Sue, read the article and there are many concerns and issues that Penninsula <S> are facing with developers purchasing land adjacent to wetlands and are petitioning the City council <in> to build high rises over wetlands.
Of course, people are saying 'no' - but the argument is "Where are we supposed to put all the people"? Overpopulation is causing the coastal messes, pollution, infringement, and industry attempting to keep up with the growing masses of newcomers to the state.
NG talks about ethics. IF we are to restore our oceans, then we need people that have the guts to implement intelligent enviornmental change.
Unfortuantely, people such as Pompo and other legislators would sell the entire coast to developers, and offshore drilling companies.
Sue, those are great pics! Thanks
I just read the article too, and the picture of Miami Beach was hair-raising.
But I was impressed with the research going on, and very impressed with the somewhat simple technological solutions to road runoff as used along Buzzards Bay to filter out contaminants before they get to the water.
I am puzzled though by the suggestion that oceanic preserves, or reserves, are that feasible. The waters are all of one piece - you can't stop red tide or high winds by saying - keep out of our sanctuary. Our female fish need room and opportunity to get big so that they can begat more babies.
People have always been drawn to waterways and coastal areas. The hard thing will be to get everyone to move back - way back - make the developers pay more for redundant systems of protection - and no roads or man-made structures of any kind near the water. Here you would be battling not just the developers - but those with enough money to pay for land up close and personal to the water.
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American Prairie habitat supported: 53,699.9 square feet.
You have supported: (13,203.5)
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Joni Mitchell
A little green
Born with the moon in cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
Call her green for the children whove made her
Little green, be a gypsy dancer
He went to california
Hearing that everythings warmer there
So you write him a letter and say, her eyes are blue.
He sends you a poem and shes lost to you
Little green, hes a non-conformer
Ch0rus:
Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
Therell be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the northern lights perform
Therell be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes therell be sorrow
Child with a child pretending
Weary of lies you are sending home
So you sign all the papers in the family name
Youre sad and youre sorry, but youre not ashamed
Little green, have a happy ending
Chorus:
Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
Therell be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the northern lights perform
Therell be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes therell be sorrow
sue and all ~ Just received some very good news from the Wilderness Society...
There is real progress to report this week: The Bush Administration is backing off its proposal to sell off national forest and other public lands. Mark Rey, former lobbyist for the timber industry now in charge of National Forests for the Administration, has noted that most of the 130,000 emails received about the proposal opposed the sell-off. He did allow, however, that it could be reintroduced next year.
The Senate has restored some funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund. And protections for our national parks are moving in a positive direction. If you took part in these campaigns, give yourself some credit!
I hope you can find time this month to stroll out some evening and look up at the sky, remembering that wonderful quote from Walt Whitman: "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
Joni Mitchell one of my faves, ehBeth. Great lyrics!
Gordon Lightfoot
Bitter Green
Upon the Bitter Green she was,
the hills above the town.
Echoed to the footsteps,
as soft as heather down.
Waiting for her master,
to kiss away her tears.
Waiting through the years,
Bitter Green they called her,
walking in the sun,
Loving everyone that she met.
Bitter Green they called her,
waiting in the sun,
waiting for someone to take her home.
Some say he was a sailor,
who died away at sea,
Some say he was a prisoner,
who never was set free,
lost upon the ocean,
he died there in the mist,
dreaming of the kiss,
Bitter Green they called her,
walking in the sun,
Loving everyone that she met.
Bitter Green they called her,
waiting in the sun,
waiting for someone to take her home.
Musical Interlude
But now, that Bitter Green is gone,
the hills have turned to rust,
there comes a weary stranger,
his tears fall in the dust,
kneeling by the churchyard,
in the autumn mist,
dreaming of the kiss,
Bitter Green they called her,
walking in the sun,
Loving everyone that she met.
Bitter Green they called her,
waiting in the sun,
waiting for someone to take her home.
Bitter Green they called her,
walking in the sun,
Loving everyone that she met.
Bitter Green they called her,
waiting in the sun,
waiting for someone...
to take her home.
Evergreen
Barbra Streisand
Love, soft as an easy chair
Love, fresh as the morning air
One love that is shared by two
I have found with you
Like a rose under the April snow
I was always certain love would grow
Love, ageless and evergreen
Seldom seen by two
You and I will make each night the first
Everyday a beginning
Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed
They warm and excite us
'Cause we have the brightest love
Two lights that shine as one
Morning glory and
The midnight sun
Time, we've learned to sail above
Time, won't change the meaning of one love
Ageless and ever evergreen
Great news, and wonderful lyrics.
I would like to repost a question I raised above which seems to not have been seen.
To Ul, or anyone here:
Has anyone every accessed an eBook and copied it or downloaded it? Surely it is too large to just be placed in Documents, even as a .pdf file. Copied to a disc via CD-ROM Write? Downloaded to some other specific piece of hardware?
I read recently that eBook reader technology has improved but the good ones are terribly expensive.
Any thoughts on how best to take advantage of this one-month window?
In the valley of Bandellier Monument,NM
Susan,
I don't know anything about an ebook reader.
The books I downloaded so far have been in pdf- and I just have them on my computer.
I think when you check on the size of the document you will find that it isn't very large, if it is only text.
Copying it to a CD is an option if you don't have enough space on your computer to store the document.
Sorry, can't help you more.
Thanks, Ul.
Heads up everyone - really interesting discussion started by steve entitled something like 7/7 - one year after.
Morning all,
all clicked...................
sumac,
I have never downloaded an ebook.. ul's response sounds right to me. Text is not a large load - but, pictures are.
Please forgive the following off-topic post, and I am only giving the first two paragraphs, but if true, this is dynamite.
"HOW DICK CHENEY SPENT HIS SUMMER VACATION
U.S. Plants Seeds of Disaster in Kazakhstan
NEW YORK--Each summer, America's financial elite head for the Hamptons. But bold men who lust for power have an agenda far more ambitious than the seduction of Botox babes at cocktail parties where grown men wear pastels. They go where the real action is: the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, home to the world's largest untapped oil reserves.
Dick Cheney has been spending a lot of time in the huge Central Asian republic, so much so that its windswept steppes have become his new Secret Undisclosed Location. Mostly the Acting President hangs out in Kazakhstan's landlocked hinterlands wooing a reviled dictator, the only ruler the nation has known since being evicted by the USSR in 1991. Thanks in part to more than $50 million a year in U.S. taxpayer money and ever-soaring bundles of military aid, Cheney hopes to secure "total energy dominance" via lucrative oil pipeline deals on behalf of GOP-connected energy companies."
http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/
Hmmm,
Business as usual, I see. Guess who pays? We taxpayers!!
You and your 298 friends have supported 2,459,742.8 square feet!
Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 119,797.1 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
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American Prairie habitat supported: 53,723.3 square feet.
You have supported: (13,203.5)
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Rainforest habitat supported: 2,286,222.4 square feet.
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2 192 37.756 acres
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Have a nice weekend everyone...
A nice weekend to all Wildclickers!
Here it might be a hot one-
a lot of people will be here to watch the soccer final- so far 6 Italiens, 4 French, and some from England, the US and Austria.
I will watch those who watch :wink:
A multinational household. Enjoy and don't spend all of your time in the kitchen.
