From the US Geological Survey
This drawing shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, has a diameter of about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) , with a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers). The sphere includes all the water in the oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and rivers as well as groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.
Rosia Montana Gold Mine Project
The Rosia Montana gold mine project in Romania is designed to be Europe’s largest open cast gold mine. If built, it would displace hundreds of families, destroy many of Rosia Montana’s significant archaeological sites, and flood the valley with a cyanide leaching pond.
IS DESTROYING ONE OF ROMANIA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES WORTH OF ANY GOLD? SAVE IT, DON’T DESTROY IT!
Suntipped Sand
On a cool crisp sunset along the Dublin Shoreline, the low angle of the evening sun illuminated the tips of the sand patterns made by the waves.
Photo Location: Dublin Coastline, Ireland
Photo and caption by Ronan Bree
The unique nature of human fingerprints was among the many discoveries of the great Czech physiologist and anatomist Johannes G.J. Purkinje (1787-1869), whose name is associated with many structures.
Source: The Fingerprint, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
(Sometimes beauty appears in the most unexpected places)
The human trick in this century is to foster practices and policies that result in us FALLING FORWARD without falling down. — Andrew Revkin
– Revkin.net
Amazing - the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters…
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I am fascinated by disruption that leads to positive change.
