This is Pittsburgh’s Rachel Carson Bridge, which is named after one of the world’s greatest biologists and the founder of the global environmental movement. Rachel Louise Carson showed that some pesticides and synthetic chemicals were greatly harming the planet and us.

Remember DDT that once was so ubiquitous? Carson's book Silent Spring warned of the break in the world's natural systems by the frequent use of certain pesticides, including DDT.

Or how about that big hole in the ozone layer that was growing at an alarming rate over Antarctica in the '70s and that also had many Australians alarmed? Well, we do not talk about the ozone hole much nowadays. Why? Because we were able to coordinate global efforts to stop the root of the ozone depletion problem; namely, synthetic CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons). The ozone hole has since been shrinking and healing.

Consider how important Carson's scientific approach is to understanding and her movement in solving today's global environmental problem, global warming.

The genetic studies of Gregory Mendel of the Austrian Empire may have been greater but Pennsylvania's Carson is arguably right up there with Charles Darwin of Britain or the great molecular biologists James Watson of Chicago and Francis Crick of England, the discoverers of DNA’s double helix construct. Darwin theorized about the origin of species while Carson helped establish the groundwork to save Mother Earth, the natural system. There is much to admire about this early woman marine biologist of the ‘40s through ‘60s.

It's a nice bridge to walk.

Excerpt from torontolife.com:

All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016

Kusama filled this room with soft sculptures of a type of pumpkin native to Japan. It’s a tender gesture of affection for the natural world, with a subtle environmentalist message. At the AGO, visitors won’t be allowed to use cameras in this room, as a way of forcing them to relish the moment instead of stressing to get the perfect selfie.

In the 1970s the US federal govt planned to build a dam on the Delaware River on the Pennsylvania, New Jersey border. Hundreds of farms that were to be flooded were bought out along with all other planned to be flooded land along the river. Environmentalists were against the plan and eventually won out and the plan was scrapped. All of the now empty land was then included in the National Park Service's Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The Zimmerman farm is one of the larger preserved farmsteads in the park.

Back in the good old days (2015) we went on a cruise mainly around New Zealand that started from Sydney. We spent two days prior to the cruise exploring The Rocks and taking a trip to Manly, we had a great time, it was great. Would love to go back for a longer stay in that great city.

Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States, near the town of Page. The 710-foot (220 m) high dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of 27 million acre-feet (33 km3). The dam is named for Glen Canyon, a series of deep sandstone gorges now flooded by the reservoir; Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell, who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado's Grand Canyon by boat.

A dam in Glen Canyon was studied as early as 1924, but these plans were initially dropped in favor of the Hoover Dam (completed in 1936) which was located in the Black Canyon. By the 1950s, due to rapid population growth in the seven U.S. and two Mexican states comprising the Colorado River Basin, the Bureau of Reclamation deemed the construction of additional reservoirs necessary. Contrary to popular belief, Lake Powell was not the result of negotiations over the controversial damming of the Green River within Dinosaur National Monument at Echo Park; the Echo Park Dam proposal was abandoned due to nationwide citizen pressure on Congress to do so. The Glen Canyon Dam remains a central issue for modern environmentalist movements. Beginning in the late 1990s, the Sierra Club and other organizations renewed the call to dismantle the dam and drain Lake Powell in Lower Glen Canyon. Today, Glen Canyon and Lake Powell are managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

Since first filling to capacity in 1980, Lake Powell water levels have fluctuated greatly depending on water demand and annual runoff. Operation of Glen Canyon Dam helps ensure an equitable distribution of water between the states of the Upper Colorado River Basin (Colorado, Wyoming, and most of New Mexico and Utah) and the Lower Basin (California, Nevada and most of Arizona). During years of drought, Glen Canyon guarantees a water delivery to the Lower Basin states, without the need for rationing in the Upper Basin. In wet years, it captures extra runoff for future use. The dam is also a major source of hydroelectricity, averaging over 4 billion kilowatt hours per year. The long and winding Lake Powell, known for its scenic beauty and recreational opportunities including houseboating, fishing and water-skiing, attracts millions of tourists each year to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

In addition to its flooding of the scenic Glen Canyon, the dam's economic justification was questioned by some critics. It became "a catalyst for the modern environmental movement," and was one of the last dams of its size to be built in the United States. The dam has been criticized for the large evaporative losses from Lake Powell and its impact on the ecology of the Grand Canyon, which lies downstream; environmental groups continue to advocate for the dam's removal. Water managers and utilities state that the dam is a major source of renewable energy and provides a vital defense against severe droughts.

One of the Sunflowers in our yard. The Stellar Jays have already made meals of this one.

Green politics or Green ideologies is a political ideology which places a high importance on ecological and environmentalist goals, and on achieving these goals through broad-based, grassroots, participatory democracy and a consensus decision-making.

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Happy memories of many years in Andalucia, Spain.

Here's a photo of the arid landscape of La Janda during the hot summer months and a lone adult male Montagu's Harrier hunting.

Our hope is that soon the ancient lagoon of La Janda will be flooded and transformed back to it's previous rich wildlife area where resident and migratory species can visit, live and breed in this very special and diverse place.

A quiet spot now but in 1663 the centre of a fiendish plot to murder Charles II. Then there was an Inn, the Scotch Inn, standing next to the bridge, named for the drovers who frequented it. A meeting of conspirators met here one dark and stormy night to hatch what became known as the Kabber Rigg Plot. Nothing came of it and one of the conspirators, a Captain Atkinson, was later hanged in Appleby for his part in it.

This a landscape dripping in history, from the medieval farmers with their Pillow Mounds, leaving their traces in the humps and hollows next to the river, to the drovers using the old ways to get livestock to market to parliamentary revolutionaries plotting the death of a king, to the navies building the line through to Tebay and the West coast. Today we have the dedicated environmentalist looking after the reserve, the curious tourist and the coast to coaster.

What a landscape!.

The Menindee Lakes is a natural series of lakes that fill with water when the Darling-Baaka River floods. In the 1960s, a series of engineering projects augmented the Menindee Lakes, allowing water to be directed into the lakes and held back or released. This ensured a reliable water supply for the city of Broken Hill, the township of Menindee and secure supply of water for the Lower Darling River and supply to South Australia.

The Menindee Lakes system provides important habitat, nursery and recruitment for native fish, such as the Murray Cod and Golden Perch. It is important habitat for a huge variety of native and migratory bird species. The Menindee Lakes system is vital to the communities of the Far West, providing recreation and amenity, as well as attracting tourism, recreational fishing, horticulture and viticulture.

The Darling-Baaka River is central to the cultural, spiritual and economic lives of the Barkindji people.

The health of the Menindee Lakes and the Darling-Baaka River are intimately linked. The lakes fill from the Darling-Baaka River and water stored in the Menindee Lakes keeps the Lower Darling flowing during dry times. The Great Darling Anabranch is a series of ephemeral creeks, billabongs and lakes that wind their way to the Murray River to the west of the main Darling-Baaka River Channel.

Irrigation expands:

There has been a rapid expansion of irrigation along the rivers in the Northern Basin of the Murray Darling Basin, particularly cotton. Irrigation of cotton has expanded by 4,000% since the 1970s. In 1971 Australia grew 81,000 bales of cotton. By 2012 Australia grew 5.3 million bales. Irrigation dams - Wee Waa

Much of the cotton is grown along the rivers of the Murray Darling in very large irrigation enterprises, with most of the cotton grown on tributaries of the Darling-Baaka River.

Large private storages were built to hold water and other structures were built to capture flood waters. Water licences and water sharing plans allow irrigators to suck huge quantities from the tributaries of the Darling-Baaka even when flows are modest.

The result has been that low and medium flows have virtually stopped flowing down the Darling-Baaka River. Only the largest floods that cannot be captured upstream, or specially protected environmental flows, now make it down to the Menindee Lakes and Lower Darling-Baaka River.

An easy target?

After the Millennium Drought exposed just how over-allocated the river systems of the Murray-Darling Basin were, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed between the Commonwealth and the states. The Plan aimed to make the Murray-Darling Basin system more sustainable by returning more water to the rivers through buying back water licences and other measures to recover water for the environment.

Menindee Slogan Bus:

The irrigation industry views the water flowing into the Menindee Lakes as wasteful and unproductive (not growing crops). They would prefer water to be taken from the Menindee Lakes to meet the targets under the Basin Plan rather than for the irrigation industry to be compelled to use less water. The industry points to the volume of water that evaporates from the Menindee Lakes each year as a key reason to reduce the amount of water flowing into and being stored in the lakes. The amount of water that evaporates from shallow private storages in equally hot and dry climates is rarely mentioned.

Scientists and environmentalists view the water that flows down our rivers, fills wetland and billabongs, and spills over floodplains as highly productive for nature and vital for sustaining complex ecosystems that have evolved over eons. These flows are also vital for replenishing underground aquifers and for sustaining downstream communities and Indigenous cultures.

Some politicians view the Menindee Lakes as an easy target. The population around Menindee is sparse, without much economic or political clout. The birds, fish and wildlife can not vote, lobby or protest. Taking water from the Menindee Lakes system is seen as politically easier than seeking to recover water from loud, well-connected and politically savvy irrigators. The location of the Menindee Lakes in a remote part of NSW that is out of sight and out of mind for many citizens located on the eastern seaboard also makes it hard for the issue to gain political traction.

A plan to decommission the Menindee Lakes:

After the Menindee Lakes filled from a major flood event in Queensland and NSW 2012, they were rapidly emptied by the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Government. Usually the lakes would hold water for many years after they filled, but by 2014 they were emptied. As a consequence, Broken Hill was in danger of running out of water and the government announced a plan to drill bores to supply the city with low-quality bore water. Locals were outraged at this plan and were concerned that the Menindee Lakes had been deliberately drained so quickly as part of a plan to justify the decommissioning of the lakes.RIP Menindee Lakes

Another flood filled the Menindee Lakes in late 2016, but again they were rapidly drained, almost inexplicably into a flooding river. By then end of 2017 they were again dry just as drought started to bite and Broken Hill was facing another artificial water shortage.

Flush with cash from privatising the electricity networks, the NSW Government spent $500 million building a 270 kilometres water pipeline from the Murray River at Wentworth to Broken Hill. This ended the city’s reliance on the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes for water supply. Cotton Australia applauded the construction of the pipeline saying in their Annual Report, "The pipeline is a win for the community, the environment and irrigating farmers, and a solution Cotton Australia and its allies have long lobbied for." Meanwhile the local community was concerned that the pipeline would allow the NSW Government to decommission the Menindee Lakes without worrying about Broken Hill's water supply.

Sure enough, plans to reconfigure the Menindee Lakes are back on the table as a project to 'recover water from the environment' under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism. The NSW Government wants to save up to 100 gigalitres of water each year by reducing the volume water stored in Menindee Lakes by up to 80%. A range of proposals have been put forward for consultation.

The Darling River Action Group has labelled the plans as 'ecological genocide.' They strongly oppose the huge reduction in habitat that will occur if reconfiguration plans go ahead. They worry that changing the times between and length of inundation in the lakes will have a major impact on fish breeding and birdlife. The Barkindji native title holders are also strongly opposed to the plans, with significant concerns about the impact on their culture, community, environment and sacred sites.

Fish kills and dry rivers and lakes:

Fish Kill Menindee In the teeth severe drought, predictions of environmental catastrophe on the Darling River came true as millions of fish floated dead on the surface. Hot weather and a lack of flows led to a blue-green algae bloom that stripped the water of oxygen when it died, suffocating many millions of fish along a length of the Darling-Baaka River. Images of giant Murray Cod many decades old floating on the surface of a stagnant, bright green river shocked Australians. If water had been stored in the Menindee Lakes, a flow of water in the Darling-Baaka River could have been maintained and millions of fish and other creatures would have survived. It was noted that the very large mature Murray Cod that had died would have survived numerous previous droughts, so what had changed?

A report by the Australian Academy of Science concluded:

The conditions leading to this event are an interaction between a severe (but not unprecedented) drought and, more significantly, excess upstream diversion of water for irrigation. Prior releases of water from Menindee Lakes contributed to lack of local reserves.

A small flow in mid-2019 led to a partial revival of the Darling-Baaka River and water in the upper lakes of the Menindee Lakes system. However, the Menindee Lakes and Darling-Baaka River face three major threats:

1) The proposed re-configuration of the Menindee Lakes system;

2) The continuing overallocation of water extraction licences in the Northern Basin of the Murray-Darling system;

3) The extent and proposed licencing of floodplain harvesting, which is capturing huge quantities of water before it can even reach the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River.

Source: Save Menindee Lakes (www.savemenindeelakes.org.au/the_history)

Summer 2019. "After intense lobbying of Congress, the bill creating Redwood National Park was signed by President Lyndon Johnson on October 2, 1968. The Save the Redwoods League and other entities purchased over 100,000 acres (400 km2), which were added to existing state parks. Amidst both local support of environmentalists and opposition from local loggers and logging companies, 48,000 acres (190 km2) were added to Redwood National Park in a major expansion in 1978...The United Nations designated Redwood National and State Parks a World Heritage Site on September 5, 1980."

- Wikipedia.

I had hoped to return here this summer. Photographing the redwoods was a challenge and I wanted a do over. Here I spotted an arching branch and tried to do something with it. In hindsight, I should've tried a pano with this.

Purple Coneflower is a swallowtail butterfly favourite. This little fellow was busy getting lunch late last July when I went into the garden with my camera.

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"In life and in photography, a closer look at the familiar can often reveal truth and beauty." Jim Brandenburg, environmentalist and nature photographer and filmmaker

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A Nooksack pole laments the transport of dirty coal and toxic oil over sacred waters.

The Nooksack tribe says that before the Europeans arrived, you could walk across the water on the backs of the fish. This is what the mean.

Currently, the tribes and the local fisheries a fighting Big Oil and Big Coal to stop the transport of toxic chemicals through sacred waters. They want to build the world's largest coal dump on sacred Lummi burial grounds, which are also above a herring breeding spot. They have skirted state regulations to transport toxic oil bombs by rail through our county.

What are we leaving behind as our generation vowed to do a better job caring for the Planet than our parents? All the while we criticized their politics, their promises and the problems their generation gave us. The Earth isn’t any greener, and the oceans aren’t any cleaner. Politicians point fingers, environmentalists raise our awareness, and we’re forever finding ways to raise money to right the wrongs that we have committed. Neighboring countries vow to save the forests, the streams and the oceans; all the while offshore oil rigs are working overtime to increase the profits of the fat cat owners. Mother Earth continues to cry aloud in numerous ways to get our attention, to step back and take action now against what seems like insurmountable odds to reverse the damage that’s been done to Mother Earth. We need to take unprecedented action, but first we need to be responsible enough to ask ourselves “What Are We Leaving Behind”?

It’s not just bare trees and unhealthy waters: it’s our legacy to the next generation. We need to change how we live on Earth and how we Love the Earth,

Thanks for viewing my work. Gratitude and Kindness can motivate us to do the right thing by our Mother Earth.

David is a beekeeper and environmentalist who tossed the city and moved with his beautiful partner Sona to picturesque countryside of south Slovakia with one goal in mind - to teach people (and kids especially) about bees and educate them how to begin with beekeeping properly. I really don't know a better way of doing activism on a local level with so important and wide impact.

Nikon F100 + Kodak Ektar 100 | scanned by Carmencita Film Lab

As I was leaving work today I heard Pan Am local freight DO-1 getting paper to leave Portsmouth to head back west to the mainline. The 10 mile run at 10 mph from Portsmouth to Rockingham Junction gives me just enough time make the trek from work down to the Great Bay area and get into position for a shot. The Great Bay is a large tidal estuary that flows into the Piscataqua River mostly known by environmentalists for its' abundant plant and wildlife. Although rarely photographed, the former B&M Portsmouth Branch crosses the Squamscott River at the southwesterly end of the Great Bay on a causeway and a pair of timber pile trestles.

Stratham/Newfields, New Hampshire

September 7, 2017

"The battle for Madrona Marsh began in the early 1970s. Some three decades later, the concept for the 43-acre preserve finally came to fruition with the opening of the Madrona Marsh Nature Center in 2001....The developers wanted the whole parcel for homes, condominiums and office space, while the environmentalists wanted to save as much of the marsh as possible. In August 1974, the Torrance City Council announced a plan to acquire part of the 160-acre marsh and convert it to open space.

Arguments often grew heated. At one point in late September 1981, a representative of the Torrance Investment Co. made the argument that the wildlife found at the marsh consisted mostly of animals released there by the Southern California Humane Society, not animals living in a natural habitat. According to an Oct. 1, 1981 Daily Breeze story, the assertion “brought gasps and laughter from the audience.” Daily Breeze

In the 1970s the US federal govt planned to build a dam on the Delaware River on the Pennsylvania, New Jersey border. Hundreds of farms that were to be flooded were bought out along with all other planned to be flooded land along the river. Environmentalists were against the plan and eventually won out and the plan was scrapped. All of the now empty land was then included in the National Park Service's Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The Zimmerman farm is one of the larger preserved farmsteads in the park.

A rare glimpse into the world of some of our most dedicated environmentalists.

Même les écologistes ont laissé sacrifier une espèce rare et officiellement protégée (la proserpine et son hôte l'aristoloche) pour 25 ha de panneaux photovoltaïques ! 25 ha de garrigue et toute sa biodiversité stérilisés et transformés en champ de cailloux pour de l'énergie durable . Tout cela au profit d'un investisseur privé auquel EDF rachète à perte son électricité et que nous payons bien évidemment au prix fort ...

Even the "environmentalists" have left sacrifice a rare and officially protected species (the proserpine and host Aristolochia) for 25 hectares of photovoltaic panels! 60 acres of scrubland and all its biodiversity sterilized and processed into a pebbles field for sustainable energy. All to the benefit of a private investor which EDF buys its electricity at a loss and we pay full price of course ...

Dear America,

We’ve known each other for a long time now and I feel like I’ve seen you in your best and worst moments. We’ve always been close and so I really feel it when you’re hurting. I felt that it would be the right time to tell you…it’s time you break up this abusive relationship you have with Police. I know what you are going to say…but this time Police said they would reform and try harder…that they would make some changes. But, Police keep abusing you and making you feel like your worst self. Police do not keep you from danger…Police only heighten it. Police have not been honest with you either, and you’ve given Police joint custody over your children at public schools. What kind of message does it send when you allow your children to be around Police who can’t control basic impulses and use violence to murder others? This is the opposite of what you should be teaching your kids, America, and this needs to stop.

When I have tried to talk to you about this before as your dear friend, America, you’ve always tried to emphasize the positives about the strength of Police and that much more handsome side. But, that’s a lie too…a fake out. Police haven’t really been keeping in good shape either and haven't aged well, I’ve got to say. You look pretty ugly as a couple with such a loser bringing you down. Not to mention the fact that Police keep taking your money and never giving you anything back for it or contributing positively to your relationship. Police profit off of you and so you’ll be mistreated until you do the rejecting. Of course, I know you so well I can guess what you’re going to say next. Police promised you they would change again, didn’t they? Police swore and committed to taking more remedial sensitivity trainings and that this was just a “slip up.” But, remember, we’ve been friends for enough time for me to know objectively that isn’t going to happen because I’ve seen Police lie and cheat and it’s time you dump this loser. You’ve given Police so many chances to get it right and turn it around and meanwhile Police are wearing you out and terrifying you and then you come back to me shaking and bleeding. Loving you like I do, I’m willing to hold you while you cry but I still have to tell you how it is because I care so much about you and can’t bear seeing you in so much pain. As long as you continue on this path, you will not truly be free because Police won’t allow it. So, you need to stand up and break it up. For good this time.

Now, I know what you’re probably thinking being that we’re close and all….you’re worried this is going to be an impossible break up because you and Police have had a really long relationship and you’re right…a shared history makes this break up so much more difficult. It’s also hard to escape the fact that there are so many images out there of you and Police and, I hate to tell you but, many of those images aren’t all that positive and in the ones where you two look happy together, it’s just a staged media illusion. It isn’t real. I would definitely venture to say as soon as the camera is turned, Police start that old hateful pattern of behavior right back up again because Police just aren’t all that into you, America, and not truly willing to commit to making you better. Because, the reality of it is that it was never truly great and the more you’ve found out over the years about Police, I think the more you’ve also realized that this relationship cannot continue like it is. You’re wounded America and you’re scarred too. Though sometimes it’s painful to look at a relationship honestly, you are damaged and battered right now, America, and this is only going to continue if you don’t end this.

I know you and Police have some shared friends, too and I have to tell you, those friends are not helping support you or making you any happier. Like, Prisons, for instance. You really can’t trust Prisons. Prisons are doing a lot of things behind your back that you don’t want to even want to begin to know about. And, ICE. Did you know ICE is actually putting your children in cages? Your children, America! It’s time for you to be a better parent and choose your children over these harmful relationships. Oh, I know what you’re trying to do now…you’re trying to get out of it by saying they are your neighbor Mexico’s children. Well, I think if you are really a good parent, you care about all children. And, this lack of empathy for others really doesn’t suit you. It makes me terrified that there might not be any way to change the damage already done.

But you know what, America, there are plenty of others that you might find a better relationship with that will actually support you and your children. America, you deserve someone who respects you! And you are filled to the brim with talent and wisdom and kindness and beauty so I highly doubt you’ll be single for very long. Look for the social workers, the art teachers, the librarians, the nurses and doctors. Look for the musicians, the farmers, the counselors, the environmentalists, the healers and the givers. Because, right now you’re going to need to be in more relationships with them so that you can heal and get to a better place. Otherwise, no one is going to want to be near you America, and you’re going to end up completely devastated beyond hope. I don’t want to see that happen to you so you really need to treat Police like a bandaid and rip it right off. Say no to legalized violence, to zero accountability, to continued abuse and neglect. You really deserve better and someone who appreciates you for you and sees your potential. I’ve been still seeing that glimmer of light in you and that possibility of redemption there for awhile, so I just had to have this intervention.

Love,

Kirstie

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Here’s an article about the Black Lives Matter movement and about a call to action for defunding the police. Even I recently learned that ten years ago, MN police murdered a different Black human named David C. Smith. Part of that family’s settlement was that the police be required to attend additional training to prevent police from ignoring positional asphyxia and then they murdered George Floyd the exact same way. When I found this out, I was so enraged I felt like it had become glaringly obvious that this needs to stop.

I don’t want anyone to tell you it’s a radical idea to care about human lives. These cops are protecting and serving no one but themselves and, as we chant in the streets, “Silent cops are guilty, too!” Never forget what’s happening indeed or what’s already happened. This country needs to start going in a different direction today! We have waited far too long!

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The above photo was taken during one the Black Lives Matters rallies in Chicago recently and if you notice the cop in the far left hand side is weaponized even farther by the alignment of the street art guns. One of the other chants called out on these protests is “Why are you in riot gear? I don’t see a (no) riot here!” I’ll never forget the night when I was at a different Black Lives Matter rally without my camera and a brave human with only a housecoat or on went up to a cop and said, “You’re in riot gear? For what?! I don’t even have shoes on."

We’re better than this, America.

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In 2015 Jane Goodall, one of the world's most noted anthropologists and environmentalists received a Three Wise Monkeys figurine, made by the Herend Porcelain Manufactory in Herend, Hungary. The figurine was presented to Goodall at the charity lunch held in support of the Budapest office of the Jane Goodall Institute. In Eastern cultures , the figurine symbolises "the rejection of evil", while in the West it represents man "wanting to escape problems, covering his eyes, ears and mouth". Both meanings are very relevant these days, matching Jane Goodall's philosophy. The anthropologist was pleased to receive the figurine made by the Herend Porcelain Manufactory.

Colorado just passed a law allowing rain barrels to collect rainwater in people's yards. Water rules are so strict in the American West and Southwest that there are/were laws prohibiting people from collecting rain on their property/leaseholds because this might keep precious water from reaching the holders of water rights in their area. Seriously.

This is a ditch gate to control water flow both in the ditches and to help prevent flooding when all that rain barrel water pours into the streams.

Many environmentalists and futurists are concerned that water may be the cause of increasing global strife.

This shot was made using a Zenit EM camera. Film - AGFAPHOTO Vista plus 200. The writing on the car "Save (park) Dubki"

This juvenile Northern Spotted Owl is full of curiosity as it learns the ways of the forest for the first time. Soon it will have to find its own territory, which is why it must learn quite quickly how to hunt and defend itself in order to survive on its own. I think about this guys quite often, wondering if he did make it on his own. Hopefully he’s thriving and is now the king of his realm.

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The Northern Spotted Owl is a threatened species, so their survival is so very important in so many ways. Many environmentalists believe this owl as an “indicator species” who’s preservation has created protection for an entire threatened ecosystem.

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"What we are about to tell you is a very serious and absolutely unjust fact that leaves all those who care about justice and the protection of our planet stunned and indignant. In Greenland, while stopping to refuel his boat, Captain Paul Watson, 73, was handcuffed, arrested and taken away by Danish police.

We are talking about a man who dedicated his life to safeguarding the oceans and whales who now risks prison and extradition to Japan, the country that requested his arrest.

Paul Watson is a Canadian activist and environmentalist, known for founding and chairing the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an organization dedicated to the protection and conservation of marine resources and ocean wildlife."

"Quanto vi stiamo per raccontare è un fatto gravissimo e assolutamente ingiusto che lascia basiti e indignati tutti coloro che hanno a cuore la giustizia e la protezione del nostro Pianeta. In Groenlandia, mentre si fermava per fare rifornimento alla sua imbarcazione, il capitano Paul Watson, 73 anni, è stato ammanettato, arrestato e portato via dalla polizia danese.

Parliamo di un uomo che ha dedicato la sua vita alla salvaguardia degli oceani e delle balene che ora rischia il carcere e l’estradizione in Giappone, il Paese che ha chiesto il suo arresto.

Paul Watson è un attivista e ambientalista canadese, noto per aver fondato e presieduto la Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, un’organizzazione dedicata alla protezione e alla conservazione delle risorse marine e della fauna oceanica."

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The final countdown is on for the Escalante & Western thanks to the environMENTALists who believe all that is wrong in the world is tied to the burning of coal for electricity. Soon to have gone the way of the BM&LP is this railroad who's sole purpose is to haul coal from the El Segundo line 32 miles north of here on the BNSF Lee Ranch Sub to burn in the PEGS plant and supply power to the Bio-Pappel International/McKinley Paper for the manufacturing of cardboard containers and newsprint.

I headed over here today for a little social distancing and to get in on the last runs of the vintage power. I was not surprised to see a railfan looking car parked in one of the popular spots along the highway, but was surprised when someone called me by name after I had hiked up into the rocks to find a spot to shoot from. It was none other than AJB "Mr. Beard" who had the same idea as I did on getting away from the world. After catching up for a bit the audible drone of EMD power could be heard floating along on the breeze from the west. We were fully immersed in the growing sound of 48 cylinders pounding away to lift the empty train up the grade at track speed. At the 15 minute mark the unmistakable sound of a Leslie RS5T rang out for the crossing at Ambrosia and the Hogger called out the location and a speed of 46mph over the radio. In another 5 minutes the trio of ex-B&O SD40's would be visible and the sound would be incredible as he stayed in the company notch and roared through the valley between the rock formations. It would be over all too soon as the sound faded away on the wind and the last we would hear of him would be another horn sequence for a private crossing up towards Lee Ranch Jct.

Just outside Yosemite surviving nearby catastrophic fires. I recall the great environmentalist Donald J. Trump inciting riots when he scolded Californians for their request for federal aid to fight forest fires. His solution was to rake the leaves in the vast wilderness. What a guy. Such a philanthrophist and naturalist. If only he saw fit to at least pay his taxes and avoid Russian mobsters in the lobby of his Tower of Babel in NYC.

“And Lord, we’re especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is” – Homer Simpson, 1990

“Quality Fuel for Electric Living” - Consolidated Coal Company, 1987.

Both quotes from three decades ago are equally offensive to modern-day environmental activists, but only one was a corporate slogan that was proudly displayed on hopper cars. Here one of Consolidated Coal’s hoppers is in line to be flood loaded at Consol’s Blacksville Number 2 Mine at Wana, West Virginia.

The NS Cleveland Line can be an exciting place to railfan. Tons of traffic and semi scenic areas are plentiful to practice photography. One of the more dramatic areas of the line is Beloit, OH. Known as "The Sag", this short but stiff incline provides excellent photo ops with long glass. During my short stay here, one of the more exciting events of the day came when NS 1049 charges up the hill hauling a load of Pennsylvania Coal past an autorack train heading East. The untreated coal was flying EVERYWHERE...man was it a sight!

There's no denying there's a War on Coal, so anything to hurt the feelings of the environmentalists is a W in my book.

Astilbe blossoms bringing colour and light to shady spaces. Still finding joy in last summer's garden.

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"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist, 1902 - 1984

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On our second visit to Michigan City this year the weather was beautiful so I headed back to the cooling tower to see if I could get another shot of it. Fortunately there were a couple of train cars with some nice graffiti in front of it.

This cooling tower for coal generated power dominates the landscape in this city on the edge of Lake Michigan. Though it appears to be a nuclear energy plant there have never been any of these in Indiana. But one source I found seems to indicate that this is what it was intended to be when it was constructed:

"Fun fact: that plant was originally designed to be a nuclear site, hence the huge concrete cooling tower. There were supposed to be 2 more towers.

An environmentalist from Chesterton almost single handedly convinced the state of Indiana that Nipsco was not doing their due diligence regarding environmental and human population impacts.

The state agreed. As a result, the project went millions over budget and time. Nipsco ended up redesigning the site to be a fossil fuel plant."

www.reddit.com/r/Indiana/comments/5tq293/cooling_tower_in...

Crabtree Falls

Crabtree Falls is one of the tallest sets of waterfalls in the United States east of the Mississippi River. It is located in the George Washington National Forest in Nelson County, Virginia, off of Virginia State Route 56. The name of the falls is thought to have come from William Crabtree, who settled in this part of Virginia in 1777. L.A. Snead, former US Assistant Fuel Administrator (WWI), environmentalist and notable Nelsonian, spearheaded negotiations to secure land surrounding Crabtree Falls after it was almost developed as a resort area in the late 1960s. Using personal and Congressional funds, the land deals were completed and the deeds transferred by LA Snead on June 3, 1968, to the National Forest System. This assured benefit for future generations of this magnificent Nelson County treasure.

The set of waterfalls is often credited with being 1,200 feet (370 m) high, but topographic maps show the total drop to be closer to 1,000 feet (300 m).[1] Crabtree Falls is a series of cascading waterfalls, with five major cascades, the tallest of which drops about 400 feet (120 m), and several smaller cascades, all over a total distance of approximately 2,500 feet (760 m) horizontally.[1] The cascade with a 400-foot (120 m) drop also gives Crabtree Falls the title of tallest vertical drop in a waterfall east of the Mississippi River. However, the title of tallest free-fall vertical drop goes to Fall Creek Falls in Tennessee's Fall Creek Falls State Park.

There is a trail to the waterfall maintained by the United States Forest Service called the Crabtree Falls Trail. Twenty-nine people have fallen to their deaths from leaving the trail to climb too close to the waterfalls. Recent deaths occurred April 2013,[2] June 2015,[3][4] and most recently, August 29, 2015.[5]

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabtree_Falls

Local historians, environmentalists and ecologists came together to celebrate the regeneration of the River Don and the return of the iconic salmon.

Highlights include the Salmon of Steel - a 7ft sculpture of a leaping salmon made by Scrap Metal Artist Jason Heppenstal in 2020.

This shot of a beautiful old growth tree is from the endangered forests of the Central Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island (note that this is not part of the established and protected Carmanah Walbran Park).

The logging company Teal Jones is literally logging all around this valley (and has already logged some areas in it) and if they have their way, they will obliterate this entire area too.

If you love old growth trees, then you better get up there fast because sadly, it might not last much longer! Environmentalists are doing their best to get it protected (as they did with Avatar Grove) but there's no guarantees that they'll be successful.

It's so unfortunate that there are people who care more about money than the beauty of our planet, but that's the way it is!

This area is approximately two hours from Lake Cowichan, British Columbia (73kms).

A figbarf created for my friend Adam Dodge. We are going to swap figs and build a backdrop for them Round 1 of “The Friendly Figbarf”

The year is 2039: the Internet is a thing of the past, Mega Corporations seek to take control of the worlds hisotircal artifices so that they might control the future by rewriting the past. Specialist thieves are stealing priceless artifcats from the worlds museums and hiding them until they can be sold to the highest bidder. The foremost exponent of this vile art is an elusive Fox known only as “The Swiper”.

The world needs a hero to combat this menace. A certain type of hero.. an explorer... Dora the explorer..

Left to right

Environmentalist - Diego

Combat specialist - “Boots”

Explorer - Dora

Cartographer - Ralph Carter aka “The Map”

Wow Im amazed at the response to this image.

This is Crescent City Northern California just before christmas It wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Semilog

A blended image representing nature and the wildlife around us, our constant need for energy for our industrial world and the environmentalists seeking to protect the voiceless.

British Columbia has had ample controversy about the management of our lovely environment...the Trans Mountain gas pipeline is one recent example of environmentalists pitted against govt + Big Business. The legal war and negotiations were waged for years at great expense to both sides...but the other side won the battle in the end and the new gas pipeline is being built.

denouement (noun)

the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is made clear

Project 365-021

Auch wenn die eigentliche Botschaft des heutigen Anlasses relativ klar und deutlich ist, tut man gut daran, die Dringlichkeit bzw. Notwendigkeit des Schutzes dieser Menschenaffen herauszustellen. Denn um den Orang-Utan steht es aktuell nicht sonderlich gut.

So schätzt die Weltnaturschutzunion International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), dass derzeit lediglich noch ca. 104.000 Orang-Utans auf Borneo und ca. 14.600 Tiere auf Sumatra leben. Andere Organisationen zeichnen diesbezüglich noch ein deutliches dunkleres Bild. So geht der WWF davon aus, dass auf Borneo nur noch 54.000 Exemplare lebten. In Java gelten die Menschenaffen mit dem typischen rot-orangen Fell inzwischen als ausgestorben.

Unabhängig von den jeweiligen Schätzungen bzw. Zahlen sind sich alle Tier- und Umweltschützer aber einig darin, dass die primäre Gefahr für die Orang-Utans in der Zerstörung ihres Lebensraums und die Verfolgung durch kommerzielle Interessen des Menschen liegt.

19. August ist Welt Orang Utan Tag

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While the actual message of today's event is relatively clear, it is good to stress the urgency or necessity of protecting these great apes. For the orangutan is currently not very good.

For example, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that there are currently only about 104,000 orangutans living on Borneo and about 14,600 on Sumatra. Other organizations paint a clear darker picture in this regard. So the WWF assumes that only 54,000 copies lived on Borneo. In Java, the apes with the typical red-orange fur are now considered extinct.

However, regardless of their estimates or figures, all animal and environmentalists agree that the primary threat to orangutans lies in the destruction of their habitat and the persecution of human commercial interests.

August, 19th is International Orangutan Day

Photo/Foto: Chester Zoo (GB)

Conservation status:

Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)

In the 1970s the US federal govt planned to build a dam on the Delaware River on the Pennsylvania, New Jersey border. Hundreds of farms that were to be flooded were bought out along with all other planned to be flooded land along the river. Environmentalists were against the plan and eventually won out and the plan was scrapped. All of the now empty land was then included in the National Park Service's Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The Zimmerman farm is one of the larger preserved farmsteads in the park.

Lugar sagrado.

"A mythological place made for gods rather than humans." Salvador Dali.

Situated on Itinerari 17 in the Paratgede Tudela on the Cap de Creus peninsula near Cadaques, Catalunya, this is the first of a series of rock formations said to have influenced the young Salvador Dali when he was holidaying here with his family as a boy. Once the site of a Club Med holiday camp which was built in the 1960s without proper permission, the landscape is rich in photographic opportunities with many rock formations being marked out en route. However, the real joy comes from finding your own rocks and offering your own explanations. Parking seems to be very limited at this time of year although there is a large car park which may be open in the summer. If you are in the area and have the opportunity to visit - do so. You will be richly rewarded. Thank goodness the environmentalists won the day and restored the beautiful rugged landscape to its natural beauty and wildness.

In the 1970s the US federal govt planned to build a dam on the Delaware River on the Pennsylvania, New Jersey border. Hundreds of farms that were to be flooded were bought out along with all other planned to be flooded land along the river. Environmentalists were against the plan and eventually won out and the plan was scrapped. All of the now empty land was then included in the National Park Service's Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The Zimmerman farm is one of the larger preserved farmsteads in the park.

César Manrique (* 24. April 1919 in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spanien; † 25. September 1992 in Tahíche, Lanzarote) war ein spanischer Maler, Architekt, Bildhauer und Umweltschützer auf der Kanareninsel Lanzarote, der das Bild der Vulkaninsel entscheidend geprägt hat.

César Manrique (* April 24, 1919 in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain; died September 25, 1992 in Tahíche, Lanzarote) was a Spanish painter, architect, sculptor, and environmentalists on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, which has influenced the image of the volcano island.

Deforestation

“Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.”

– James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock, CH CBE FRS is an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.

Created for Mixmaster Challenge # 30 by studiobobs

Recipe:

➤ Your image must include a means of transportation – but since we are all environmentalists, ecologists, animal activists and rescuers, the vehicle must be activated only by clean energy, such as sunlight, wind, water, geothermal heat, gravity, magnetic force, warp drive, teleportation and so on.

➤ People (of any number) must also be included (aliens and fantasy/sci-fi creatures welcome).

➤ Same for animals (of any number, aliens and fantasy/sci-fi creatures welcome).

➤ Use only soft or natural shades of color

➤ No abstractions: your subjects must be recognizable.

I LOVE these Kids!

This weekend the British Columbia Field Ornithologists (BCFO) Young Birders Club, went on their first overnight Pelagic Trip. We boarded the MV Frances Barkley for WildResearch's fundraiser and annual Pelagic. We birded the Ucluelet and Tofino area and saw great shorebirds including breeding Pacific Golden-Plovers, Short-billed Dowitchers and Red-necked Phalaropes.

I started this field program back in 2014 and in 2016 I partnered with BCFO. We kept growing and have 25 kids involved in the program now across BC. The joy these kids have brought to my life are tenfold.

This weekend we had 10 participants from all over the province, including Fort St. James, Tofino, Victoria, Kelowna and Vancouver.

The best part of the day was when Liam Singh spotted a provincial rarity, a Manx Shearwater during the pelagic. His great photos can be viewed here:

bcbirdalert.blogspot.ca/2017/05/rba-manx-shearwater-in-uc...

Congrats to Liam for his amazing find and to all the young birders who got to see it. It was also great seeing the breeding Red Phalaropes, Pomarine Jaeger, Sabine's Gulls, Northern Fulmars and Pink-footed and Sooty Shearwaters.

Thanks to all the young birders for making such a special weekend for us all. We have memories that will last forever.

Thanks to Ilya Povalyaev and Warren Lee for helping me supervise the kids this weekend.

A big thank you to all the parents that support me and this young birder program and their kid's birding passion!

Looking forward to our next field trip (which is now FULL) in June to Manning Park!

For more info on future events and for any young birders who want to join click here: bcfo.ca/young-birders-program-field-trips/ and feel free to contact me at bcbirdergirl(at)gmail(dot)com if you want to sign up!

In 2018 I will be helping to organize the Young Birder Events and field trips at the International Ornithological Congress www.iocongress2018.com/. Here their work and achievements will also be showcased. So we have lots to look forward to from the Young Birders in BC.

500 lire Caravelle

old silver coin

engraver Guido Veroi

Christopher Columbus's ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria .

en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2716.html

just price of it: $20

Money

“To Christians, the love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it is the sinews of war; to revolutionaries, the shackles of labour. “© Niall Ferguson, 2008

1492

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12 октября 1492 года, экспедиция Христофора Колумба достигла острова Сан-Сальвадор в Багамском архипелаге.

ricorrenza celebrata in molti paesi delle Americhe per commemorare il giorno dell'arrivo di Cristoforo Colombo nel Nuovo Mondo, il 12 ottobre 1492

Seinfeld:

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israël geld

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Женя:

« хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда » 🇷🇺 2013

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ik snap het.

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История с географией:

youtube.com/watch?v=8ENPlg8VR9g&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

Dalio:

youtube.com/watch?v=bT5xz6ugYM0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE.

Латвийский мир

youtube.com/watch?v=uhmwEZmGzao&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarEo

share of the individual appropriation

Yanis Varoufakis | Escaped Sapiens #46

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mirning elder and musician bunna lawrie and director of the south australian branch of the wilderness society - and winner of the bob brown foundation's australian environmentalist of the year 2016 - peter owen

rosetta head (‘the bluff’), fleurieu peninsula, south australia

Bali has four lakes – Lake Buyan and Lake Tamblingan in the Buleleng regency; Lake Beratan in Tabanan regency; and Lake Batur in the Bangli regency.

Lake Buyan is a smallest lake in Bali located just a next door of Lake Tamblingan which is known as Twin Lakes. It is located in the plateau area with cool weather cover it. It is situated in the high land with hill and rain forest surrounds it. Since the location in the plateau area, the fog is usually blanketing the area. This lake can be seen from the top of hill of Gobleg. Gobleg it self is the name of the countryside located on the top of hill where the villager with agriculture life on top of it.

Lake Buyan own the broadness about 3,9 Km, with the maximum of deepness of Lake Buyan is 87 meters and the water volume is 0,116 km3, is considered to be the most severely polluted and also Lake Buyan has faced a 3.5 meters (11 feet) drop in water levels every year since year 2000, leaving many locals puzzled.

The shallow depths of the lake and pollution are due to the erosion of soil from nearby mountains, the rapid uncontrolled growth of water hyacinths (enceng gondok) and seepage into the lakes of fertilizers from surrounding farm lands.

Environmentalists and some government officials say the problems could become worse unless significant investment is made and people started conserving water.Bali’s governor told the press that the “normalization” of Bali’s lake is an absolute priority, with the government required to quickly devise a recovery program for the island’s freshwater lakes.

Canon EOS 50D

EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

0.033sec • f/14 • 18mm • ISO100

HITECH Filter ND Grad 3-stops HE

RAW proccessed with Digital Photo Pro: removed Chromatic Aberration+TiFF converted.

TIFF proccessed with Adobe Photoshop CS3: resized+sharpened.

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Honest comment/critique are welcome, thanks guys :)