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The December 12th 2009 march of the Peoples in Copenhagen united from 30,000 (low government estimate) to 100,000 (high participants estimate) people from all over the world.
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Their messages:
"We want global cooperation between people. We can do it together. Even 100 persons collaborating in 10,000 cities means 1,000,000 people..."
"We want an ambitious, fair and binding legal Treaty."
"I want the governments to act more strongly to stop climate change."
"From Malawi, to the developed countries: give us a fair deal so we can reduce emissions and everyone is less affected by climate change"
"From Brussels: I'm here to protect the life, because we have reached a certain point that we have to act NOW. If I don't for myself, I have to do it for my children, I really hope that this is going to be the real deal, and that we will end this week by significant change. "
"I hope that we will fix some limits that will be reasonable not only for business, but for the Earth. I don't care about business, I care about life, and we are playing a game that we will not survive for a long time."
"I'm here for the children, all the children of the world; because we have to change the direction now, and share this beautiful world we have, we live on, together now. We have to change, to start to live sustainably, and to think always about the children, because they have the answer for us, how we should live our lives."
"I would like to see for the end of the deliberations of COP15 that everybody would take responsibility for their country, to start to only use sustainable energy, to stop the cars, to just live so we can stay on this earth for a long long, much longer time than it looks like now."
"I'm wearing a survival ball, designed to withstand any climate catastrophy, nuclear blast, biological warfare, pretty much anything... I recommend that everybody get one soon, before the real climate crisis happens. I would like to see substantial climate legislation passed, that really reduces our carbon emissions, and protects the ecology."
"A trade union organizer: Traditionally, from the Trade Unions, we are organizers to the big demonstrations. We've been looking forward to a peaceful demonstration. It seems to be rather big, the last numbers I heard was over 100,000. That's very big in Denmark, and in Copenhagen. We have the same interest in climate change as anyone else. We have to do something about it, we have to put pressure on the politicians, so they start acting, stop thinking in profit but act in favor of the climate. They should tighten up, they have to go further than what I've heard today. Twenty to thirty percent cuts in CO2 is not enough!"
"Paramedics: in a big demonstration, ambulance cannot get in, because of violence or police barricades. If people get injured, or get ill, or have any problem right in the streets, then there is an urgent need of paramedics. I hope we don't have much to do. I want to bring the message to the world: it was said that we would be 100,000 people. I didn't count them, I don't know if this is true. But there are a lot of people, it's a strong voice!"
"Germany: I'm here for the global civil movement for radical system change, not climate change. I don't expect anything from the negotiations of the so-called political leaders. I think that we the people all around the world have to take this in our hands, to save the climate and to fight for climate justice, and not to put our hopes on false economical solutions and so-called political leaders who don't do anything. So I'm looking for, after the negotiations, for networking with people all around the world, for strengthening the global movement for climate justice."
"Cape Town: We're fighting against Free Trade. I'm with a group that came from Geneva to Copenhagen by the Climate Justice caravan. What we expect from these negotiations is for the leaders to live up to justice, and to pay for the years of ecological debt that's been caused by the capitalist system; and we expect the northern governments to ... finances and technology to the South without conditions. We condemn the market-based mechanisms that have been promoted in these negotiations. We want a new system, a new Treaty, based on reparations for the people of the South. For 400 years of capitalism and colonialism and exploitation from Europe, 10 billion dollars is really nothing. And if they are pledging, I certainly hope they`re pledging to the UN Adaptation Fund, and not to the World Bank. I think that hundreds of billions are required for reparations, and that governments from the South need to be vigilent, because they have been impacted drastically, people are poor, people are jobless, because of the system; so we need hundreds of billions, that our governemnts need, to make sure that the North pays its ecological debt. Thank you"
"Holland: I'm here to demonstrate because I don't believe that the government is coming up with a good climate solution for the climate problem. They put too much importance on economics. I don't think that the priority is where it should be."
"Holland: I'm here to demonstrate because I truly believe in a greener future, and I'm worried that it's not going to happen with our current governments. So I'm hoping to motivate them with my presence here."
"Holland: I see a culture which is really about the ego, it's really distance from each other, we have to come back to each other, and back to the world."
The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), conducts a change of responsibility for Command Sgt. Maj. Phillip Cantrell as he departs the Regiment and welcomes Command Sgt. Maj. Samuel Stoker, at Conmy Hall on Joint Base- Myer Henderson Hall, Va. April 14, 2014. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Cody W. Torkelson)
Day 45 of 365 - Today was a catch up day - with Flickr and some of the paperwork I seem to have become inundated with lately. I'd managed to take a few pictures of things, but for me they carried no meaning, at least not today. I then spotted this red leaf amongst the green and took a few photos.
I had planned to take some more shots of it once the kids were settled, but my littlest had his first immunisations today and was in need of cuddles and rocking outside to aid him into slumber. As I sniffed his delightfully smelling head I felt reminded of the importance of cherishing the now.
Upon laying his sleeping body down I headed back into the garden, only to find the light had changed, and the plant was now cast in shadow.
Sony RX100
As it turned out, this was the last picture of the old war horse. Sadly missed, had some epic adventures across Europe and in Australia :(
Tobyhanna Army Depot
June 17, 2019
Reviewing Officer: Maj. Gen. Randy S. Taylor, U.S. Army CECOM Commanding General
Outgoing Commander: Col. Nathan M. Swartz
Incoming Commander: Col. John W. McDonald
Photographer: Thomas Robbins
Oh it has been a crazy two weeks at work and my brain didn't have time or energy to do anything more creative than this. I fell out my back slider with the camera and shot the first thing I saw...fall leaves...but at least I didn't miss another week!!!
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow visited Duke McKenzie’s fitness centre in Crystal Palace, where Time to Change has sent scores of young men and women with mental health problems.
Photo courtesy of Andy Forey photos, for Croydon Minds
Arctic permafrost soils contain high levels of mercury, nearly double as much as all other soils, the ocean and the atmosphere combined. The impact of climate change on mercury is likely to be complex. However, we know that thawing permafrost will increase soil erosion. This can cause the release of ancient stores of mercury.
Source:
P.F. Schuster. et al., Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury, Geophysical Research Letters, 2018, 45(3): 1463–1471; National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), January 2018; Assessment 2011: Mercury in the Arctic, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP); Global Mercury Modelling: Update of Modelling Results in the Global Mercury Assessment 2013, AMAP; UNEP Chemicals Branch, 2015; Mercury: Acting Now!, UNEP Chemicals Branch, UNEP, 2013; Technical Background Report for the Global Mercury Assessment, AMAP, 2013; A.G. Slater and D. Lawrence, Diagnosing Present and Future Permafrost from Climate Models, Journal of Climate, 2013.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Philippe Rekacewicz and Nieves Lopez Izquierdo
The 65th Engineer Battalion honored outgoing Forward Support Company First Sergeant, 1SG Josephine Francis and incoming First Sergeant, 1SG Gustavo Meza in a Change of Responsibility Ceremony on Hamilton Field.
Tobyhanna Army Depot
June 17, 2019
Reviewing Officer: Maj. Gen. Randy S. Taylor, U.S. Army CECOM Commanding General
Outgoing Commander: Col. Nathan M. Swartz
Incoming Commander: Col. John W. McDonald
Photographer: Thomas Robbins
"Bebop was about change, about evolution. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change." ~Miles Davis
For whatever reason today i kept thinking about change. And I came to the conclusion Sam Cooke said it best: A change is gonna come. As an adolescent I hated change and everything about it. For the life of me I couldn't understand why the things I loved, the people I loved, the circumstances I loved always somehow in someway eventually changed. When I was younger I used to think, If only I could freeze time to either prevent the inevitable from occuring, or, at the very least savor the moment a bit longer I would be able to deal with the shift... Sometimes, though I've grown, I still stumble upon such thinking. But life is about progression...about growth...about the new. I've grown to accept change for what it is, and for what it is not. Today I step a bit more easily into change, no matter how abrupt; I think because I know now without change I might not have become the person I am today, and I like him a whole lot better than the one I knew yesterday...
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Photo Info:
Nikon D300s
Nikkor 17-55mm 2.8
Natural Light
More changing sumac leaves on the far lakeshore. Likely more of these to come, one of my favorite leaves to watch change each year.
Guard Changing at Buck Hice.
Coldstream Guards parading to Buckingham Palace to replace the Welsh Guards.
Again, there was no way forward for this other than saturation to the max.
I did consider selective colour/b&w but after reading the descriptive plaque, I decided it needed to pop.
"This street art was commissioned by the Flavasum Trust to commemorate the life of 22-year-old Tom Easton, who was stabbed to death nearby in September 2006, and to the many others who have died as a result of knife attacks. It was painted at no cost by Ben Eine, whose images will be familiar to anyone who lives or works in this part of London.
"CHANGE" is an appeal to young people to stop carrying knives and causing so much damage to each other, and their families. It is a call to everyone to help make our local communities safer places to live in."
From megacities to small coastal communities, more people than ever before are confronting the challenges of climate and other environmental changes. And more than ever before, we rely on the media to raise the awareness of policymakers and the public in order to increase our resilience in the face of these challenges. But reporting on resilience requires pushing the boundaries of traditional beats, looking beyond national borders and exploring new angles such as human rights, population dynamics, disaster preparedness, and women’s health.
Best-selling author Alan Weisman will give a keynote presentation on his experience researching and promoting his landmark book, "Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?" which is now available in paperback. For Countdown, he spoke to experts in 21 countries about the challenges a growing population poses to a sustainable future and found a simple solution in empowering women through education and voluntary family planning. Following his presentation, a roundtable panel of environment and health reporters will discuss their surprising new stories where climate change meets resilience, population, and health.
This event is a part of our “Managing Our Planet” seminar series, which is developed jointly by George Mason University, the Brazil Institute, and the Environmental Change and Security Program. It is based on the premise that the impacts of humanity on the environment (including natural resources) are planetary in scale and require planetary-scale solutions.
Special thanks to UN Foundation, USAID, International Reporting Project, and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-resilience-beat-reporting-...
I made some changes in the past week on my MH repaint, Tundra, like changing her hairdo and some faceup fixing, I've done it days ago but just took the pics earlier today.
Changing seasons, changing oil - today was (hopefully) the final lawnmowing followed by changing the oil in the mower and mothballing it for next year, followed by changing the oil in the snowblower - I didn’t last spring - and getting it ready for the approaching winter.
A couple of years ago the CP changed the normal scene at Uni by taking the old unused "Pioneer 4" track and making a new connection from their flyover down to the BNSF Midway Sub. Now instead of trying to get on the BNSF St Paul Sub "Wrong Main" at Uni, they can get on the correct main down on the less busy BNSF Midway Sub. This greatly reduced CP's long delays while waiting to get on the BNSF at busy University JCT, but makes for a completely different scene at University with the long CP trains blocking the view, and being right on top of you....
Here's what the track used to look like.
Our changing environment has always had keepers. Now than ever before people must learn to do their part to help their environment as a keeper.
Thank you.
A sixpenny bit turned up in my change the other day. We used to call them "tanners" and are now equivalent to 2 and half pence. In 1950 it would be worth about a million pounds in todays money. This coin could buy you a round trip on the Titanic plus a ride on the tram and a bag of chips plus the bus fare home AND buy shares in major shares in major corporations. The other coin on the left is a 5p . Worth a SHILLING in old money. There would be 20 shillings in a pound and therefore 40 sixpences. It makes sense. You had to be there.