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Subject: "Gaia" scientist says life doomed by climate woes (commentary by
Culture Change) (fwd)
Oh.
Well, then.
I guess we're -
So, okay, well, there you go.
Yep.
/ /skip
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:45:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Culture Change <info@culturechange.org>
To: culturechange@lists.mutualaid.org
Subject: "Gaia" scientist says life doomed by climate woes (commentary by
Culture Change)
"Gaia" scientist says life doomed by climate woes (commentary by Culture
Change)
By Peter Griffiths
http://culturechange.org/go.html?338
[Note: On almost as pleasant an afternoon as I could devise, I was jolted
by this story. Read it and see our reaction that follows. - Jan Lundberg,
Culture Change Editor]
* Climate scientist Lovelock sees death "on grand scale"
* Vast areas will become deserts, or flooded
LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Climate change will wipe out most life on Earth
by the end of this century and mankind is too late to avert catastrophe, a
leading British climate scientist said.
James Lovelock, 89, famous for his Gaia theory of the Earth being a kind
of living organism, said higher temperatures will turn parts of the world
into desert and raise sea levels, flooding other regions.
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sadness, last, fullness
distraught at the ending of a nine-month residency, the work disappearing
in two days, at least in its intended state; I've gone in and maximized
the number of objects on some of the parcels, the last gasp of a form of
hysteria awkwardly connected with creative stumbling among virtuals and
reals. I didn't expect to feel this way, but I've explored every milli-
meter of the place, such as it is, analyzed and written through it, taught
classes with it or even there, inhering; I've exhibited it online and off,
in galleries and film or video venues, and now the curtain's over and
habitus almost but not quite yet removed. What you'll see if you enter the
place, more a state of mind than anything else, is something unique now,
the overflowing or abundance of the virtual and the struggle of computers
to keep up with the flow which seems simultaneously endless and confined.
Do go to the site one last time:
| To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist:
| http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22
- The next two days are all there is.
http://www.alansondheim.org/ lastfullness pngs and I'll try to put some
video up as well
Sometime, somewhere, histories of these works should be preserved; now,
they're ephemeral, at the whim of curators, owners, whomever, anyone but
the artists who spend hundreds of hours creating them.
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From: American Bird Conservancy <abc@abcbirds.org>
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Subject: February BirdWire eNewsletter
FAA Agrees to Study Lighting Requirements for Bird-Killing Towers
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced plans to conduct a study that will examine whether steady-burning sidelights on tall communications towers, which attract birds and cause them to collide with the towers during night migration, can be safely eliminated without endangering air traffic. Unlike many waterfowl and birds of prey, most songbirds migrate during the night, with up to several billion birds having to navigate a landscape littered with as many as 100,000 lighted towers each spring and fall. American Bird Conservancy and its conservation partners have been working together with the communications industry in seeking this important study, which will help determine whether the safety of pilots can be maintained while also reducing the impact of lights on migrating birds. Read the full story at http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/stories/090206.html
Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture Helps Priority Birds in Tennessee. Bird conservation in the Appalachian Mountains received a big boost recently with the completion of a significant conservation acquisition in east Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau. The newly-acquired lands include over 120,000 acres of hardwood forest, rugged mountains, and pristine streams spread over three different areas. These forests link to an additional 66,000 acres of public lands, creating a total of 300 square miles of protected habitat for birds and wildlife. Read the full story at http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/stories/090113.html
Fishermen Work to Keep Birds Off the Hook. West Coast fishermen are voluntarily taking measures to stop the accidental killing of seabirds, which can be snared on the hooks of long-line fishing boats. The Fishing Vessel Owners' Association (FVOA), which represents longlining captains in the halibut and sablefish fisheries along the West Coast, has instructed its members to use streamer lines when longline fishing in Washington, Oregon, and California waters. Read the full story at http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/090212.html
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the last few minutes of the Hybrid / OCAD installation
http://www.alansondheim.org/ waterfog pngs and mp4
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