Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

http://www.lovinghut.com/
Since the vegetarian diet is the most effective solution to global warming, under Supreme Master Ching Hai's guidance, members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association recently opened a chain of Loving Hut vegetarian restaurants around the world, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Au Lac and Formosa. These places provide affordable and high-quality vegetarian delicacies to the public, bringing a positive impact on the food and beverage industry...
Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
The term pleather ("plastic leather") is a slang term for synthetic leather made out of plastic, a portmanteau of plastic and leather, the term can be either descriptive, or derogatory, depending upon the user (the derogatory use implies use as a substitute for genuine animal hide leather to cut costs)...

From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole
  • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time
  • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2007-08-22

"幸福" 的天使

有一個人,他生前善良而且熱心助人,所以在他死後,昇上天堂,做了天使。

他當了天使後,仍時常到凡間助人,希望能一直感受到幸福的感覺。

有一天,他遇見一個農夫。農夫的樣子非常煩惱, 他向天使訴說︰「我家的水牛剛死了,沒牠幫忙犁田,那我怎能下田工作呢?」於是天使賜給他一隻健壯的水牛,農夫很高興,天使在他身上感受到了幸福的感覺。

又有一天,他遇見一個男人,男人非常沮喪,他向天使訴說︰「我的錢都被騙光了,沒有盤纏回鄉。」於是天使送給他銀兩做路費,男人很高興,天使在他身上感受到了幸福的感覺。

再過一天,他遇見一個詩人,年青、英俊、有才華而且富有,妻子貌美又溫柔,但他卻不快樂。天使問他︰「你不快樂嗎?我能幫你嗎?」詩人對天使說︰「我什麼也有,只欠一樣東西,你能夠給我嗎?」天使回答說︰「可以。你要什麼我都可以給你。」

詩人直直的望著天使︰「我想要的是幸福。」

這下子把天使難倒了。天使想了很久,說︰「我明白了。」 然後把詩人所擁有的全部拿走: 天使拿走了詩人的才華、毀去他的容貌、奪去他的財產、和他妻子的性命,然後便離去了。

一個月後,天使回到詩人的身邊,他那時餓得半死,衣衫襤褸,躺在地上掙扎。天使把他過去擁有的一切再還給他,然後又離去了。

半個月後,天使再去看看詩人。這次,詩人摟著妻子,歡天喜地,不住向天使道謝。因為,他得到幸福了。

幸福與否,只在乎您的心怎麼看待。感恩 ! 惜福 !

來源: 電子郵件轉載

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