Ecotourism

Ecological tourism or ecotourism is a new trend, different kind of alternative tourism to traditional tourism. It is an approach to tourism activities in which the focus is on sustainability, preservation, appreciation of the environment (both natural and cultural) that welcomes and keeps the tourist aware of what is around him. Although there are different [...]

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Cat scratch post

Why a cat scratching post? Cats have a natural urge to scratch. Cats scratch to sharp and clean their claws and to mark their territory. From the perspective of the cat is therefore necessary to allow the cat to scratch somewhere. But you would not want that to be your couch, table and chairs. To [...]

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Energy from water

Energy you can get out of different things. Most energy is currently still get from fossil fuel source. But this is still responsible. The world has become much concerned with the environment, yet there’s not enough invested in “clean” energy. We wondered whether it is time for change. We are going to ask the main [...]

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Water calculator

This calculator will not run on batteries, not solar, but… on water! You simply fill the water cell and the calculator is ready for use. Calculate anything you want… This calculator uses the innovative technology H2O, whereby the flow of water is generated by the calculator. You fill the water cell and the calculator is [...]

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Water calculator

Posted by on May 12th, 2011
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This calculator will not run on batteries, not solar, but… on water! You simply fill the water cell and the calculator is ready for use. Calculate anything you want… This calculator uses the innovative technology H2O, whereby the flow of water is generated by the calculator. You fill the water cell and the calculator is ready to use! Normally lasts 3 to 6 months in a full water cell, then just fill it back. The water cell itself last 2 to 3 years, then this can be replaced. The calculator is made of biodegradable plastic and is completely environmentally friendly and easy to recycle.

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Green Energy Solutions – Biofuel Alternative

Posted by on December 27th, 2011
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Sustainability means having the least amount of impact on the environment. It’s a balancing act between living well and causing the least amount of environmental degradation, in other words, quality versus quantity.

One natural resource that is finite and non-renewable is natural gas. Yet, we have become extremely dependent on natural gas for water heating purposes. In fact, over half of all single family homes in the United States, are heated with natural gas.

Air quality is the result of the moeasure of the condition of the air in relativity to the requirement of one or more biotic species, human need or purpose. These air quality indicaters are then used by governement agencies to specifiy the quality of the air at any given location. As this number increases, a ever increasing percentage of the population is likely to experience adverse health effect. For that reason it is important to have in place ambient air quality measurement in place to deal with this ever increasing problem.

Statistics prove and natural gas companies don’t dispute, the finite nature of this resource. However, many argue there are several decades of supply available, which is probably true. The problem is we will need to destroy many more acres of wilderness to continue to fulfill our supply needs. It’s clear we need clean and sustainable alternative fuel sources to continue our existence.

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Ecotourism

Posted by on January 26th, 2012
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Ecological tourism or ecotourism is a new trend, different kind of alternative tourism to traditional tourism. It is an approach to tourism activities in which the focus is on sustainability, preservation, appreciation of the environment (both natural and cultural) that welcomes and keeps the tourist aware of what is around him. Although there are different interpretations, usually ecotourism tourism is promoted as “ethical”, which is also presumed to be paramount the welfare of local populations, and that presumption is reflected in the structure and operation of companies/groups/cooperatives that engage in providing such service.

Due to its booming ecotourism and became the fastest-growing and most dynamic sector of the global tourism market. This movement appeared in the late 1980s, and has already managed to attract enough international interest to the extent that the UN dedicated 2002 to eco-tourism. See all the beauty that Australia has to offer for less with great deals on Gold Coast accommodation!

The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) defines ecotourism as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improve the welfare of local people”.

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EARTH MEANDERS: Raping Kids and Earth

Posted by on May 15th, 2012

What kind of sickos destroy children and ecosystems? Well actually, a surprising number do. Most are against both types of victimization of innocence and purity – as long as you don?t talk or do anything about it when it happens.

By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth’s Newsdesk

Raping kids and Earth two sides of the same coin

Earth is so beautiful, so perfect in its intimate interconnectivity, as are humans in their ability to create and transcend, to pass down knowledge, love, and ecological habitat to our children. Yet we know ?especially direct victims of childhood rape and ecocide ? that Earth and her humanity are filled with a dark, narcissistic self-destructiveness as well.

Two of the very worst evils stalking the land are those who sexually abuse children, and those who wage ecocide upon ecosystems. In fact, they are two sides of the same coin. This is going to be a deeply revealing and challenging essay. If you don?t think freely with an open mind; and are, well, dumb and insensitive, you may not want to try.

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Ecological Internet: Small Is Beautiful

Posted by on May 12th, 2012

Support EcoInternet and believe in the wisdom of old trees in ancient forests2012 Mid-Year Fund-Raising Launch – http://climateark.org/shared/donate/

Dear Earth friends,

There is nothing like Ecological Internet on Earth, for Earth. For two decades this lean, highly effective effort has pioneered the use of the Internet for ecological protection. Our half a million strong global network has facilitated hundreds of environmental victories through online protest, biocentric advocacy tools, and sharing of deep green thought. Together we are having the same or greater impact for Earth as much larger organizations, without the greenwash.

Today we launch our 13th annual mid-year fund-raiser to continue doing so. Together we must raise a minimum of ,000 to pay for staffing, computers and bandwidth. Will you please donate , , 0 or what you can afford ? right away ? to get us started? http://climateark.org/shared/donate/

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ALERT! End Old-Growth Temperate Rainforest Logging in Alaska?s Tongass National Forest

Posted by on April 30th, 2012

TAKE ACTION to protect key Asian elephant habitats and their ecosystems

Asian ElephantTAKE ACTION!

It is time to end US old-growth logging, most of which exists in Alaska?s Tongass National Forest [search]. Please urge the federal government to see the salmon and ecosystems through the dwindling old-growth trees for timber, and shift the focus from logging to an ecological protection economy in Earth?s largest temperate rainforest. With only 0.5% of Tongass?s old-growth remaining ? the last areas still containing very large 300-800 year old trees ? it is unconscionable that the United States of America continues with proposals to log these last tiny patches. If proposals to further log Tongass? last old forests advance, it further clearly illustrates the United States has zero international credibility on issues of primary forest protection, climate change, and policy to achieve global ecological sustainability.

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ALERT! Indonesian Oil Palm Fires Threaten Important Orangutan Population with Extirpation

Posted by on April 27th, 2012

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal

A half-buried, nearly-dead orangutan after rainforest habitat stolen and burnlTAKE ACTION to stop the massacre of Tripa?s orangutans

In a global tragedy for wildlife, rainforests and ecosystem sustainability; rainforest peat fires and land clearing by palm oil firms could finish killing off within weeks about 200 orangutans in an important rainforest habitat [search] in western Indonesia. The Tripa swamp rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia ? home to one of the largest remaining populations of wild orangutans in the world ? is ablaze as palm oil companies rush to clear forests before a court case stops their plantation expansion. Up to 100 of an already much diminished population may have been killed in recent months, and unless the land grabs and rainforest burning are immediately stopped, the local population of critically endangered Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) may soon go locally extinct, and the whole species soon thereafter.

TAKE ACTION

http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=orangutan_oilpalm

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EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist

Posted by on April 24th, 2012

How environmental groups gone bad greenwash logging Earth?s last primary old forests

Essay by Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth’s Newsdesk

How environmental groups gone bad greenwash logging Earth?s last primary old forests

The world?s pre-eminent environmental organizations, widely perceived as the leading advocates for rainforests and old growth, have for decades been actively promoting primary forest logging [search]. Groups like Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Environmental Defense Fund actively promote industrially logging Earth?s last old forests. Through their support of the existing ?Forest Stewardship Council? (FSC), and/or planned compromised ?Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation? (REDD), they are at the forefront of destroying ancient forests for disposable consumer items ? claiming it is ?sustainable forest management? and ?carbon forestry?.

Rainforest movement corruption is rampant as these big bureaucratic, corporatist NGOs conspire to log Earth’s last primary rainforests and other old growth forests. Collectively the ?NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs? are greenwashing FSC?s destruction of over 300,000,000 acres of old forests, destroying an area of primary rainforests and other old forests the size of South Africa (two times the size of Texas)! FSC and its members have built a massive market for continued business as usual industrially harvested primary forest timbers ? with minor, cosmetic changes ? certifying as acceptable murdering old forests and their life for consumption of products ranging from toilet paper to lawn furniture. Some 70% of FSC products contain primary forest timbers, and as little as 10% of any product must be from certified sources.

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ALERT! Congo’s Rainforests ? Including Gorilla Rich Virunga National Park – Targeted by UK?s SOCO Oil Company

Posted by on March 24th, 2012

By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal

Please end plans for road through Alto Purus and uncontacted indigenous rainforestlTAKE ACTION HERE NOW!

The Congo Basin [search]? home to some of Earth?s last large, ecologically intact, biodiversity rich rainforests ? may soon be decimated by oil rigs, pipelines, deforestation, and oil spills. SOCO International ? a London-listed oil company ? has announced oil exploration plans in Virunga National Park – Africa?s oldest national park. Virunga is an UNESCO World Heritage site, home to a large population of wild gorillas, and many other important wildlife species, ecosystems, and local forest-dependent communities.

Oil exploration in these globally vital rainforest ecosystems will further set a dangerous precedent that nowhere ? whether protected, or ecologically and socially important – is immune from oil industry destruction. Given record oil prices and growing global demand, it appears every last bit of Earth’s large, wild and intact ecosystems will be sacrificed to industrial development ? to extend our dependence upon fossil fuel, and delay transition now to renewable energy sources ? while ensuring abrupt run-away climate change and global ecosystem collapse. Further rainforest ecocide for oil must end if we are to sustain global ecology. And standing old forests offer hope for advancement to the world?s forest dependent peoples.

TAKE ACTION

http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=congo_oil_virunga

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ALERT! Critical Indian Elephant Habitat Threatened Again, Must Enact Important Elephant Corridor

Posted by on March 12th, 2012

TAKE ACTION to protect key Asian elephant habitats and their ecosystems

Asian ElephantTAKE ACTION!

More than 6,000 Asian elephants [search] and hundreds of tigers still roam wild in South India, but rampant development and rapidly growing villages in the Sigur region of the Nilgiri foothills are choking off critical access corridors utilized by elephants to travel between still viable habitat areas. Following a 2006 national government declaration to protect elephant corridors (which Ecological Internet and YOU played a critical role in achieving), the Madras High Court of Tamil Nadu in 2010 issued an order to declare the Sigur Region an Elephant Corridor to regulate development and other activities affecting elephant habitat. Nevertheless, vested interests are vigorously opposing the order, causing the Tamil Nadu Ministry of Environment and Forests to delay action.

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RELEASE: Top Earth Scientists Warn of Global Ecological Emergency

Posted by on February 29th, 2012

Ecological Internet ? leading provider of Internet biocentric ecology news, action and analysis ? joins with Earth?s best scientists in warning the human family faces imminent collapse of the biosphere ? the thin layer of life organized into ecosystems ? that makes Earth habitable and human well-being possible.

From Earth’s Newsdesk and New Earth Rising, projects of Ecological Internet (EI)
Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet, glen.barry@gmail.com, +1 (608) 381-5865 for interviews

Believe in the wisdom of old trees in ancient forests(Madison, WI) – Ecological Internet (EI) reiterates its declaration of a planetary ecological emergency [1], first issued two years ago. Since then abrupt climate change [search] has revealed itself in all its fury, habitat loss and extinction have intensified, food and water have become increasingly scarce, and human inequity and injustice have grown. Yet there have also been promising signs of a global awakening regarding global ecology, rights, and workers ? seeds of revolutionary social change necessary to sustain global ecology.

?There is no question global ecological systems are collapsing, as important planetary ecological boundaries have been ? and continue to be ? crossed. The human system?s fantastical growth, based upon liquidating nature, has finally caught up with us, and key ecosystems necessary to sustain global ecology are failing,? explains Dr. Barry. ?An Eco-Earth Revolution to overthrow the industrial economic growth machine destroying ecosystems may well be the only option left to sustain global ecology.?

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ALERT! Only a Couple Days to Support European Union Labeling of Tar Sands as Highly Polluting

Posted by on February 23rd, 2012

Vital that EU votes to label tar sands as highly pollutingTAKE ACTION HERE NOW!

The European Commission ? the executive branch of the European Union (EU) ? will be voting in the next couple days whether to designate Canada?s tar sands [search] as being ?highly polluting?. Given tar sands? terrible ecological impacts upon our shared global atmosphere ? and Canadian boreal forests, water, and indigenous peoples – the answer should be painfully obvious, and a resounding YES. Such a designation would be a significant setback for tar sands growth. Yet given the power of the ecocidal oil oligarchy which rules Canada and much of the world, empowered global citizens need to let the EU know the world expects, indeed demands, the EU do the right thing in condemning tar sands ? in order to establish a level playing field for a renewable, efficient, and conservation based energy future.

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EARTH MEANDERS: On Violence and Earth Revolution

Posted by on February 1st, 2012

Imagining the human family coming together to take well considered, decisive, and minimally or non-violent action to sustain global ecology

By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth’s Newsdesk

Earth is dying... and a people power Earth uprising is the only way together we surviveHuman Family?s Ecocidal Death Wish

The ecological foundation of being is unraveling before our very eyes. Without ecosystems there is no life. Fiercely loving Earth is the answer. Let’s sustain global ecology together like our shared survival and abundance depends upon it. And while we set out using classic civil disobedience tactics, let?s not dismiss out of hand any obstruction, uncivil disobedience, sabotage and targeted insurgency tactics ? that are non-terrorist ? and that may be necessary to achieve global ecological sustainability. The human family?s shared survival depends upon passionately defending Earth using all means necessary.

Earth’s ecosystems are collapsing under the burden of human growth, destroying our one shared biosphere that makes life possible. Industrial growth ? frantically destroying ecosystems to feed insatiable, ever-growing appetites ? is an aberration, a mistake, a disease. If left untreated, this will be the end of the human family, all life, and Earth’s very being. Infinite economic growth at the expense of ecosystems is impossible, and seeking endless and inequitable growth in consumption and population can only lead to collapse and massive die-off.

Humanity?s last best chance to justly and equitably sustain a livable planet is to protect and restore ecosystems, end fossil fuels, and a people’s power Earth revolution to utterly destroy the ecocidal industrial growth machine. We are all bloody fools to tolerate and not immediately overthrow a violently ecocidal system that is killing us all. If we all understood the implications of global ecosystem collapse, we would go now, together, and slay the global growth machine. It is too late to escape profound ecological decline, yet complete disastrous social and ecological collapse ? and possible end to most or all life ? may yet be avoided.

Sustaining ecology must become society?s central organizing principle or humans and all species face horrendous death. Globally it is time for radical change to simply survive converging ecology, food, war, water, inequity, population, climate, jobs, ocean, and extinction crises. It is deeply troubling most “environmentalists” deny the severity of ecosystem collapse, rejecting out of hand revolutionary measures sufficient to sustain ecology.

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