Earth Community – The Ecozoic Times https://ecozoictimes.com News & resources for the emerging Ecozoic era :: reinventing human-Earth relations in this new geologic era Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:15:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://ecozoictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-13-at-23-07-41-Customize-The-E-cozoic-Times-News-resources-for-the-emerging-Ecozoic-era-reinventing-human-Earth-relations-in-this-new-geologic-era.png Earth Community – The Ecozoic Times https://ecozoictimes.com 32 32 EcozoicTimes.com Now Available in 34 Languages Via Translation Services (Button) https://ecozoictimes.com/ecozoictimes-com-now-available-in-34-languages-via-translation-services-button/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:07:11 +0000 https://ecozoictimes.arthasoaps.com/?p=1699 Continue reading →]]> Oh my! Web Wizard of the Most High Dennis Rivers just installed a button that will translate our site into 34 languages. There are between 3,000 and 10,000 human languages in the world today. The number is often estimated at about 6,800.

The transformation to the Ecozoic Era is a global phenomenon. It affects all humans, all species, all continents, all waters, all gases, all lands. How can the translation continue, past human language, to be experienced by the Earth community in toto? This is our Great Work.

The “translate” button is below the moon phases on the right side of the page.

I would be very glad to have feedback from you native readers of other languages as to how true the translation is into your language. Do the often-nuanced Ecozoic ideas permeate through the translation?

]]> Emerging Earth Community.org – new website by Tucker & Grimm https://ecozoictimes.com/emerging-earth-community-org-new-website-by-tucker-grimm/ Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:06:55 +0000 https://ecozoictimes.arthasoaps.com/?p=1592 Continue reading →]]> from the Religion & Ecology.org email news list

Wow! This website is fantastic! Chock full of resources, easy to navigate, clear as a bell. With a fantastic bibliography!

The collective work of Drs. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, this site is their work, vision, and passion in a nutshell.

emergingearthcommunity.org/

]]> Is this an example of “mutually enhancing” actions and behaviour? https://ecozoictimes.com/is-this-an-example-of-mutually-enhancing-actions-and-behaviour/ Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:40:36 +0000 https://ecozoictimes.arthasoaps.com/?p=1538 Continue reading →]]> I have strongly mixed feelings about this story (below). I suppose ultimately this is an example of putting the shattered pieces of the world back together, of tikkun olam. Of humans responding to the wounds of the world. Of making a place viable and suitable again for life in a very short time span. And yes, we cannot remake history. What happened, happened (the strip mining). I would never want this story, the experience of the land and the humans in this place, to be an excuse for strip mining. It is an example of what not to do – have an unconscious or conscious "energy policy", locally or nationally or globally – that requires strip mining in the first place. Let's try for something better. And, one must wonder what might have been accomplished by all the human energy that instead was focused on this project for so many years. An early cure for cancer? More nuanced forestry policy? I don't know! But then there is the other side of the human energy issue – no doubt this was one of the best things that happened for some of the folks who worked on the project. Hummm….How shall we understand this all?

Lester R. Davis State Forest

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 12:01 AM PST

LesterDavisStPark 
Photographer: Tommy Hornbeck
Summary Author: Tommy Hornbeck

"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise lay. Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away." – John Prine, 1971

When coal and other minerals are strip mined, the land is literally turned upside down, depositing nearly sterile debris (spoils) many feet deep and destroying the previously healthy top soil. What little is left of the land is then abandoned — or at least this was the case until relatively recently. Nature, however is remarkably resilient, and over time, and with a little help, can eventually recover from many forms of abuse.

In 1951, Lester Davis purchased 85 acres (34.4 hectares) of land in southwestern Missouri, for $42.50, that had been strip mined around 1926, and which 25 years later was still nothing but spoils. He was determined to find some way to return the land to its natural beauty. Between 1951 and 1967, Davis with a few helpers, planted 101,269 trees and shrubs and sowed thousands of seeds over his land. With a total investment of less than $9,600, he planted nearly 356 different species of plants. Since the land was so rough it was all done by hand. In 1968, Mr. Davis donated the acreage to the Missouri Department of Conservation. This land is now known as the Lester R. Davis State Forest. Today, as pictured above, several ponds provide a background for towering stands of mature trees, which are a magnet for both the wildlife that now abounds and for nature lovers who can walk the miles of trails throughout the park. Mr. Davis showed how it could be done. In the U.S., laws in most states and jurisdictions now require mining companies to restore the mined-over land to near its original state.

Photo details: Center photo taken on March 19, 2010: Nikon D80 camera; ½ second exposure; f22; ISO 100; 40mm  lens. Left and right photos taken on November 3, 2010: Nikon D80 camera; 1/10 second exposure; f16; ISO 100; 16mm lens.

]]> A Valentine’s Day Cloud for You: An Iridescent Heart https://ecozoictimes.com/a-valentines-day-cloud-for-you-an-iridescent-heart/ Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:46:57 +0000 https://ecozoictimes.arthasoaps.com/?p=1476 Continue reading →]]> Earth Science Picture of the Day
Posted: 14 Feb 2011 12:01 AM PST
Iridescent Heart Cloud above Zabikow, Poland

Photographer: Dariusz Dorosz
Summary Author: Dariusz Dorosz; Jim Foster

The photo above showing a heart-shaped mid-level cloud fringed with
iridescent colors was captured above Zabikow, Poland on July 30, 2010.
Diffraction of sunlight by minute cloud droplets is responsible for the
lovely pastel hues. Because the droplets are so tiny (1/10 to 1/1000 the
size of raindrops), light waves that interact with them aren't refracted
nearly as much as they're deflected — in all directions. Iridescence or
irisation is generally observed in clouds that have formed relatively
recently since then their droplets are more likely to be quite small and of
more uniform size. Iridescent clouds are found within about 20 degrees of
the Sun, so make sure to protect your eyes whenever looking for them.

Zabikow, Poland, Coordinates: 51.8, 22.57

Earth Observatory
Rospuda Valley, Poland


EPOD is a service of NASA's Earth Science Division and the EOS Project Science Office (at Goddard Space Flight Center) and the Universities Space Research Association.
]]> Spectacular Molecular Animation https://ecozoictimes.com/spectacular-molecular-animation/ Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:01:39 +0000 https://ecozoictimes.arthasoaps.com/?p=746 Continue reading →]]> What part of The Universe Story will you tell?

Scientists at Harvard have harnessed their fascination of the molecular world with 21st-century digital animation to visually tell the story of the inner life of a cell. The results rival anything in Hollywood. Now that's entertainment! Now playing in a living cell near you.

from the New York Times via M.P. November 15, 2010 (short advertisement precedes the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VXCIU89pGs (5:45)

Other work by the same folks:

https://www.xvivo.net/the-inner-life-of-the-cell/

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