Too busy with Fauna and Flora....anyway...lemesee what the futurist have dreamed up...continuing the Ocean City thread of last night...brb...
search: floating ocean city
brought this one up...which is pretty all inclusive....
Oh...Species is on..there in the sewers...and one of those critters that just wants to eat from the git go!...
brb...
Bluthton and something called Sea Britain...
glad I dont get comments!!
a blog quote:
Life on this planet could be very different very soon. The most basic of resources, space, will quickly run out as the exponential growth of the population continues.
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Actually, the move to the Cities now is making space... the corporate farms are changing the rural demographic...thinking here of the protests in India by the small farmers who found an advocate, a woman quantum scientist I saw the other night on TV...brb....
hmmph..this search is getting skewed by the impact of genetically engineered crops and the India farmers...not what I was looking for...brb...
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From Bolivia to Cancun to Miami, this fall has seen major protests against corporate globalization across the hemisphere. Today we spend the hour listening to the words of Vandana Shiva. [Includes transcript]
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Vandana Shiva...that's her name...and very pleasant to listen too...brb...
Aha! ... a doubleback...chipko is in earlier post....
quote from wikipedia's site:
Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, whose main participants were women, adopted the tactic of hugging trees to prevent their felling.
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Somewhere there is a pic of me standing in front of a redwood...baseball cap sideways...flannel shirt...Levis with the pant legs rolled up to make big cuffs...actually they were probably Penny's brand...and I'm maybe six or seven years old....Calavaras Big Trees if I remember right...it takes a bunch with joined hands to hug the trees hereabouts!!
On vacation at Prairie Creek, too when I was a kid...we drove off onto a logging road to explore...I cant forget the contrast between the corridor of Redwood forest and the logged over hillsides...and dont intend to ever!
Well...it took a few searches...but here's one for the ocean cities that's close to what I had in mind...the lily pad idea I'm referring too...I had thought to put orange trees in jars!...and to make a mat of some kind for strawberry fields...as Thor Heyerdahl discovered in his Ra Expedition that the reed boat smoothed out the waves....the salt air and storms is a concern!!
Which all remind me of someday of doing a simple experiment...a plant in a bottle! (oh...you can buy little sealed up terrariums...but an ocean floating plant in a big jar/bottle would need to be open for air...but the sunlight can be manipulated through a small opening...I had this all worked out!!...except I just realized the need for pollinators...bugs...I dont think anyone ever includes the bugs...which were the undoing of that closed up glass habitat experiment!!)
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
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