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/

2008-08-11

Bike Helmet Giveaway

Need a bike helmet?

It's the law in NYC that children under the age of 14 must wear a helmet when riding a bike and it is strongly recommended that everyone wear a helmet.

NYCDOT will be conducting helmet fittings and distribution at 24th Street and Park Avenue from 9:00 a.m. until noon on Auguest 9th, 16th and 23rd (all three Summer Street Saturdays).


City Councilman Dan Garodnick will also have volunteers present to help fit and distribute the helmets on August 9th. Supplies are limited and you must be present to be fit for and receive a helmet. Parents and guardians must be present in order for their children to receive a helmet.

NYC presents "Summer Streets" 3 Saturdays in August --

The city will temporarily close Park Avenue and connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to motor vehicles and open it up to people on three consecutive Saturdays in August (August 9, 16, & 23).

The city's Summer Streets program will have its debut Saturday morning.

Call for Volunteers
Summer Streets needs hundreds of volunteers to assist the NYPD and NYC DOT staff in making sure this event is a huge success. There are opportunities for stationary, walking, and cycling volunteers.

(Source: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/; http://www.nyc.gov/; Image by: http://www.nyc.gov/)


By Stevenson Swanson (Tribune correspondent)

The Tribune's Stevenson Swanson writes that Michael Bloomberg's effort to rid the roadways of cars starts with three Saturdays in August

NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to implement a London-style charge to cut congestion in Manhattan may have hit a traffic jam with New York state legislators, but he's still out to take cars off the city's streets.

On Saturday and two other Saturdays this month, a 7-mile route from the Brooklyn Bridge to 72nd Street will be closed to cars and other gas-burning vehicles to let bikers, skaters, joggers and walkers have free use of the streets.

From 72nd Street, two-wheeled and two-legged traffic will be able to venture across Central Park and hook up with a greenway that runs along the Hudson River.

Cities such as Paris, Tokyo and London have already tried temporary car-free zones, and a coalition of neighborhood groups and the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation will sponsor a similar project to close some Chicago streets on two Sundays in October, letting pedestrians and cyclists make their way from Logan Square on the city's Northwest Side to Little Village on the Southwest Side
(source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/)
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