lunedì 6 settembre 2010
sabato 4 settembre 2010
James Lovelock - The Vanishing Face of Gaia
Professor James Lovelock, the scientist who developed Gaia theory, has said it is too late to try and save the planet.
Mankind was not aware it had "pulled the trigger" on global warming as it built its civilizations.venerdì 27 agosto 2010
Skål International
Skål International: professional organization of tourism leaders around the world, promoting global tourism and friendship. Skål founded as an international association in 1935 and with its headquarter in Terremolinos (Spain) has 22.000 members in 500 location.
It's an affiliate member of UNWTO and supports UNTWO's mission to promote the development of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
World Tourism Day Message 2010 by Taleb Rifai, UNWTO Secretary-General
United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO): the most widely recognized and the leading international organization in the field of travel and tourism.
Its membership includes 150 countries and more than 300 affiliate members.
Its headquarter is in Madrid and had its beginnings in 1925.
UNWTO is well known for its statistics and market research.
more details http://www.unwto.org/index.php
WTTC 20th Anniversary Documentary
World Travel and Tourism Council : global business leaders' forum for travel and tourism. Its members are chief executives from all sectors of the travel and tourism industry, including accomodations, catering, cruises, entertainment, recreation, transportation, and travel-related services.
It's central goal is to work with governments to realize the full economic impact of the world's largest generator of wealth and jobs, travel and tourism.
giovedì 3 giugno 2010
mercoledì 2 giugno 2010
Join the energy revolution
The time for action is now
We must convince our leaders to face this challenge
It's the small change that could make the difference
domenica 30 maggio 2010
giovedì 20 maggio 2010
Adbusters: The Journal of Mental Environment . Un movimento contro l'inquinamento mentale
Adbusters- Media Foundation is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The foundation describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."[1]
The foundation publishes Adbusters- Journal of Mental Environment , an activist magazine with a circulation of 120,000 devoted to numerous political and social causes, many of which are anti-consumerist in nature. Adbusters has also launched numerous international social marketingcampaigns, including Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week, and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements.
Lasn: “Over-consumption has ecological consequences… over-consumption is, in some sense, the mother of all our environmental problems.”CNN: “Oh, c’mon, environmental problems?”
martedì 18 maggio 2010
lunedì 17 maggio 2010
Ecosystem equilibrium
Innovation technologies, progress and studies through medicine and science don't bring to a better quality of life anytime.
The mutual habitude of human beings, the growing industrialization and the density of the populations may deeply modify the natural ecological dynamics.
As a result of these modifications, the equilibrium of Ecology has long put under pressure, and by the assumption that populations and communities typically exist under equilibrium conditions in habitats saturated with both individuals and species. However, much evidence contradicts these assumptions and it is likely that nonequilibrium is much more widespread than might be expected.
The city represents an Artificial Ecosystem, made by man, and in continous transformation
To make the city safe and confortable to live in, it is necessary to know how to regulate the equilibrium mentioned above; through the relationships between the many differents species, the environmental conditions that help its growth and reproduction, and the negative mechanisms that work against it.
The study of ecosystems mainly consists of the study of certain processes that link the living, or biotic (biocenosi) , components to the non-living, or abiotic (biotopo), components.
Rather than worrying mainly about particular species, we try to focus on major functional aspects of the system. These functional aspects include such things as the amount of energy that is produced by photosynthesis, how energy or materials flow along the many steps in a food chain, or what controls the rate of decomposition of materials or the rate at which nutrients are recycled in the system.
| Sunlight | Primary producers |
| Temperature | Herbivores |
| Precipitation | Carnivores |
| Water or moisture | Omnivores |
| Soil or water chemistry (e.g., P, NH4+) | Detritivores |
| etc. | etc. |
mercoledì 12 maggio 2010
I videogiochi per l’ambiente premiati (e venduti) da Microsoft
La Imagine Cup è una competizione organizzata da Microsoft e dedicata a oltre 200.000 studenti provenienti da più di 100 nazioni che premia chi, attraverso la tecnologia, realizza i migliori progetti per cambiare il mondo proteggendo l’ambiente.
from http://media.panorama.it/
Supermodels Take It Off For Climate Change - Le modelle si spogliano per il surriscaldamento globale.
Supermodels Take It Off For Climate Change -
dieci modelle che improvvisano uno striptease liberatorio per manifestare contro il surriscaldamento globale. È il video che Russell Cameron, super top da copertina e ambientalista convinta, ha prodotto e girato insieme alle sue amiche e colleghe per promuovere la campagna di350.org, l’associazione che si occupa di sensibilizzare la popolazione mondiale sui pericoli provocati dal diossido di carbonio.
dieci modelle che improvvisano uno striptease liberatorio per manifestare contro il surriscaldamento globale. È il video che Russell Cameron, super top da copertina e ambientalista convinta, ha prodotto e girato insieme alle sue amiche e colleghe per promuovere la campagna di350.org, l’associazione che si occupa di sensibilizzare la popolazione mondiale sui pericoli provocati dal diossido di carbonio.
from http://www.350.org/
Bolivia:" la terra non ci appartiene, ma siamo noi ad appartenerle”
Durante l'Assemblea dell'ONU del 22 aprile 2009, il Presidente Costituzionale dello Stato Plurinazionale di Bolivia - Campagna Amazzonia senza Petrolio -
ha ottenuto che si dichiarasse la Giornata della Madre Terra, perchè “la terra non ci appartiene, ma siamo noi ad appartenerle”, segnalando a questo proposito quattro diritti della Madre Terra:
il diritto alla vita degli ecosistemi,
il diritto alla rigenerazione della biodiversità,
il diritto a vivere senza inquinamento
ed il diritto alla convivenza armonica con la natura.
Il Foro Boliviano sull'Ambiente e lo Sviluppo (FOMOBADE) è un'organizzazione nazionale impegnata nel settore dei diritti umani ed ambientali dei boliviani e delle boliviane, da ormai più di 15 anni. Si compone di organizzazioni sociali, di produzione, accademiche, gruppi giovanili, parlamentari, ecologisti, di consumatori e di persone che lavorano nelle loro comunità per la protezione dell'ambiente e delle risorse naturali. L'agenda di intervento pubblico include l'elaborazione e l'assistenza nell'applicazione di politiche socio-ambientali, l'appoggio alle comunità per la gestione dei conflitti ambientali, l'esercizio di diritti ambientali e l'ingresso di tematiche quali la sostenibilità e la sovranità alimentare all'interno del dibattito politico nazionale, attraverso la promozione di attività che prevedono un uso sostenibile delle risorse da parte degli attori locali.
martedì 4 maggio 2010
Say "No" and cushion Apulia region, Tremiti Islands, Monopoli and the Gulf of Taranto against the risk of oil spill
The Irish company Petroceltic Elsa made the request for oil exploration off Gargano while targeting the sea off Monopoli is the British Northern Petroleum. ''It is not true that accidents on oil rigs are extremely rare: they are instead very frequent. At least 20 cases have been recorded over the past twenty years - at least one per year - some of which also resulted in casualties,'' said the head of the research department at the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Silvio Greco.'' We must take into account the fact that an accident of the sort that has occurred off the American coastline could also happen to us here in the Mediterranean,'' said Greco. ''It has very little waters replacement and is a closed body of water: it is clear that the impact from an accident like the one that happened in the Gulf of Mexico could be devastating.''
more details http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.XAM12084.html
domenica 2 maggio 2010
The worst offshore spill in history of USA
News By Dan Shapley
The Gulf of Mexico oil Spill, caused by a BP oil-drilling project (by the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig), is an environmental catastrophe requiring an unprecedented response. Eleven workers were killed by the blast on the rig April 20, and the open well is gushing 5,000 barrels or more every day from three leaks so deep underwater that BP and federal agencies say it could take three months or more to fix the leaks. If the oil continues spilling for two months, it would be larger than the infamous Exxon Valdez spill 21 years ago (if it hasn't already).
Booms, at the mercy of weather, are deployed along the Gulf Coast, suspect chemicals are being sprayed to disperse the oil, and massive structures are to be dropped over the leaks in an attempt to contain and pump out the oil before it spreads. But the oil slick is already nearly the size of Jamaica, and on the doorstep of coastal communities in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. Critical habitat for 400 species of birds, fish and other marine life is threatened, at a critical breeding time; up to half of the U.S. supply of some popular seafood, like shrimp, oysters and bluecrabs at risk; and oil-soaked creatures have already begun washing ashore.
It's easy to feel hopeless in the face of such disaster. Taking action is one of the best antidotes for that feeling. What can individuals do to help?
Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/gulf-oil-spill-2010-0503#ixzz0muXiiSwp
A few of the 40 Greatest Nature Photographs of All Time
Sea lions playing in the sea grass beds off Little Hopkins Island Australia, by David David Doubilet
Water lilies, Nymphaea nouchali, Okavango Delta, Botswana, by Frans Lanting
giovedì 29 aprile 2010
Immigrants in Rosarno: Never forget!
Try yourself no getting angry reading the article written by Frederika Randall.
Something should change in our society and maybe could be a point of start showing a feeling for the suffering of others.
This cunsuming hatred for immigrants is a step backward once a time. Immigrants in Rosarno were "paid some$30 for ten to fourteen hours picking oranges and clementines, minus $7 to $8 in kickbacks to the bus driver and the caporale, the gang boss. Some were new arrivals, undocumented, from Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal, Morocco"
People should climb down and admit its cliché on immigrants are wrong. Get informed with this document taken by Civati's blog: http://www.civati.it/mandiamoliacasa.pdf and get lost your false impressions on immigrants living in Italy.
(italian version on http://www.medarabnews.com/)
The Philadelphia Zoo: the story of endangered species
Well-wished Zoo of Creatures made with Lego Brick
"The Philadelphia Zoo invites visitors to enter an extraordinary world of life-size LEGO brick animals with the debut of Creatures of Habitat This extraordinary experience is the first and only conservation exhibition of its kind at any zoo or aquarium. The expansive project, running through October 31, features a series of 10 free-standing habitats, each telling the story of endangered or threatened species around the world through the sculptures of renowned LEGO certified professional, Sean Kenney.
Through the use of amazing LEGO brick sculptures, set designs created to tell each story and informative interactions with Zoo staff, Creatures of Habitat highlights the Philadelphia Zoo’s global role in protecting wildlife. Kenney, one of only six LEGO certified professional artisans in the world, crafted more than 30 life-size animal sculptures from hundreds of thousands of tiny LEGO bricks. Fragile in the wild, some on the brink of extinction, the species represented in these sculptures range from Borneo to Brazil and the Arctic Circle to Africa, and in size from a 500-pound polar bear to the delicate golden lion tamarin, which usually weighs less than one pound. A truly international collaboration, the intricate Creatures of Habitat set designs are the work of the Zoo’s creative team with illustrations provide by Jo Tronc, the famed New Zealand illustrator."
(from http://www.seankenney.com/)
italian translation at http://www.terranauta.it/
Be aware of what goes into making a pair of blue jeans
Honestly speaking Denim jeans are fashionable and worn by almost everybody, but be aware of the environmental impacts on
China’s Pearl River Delta.
Known as the blue jean capital of the world, China’s manufacturing industry is one of the largest polluters on the planet.
Watch the following video:
CNN's Emily Chang comes across piles of trash, many of which contain scraps of blue denim.
The Pearl River Delta is at the center of much of China's manufacturing industry. Its banks are lined with thousands of factories that produce huge amounts of waste, much of which gets funneled into the delta, Chang reported from Guangzhou.
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