of America's greatest conservation success stories. Don't let Congress turn that success into slaughter.
Please stand up for wolves by calling your senators today!
Sincerely,
Peter Lehner
Executive Director, NRDC
These photos were taken by and provided courtesy of Photographer Trezeline Ireland
On 9/27/14 - 142 volunteers removed enough trash to completely fill a 40 dumpster which included 290 trash bags of litter from Bread and Cheese Creek (from the Berkshire Community to North Point Boulevard) and North Point Road. These photos show them hard at work on this day! 10 tires, 6 shopping carts, 4 cans of paint, 3 rugs, 2 TV’s, a mattress and box spring, a reclining couch, a 55 gallon drum, and a toilet were all items that were removed from this historic stream. Additionally 1 ton of metal was pulled from the creek and will be recycled with the money going toward helping to pay for our next cleanup. All food left over will be donated to Rita’s Table a local food kitchen dedicated to helping feed the needy of Dundalk. Thank you Volunteers you are worth your weight in gold and more!!!
We are a group of volunteers who worked with the community in association with National Public Lands Day, the Ocean Conservancy, American Rivers, Trash Free Maryland, and Day to Serve on this cleanup.
We would like to Thank Entenmann’s Baker Outlet for donating donuts; Re/Max Realty for donating hotdogs and a hotdog cart for the day; Lafarge for donating pulled pork, potato chips and soda; and Gotugo for donating a portable restroom for the event!
We would also like to thank the following groups who showed up in large number to help for the day: The Boy Scouts, The Girl Scout Brownies, the U.S. Navy, Dundalk High School, Saint Timothy’s School for Girls, Towson University Students, Johns Hopkins University Students and the Forestry Association! Thank you all for helping to make this cleanup an incredible success!
You can learn more about Clean Bread and Cheese Creek form our Website: www.BreadandCheeseCreek.org, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Google+ and Flickr!
I’ve been interested in this since the 70s and now with SoundCloud and Bandcamp more new material is available
Was a huge honor to illustrate this childrens book with Chronicle Books in San Francisco.
The book written by Molly Smith in conduction with The NRDC which is the Nation Resource Defense Council and a wonderful cause.
The book is an activity book that teaches children ways they can help protect their environment and some the species within it. Was really fun to work on a great project. Not to mention the last two pages has more than 80 full color stickers to use throughout the book! So fun!
Please go buy the book here and help support a great cause : www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/p...
while hanging out with some fabulous folks from the national resources defense council at last night's roftop mixer here in atlanta (as part of the NTEN conference), one of my new friends said, "wow, that parking garage is kind of beautiful." so natch, she's my new BFF, cos when i first started here on flickr, my muse was a parking lot. i took this for her, and for me, and for anyone else who finds parking garages pretty.
more @ tags (where i apologize for the horrific noise in this shot) >>
These photos were taken by and provided courtesy of Photographer Trezeline Ireland
On 9/27/14 - 142 volunteers removed enough trash to completely fill a 40 dumpster which included 290 trash bags of litter from Bread and Cheese Creek (from the Berkshire Community to North Point Boulevard) and North Point Road. These photos show them hard at work on this day! 10 tires, 6 shopping carts, 4 cans of paint, 3 rugs, 2 TV’s, a mattress and box spring, a reclining couch, a 55 gallon drum, and a toilet were all items that were removed from this historic stream. Additionally 1 ton of metal was pulled from the creek and will be recycled with the money going toward helping to pay for our next cleanup. All food left over will be donated to Rita’s Table a local food kitchen dedicated to helping feed the needy of Dundalk. Thank you Volunteers you are worth your weight in gold and more!!!
We are a group of volunteers who worked with the community in association with National Public Lands Day, the Ocean Conservancy, American Rivers, Trash Free Maryland, and Day to Serve on this cleanup.
We would like to Thank Entenmann’s Baker Outlet for donating donuts; Re/Max Realty for donating hotdogs and a hotdog cart for the day; Lafarge for donating pulled pork, potato chips and soda; and Gotugo for donating a portable restroom for the event!
We would also like to thank the following groups who showed up in large number to help for the day: The Boy Scouts, The Girl Scout Brownies, the U.S. Navy, Dundalk High School, Saint Timothy’s School for Girls, Towson University Students, Johns Hopkins University Students and the Forestry Association! Thank you all for helping to make this cleanup an incredible success!
You can learn more about Clean Bread and Cheese Creek form our Website: www.BreadandCheeseCreek.org, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Google+ and Flickr!
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, USA
Rehoboth Beach is a city along the Atlantic Ocean in eastern Sussex County, Delaware.
The town of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware often bills itself as The Nation's Summer Capital due to the fact that it is a frequent summer vacation destination for Washington, D.C., residents (121.78 miles / 2 hrs 46 mins from The White House)
Vacationers are drawn for many reasons, including the town's charm, tax free shopping and famous for its beaches, wooden boardwalk, eclectic shops, amusements, and sporting activities
Rehoboth Beach is one of the principal cities of Delaware's rapidly growing Cape Region.
In 2011, the NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council awarded Rehoboth Beach with a 5-Star rating in water quality.
Out of the 30 states with coastline, the Delaware Beaches ranked number one in water quality in 2011.
Rehoboth Beach is also known as one of the mid-Atlantic coast's popular LGBT Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender - gay-friendly getaways because of the large number of gay-owned and operated businesses and because of the gay-frequented stretch of beach near Queen Street, known as Poodle Beach.
Dogfish Head Brewery's original brewpub is located on the town's main strip Rehoboth Avenue.
Rehoboth (Hebrew: רְחוֹבוֹת) means "broad spaces." It appears three times in the Old Testament as a place name: a well dug by Isaac (at modern Wadi er-Ruheibeh) (Gen. 26:22), a city on the Euphrates River (Gen. 36:37; 1 Chr. 1:48), and one of the cities of Asshur (Gen. 10:11). Hence the name may have had a special appeal for the religious founders of the city, although the adjacent bay had already borne the name Rehoboth for at least a century before the town was founded.
In September CAMP Rehoboth Community Center / Letters from CAMP magazine hosts an annual Labor Day weekend event called SUNDANCE with an fundraiser auction and dance party at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center.
CAMP Rehoboth is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, gay and lesbian community service organization, originally developed to “Create A More Positive” relationship among all the people of the Rehoboth Beach area.
Each October Rehoboth Beach hosts the Annual Sea Witch Halloween & Fiddlers Festival ( Happy Halloween - The Blessed Samhain Festival - Autumn Holidays Celebration) with a parade, Trick or Treat, and the very popular broom tossing event right at the beach.
There is a summer bus service that makes it easy for beach goes to travel easily between Rehoboth Beach Delaware and Ocean City Maryland.
There is a ferry from Cape May New Jersey that makes it easy to travel to Rehoboth Beach Delaware,
BestBus offers summer bus service directly to Rehoboth Beach Delaware from Midtown Manhattan New York City
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Rehoboth Beach town, Sussex County, Delaware state, USA The United States of America country, North America continent
July 25th 2015
Governor Moore Speaks at the NRDC Green Leaders for Change Advocacy Summit by Joe Andrucyk at Sofitel, 806 15th St NW Washington DC
I almost didn't make it here. Between a kerfuffle caused by lack of information about road conditions, and my own planning over-zealousness, I was about to make the choice of not hitting this destination. But I changed my mind at the last minute. And after two days of hiking in absolutely serene surroundings in an alpine landscape, I absolutely fell in love with this place that I almost missed going to. This place was Arslanbob, a hidden village nestled in the shadow of snow-capped peaks reaching to 4000m and above.
The magic started right with the drive to Arslanbob. The sight of mountains all around as soon as I left Osh behind calmed my rattled min. The rolling green hills that seemed to stretch endlessly, dotted with a few oak trees and scattered farmsteads, reminded me of the Palouse in USA, except for the backdrop of the snow-capped Pamir range in the distance. And this blissful scenery gave me company all the way through to my destination, and erased away any second thoughts I had about my destination.
One of the biggest lessons I learnt was just to follow your gut instincts while traveling, and make the best of what you are offered. Had I not, I would have missed this beautiful vista where the afternoon sun glinted on the snow-capped peaks rising above the village, while fast-moving clouds created ever-changing lighting conditions on the grassy slopes.
It's Giving Tuesday. Join me in supporting these two wonderful organizations WildAid (www.wildaid.org/) and NRDC (www.nrdc.org). You can purchase my 2018 Calendar here ( goo.gl/Nd7p9G ) whose proceeds will directly go to these two non-profits.
Arslanbob
Kyrgyzstan
Note: this photo was published as an illustration in an Aug 2009 Squidoo blog titled "Timing my Life in Songs." It was also published in a May 1, 2010 blog titled "The Memories We Carry." And it was published in a May 28, 2010 blog titled "The Most Important Thing to Do This Weekend: Enjoy Your Holiday." It was also published in a May 31, 2010 blog titled "This Day Has a Purpose."
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in an Aug 8, 2012 blog titled "‘Moving Wall’ Veterans Memorial Coming to Missoula."
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The Vietnam Memorial opened to the public on November 11, 1982. I visited not too long after that, though I don't remember exactly when. All I remember was that it was a dark, cold, drizzly Saturday afternoon, and that it was very, very sad.
God knows how many times I've been back to Washington since then, but some 25 years after my initial visit, I thought I should come back and see it again ... when the weather was likely to be better, and when I would likely see a different generation of visitors.
I made two separate visits, and got two different impressions. My second visit was just before dawn, at 5:45 AM. There was a crescent moon, and one star, in the pink-and-purple sky; but there were no people at all. Though the memorial is simply a chronological list of names, one can imagine that the 58,261 dead are sleeping in peace as the night fades away and the sun returns to warm the granite stone once again. I took a few pictures of this early scene; you can decide for yourself if it's peaceful or sad.
My first visit was just before sunset, on a Sunday evening. I heard one of the park guides telling her flock that the summer crowds had been smaller this year than in the past, but there were still plenty of people along the length of the wall. What interested me most about the visitors was their age: I saw a few people who looked old enough to have been adults back in the Vietnam era, though I saw no one in uniform, and no one who looked like he or she had actually been there.
But there were far more people of a younger generation: people in their 30s or 40s, whose father or mother or uncle or aunt might have served in that war. Not surprisingly, I saw people carefully searching out specific names, and resting their finger or hand for long moments on a single name, as if they might somehow be able to communicate with a dead relative after all these years.
And then there were the children -- some as young as one or two, but most looked to be 8 or 10 or 12. They may have been the grandchildren of some fallen soldier, or they may have been entirely unrelated to those 58,261 individuals. But one way or another, you could see that the Wall made an impact on them: they were quiet and reverent, respectful of what they could barely grasp, as the list of names surrounded them and stretched as far as they could see, to the left and to the right.
Indeed, the very idea of creating a monument that consists of nothing but a long inclined wall containing a list of names is so simple, so ... well, almost primitive ... that you can't imagine it would have any impact, at least not on the typical jaded visitor. But it does have an impact, it really does...
If you haven't seen this memorial, you owe it to yourself to carve out a little time when you next visit Washington. And if, like me, it's been 10 or 20 or 25 years since you last saw it, I think you need to come see it again.
Announcing my 2018 Photography Calendar filled with landscape and travel imagery to inspire you to travel around the world. Now available for $16.99 here www.lulu.com/shop/sathish-jothikumar/2018-photography-cal...
From the Pacific coast of the US to the Pacific coast of Asia, this calendar will take you on a journey from mystic Japan, through the rugged mountains and ancient civilizations of Central Asia, the Arabian splendor of Morocco and the diverse landscapes of the US.
And remember, this calendar is for a good cause - all proceeds will get donated to NRDC and WildAid.
When the planet's ecology is facing multiple threats, be it climate change, wildlife exploitation and poaching, pollution, we need a protector, and NRDC works tirelessly to safeguard the place we live. I truly believe in its mission to protect our planet.
Illegal wildlife trade has had a serious impact on the populations of many endangered species. While there are efforts to curb poaching, WildAid believes in attacking the demand side of the equation by persuading consumers and strengthening enforcement. I do hope that they succeed in their mission.
One of my fondest memories of Morocco was the hours I spent wandering through the narrow alleys of Chefchaouen, the "blue" village. I had envisioned a beautiful old medina swathed in blue, replete with old markets hawking tourist knick knacks, cramped hotels and airy riads lined along labyrinthine alleys rubbing shoulders with intricately decorated mosques, and a place devoid of locals. Yet, what I found there was much much more.
Instead of a touristed village, I instead found myself in a living medieval village. Narrow alleyways were bustling with small bakeries and grocery stores, with children being dragged by their parents to school, with kids enjoying an afternoon game of soccer, with parents off to the evening prayers or to the refreshing waters of a nearby waterfall. Despite the crowds, I found nooks and crannies of peace in the hidden alleys of the village.
Nevertheless, I returned in the morning, and wandered the empty streets devoid of people, with shuttered shops and no other color apart from the blue, the lifeline of the village.
Chefchaouen
Morocco
You can find one more spectacular image from Chefchaouen in my 2018 calendar here: goo.gl/Nd7p9G. All proceeds will get donated to NRDC (www.nrdc.org/) and WildAid (www.wildaid.org/)
NRDC ESP troops arrival at Alexandroupolis International Airport “DEMOKRITOS”, heading to “KANDILAPTI” camp. Greek Armed forces contributed along with the local police and authorities ensuring the safety and smooth onwards movement for the Spanish delegation, on May 31, 2017.
Photo : Sargent Patsidis Isaak, NRDC ESP troops landing at Alexandroupolis International Airport “DEMOKRITOS”, heading to camp “KANDILAPTI”, in-processing procedures inside the camp , Greek Combat Camera, NRDC GR, Local Public Affairs Office .
Photo : Private Nikiforos Anastasios, NRDC ESP troops landing at Alexandroupolis International Airport “DEMOKRITOS”, heading to camp “KANDILAPTI”, in-processing procedures inside the camp , Greek Combat Camera, NRDC GR, Local Public Affairs Office.
A meet-cute moment: two fans of opposite teams go for the same drink. Originally, the drink was a beer, which makes total sense, right? NO. We had to change it to a soda. Whatever.
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19/02/2016 : Milano, via del Carmine, palazzo Cusani: ex sede del comando della Divisione Legnano, ora sede del HQ NATO Rapid Deployable Corps Italy e del Comando Militare Esercito "Lombardia" (Ferdinando Reggiori, 1935)
Please mark your calendars for our Spring Bread and Cheese Creek which will be are largest cleanup to date! These photos show the current sad condition of this historic stream. We plan to clean up Bread and Cheese Creek form the Berkshire section to North Point Road on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, All the assistance from volunteers and sponsor is greatly appreciated! We know this is a huge section of stream to tackle but I know we can do it!
This cleanup will be in conjunction with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s Project Clean Stream and it will be our fifth year working with them! This cleanup will also be in conjunction with American Rivers. We will supply trash bags, gloves, water, snacks and lunch. A limited supply of waders and tools will also be available for sign out during the cleanup.
Remember, there plenty of ways for volunteers to participate. We will need every type of person of every ability level to contribute and assist with the Clean Up. Though it is true we will need people to dig out shopping carts and haul trash to the dumpsters, we can use people to run water, food, tools, and trash bags (both empty and full) to individuals in the creek. People to sort recyclables from the debris removed. People will be needed to work the grills as well as many other less strenuous activities. We are also authorized to sign-off on Community Service and Service Learning Hours for students. The more people we have, the easier the work will be for everyone. Please feel free to pass this information on to other who might be interesting in helping as well. As my grandfather always said, "Many hands makes the work light". We run our cleanups as a family event with all age groups welcome by developing plenty of ways for volunteers to participate.
Our cleanups are part of an ongoing effort clean the entire stream by the 2014 bicentennial celebration of War of 1812 Bicentennial Celebration. (Bread and Cheese Creek has been noted as one of the highlighted location on the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail) The creek played a rather significant part in the Battle of North Point which took place on September 12, 1814. Both the American and British Troops camped along its banks. It is rumored that the young heroes Daniel Wells (19) and Henry McComas (18) used the stream channel to sneak up on British General Robert Ross killing him with their muskets before being killed in return fire. This important part of our history should not be left the eyesore it currently is and those who died defending our country honored in this way.
You can learn more about us through our website at www.BreadandCheeseCreek.org become our friend on FaceBook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest or follow us on Twitter and/or join the Clean Break and Cheese Creek Group. You can also see photos of our past cleanups on Flickr and our videos on YouTube. You can also subscribe to out Electronic Newsletter.
If you have any comments or questions please contact us. Thank you again for your interest!