Earth, Environment & Endangered Species 02 (Apr 11 - Sep 15)

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Glass Container Recycling

Here's a simple tip that will improve the quantity of glass, that gets recycled every day.

Whenever you place a glass container of any sort in your curbside recycling box, always remove the lid or cap, or corks from wine bottles.

Glass containers often get broken in the recycling process, and if the lid is still attached the top portion of the container will often stay attached to the lid.

Because it's physically difficult to separate the lid from broken glass at the recycling facility, that portion of the container often does not get recycled.

It just gets sent to landfill. So always remove the lids or cap or corks when recycling glass containers.


Source: wisdomtips.com

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The Tears of Gaia - Stuart Wilde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECIVW0A1 ... 5A33AD01E9

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Gaia & Her Earthquakes by Stuart Wilde

Logically, one might imagine earthquakes are random events, but watching visions I’ve come to wonder if Gaia (the spirit of nature), has a plan and that her plan is sometimes stymied by the dark forces.

I once got an earthquake prediction to within four hours, in the Gulf of Mexico and my friend Khris Krepcik got the Chilean earthquake (2010) also to within a few hours, of course these may be coincidences, but what if the earthquakes exist in a parallel world just before they happen here.

Three other earthquake predictions of mine proved dismally inaccurate. I did see the tsunami in Indonesia, (Sunday, 26 December 2004) but I thought it would come sooner than it did, it occurred in Sumatra and I thought it was in the north east of the US.

But are earthquakes pre-set and then does Gaia face opposition that messes her about? It might sound mad but it’s fun to contemplate. Let’s say for example, there is a pocket of evil Gaia is trying to rub out, just as she hit two of the three biggest voodoo places in the world, both Haiti and New Orleans were rubbed out, the third place Baltimore is still in tact.

So she works on her “event” and sometimes she makes it happen and other times her efforts are stymied by the ghouls who don’t want her rubbing out 300,000 black magic, voodoo practitioners.

I have been shown how Gaia is trying to reduce human consumption and the killing of animals, but there is a theme that also says she’s after pockets of evil as well. Now black magicians in Africa that hurt children would be too spread out for a Gaia hit, but what about the red light districts of major cities, or a meteor hit on Wall Street?

Revelation talks about the destruction of a city while merchant ships are anchored out to sea, powerless to stop it. That is why people think it might be NY.

It may just be wistful thinking, but I see a clever pattern and a directed force, not a random one. We’ll have to see what happens, the next Gaia event must be soon, it could be today, or in six months time, there is no certain way of knowing, but in the end she’ll huff and puff and bring the house down. She is the ace up our sleeve.

http://www.stuartwilde.com/2012/11/gaia ... rthquakes/

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China wood demand destroying world’s forests

Preservation of the world's forests “is in China's hands’’, a top environmental campaign group said today, accusing the biggest wood importer and consumer of fuelling the illegal timber trade.

“China's role as the world's biggest timber trader means that further progress against illegal logging depends on the nation taking measures,’’ the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency said in a report released in Beijing, AFP reports.

“Yet while other major consumer markets have acted, China remains firmly on the sidelines.''

China's demand for foreign wood has tripled since 2000 to reach 180 million cubic metres last year – enough to fill Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest stadium, which hosted the Olympics, more than 60 times.

At least a tenth of those imports came from illegal sources, the EIA said, basing the figure on trade data analysis and illegal logging rates in certain exporting nations. It said it was a conservative estimate with the reality “likely to be far higher’’.

“The fate of much of the world's natural forests is in China's hands,’’ it said, accusing Beijing of a “stated unwillingness to explicitly prohibit illegal timber trade’’.

Over the past decade the European Union, United States and Australia have passed laws to better regulate or ban illegal timber, while Japan and other countries were considering similar moves, it said.

China had proposed a government-to-government verification scheme and code of conduct for Chinese businesses overseas, but the EIA said these did not guarantee effective enforcement.

“Any of the improvements made through legislation in the EU or in the US or now in Australia will come to nothing if China does not do the same,'' Jago Wadley, a senior campaigner for the organization said.

Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei stressed China’s desire to stop unlawful practices and encourage sustainable development.

“We are opposed to the illegal farming and trade of timber,'' he said, adding China sought to “enhance the protection of forestry resources across the world and we would like to make more contributions in this regard’’.

Between 75 and 85 percent of wood products made in China stay in the country, the EIA said, citing Deutsche Bank and other sources, limiting its need to abide by other nations' timber regulations.

“China's rapidly growing domestic consumer market is the main absorber of illegal timber imported into the country,'' the EIA said, “and without action will be chief driver of illegal logging worldwide into the future’’.

The report said Chinese demand for wood had impacted countries from the nearby Mekong region to as far as Africa.

During Liberia's civil war in the early 2000s its timber exports to China rose faster than any other African country – a trade that incurred a rare ban by the United Nations in 2004 for funding Charles Taylor's brutal government.

Surging demand for rosewood in China – used in traditional furniture and whose value has jumped 25 percent in a year – has fed “a climate of corruption and conflict'' in Southeast Asian supplier nations, the organization added.

Thailand has intercepted 3,000 illegal exports of rosewood worth US$3 billion, it said, while Chinese traders had been reported working with Vietnamese gangs to secure illegal supplies.

The hunt for rosewood has driven Chinese traders ever deeper into source areas, said EIA campaign leader Julian Newman.

“You have to go further and further, that means more checkpoints, more bribes,'' he said. “So again there is a displacement effect, you have to move to other places.''

Source: The Standard HK

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Antarctic ice sheet warming faster than thought: study

AFP - The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose melt may be responsible for 10 percent of the sea-level rise caused by climate change, is warming twice as quickly as previously thought, a study said Sunday.

A re-analysis of temperature records from 1958 to 2010 revealed an increase of 2.4 degrees Celsius (36.3 degrees Fahrenheit) over the period -- three times the average global rise.

http://www.france24.com/en/20121223-ant ... ught-study

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Japanese set sail for bloody whale slaughter

Japan’s whaling vessels left port today bound for the Southern Ocean on their annual hunt for the marine mammals, a media report and Greenpeace said.

Citing the Fisheries Agency, Kyodo News reported three vessels had departed from the far-western port of Shimonoseki, while environmental group Greenpeace said the whaling fleet's mother ship had left another port, in the west.

“The mother ship, Nisshin Maru, left Innoshima today,'' said Greenpeace Japan's executive director Junichi Sato, AFP reports.

“Today was virtually the last day when they could leave for the Antarctic Sea.’’

The mother ship would join the three vessels that left Shimonoseki earlier in the day, Kyodo said. The fleet plans to hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March, the fisheries agency said earlier.

Japanese authorities refused to confirm either departure to AFP. “We do not disclose when the vessels leave or left for safety reasons,’’ an agency official said.

Coastguard officers will be aboard the ships to cope with possible harassment from anti-whaling activists, the coastguard and fisheries agency officials said earlier this month.

The fleet's departure comes weeks later than expected and days after a US court ordered environmental group Sea Shepherd to stay at least 500 yards from whaling vessels. The injunction was ordered by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

It said Sea Shepherd and Canadian conservationist Paul Watson, who is wanted by Interpol, “are enjoined from physically attacking any vessel engaged by plaintiffs'', including Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research.

In addition, they are banned from “navigating in a manner that is likely to endanger the safe navigation of any such vessel’’, said the order, issued on Monday.

The joint plaintiffs are Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Ltd., Tomoyuki Ogawa and Toshiyuki Miura. It follows the issuing in August of an arrest notice by Interpol for Watson, Sea Shepherd's founder, who jumped bail in Germany in July.

He had been arrested there on charges from Costa Rica relating to a high-seas confrontation over shark finning in 2002.

In a statement on its website, Sea Shepherd called the new US court ruling “the first shot of the season’’ by Japanese whalers.

Sea Shepherd's ninth campaign, named Operation Zero Tolerance, is its largest ever against Japan's whale hunt and involves four ships, a helicopter, three drones and more than 100 crew members.

Three of the vessels, the Steve Irwin, Bob Barker and Brigitte Bardot, are all at sea while the Sam Simon is at an undisclosed location.

Source: The Standard HK

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Batu Caves, KL

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Half of all food thrown away, report claims

AFP - Up to half of all the food produced in the world -- two billion tonnes of it -- is thrown away, according to a report published on Thursday.

The waste is caused by poor infrastructure and storage facilities in the developing world, and "buy-one-get-one-free" offers, and the fussiness of consumers in the developed world, the report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers said.

Every year, four billion tonnes of food is produced, but between 30 percent and 50 percent is never consumed, according to the report entitled "Global Food; Waste Not, Want Not".

One of the worst offenders is Britain, where as much as 30 percent of vegetables are not harvested because they are misshapen and supermarkets will not sell them.

The report also suggests that half of the food that is bought in Europe and the United States is thrown away by consumers.

"The reasons for this situation range from poor engineering and agricultural practices, inadequate transport and storage infrastructure through to supermarkets demanding cosmetically perfect foodstuffs and encouraging consumers to overbuy through buy-one-get-one free offers."

The report also found that 550 billion cubic metres of water is wasted globally in growing crops that were never eaten.

The institution said the demand for water production could reach between 10 trillion and 13 trillion cubic metres a year by 2050.

Fox said: "The UN projects that the global population will swell to 9.5 billion by 2075, meaning there will be three billion more people to feed.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130110-hal ... ort-claims

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Earth Changes, Huge Rise in the Waters by Stuart Wilde

I’ve seen very few visions for 2013, except war and false flag operations. Then a few nights ago I saw a very impacting vision of high waters and earth changes.

First, I saw a regular map of the world, then an adjusted map once the waters had risen.

The focus of my attention was on the Middle East and the Mediterranean sea, which was much enlarged (see second map below).

Saudi Arabia, South Western Jordan and 90% of Israel were gone. America looked skinny, the western coast line was just west of the Rocky Mountains, vast tracts of Africa were gone and the eastern side of South America was under water.

I didn’t see Asia or Australia. I am sure they were there, but they were not on the part of the globe that I was shown.

If the ice at the poles melts it might add 10-20 feet to the seas, but the kind of change I saw would involve hundreds of feet of rising waters. I have no idea what might cause that, except if the earth is hit by a comet that brings trillions of tons of ice with it, or perhaps the land masses we know now, sink.

I have seen visions of the ground morphing into wet slurry and buildings sinking and disappearing in minutes.

The sink holes that are appearing in America may be linked to all of this, maybe if a sink hole opens up the size of California for example, then the coast line would change.

I didn’t think the earth changes I saw are for 2013, it seemed later, but it was a way of saying, “Don’t worry about war, it will all get fixed eventually.”

http://www.stuartwilde.com/2013/01/eart ... he-waters/

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China's PMI level is now at 800 ?

The safe level is supposed to be around 25.

Source: CNBC