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This is a non-commercial attempt from http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/ to highlight the fact that world leaders, irresponsible corporates and mindless 'consumers' are combining to destroy life on earth. It is dedicated to all who died fighting for the planet and those whose lives are on the line today. The cut was put together by Vivek Chauhan, a young film maker, together with naturalists working with the Sanctuary Asia network (http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/). Content credit: The principal source for the footage was Yann Arthus-Bertrand's incredible film HOME http://www.homethemovie.org/ . The music was by Armand Amar. Thank you too Greenpeace and http://timescapes.org/











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Local Harvest is real food

A great little video and website outlining why we should buy local if we care about our health and our planet.

http://www.localharvest.org.au/a-little-local-knowledge/ 

Genetically engineered maize: New indication

Genetically engineered maize: New indication of health risks - January 2012







Written by Frédérique Baudouin
  




Thursday, 26 January 2012



Bt protein toxic to human cells Caen/
München. Insecticidal Bt toxins such as those produced in genetically
engineered plants can be detrimental to human cells. This is a result of
recent research led by researchers at the University of Caen (France).
Their experiments showed that toxins produced in, for example, the
genetically engineered maize MON810, can significantly impact the
viability of human cells. The effects were observed with relatively high
concentrations of the toxins, nevertheless there is cause for concern.
According to companies like Monsanto, which produces genetically
engineered maize with these toxins, the toxins are supposed to be active
only against particular insects and should have no effect on mammals
and humans at all. For the first time, experiments have now shown that
they can have an effect on human cells. These kinds of investigations
are not a requirement for risk assessment in Europe or in any other
region. Another
finding of the researchers concerns a herbicide formulation sold under
the brand name Roundup. Massive amounts of this herbicide are sprayed on
genetically engineered soybean crops and its residues can be found in
food and feed. According to the new publication, even extremely low
dosages of Roundup (glyphosate formulations) can damage human cells. 
These findings are in accordance with several other investigations
highlighting unexpected health risks associated with glyphosate
preparations.

http://www.criigen.org/SiteEn/

Japan is the land of

Japan is the land of service. Polite and gentle people
greet and smile at every doorway and anticipate a customers every need. Even
the toilets are intelligent. Heated toilet seats are the norm as is combined
toilet and bidet. I can get used to having my bottom washed and then air
dried. The toilet then automatically flushes as you walk away. When you
walk into our toilet in our hotel room, the toilet automatically lifts the
toilet seat, a bit sexist I thought, or can’t it tell I want to sit?

Up at 4am this morning

Up at 4am this morning to check out the Tsukiji Fish Market - tuna auction was amazing. http://www.tsukiji-market.or.jp/tukiji_e.htm

Arrived in Tokyo last night.

Arrived in Tokyo last night. So impressed with the detail
that the Japanese put into everything. Breakfast this morning was a dream, especially
after a week of American breakfasts. Apologies to our American friends, but we
dread American breakfast that are so sugar loaded – doughnuts covered in
sugar or for an alternative choice doughnuts covered in icing or sugar loaded
cereal – that we dread trying to cope with breakfasts there. This
morning fir breakfast in Tokyo we were offered an array, about 14 choices, or
tasty delicate morsels ranging from carpaccio of salmon in tiny delicate cubes,
tiny little cups of pastry holding a delicate cheese mixture, tasty morsels of
carpaccio of octopus, gently sautéed button mushrooms, a rice dish, scrambled
eggs (using real eggs) Danish pastries (again real ones) carpaccio of turnip
sliced so thin you could see through it, and so it went on, and that was before
getting to the fruit and natural yoghurt and salad bar.

 

In the restaurant for breakfast there is a little card that
is placed on your table when you are seated that shows the table is taken. 
When you finish your breakfast you hand the card in as you leave and that shows
your table is free to be cleaned up. Small things that have been thought through
so well to make life easier for everyone.

 

In our room we both need to be able to access the internet
at the same time. So the hotel provided us with a little box that we plug the
LAN cable in to and that enables free wifi in our room so that we can both work
at the same time. The elevator is enabled by our room key card – we swipe
our keycard against the reader in the elevator and it automatically takes us to
the correct level that our room is located on. 

 

We are looking forward to going and checking out the city
today. Tomorrow we will check out the famous Tsukiji
Fish Market at 4.30am http://www.asiaexplorers.com/japan/tsukiji-fish-market-tokyo.htm
 and then we will start work. John will be talking at the horticultural
conference that Hidemi Takamatsu from Tacoflower http://www.tacoflower.jp/english/english.html
has organised on Friday .

 

Harrisonburg Farmers Market in Virginia

Harrisonburg Farmers Market in Virginia USA has a purpose built market that was constructed 3 years ago. The market committee raised the funds to build the building plus had donations from locals as well as a grant. The local council provided the land, maintain the building and pay for the electricity. It is in the middle of a car park so stall holders can back their vehicles up to their stand. Their is power on every upright for stallholders to plug into. The market has been operating for 33 years and turns over one million dollars a year. What a great layout.

The meat vendor uses old icecream cabinets on castors that he wheels out of his truck to display his frozen meat. Plus he has a cook top in his truck that he cooks on.

One veg seller has made excellent wooden signs that are very simple and most effective. A rustic look that is tidy and efficient.

Need to go green?

 Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older

woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

 
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

 
The
clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not
care enough to save our environment for future generations."

 
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

 
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to

the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and

sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.

So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

 
We
walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store
and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb
into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But
she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

 
Back
then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the
throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our
clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their
brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady
is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.

 
Back
then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room.
And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember 
them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen,
we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines
to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the
mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or
plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn
gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human
power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club
to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We
didn't have the green thing back then.

 
We
drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a
plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing
pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor
blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because
the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

 
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their

bikes
to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi
service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of
sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized
gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in
space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

 
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old

folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Helping with housework

Harry my little helper

 

 

 

It is not my intention

It is not my intention to feed the local wildlife with
Eukanuba. If it’s not magpies, its goannas stealing the dog’s
biscuits.