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Life Edited is a crowdsourced project which aims to show how getting rid of superfuous things could actually improve our life experience.
Two of the very few mature elm trees left in England, at Upper Swell in Gloucestershire.
From Wikipedia: "Mature English Elms are now only very rarely found beyond Brighton in the UK, although some still survive on the Isle of Man and there is an isolated mature English Elm in the cemetery at Dervaig, Isle of Mull, Scotland. One large tree still survives in Leicester in Cossington Street Recreation Ground, one in Rosebank Cemetery, Edinburgh (3 metres d.b.h.), and two in Founders Avenue, Fettes College, Edinburgh (2.5 m d.b.h., 2011)"
First posted in the Guess where UK? group, but withdrawn for lack of interest!!
Explored the amazing Sequoia National Forest with my favorite girl. I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark II.
I'm not sure what the specific locations of each photo are as we did not have a map. I hope you enjoy my photos of these breathtaking wonders. This forest was truly magical.
Happy Birthday FGR! Just for you I will hug a tree - and have my neighbors talking about "that crazy girl who takes pictures of herself hugging trees" LOL.
another view of the layers (my hand stands in for straw, then soil, alfalfa and cardboard at the bottom)
One of the first printed records about this gate stated in 1859 "Of all old monuments in the Rhine valley, none as mysterious as the portal (...) near the church in Remagen".
The Pfarrhoftor (= Gateway to the parish close) still is enigmatic. It may have been erected for a nearby monastery, that centered around an St. Apollinaris shrine, it may have been in deed a gate to a parish close. Actually it known since the 17th century, when parts of it were found, walled in between the rectory and the encircling wall. The parts were recovered and like pieces of a puzzle joined together.
Though the cope stone was lost, the large arch was easy to reconstruct. Wether the smaller side portal originally was left or right is unclear.
The 22 carved reliefs here have triggered more than a dozend different theories. I will quote some. The carving style was not appreciated by the art-historians. Already Wilhelm Bode ("Geschichte der Deutschen Plastik") wrote in 1887 that the carver was "without any artistic ambition".
For me this portal has parallels in Linden and Goegging. All three portals are roughly carved - and enigmatic, blending christian, pagan and ancient icons. The only point, that is undisputed is, that the portal was erected in the second half of the 12th century.
It may be, that the reliefs, seen here, are just single icons, that are not interconnected to a certain "iconographic program". This is claimed by Paul Clement (1938), Georg Dehio (1933) and Josef Minn (1942). In 1947 Albert M. Koeniger published the results of his research, interpreting the reliefs at the large gate as icons of eight (!) deadly sins as described by Bishop Burchard of Worms (965-1025), author of a canon law collection (aka "Decretum Burchardi"), while the reliefs at the smaller entrance, stand for "hubris".
A man - and a tree.
This may stand (Koeninger) for "hubris" (arrogance) of farmers, tearing out trees (nature). It is probably not a medieval "tree-hugger", but there are authors, who see this as an icon for the month "march", when trees are pruned.
Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger, is taking an interesting approach to decreasing his carbon footprint. He introduced his new project LIfe Edited, launched yesterday on the PopTech stage. This project is a crowdsource approach where Hill is encouraging his audience to edit his life for him and to create a more sustainable lifestyle.
This is my hippie costume, more D.I.Y. than anything else. Love and peace the hippie theme and groovy their slogan it's all in their way of life. However so is gay rights, communism, environmentalism, sexaholism, drugs and idiocy! The supporters of the useless animal slaying PETA and the corperate greedy, earth panicing (global warming [mongering]) organization Green Peace.
"When you're not there"
Another synchronicity image between human and nature. What will we do when it's no longer there. When will we go out and find it, embrace it and take care of it, rather than squander, sell and destroy for profit! Before our last tree is turned into money! Let's look after our trees...
Shot at Danebury Iron Age hill fort, Hampshire
Inte långt därifrån hörs sågarnas ettriga oväsen ~ Not very far from there you can hear the hot-tempered noise of the saws
I know I did :]
I got a gorilla pod for Christmas from my parents!
We also got a Wii with a few games.
And I got some decorations for my room.
And I got some Old Navy clothes.
And I got the Nightmare Before Christmas Collectors DVD.
$100 to the tack shop and $75 to Khols!
And a bunch of other little stuff.
My boyfriend got me a purse that says "Peace and Love" on it and a peace sign magnet.
He also got me a fleece throw blanket.
And a cd/dvd combo of The Casulaties Live in NYC (my favorite band)
My boyfriends parents got me a huge manicure set and some makeup.
My friend Ally got me a real silver necklace with a poem engraved in the pendant thing.
And the lovely Shel got me a scarf/gloves set, some peace sign undies, and she made me a necklace.
And the best part is, I have more gifts on the way from people I haven't seen yet =P
Anyway, I miss my flickr friends, and I'll do a proper update soon when things slow down!
As well as the college being committed to sustainability staff and students are invited to join in by recycling waste paper in the Treehugger boxes found in all rooms.
t.p. made from recycled paper, not virgin forests
There are lots of brands to choose from: Seventh Generation, Earth-Friendly Products, Green Forest, Planet, 365 (Whole Foods), Natural Value, ShitBegone (no joke), Trader Joe's....
A Shopper's Guide to Home Tissue Products
Shop smart. Save forests.
www.nrdc.org/land/forests/gtissue.asp
Toilet paper
The following brands make toilet paper that contains 100% recycled content, at least 80% of which is post-consumer recycled material, and do not use toxic chlorine compounds to make the toilet paper white:
* Green Forest (100% recycled/90% post-consumer)
* 365 (Whole Foods) (100% recycled/80% post-consumer)
* April Soft (100% recycled/80% post-consumer)
* Earth Friendly (100% recycled/80% post-consumer)
* Fiesta (100% recycled/80% post-consumer)
* Fiesta Green (100% recycled/80% post-consumer)
* Natural Value (100% recycled/80% post-consumer)
* Seventh Generation (100% recycled/80% post-consumer)
* Trader Joe’s (100% recycled/80% post-consumer)
The following brands make toilet paper that contains 100% recycled content, only 0-30% of which is post-consumer recycled material; and do not use toxic chlorine compounds to make the toilet paper white:
* Marcal Small Steps (100% recycled/30% post-consumer)
* Earth First (100% recycled/0% post-consumer)
The following brands make toilet paper that contains 0-40% recycled content, none of which is post-consumer recycled material (with the exception of Scott Naturals) and do use toxic chlorine compounds to make the toilet paper white:
* Scott Naturals (40% recycled/40% post-consumer)
* Angel Soft (0% recycled/0% post-consumer)
* Charmin (0% recycled/0% post-consumer)
* Kleenex Cottonelle (0% recycled/0% post-consumer)
* Quilted Northern (0% recycled/0% post-consumer)
* Scott (0% recycled/0% post-consumer)
* Target (0% recycled/0% post-consumer)
* Wal-Mart (0% recycled/0% post-consumer)