It would seem as a
just and natural global governance strategy it should be based on a
common but diverse composite set of standards. Given the current
climate situation though it should firstly be governed by the Biome
considerations. Then the following Global Governance Standards
Priorities:
World biomes
are controlled by climate. The climate of a region
will determine what plants will grow
there, and what animals will inhabit it. All three components, climate,
plants and animals are interwoven to create the fabric of a
biome.
World Climate Zones
Have you ever wondered why one area of the world is a desert,
another a grassland, and another a rainforest? Why are there
different forests and deserts, and why are there different types of
life in each area? The answer is climate.
Climate is the characteristic condition of the atmosphere near the
earth's surface at a certain place on earth. It is the long-term
weather of that area (at least 30 years). This includes the
region's general pattern of weather conditions, seasons and weather
extremes like hurricanes, droughts, or rainy periods. Two of the
most important factors determining an area's climate are air
temperature and precipitation.
What is a Biome?
A biome is a large geographical
area of distinctive plant and animal groups, which are adapted to
that particular environment. The climate and geography of a region
determines what type of biome can exist in that
region. Major biomes
include deserts, forests, grasslands, tundra, and several types of
aquatic environments.
Each biome consists
of many ecosystems whose communiti
All living things are
closely related to their environment. Any change in one part of an
environment, like an increase or decrease of a species of animal or
plant, causes a ripple effect of change in through other parts of
the environment.
The earth includes
a huge variety of living things, from complex plants and animals to
very simple, one-celled organisms. But large or small, simple or
complex, no organism lives alone. Each depends in some way on other
living and nonliving things in its
surroundings.
2007 : UN
Scientists' report confirms (90%) Global Warming caused
by Humans
2005 :
Kyoto
Protocal,The climate and environment treaty was
negotiated inKyoto,
Japanin December
1997, opened for signature onMarch 16,1998, and closed onMarch 15,1999. The agreement came into force
onFebruary
16,2005following ratification byRussiaonNovember 18,2004
2005
: Red Deer River June Flood, Hurricane Katrina,
USA
You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasn't written for you
But tell me how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool
One thing
can lead to another
It doesn't take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother, sister and brother
If it feels nice, don't think twice just
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will
Once you tell someone the way
that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think it's true what they say about the squeeky wheel
Always getting the grease.
Better to
They say in every life
They say the rain must fall, oh
And just like the pouring rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine, oh
Make it rain Make it
rain
Folk Jazz Musician
Billie Keith Hughes 1948
-1998
Billies Island
2006 : Billies Island Born In The South Pacific
1893-1987
A.D. Andres
Segovia (Classical
Guitarist)
Andrés Segovia (1893-1987) is considered to be the
father of the modern classical guitar movement by most modern
scholars. Many feel, that without his efforts, the classical
guitar would still be considered a lowly bar instrument, played
only by peasants.
Segovia's quest to elevate the
guitar to a prominent position in the music world, began at the
early age of four. His uncle used to sing songs to him and pretend
to strum an imaginary guitar in his lap. Luckily for us, there was
a luthier nearby and Segovia took an instant liking to the guitar.
Although discouraged by his family (according to them he should
play a "real" instrument), he continued to pursue his studies of
the guitar. He set a goal for the guitar and himself early in life.
It was, to bring Guitar studies to every university in the world,
have the guitar played throughout the world, on every major stage,
just as the piano and violin were, and lastly, to pass on his love
of the guitar to generations to follow. He considered himself to be
the messenger that would complete this impossible quest.
Woodstock, N.Y.,
U.S.A. (The
Woodstock Music and Art Festival)
The
Woodstock Music and Art Festival was the most famous rock festival
of its era. It was held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²)
dairy farm in Bethel, New York, on 15, 16, and 17 August, 1969. The
festival bears the name "Woodstock" because it was originally
scheduled to take place in the town of Woodstock, in Ulster County;
local opposition arose, however, and the event was almost cancelled
altogether. But Sam Yasgur persuaded his father Max to allow the
concert to be held on the family's property, located in Sullivan
County, which lies to the south and west of Ulster County.
Interestingly, the first rock festival at Zap, North Dakota was
ended by National Guardsmen ordered to disperse an unruly crowd on
May 10, 1969.
Although the show had been planned for a maximum 50,000 attendees,
over 400,000 eventually attended, most of whom did not pay
admission. The highways leading to the concert were jammed with
traffic as people tried to make it to the concert. The weekend was
rainy, the facilities were overcrowded, and attendees shared food,
alcoholic beverages, and drugs. However, no violence was reported
and the fact that attendees were remarkably well behaved was
particularly noted. The Woodstock Festival represented the
culmination of the counterculture of the 1960s and the high point
of the "hippie era".
As Wavy Gravy hailed "What we have in mind is
breakfast in bed for 400,000!” - granola made its major
appearance at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art
Festival.
1969 : Breakfast
re-established as the most important meal of the day. The primary
rationale for this tribute is the fact that breakfast is our first
sustenance after an extended period of non-nutritive rest. In
essence, it is our initial fuel to begin our day. This necessitates
certain biological requirements that are not as crucial during
other times of the day.
A healthy breakfast
is a microcosm of a healthy diet: a balance of protein,
carbohydrate, and fat. The carbohydrate should contain at least
some complex carbohydrates, (e.g., cereals and grains). And yes
even fat, albeit in small amounts, is necessary for proper
metabolic functioning and regulation of blood sugar
levels.
1964 : Beatlemania music is unleashed upon the
world
If I Fell Lennon/McCartney
If
I fell in love with you would you promise to be
true And help me
understand 'Cause I've been in love
before And I've found that love is
more That just holding
hands
If I gave my heart to
you I must be sure from the very
start that you would love me more than
her
If I trust in you, oh
please don't run and
hide, if I love you too, oh
please don't hurt my pride like
her
'Cause I couldn't stand the
pain And I would be
sad If our new love was in
vain
So I hope you see that I
would love to love you
And that she will cry
when she learns we are two
'Cause I couldn't stand the pain
And I would be sad
If our new love was in vain
So I hope you see that I
would love to love you
And that she will cry
when she learns we are two
If I fell in love with you
2007 : May 9th, The Encyclopedia of Life
Website "eol.org" Officially Launched on the World Wide
Web.
Ultimately, the Encyclopedia will serve as an
online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8
million species that are named and known on this planet, as well as
all those later discovered and described.
Encyclopedia of Life will be used as
both a teaching and a learning tool, helping scientists, educators,
students, and the community at large gain a better understanding of
this planet and all who inhabit it.
Courtesy of eol.org & You
Tube
1995 : The concept of the
Encyclopedia of Life begins to take form.
In the 1990s Daniel Janzen
(University of Pennsylvania and INBio, Costa Rica) was among
the first to envision species pages. E.O. Wilson of Harvard
University articulated the idea in a widely read essay
published in 2003 and has been one of the leading proponents
of the Encyclopedia of Life, and his contributions have been
the inspiration for our current efforts. Wilson’s
letter about the Encyclopedia of Life in late 2005 to the
MacArthur Foundation started the recent cascade of
events.
(Note that the equivalences in this table are
not perfect. )
The Kingdomsphere Concept
References (From
Wikipedia)
E. Haeckel (1866). Generelle Morphologie
der Organismen. Reimer, Berlin.
Joseph
M. Scamardella (1999). "Not plants or
animals: a brief history of the origin of Kingdoms Protozoa,
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H. F. Copeland (1956). The Classification
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C. R.
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Carl R. Woese, Otto Kandler, Mark L.
Wheelis: "Towards a Natural System of Organisms: Proposal for the
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doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576
April 24, 2007
Tuesday
Old Earth European
astronomers , La
Silla, Chilean Andes, Observatory
It's got the same climate as Earth,
plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most
stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out
there.
'We had actually looked at this
system before but only for a few minutes. We heard nothing, but now
we must look again.' By 2020 at least one space telescope should be
in orbit, with the capability of detecting signs of life on planets
orbiting nearby stars.
If
oxygen or methane (tell-tale biological gases) are found in
Gliese 581c's atmosphere,
this would be good circumstantial evidence for life.
Dr Malcolm Fridlund,
a European Space Agency scientist, said the discovery of
Gliese 581c was "an
important step" on the road to finding life. "If this is a
rocky planet, it's very likely it will have liquid water on
its surface, which means there may also be life." The real
importance is not so much the discovery of this planet
itself, but the fact that it shows that Earth-like planets
are probably extremely common in the Universe. There are 200
billion stars in our galaxy alone and many astronomers
believe most of these stars have planets.The fact that almost
as soon as we have built a telescope capable of detecting
small, earth-like worlds, one turns up right on our cosmic
doorstep, shows that statistically, there are probably
billions of earths out
there.
References
Stéphane Udry, from the Geneva Observatory
(Switzerland)
Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University
(France) and one of the scientists who discovered the planet
Xavier Bonfils, a co-worker from Lisbon University
Michel Mayor, from Geneva Observatory, and HARPS Principal
Investigator
Dr Malcolm Fridlund, a European Space Agency scientist
Dr Seth Shostak, of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Institute in California
2007
: "Earth Like" planet 'Gliese 581 c' revealed April 24th by
Chilean Observatory
Astronomers.
1971 :
Progressive Conservatives come to power in Provincial politics in
Alberta.
1970 :
The kidnapping of a British diplomat and a Quebec cabinet minister
( and the murder of the latter) by the Front de liberation du
Quebec (FLQ) results in the October Crisis and the first peacetime
use of the 1914 War Measures Act.
1967 : CANADA celebrates its
centennial year, with Expo 67 opening in Montreal and special
events held throughout the
country.
1967 : Hometown boy, Roland
Michener, appointed as Governor General of
Canada.
1966 :
The Canada Pension Plan is
established.
1965 : Canada's official flag is
unfurled.
1962 : The Trans-Canada Highway
opens. It runs from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria,
British Columbia, a distance of about 7821
km..
1960 : The Canadian Bill of
Rights is approved in Parliament.
1959 : The St. Lawrence Seaway
is opened.
1949 :
Newfoundland joins Confederation. Canada joins the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO).
1947 :
Feb. 13th, Imperial Oil Company discovers oil at Leduc No.
1.
1946
: Outcome of the Wars leads to the formation of the UN or
United Nations. (Geneva Protocal)
1945 :
May 8th, W.W.II ends V.E. day celebrated.
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Architecture
2006 : 'LEED' Green Building Rating Standard
developed in the USA
JOHN TODD is an internationally recognized
biologist and the author of over two hundred technical and popular
articles on biology and planetary stewardship. He was Assistant
Professor of Ethology at San Diego State University and assistant
Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and is now a
professor at the University of
Vermont.
The Bio Ark
In 1969 he co-founded the New Alchemy Institute to
create a science and practice based upon ecological precepts and
was its President until 1981. In 1980, he co-founded Ocean Arks
International. He also co-founded Living Technologies Inc., an
ecological design, engineering, and construction firm in
Burlington, Vermont, and Living Technologies in Findhorn, Scotland.
He sits on a number ofenvironmental and technical boards.Todd is a leader in the field of
ecological design. He has described his work in a series of books:
The Village as Solar Ecology (1980), Tomorrow is Our Permanent
Address. (1980), Reinhabiting Cities & Towns: Designing for
Sustainability (1981) and Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming:
Ecology as the Basis of Design. (1984). This last has been revised
and published as From Eco-cities to Living Machines
(1994).
1951Buckmaster Fuller (Inventor of Geodesic Dome)
"For the first time in history it
is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of
living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the "more with
less" technology reached the point where this could be done. All
humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful."
This confident assertion was made
in 1980 by the late R. Buckminster Fuller inventor, architect,
engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. As early as 1959,
Newsweek reported that Fuller predicted the conquest of poverty by
the year 2000
. In 1977, almost twenty years later, the
National Academy of Sciences confirmed Fuller's prediction. Their
World Food and Nutrition Study, prepared by 1,500 scientists,
concluded, "If there is the political will in this country and
abroad . . . it should be possible to overcome the worst aspects of
widespread hunger and malnutrition within one generation." Even
with tragedies like Ethiopia and Somalia, it is becoming clear
that, as Fuller predicted, we have arrived at the possibility of
eliminating hunger and poverty in all the world within our
lifetime.
Buckminster Fuller was truly a man ahead of his
time. His lifelong goal was the development of what he called
"Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science"? the attempt to
anticipate and solve humanity's major problems through the highest
technology by providing "more and more life support for everybody,
with less and less resources."
Fuller was a practical
philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called
"artifacts." Some were built as prototypes; others exist only on
paper; all he felt were technically viable. He was a dogged
individualist whose genius was felt throughout the world for nearly
half a century. Even Albert Einstein was prompted to say to him,
"Young man, you amaze
me!"
1940 Frank Lloyd
Wright
"Organic" Architecture
Falling
Water
Robie
House by Frank Lloyd
Wright
Architecture is the triumph
of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man
into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric
pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at
best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon
when we use the word 'order.' - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1930,
1937
1920 A.D.
"Romantic" Architecture"
1827
AD
A photo of city scape in
Europe.
1700
? Japanese
Temple
1698
AD The Taj Mahal,
India
1000 A.D.
"Heritage" Architecture
1000 A.D.
"Christian" Architecture
The
Lighthouse of Alexandria 250 BC
The Pharos of Alexandria
(ancient Greek:
ὁ
Ἀλεξανδρινóς
Φάρος, modern Greek:
o Φάρος της
Αλεξάνδρειας)
was a tall tower built in the 3rd century BC (between 285 and 247
BC) on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt to serve as that
port's landmark, and later, its lighthouse. With a height variously
estimated at between 115 and 135 metres (383 - 440 ft) it was among
the tallest man-made structures on Earth for many centuries, and
was identified as one of the Seven Wonders of the World by
classical writers. It was the third tallest building after the two
Great Pyramids (of Khufu and Khafra) for its entire life. Some
scientists estimate a much taller height exceeding 152 metres that
would make the tower the tallest building up to the 14th
century.
TheParthenon400 BC
(ancient
Greek:
Παρθενών) Greek Phi Architecture 400
BC
The Parthenon was built at the initiative ofPericles, the leading Athenian politician of the fifth
century B.C. It was built under the general supervision of the
sculptorPhidias, who also had charge of the sculptural
decoration. Thearchitectsbegan in 447 BC, and the building was
substantially completed by 432, but work on the decorations
continued until at least 431.
5,000
BC:
The Sun the Moon and the
planets have been used for measuring time since antiquity. The
ancient civilizations have defined the days, seasons, months and
years by following the movements of these space objects. At the
beginning there have been just primitive calendars, which from our
present point of view look rather weird. 20 000 years ago hunters
in Europe have used to carve holes in sticks and bones to mark
moon's phases. There are no written documents found from 4000 ago
from the Stonehenge's megaliths, but we may guess, that they have
been used to determine the seasons, Moon eclipses and position of
the Sun.
Stonehenge in Neolithic Britain 3,000
BC
7000 BC
? Atlantis based on a description
by Plato.
1945
Abraham
Maslow (Self Actualization and Needs Hierarchy)
Theory
One of the
many interesting things Maslow noticed while he worked with monkeys
early in his career, was that some needs take precedence over
others. For example, if you are hungry and thirsty, you will tend
to try to take care of the thirst first. After all, you can do
without food for weeks, but you can only do without water for a
couple of days! Thirst is a 'stronger' need than hunger. Likewise,
if you are very very thirsty, but someone has put a choke hold on
you and you can't breath, which is more important? The need to
breathe, of course. On the other hand, sex is less powerful than
any of these. Let's face it, you won't die if you don't get
it!
Until now it was believed the variation between people was due
largely to differences in thesequences
of the individual " letters" of the
genome.It now appears much
of the variation is explained instead
by people having multiple
copiesof some key genes
that make up the human genome. Until now it was assumed that the
human genome, or "book of life", is largely the same foreveryone,
save for a few spelling
differences in some of the words.
Instead, the findingssuggest that the book contains entire
sentences, paragraphs or even whole
pages that arerepeated any number of
times.The findings mean
that instead of humanity being 99.9
per cent identical, as
previouslybelieved, we are at least 10 times more
different between one another
than once thought. All humans are
said to have 46 chromosomes, made up of many genes of apparently
different quantities.
Reference Scientists from 13 research
centres were involved, including Britain's Sanger Institute
inCambridge, which also
took
a lead role in deciphering the human genome. The research
ispublished in Nature,
Nature Genetics and Genome Research.
1998
:The
International Criminal Court was established by the Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court, so called
because it was adopted in Rome, Italy on 17 July 1998 by
theUnited Nations
Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the
Establishment of an International Criminal
Court. The Rome
Statute is an international treaty, binding only on those
States which formally express their consent to be bound by
its provisions. These States then become
“Parties” to the Statute. In accordance
with its terms, the Statute entered into force on 1 July
2002, once 60 States had become Parties. Today,104 Stateshave become Parties to the
Statute. The States Parties meet in theAssembly of States
Partieswhich is the
management oversight and legislative body of the
Court.
1945
:
The
International Court of Justice (known colloquially as the World
Court or ICJ; French: Cour
internationale de Justice) is the primary judicial organ
of the United
Nations It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague,
Netherlands, sharing the building with the Hague Academy of
International Law, a private centre for the study of international
law. Several of the Court's current judges are either alumni or
former faculty members of the Academy.
The Statute
of the International Court of Justice, similar to that of its
predecessor, is the main constitutional document constituting and
regulating the Court. The ICJ should not be
confused with the International Criminal Court or a court exercising
jurisdiction under Belgium's War Crimes Law, both of which also
potentially have "global" jurisdiction.
English
and French are its two official
languages.
