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I composed this photograph during a recent photography trip in Canada's Banff National Park. It captures a portion of a Wildlife Corridor across the Trans-Canada Highway.
When the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park was upgraded from two lanes to four, steps were required to curb the high rate of wildlife-vehicle collisions on the highway. Transportation planners and scientists developed a two-fold solution: Install electrified fencing on both sides of the twinned highway to keep large animals from accessing the highway right-of-way, while constructing wildlife underpasses and overpasses to connect vital habitats and help sustain healthy wildlife populations by allowing animals to cross under or over the highway.
With a total of 44 wildlife crossing structures (six overpasses and 38 underpasses), and 82 km of electrified highway fencing, Banff National Park has the most wildlife crossing structures and highway enclosure fencing in a single location on the planet.
It took up to five years for some wary species, like grizzly bears, to start using wildlife crossing structures; however, most species are now using them to safely cross the Trans-Canada Highway. Since fencing and crossing structures were first constructed, wildlife-vehicle collisions have dropped by more than 80%.
UC Botanical Garden, "Crops of the World" section.
Enjoy your lunch! This grain sustains about 1/5 of the world, if I remember correctly.
In November '99, there were no signs yet of the big changes that the Belgian rail freight scene would undergo during the next 5 to 10 years. There's no sign yet of any private operators, nor any modern traction. Crossrail would only start running 4 years later, and the 77 series diesel locos were still in an early stage of testing & delivery.
We see SNCB 7351 hauling a steel train coming from the Sidmar steel factory, now Arcelor Mittal, to the Gent-Zeehaven yard. The train is running past the Sifferdok, that actually still looks very similar today.
B 7351, Gent Sifferdok, November 4, 1999.
A Vesper Sparrow, with food in the form of a grasshopper, paused briefly at Red Rock Coulee Natural Area south of the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. It was presumably on its way to nearby young to sustain, though I did not see a nest. (The small chestnut patch visible at the top of its wing is a diagnostic feature for this species.)
(This is a sunset lyrics)
As the setting sun reaches its zenith, its brilliance is finite, confined to a single, fleeting moment.
With the gradual dissipation of clouds, the splendor of the sun fades, never to be rekindled.
The passage of time has wrought its toll on me, causing me to endure the ceaseless changes that life presents, akin to the shifting of clouds upon the weary visage of existence.
After a protracted journey, I have come to a profound realization: time has eluded me, and my moments of joy have been ephemeral, never to be fully realized or sustained.
The Rough-legged Hawk, seen in yesterday's upload, circles warily, keeping one eye on the roadkill that no doubt would sustain it for a day or two, and the other on a suspicious red Toyota parked nearby, wherein sat a happy photographer, clicking away.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
But I digress.
It is Remembrance Day in Canada. Our community will gather at the cenotaph at the end of Centre Street for a brief ceremony. (Note: "cenotaph" is derived from two Greek words meaning "empty" and "tomb".) School children will recite "In Flanders Fields". This poem was written in 1915 by a Canadian doctor and teacher, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, who served in Belgium and France during the First World War.
"It is a terrible state of affairs," he wrote to a friend just prior to departure. "I am really rather afraid, but more afraid to stay at home with my conscience."
Enduring the Battle of Ypres in 1915, he wrote to his mother: "The general impression in my mind is of a nightmare. We have been in the most bitter of fights. For seventeen days and seventeen nights none of us have had our clothes off, nor our boots even, except occasionally. In all that time while I was awake, gunfire and rifle fire never ceased for sixty seconds ..... And behind it all was the constant background of the sights of the dead, the wounded, the maimed, and a terrible anxiety lest the line should give way."
John McCrae died of pneumonia in January 1918. Here is his famous poem.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
Artist: Emily Ding "Sustainable Fashion" Mural
The artwork features two people representing the alternatives for sustainable fashion. The woman holds a boat shuttle for handmade loom weaving and there is mending visible on the man's denim jacket. He is smelling marigolds which is a natural dye. Both figures are standing in front of mounds of clothes reminding us to support slow fashion and reduce the amount of textiles going into landfills and reduce fashion waste.
Mural commissioned by the organization Street Art For Mankind
FS (Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane) Stadler "Flirt" ETR 170 106 in special livery "Sustainability Days" as train R17155 from Brenner / Brennero to Meran / Merano arrives Ponte Gardena station (Trentino Alto Adige / Südtirol / Italy)
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The word sustainability can be heard every day, on too many occasions. The idea of green bicycles might no be so bad. I can see the wink.
This image is part of my series Juxtaposition.
Juxtaposition places two or more things side by side to elicit a response within the audience's mind.
To see more in this series visit Juxtaposition,
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While in Yellowstone NP, we encountered several bighorn sheep ram along the hillside grazing on the grasses sticking up through the snowy landscape. The light was so very beautiful and enabled us to capture that eye, which I always find so intriguing.
This ram had some pretty beat up horns too. Made me wonder how curled they would have been if they weren't so worn down. Of course, I also thought about what stories those curls could tell about the life of this beautiful bighorn sheep.
But getting back to that eye ... there are few animals that possess such a mesmerizing eye as the BHS, at least to me. Eye contact is generally locked and sustained. Such a thrill. :-)
Thanks so much for stopping by to view and especially for sharing your thoughts and comments.
© 2016 Debbie Tubridy / TNWA Photography
Portugal accounts for 50% of the world cork harvest. Cork Oaks live about 150-250 years. Here you cannot legally cut down these beauties except for forest management felling of old, or unproductive. It's a protected species and unbelievable beautifull!! See the large versions of this and other works here!
The River Ouse which flows though the English city of York floods often. These flood gates protect the houses along the river bank and were in use within the past month.
Light breeze, early morning, ebb tide, fish biting — maintaining social distance on the lagoon.
Gold Coast sunrise on the Currumbin Creek Estuary — where fish are big and boats are small.
Artist: Emily Ding "Sustainable Fashion" Mural
The artwork features two people representing the alternatives for sustainable fashion. The woman holds a boat shuttle for handmade loom weaving and there is mending visible on the man's denim jacket. He is smelling marigolds which is a natural dye. Both figures are standing in front of mounds of clothes reminding us to support slow fashion and reduce the amount of textiles going into landfills and reduce fashion waste.
Mural commissioned by the organization Street Art For Mankind
We have planted the yard (mostly my wife) with sustaining wildlife in mind.
September is caterpillar season and each year our yard provides host to a fair number of caterpillars to help maintain their numbers in our area.
Monarch caterpillar on Milkweed. Beaverbrook Environs, Columbia, Maryland.
Todays Our Daily Challenge: In The Future.
I had lots of different ideas for this challenge but nothing grabbed me. I finally decided to go with this idea and after I took this shot, was happy I went with it.
Trees are like the lungs of the earth, taking in the carbon dioxide and giving off oxygen via photosynthesis. One of the keys to reducing green houses gases is via the use of trees. Forestry is considered to be one of the most sustainable and renewable resources on the planet. In fact, you could say the future depends on them. In the future, thanks to much knowledge that has been gained over the years, perhaps we can hope that there will be more attention paid to how trees are used and how trees like this, in particular, that are many many years old, are a very valuable resource indeed.
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I've been doing research on the environmental and social impacts of ports, and let me tell you, ports can be dirty places! The port facility itself can be energy intensive and emit pollutants, and then if you add all the ships and trucks and rail... whoa. Making ports more sustainable is an important goal for us.
The Port of Long Beach, shown above, is one port that is making great strides. One simple idea that cuts down pollutants and green house gases is to require ships and trucks to "plug in" for their electricity, so they're not idling their own vehicles while waiting.
Sustainability and neo-ecology are the megatrends of our time. The topic of sustainability will be addressed in a target-group-oriented way via modular approaches consisting of keynotes, empathetic inspirations and hands-on workshop sessions, and will lead to prototypical developments of new solution strategies in the participants’ own contexts. The workshop offers a complete package based on the artistic and technological approach of Ars Electronica and the technical, economic and systemic know-how of the Institute for Clean Technology.
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Photo showing a satellite image of the European Space Agency ESA at the Ars Electronica Center's Deep Space 8K.
Fotocredit: Ars Electronica - Robert Bauernhansl