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/

2007-08-24

Levin's Story

Miles - Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma
August 25, 1988 – August 19, 2007

August 21, 2007
Miles' funeral was yesterday. So unusual for Michigan in August, but it was cool, damp, and frequently raining heavily. The sky, like many, was crying. Moving eulogies were offered.

There is relief that he is no longer in pain. With the exception of a handful of days, he was in varying degrees of pain for most of the last two years; he is free of that now. The fact that he could maintain his outlook each and every day, let alone be cheerful and optimistic, is a testament to something unusual about him.
....

As I predicted, my suffering feels inconsolable. There are periods of calm followed by a wail I didn't know lived in my body. I don't know how someone does this really. I'm not convinced that the passage of time is the answer.... Your messages do help - especially from those who have walked or are walking this path.

Another word for cancer is WAITING. Always waiting. Waiting for the diagnosis, waiting for the treatment plan, waiting for the chemo to work, waiting for the drugs to work that counteract the awful effects of the chemo, waiting for scan results, waiting for a phone call, waiting to see the doctor, waiting to hear what's going to happen when the treatment doesn't work, and then finally, for Miles, waiting to die. Now, I'm waiting to recover.

(Source: levinstory on http://www.carepages.com/)


A year ago, Miles Levin wrote on his CarePage: “Your biological vitality means very little – having a beating heart and operational lungs does not define you. Your effect on the world around you does. Once you fulfill that service, your shift is done. You’re off work and it’s time to go home.”

On Sunday, August 19, 2007 Miles fulfilled his service here on Earth.... He captured the hearts and souls of everyone here at CarePages, and the lives he touched far beyond as his story began making national headlines.

(Source: story of inspiration on http://www.carepages.com/)

Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma:
Sarcomas are cancers that develop from connective tissues in the body, such as muscles, fat, membranes that line the joints, or blood vessels. Rhabdomyosarcoma is a cancer made up of cells that normally develop into skeletal muscles of the body. This type is called alveolar because the malignant cells form little hollow spaces, or alveoli.
(Source: American Cancer Society)
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