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A university student watches distant mountains disappear in the window of a train heading from Lanzhou to Ürumqi, China.
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
People roaming in a mountain railway station and a toy train on the 96 km mountainous Kalka-Shimla railway route from Kalka to Shimla. The 2 ft 6 inch narrow gauge railway has 864 bridges and it is famous for breathtaking views of the hills and surrounding villages. The trains are travelling through 103 tunnels and used to take between six to seven hours to complete this journey. In 2008, one of the greatest tourist attractions, the Kalka-Shimla railway was included in the UNESCO world heritage list as part of the world heritage site mountain railways of India.
Hairy bittercress blooms near Pope Branch in Southeast Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2019. The common yard plant is considered a weed as well as an early source of food for pollinators. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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These are some of the winning submissions of a photography contest that is helping to advocate for the protection of biodiversity in FYR Macedonia.
Read more about biodiversity in Europe and Central Asia
Photo by Kosta Hiohi
Ben's House, Grafton Way/Whitfield Street. Its customers can admire the rubbish permanently stacked-up outside.
A right whale skim feeding (a small crustacean-like organism the size of a tip of a ballpoint pen that feeds on plankton) when are on the surface . The whale's upper jaw is elevated above the water and the lower jaw just below. Late in the day, copepods aggregate at the surface, a phenomenon that triggers this unique and fascinating feeding behavior.
sasrai-Movement’s World Environment Day 2016 Celebration
In absence of sasrai-Movement we cannot achieve SDG, Peace, Justice, Dignity, Prosperity, Security, Rights ----- `fight against the illegal trade in wildlife’
Stephen Hawking Warns Humanity: Leave Earth Before the Ruling Class Destroys It
sasrai-Movement is an free will movement around the globe. Anyone from any corner of globe can take the lead, she/he who believes in habitable earth for each creature. Nature demands zero abuse and optimum utilization of resources. sasrai-Movement consists of volunteers that appeal, practice `save a bit, reserve, preserve, rejuvenate and conserve resources.’
We believe:
The biggest threat to the Planet Earth is Rapid Running Out of the Resources
sasrai-Movement must be the Central to Realizing Sustainable Development Goals and ensure Peace, Justice, Dignity, Rights, Prosperity, Security for Each
Each must have the responsibility and capacity to reverse the devastating trend of the planet
Education needed to be earth, environment and humanity friendly
No matter Climate Changing or Not, Ice Melting or Not – We must stop Consumption Craziness
Vision: Environmental Justice, Sustainable living
Goal: Resource Responsible Individual, Family, Community and Humanity
Objective
a. Bringing behavioral and attitudinal change regarding use and abuse of resources
b. Practicing less consumption as maximum as possible
c. Create Climate Change Cader in Each Community
sasrai-Movement Activities Including Others
a. Organize dialogue and discussion with all level of people emphasizing student
b. Organize Human Chain aimed at message dissemination for mass people
c. Facilitate to formulate individual, family and community action plan
d. Create community actor to motivate, monitor and follow up community action plan
e. Organize fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly monitoring and evaluation
f. Display the report/progress in social communication centre
g. Display and disseminate the lesson learned locally, regionally, nationally and internationally
NB.
Earth Community Must Consider
a. Stephen Hawking: "Let us fight for every woman and every man to have the opportunity to live healthy, secure lives, full of opportunity and love. We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”
b. 6th century reformer Poet Solon wrote ----
"Snowstorm and hail come from a cloud and thunder comes from lightning,
But the ruin of the city comes from unjust men they do not understand how to restrain their greed. They grow rich, persuaded by their unjust deeds, which destroys the beautiful youth of many; and from its troubles the much-loved city is swiftly worn out, friendships destroyed in unjust factions."
ohttps://www.facebook.com/sasraiMovement.2004
ohttps://www.facebook.com/groups/sasraiMovement
ohttps://sasrai.com
sasrai-Movement Appeal Let People Act
Dear Madam/Sir
Greetings from sasrai-Movement that has been serving voluntarily since 2004 across the globe aimed at promoting prudent and sustainable consumption and conservation, optimum use and reducing the abuse of resources. `sasrai’ targets to animate, activate each individual, family, community, institution, organization to combat Climate Change, global warming, food, fuel, water, poverty, disaster, waste, ecosystem, biodiversity - finally reverse the devastating trend of globe. It brings into line SDGs 01 to 06 and 11 to 16.
We hope your kind cooperation, collaboration, suggestion promote sasrai-Movement around the globe.
The site of a stream restoration along almost 5,000 feet of Pope Branch attracts wildlife in Southeast Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2019. The entire watershed of 1.6-mile Pope Branch falls inside the District of Columbia and feeds into the Anacostia River. The stream was restored in 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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This stormwater creek was designed to improve water quality coming from Balmoral slopes by capturing sediments, providing aeration and, further down the channel, allowing some seepage into grassed areas.
Workshop during the study tour in Milan of the 5th Edition of the Specializing Master in Design Management for Innovative Environments, organized by POLI.design in collaboration with MIP School of Management and Tongji University in Shanghai, one of the oldest and most prestigious in China.
The Specializing Master is held partly in China and partly in Italy: lectures and seminars, taught by teachers of the Politecnico di Milano and Tongji faculty, as well as by Italian professionals, are held in China; laboratory activities and study tours are organized in Milan. In this way participants can learn firsthand about Milan design system and visit the most interesting places in the field of Made in Italy design.
Hal Sparks – Queer as Folk
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Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
6 February 2012. Photo: Ula Majewski
Today, conservationists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre have released a sample of a celery top pine we believe to be more than 250 years old.
The sample was obtained from controversial Picton Valley logging coupe PC024B, where logging in high conservation value forest have been halted by conservationists this morning. Eight people have disrupted logging this morning, by setting up a tree sit.
The celery top pine is an example of the destruction being wrought upon all elements of the Picton Valley forest, whether or not Ta Ann takes every log.
The sample of the celery top pine clearly demonstrates that the forest currently being logged in the Picton Valley is part of an old growth ecosystem.
Furthermore, sections of the coupe were mapped as old growth forest during the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement process. This coupe is being logged to supply wood to Ta Ann, and their wood supply requirements are cited in official documents as the driver for logging this coupe which is inside the 430,000 hectares.
Description
Full Quality Version available at: Download TIFF from MAGIC
Title: Climatic atlas of the United States.
Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1983.
Subjects: United States --Climate --Maps.
Location: Babbidge Map Library Double Oversize-NonCirculating-Level 4
Call Number: G1201.C8 U55 1983
Reenactors fire rifles at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in Jefferson County, W.Va., on Sept. 28, 2014. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
Hydraulic Ram Pump
The pump uses the momentum of a relatively large amount of moving water to pump a relatively small amount of water uphill. It requires no outside source of power other than the kinetic energy of water.
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University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics,
School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, "Bituplaning: A Low Dry Friction Phenomenon of New Bituminous Road Surfaces" By John Charles Bullas BSc MSc MIAT MIHT FGS May 2007 Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Belianske Luky fen after restoration, the largest preserved fen system in Slovakia,
Project: Conservation, restoration and wise use of calcareous fens (2004-2010)
While sustainable grazing is beneficial for the maintenance of Slovakia’s calcareous fens, other
agricultural practices such as arable farming lead
to their degradation.
Photo Tom Dra il
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“My dream is finally in motion! With a team of Greenfleet superheroes, we're working to turn all the steep and wet parts of my farm back to native bush. This is an area of 34.5 hectares!! I can't wait for the day that I can make this area into a sanctuary for our native animals and birds and see bush instead of bare hills being reduced by wind and soil erosion.”
Emma Brown could not wipe the smile off her face in June 2016, for every tree planted on her farm by the Greenfleet team brought her one step closer to fulfil a dream she’s had ever since she bought the land.
After investigating a range of options over the years, from grants to partnerships with not-for-profits, Emma had concluded that “Greenfleet was the only organisation that could help me do what I wanted to do.”
Together with tree planting professional Frank and his team, we planted 30,000 native trees at Glorious Googies with a mixture of 28 species, re-establishing the wet forest and warm temperate rainforest ecosystem that once existed on the Gippsland farm.
“The team at Greenfleet is very clever. They have done a survey of what the original bush would have been like. They're also using flowering native plants that are indigenous at my request for the insects and bees and birds,” Emma explained.
“The area we’ve chosen is steep and rugged – and should never have been cleared in the first place. Working with Greenfleet provides us with a great opportunity to leave a legacy beyond what the two of us and our chooks could ever hope to do,” she added.
Trees will help with the visible erosion on Korumburra and provide natural shelter for the 1,200 free-range chooks which spend their days foraging around the paddocks. “It gets windy here – so the trees will help with protection against the wind, as well as with the water evaporation that further damages the soil,” she explains.
A recent academic study by Nagle and Glatz has found enriching the free-range environment attracts chickens out of their coops and onto the land. The research confirms that well-sheltered pasture areas produce healthier and happier hens.
Emma is “100 per cent confident” that the revegetation process of this ‘chicken haven’ will improve the farm’s productivity, as well as providing new habitat for native wildlife.
“It will be a ‘bush block’ that we can enjoy for bushwalks in our own backyard. How good is that?”
Find out more about Greenfleet and how you can help plant more trees: www.greenfleet.org.au
The stinky wet pile: unbalanced, wet compost can become a breeding ground for maggots and produce a poor product.
In this innovative course taught by Ben Farrer, students in ENVS 246 "Environment and Apocalypse" practice survival skills, like learning how to suture wounds by practicing on a banana, first aid and how to start a fire.
Ryan Sanborn from "HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2”
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Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.