Sustainability Propaganda : September 2012

Sep 30, 2012

And all the world is green - Tom Waits

ALL THE WORLD IS GREEN Lyric

I fell into the ocean
When you became my wife
I risked it all aganist the sea
To have a better life
Marie you're the wild blue sky
And men do foolish things
You turn kings into beggars
And beggars into kings

Pretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
We can bring back the old days again
And all the world is green

The fase forgives the mirror
The worm forgives the plow
The questions begs the answer
Can you forgive me somehow
Maybe when our story's over
We'll go where it's always spring
The band is playing our song again
And all the world is green

Pretend that you owe me nothing
And all the world is green
We can bring back the old days again
And all the world is green

The moon is yellow silver
Oh the things that summer brings
It's a love you'd kill for
And all the world is green

He is balancing a diamond
On a blade of grass
The dew will settle on our grave(s)
When all the world is green

Sep 27, 2012

Water Assignment

Sep 26, 2012

Verdurette (: Greenary)

Winter is coming, and Verdurette goes in search of a home. She begins with a tour of the pond: all holes are filled and nobody seems ready to give her a place. Not a good start...

Text and illustrations by Claude Boujon.

Gem - Holly Hobbie

"Gem", a short story written and illustrated by Holly Hobbie. In that story,

"The painter's vivid depiction of an endearing toad's glorious yet fragile world becomes a sparkling celebration of survival and renewal".

Sep 24, 2012

Deforestation

Deforestation on a human scale results in decline in biodiversity and on a natural global scale is known to cause the extinction of many species. The removal or destruction of areas of forest cover has resulted in a degraded environment with reduced biodiversity.

Forests support biodiversity, providing habitat for wildlife;moreover, forests foster medicinal conservation.

With forest biotopes being irreplaceable source of new drugs (such as taxol), deforestation can destroy genetic variations (such as crop resistance) irretrievably.

Since the tropical rainforests are the most diverse ecosystems on Earth and about 80% of the world's known biodiversity could be found in tropical rainforests, removal or destruction of significant areas of forest cover has resulted in a degraded environment with reduced biodiversity.

It has been estimated that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation, which equates to 50,000 species a year. Others state that tropical rainforest deforestation is contributing to the ongoing Holocene mass extinction. The known extinction rates from deforestation rates are very low, approximately 1 species per year from mammals and birds which extrapolates to approximately 23,000 species per year for all species. Predictions have been made that more than 40% of the animal and plant species in Southeast Asia could be wiped out in the 21st century.