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The living room has had a teensy wee bit of a change-round ~ yet again! There is a jolly good reason for it, though, which I have posted about on my blog: lavenderandpearls.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/looking-to-futur...
I know it's still a minimalist's nightmare but a fair 'ole bit of decluttering/downsizing has gone on in here ;-)
Voigtlander Vito CL 35mm film camera. Agfa CT precisa 100 film. Random double exposures over a week.
Nothing makes me happier than divesting from fossil fuels and supporting CLEAN, RENEWABLE ENERGY!
HAPPY DIVESTMENT DAY!
Photo by Jody Strait.
On January 20th 2009 our Country will have it's first minority President. Certainly a historical change, but more importantly it will change the whole dynamics of our top government and we the people. Barrack will bring fidelity and continuity. People will get involved once again not unlike the J.F.K. days. The 44th president of the United States has brought immediate change, we can only hope he can bring the changes needed.
HBW!!!!
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany – Colonel Andrew Powell, Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity Bavaria presided over the Grafenwoehr Health Clinic Change of Command ceremony Friday, 21 July on Tower Barracks. During the ceremony Lt. Col. Shannon Shaw relinquished command to Lt. Col. Rose Smyth. In his remarks Powell was unstinting with his praise of Shaw's many accomplishments and leadership and said Smyth was "The right candidate to succeed Shaw and to lead the Grafenwoehr clinic into the future". To learn more about the people and facilities of the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity Bavaria (MEDDAC Bavaria) and the clinics they support in Ansbach, Grafenwoehr, Hohenfels, Stuttgart and Vilseck visit the MEDDAC Bavaria website at rhce.amedd.army.mil/bavaria
Photo by Michael Beaton, U.S. Army Medical Department Activity Bavaria Public Affairs (Released).
The University of Natural Resources and Environment (UNRE) students in Ho Chi Minh City took 350
configuration photos, to send the solidarity message from Vietnam to 350.org?
Ho Thi Cam Nhu
Volunteer Coordinator ?
CHANGE
5th FL, HT Building, 132-134 D2 St, WD 25, Binh Thanh Dist., HCMC
T:(+84)8668 13513 | M: (+84) 126 9876 335 | F: (+84) 8 222 61254
Rainforests of the World exhibit, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
best viewed small, unless you'd like a laugh :)
sophamore ps effort more complex...i bit off a bit more than i could chew
A mom tells us the story of her daughter’s hydrocephalus and how surgery at CURE has changed their lives.
$90. Great condition. 4 speakers, 3 CD Changer with cassette and AM/FM Stereo. Includes instructions.
Playing For Change @ Klauss Vianna's Theater - Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil - 16/06/11
Pictures by Rapha Garcia / www.flickr.com/r_garcia
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NGO ‘Cooperation for Development’ has held round tables and discussion with
local citizens, farmers, women and youth in 5 mountain villages of Rasht
valley, Tajikistan. They raised the awareness on climate change threats for
local agriculture which based on glaciers water. As glaciers melt faster
the water reserves shorten. Both scientific evidence and peoples
observations witnessed that Tajikistani farmers need to take urgent
measures towards climate change adaptation and conservation of agricultural
biodiversity. Overall 200 people took part in the discussions.
This photo was taken in Sasyk Bulak village.
This is my experiment shot for this week. It was taken late evening when it was almost dark...I kept my aperture open for about 30 seconds to try to get the smooth effect on the water....!
The Sunday Challenge group..Playing with time!
In Syntagma Square, every hour, the changing of the guard ceremony, performed by the Presidential Guard, is conducted in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the area between the Syntagma Square and Parliament building. The guards known as Evzones are elite soldiers from light infantry and mountain units of the Greek Army who also guard the Palace and are chosen for their height and strength
Brecon Interchange has seen the number of operators double since the 1st of September timetable change. First in the series is the Trawscymru service T4 which was operated by Stagecoach South Wales now jointly operated by Williams Coaches and Celtic Travel. Seen leaving Merthyr Bus Station is Celtic Travel Volvo B8RLE MCV Evora BU75 WPP, going to Newtown.
Dear 350 team
More than 350 people were joined during the 10/10/10 for support and to
have input on solutions to the climate crisis in Azerbaijan
Place of actions: in Baku city, in Ganja city and in Sumgayit city Activities:
Green Bike Actions, plastic hunt action, cleaning campaign, tree
planting, constructing solar panels, city walks. Organizers: Green
Bikers Club (Baku, Gandja, Sumgayit branch ), Green Baku, Greens and Ganja
Education Information Center
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Savings group
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In the Teso region of Uganda, Cordaid and partner organization SOCADIDO support female farmers who struggle to maintain their livelihood because of climate change, land depletion or a lack of tools and agricultural knowledge. Cordaid and SOCADIDO provide seeds, tools, technology and training.
The program started in August 2017 and has been implemented in 9 sub-counties in Teso and supports 9000 farmers in total. The main objectives are threefold: increase food production, reduce post-harvest losses and improve access to finance for the farmers.
Each participating farmer received 2 kilograms of seeds, mainly black-eyed peas, corn and vegetables like cassava and potato, which they plant in a plot of land of about one acre.
All 9000 participating farmers are put into groups of 30. The 300 farming groups are trained on harvest loss reduction, how to organize savings and credit and improve economic activities.
Each sub-county also has a marketing association. That is where the farmers collect their produce reserved for the market after they put aside all they need for their own consumption. The farmers get paid per kilogram of product sold. The association connects the sellers and buyers.
"The problem was that they had a poor bargaining position and often had to sell their products for a bad price", says Tom Edul, Program Coordinator for the Female Farmers Deserve Better program. "As a group, the farmers are much stronger and better equipped to improve their income."
Another vital factor in raising the value of their products is the possibility to save the harvests for a longer time. In some cases, the time of year greatly determines the price of the products. By providing the farmers with special bags, called PICS bags, fruits and vegetables can be saved for months. Now they can wait for the right time to sell and get a much better price.
The successful project is about to end in a few months, but SOCADIDO is eager to extend and expand. Edul: "We really want to continue. The results are great, and we have really made a difference in the lives of these farmers. Our methods of distributing PICS bags, providing tarpaulins for drying the harvest, which increases the quality of the produce, and the implementation of irrigation systems, are unique in this region. The farmers truly appreciate our efforts and they now have the confidence and courage to sell their products on the markets for a reasonable price. They can sustain themselves and even grow their businesses."
Five Hundreds of citizens are all together to form human banners calling to
end fossil fuel toward 100% renewable energy.
Here's a closer look at that power plant on the opposite shore of Cayuga Lake, 4.2 miles north of where I was standing in Taughannock Falls State Park as the Google Earth line lies. This is a coal-fired plant built in 1955 with a 323-megawatt (MW) capacity, and it supplied a significant percentage of the electricity used in central New York for a little more than 50 years. The company that built it sold it in 1999, but the company that bought it went bankrupt 12 years later, so somebody else bought it at fire sale prices and came up with a plan to convert it from coal to natural gas.
This wasn't a unique plan. According to the internet, since 2011, about a third of the nation's 360-someodd coal-fired power plants have converted to natural gas in response to stricter environmental controls coupled with a sharp drop in natural gas prices thanks to advances in gas production technologies. (Think fracking.) The benefit to the world at large from this is that electricity is cheaper to produce with natural gas, natural gas production isn't as environmentally destructive (mostly), and natural gas power plants emit about 40% as much carbon per unit of electricity as coal.
The downside is that natural gas is still a fossil fuel, and though its impact on the environment is considerably less than coal, it's still not nothing, and in some places it can be pretty destructive. In short, the power doesn't come without consequence, and the people of New York wanted consequence-free power. The people living around the Finger Lakes protested the conversion, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo put a stop to it. He wanted New York to be free of fossil fuels by 2050, and he thought a natural gas conversion would slow that transition down. The result of the denied permits was that the Cayuga Lake Power Plant shut down for good in 2019.
So, does this qualify as an environmental win? I wouldn't be so fast. Even if you ignore what the removal of 323 MW from New York's electricity supply does to the grid and where the state might be turning to make up for the loss, there's the question of what happens to the plant itself. The company that bought this plant in 2011 has no interest in just leaving the plant here to rot, so they decided to convert the property into a server farm devoted to mining cryptocurrencies. You know, bitcoin and ethereum and other digital Ponzi schemes. They wouldn't be producing any power here, but a server farm consumes an enormous amount of electricity, and a shuttered power plant already has all the transformers and transmission lines a server farm needs to handle all that. The internet quotes local officials as saying this server farm would use enough electricity to power 16,400 homes. I work that out to a constant draw of about 20 MW.
This has inspired the people of New York to step back and say, "No, wait ... that's not what we meant," because if there's a more pointless use of 20 MW (12 of which would be produced by a natural gas plant just like what they don't have here) than the invention of fake internet money on an increasingly overburdened grid, I can't think of what it'd be. The last report I saw in my quick internet survey about this was published in January, though, and the last eight months have seen a precipitous collapse in the price of tulips ... er, I mean cryptomoney, so I don't know if this is still a thing or not.