Happy Earth Day! (for Those Who Celebrate) Rating Options

[Zhanneel]

Hello, today is Earth Day in the United States =). As a future biologist/environmentalist I just wanted to promote Earth Day. Here's a fantastic look at the Earth:

Click for Earth Day video

I hope you think the Earth is as beautiful as I do =). Take care of it.

[humbu111]

thanx, happy Earth Day to u too!

[esca Eterna]

Happy Earth day to you too!
That's so cool you want to be a biologist/environmentalist. I also want to do environmental studies or science or engineering, or just plain earth science. I also want to open a farm, and travel the world, and maybe be a homeopathic doctor... uh, anyway, you're right, the earth is beautiful, and we should protect it ^^
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[Zhanneel]

Lol, good luck with all of that too. I'm sure if you manage your time well you can get to all of it, say, before you're 40 =P.

I graduate this spring with my bio degree, so hopefully I can be of use to either the DNR or privately funded companies who need a field grunt worker to do their messy work =P.

And now some nice scenery:

[esca Eterna]

Ooo congrats early on your degree ^^
I doubt I'll be able to do it all. I have wayy to many dreams and not enough time :3
Anyway, may I add to our scenery?


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[Zhanneel]

Thank you ^^

Oo, nice contrast in that piccy. Grass fields vs. Snowy mountains =)

Here's a few pics that could be used for a desktop:

http://www.wapacasting.com/wallpapers/wate...0_3cboflxu2.jpg (rather big one, so I'll just link it)

<--- want to live right here in a little wood hut with leaves for a roof ^^


Ahh, can't quit looking up pretty nature pics!

This post has been edited by Zhanneel: Apr 22 2008, 10:02 PM

[musaenchantixthe...]

HAPPY EARTH DAY! be nice to nature or me and flora are going to go all herbal on you ^_^
nature is beautiful. i support earth day. i'm going to be a future marine biologist/zooligist/boilogist. yea lots of oligist. tehe. (i spell wrong...)
beautiful pictures! love the waterfall one. i just love waterfall.
i just don't understand why people just want to destroy the rain forest. it hurts me!

[Zhanneel]

Deforestation also boils my blood. I understand the need to cut down trees, but of all the places to do it, the rain forests are not a suitable source. Sometimes the only way to get humans to protect something is to place a value on it. So, in this case, many make the claim that the rain forests benefit human existence if we preserve them, rather than clear-cutting and burning them to make room for agriculture. The problem with South America is that they believe they do not have enough room for agriculture and crops, so they either sell off the clear-cutted trees, or burn them to make room for the cropland. Some don't really know better, as they have been doing this for generations (indigenous peoples), but even they know to rotate crop land and let some grow back periodically. Then you have those who need to make a quick buck by selling off the trees and land to businesses. If anything, the governments of these countries need to make protective laws for this forest land. I know they need the land, but if they continue in the way they have for the past few decades, we may lose priceless numbers of species that will be the cause of human interference. I would love to visit the tropical forests, but I want them to still be intact when I finally have the funds to travel. Geez, there are so many other problems as well...

For my senior project I am doing a presentation on concentrations of estrogens in the waterways and their effects on fish populations. I know the UK is particularly interested in this since they have documented several sites where this occurs. I hope my presentation will inspire at least one person to think environmentally (but I hate public speaking so much!).

This post has been edited by Zhanneel: Apr 22 2008, 11:54 PM

[Jahnavi]

Happy Earth Day, everyone!

I'm all for going Green, and I've just been re-inspired, after watching Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", on HBO, lol! Has anyone else seen it?

[Zhanneel]

*sigh* Still busy with lots of stuff, but I would like to watch it.

[humbu111]

someone's banner (i cant remember who's) is awesome:
"Just because nature is beautiful, it doesn't mean it can't fight back!" with some awesome Flora pics

[esca Eterna]

I've seen it! It is quite inspirational, but it kinda bothers me how he throws random stuff about his life in there. But at the same time, it makes him seem more real.
Politics and environment somehow don't mix ;; but they should. I just hope the leaders of our world will see these issues and maybe, just maybe, actually do something about them...!
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[Zhanneel]

The government should definitely be more involved, as sometimes they are the only ones who can enforce the protection of a natural resource.

Happy Earth Day again! (every day is earth day ^^)

Here's the series I want:



You may have heard of it. It's a documentary on the Earth with tons of high definition shots around world in places photography hasn't quite been able to touch just yet.

Holy crap, I'm getting vertigo looking at this:



This post has been edited by Zhanneel: Apr 24 2008, 2:53 AM

[esca Eterna]

Well, happy earth day again to you too ^^
That show is a such genius idea, well what I know if it tells me that, I really want to see it too!
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[mightymarty2]

I saw some/most/all of it can not remember now it wason a while ago

[musaenchantixthe...]

yep that was my banner. i made up that quote. i said it on earth day too to my friends! ^_^
planet earth. i haven't seen that in like forever. i can't cause my mom doesn't let me cause she is mostly watching her shows.... grrr...
O.M.G. o_O look at that waterfall. i think i'm going to faint. >_< jk. Angel Fall is the tallest waterfall in the world i think.
tomorrow is the day of the silent/break the silent. to support the gays. those who sign up can't talk the whole day in school. only at lunch time we can finally talk.
2 months ago a 15 year old got beaten to death because he was gay. so sad made me wanna cry. he was only 15, so young.
Deforestation. don't get me started.

[humbu111]

wow, thats scary
"An Inconvenient Truth" is persuasive, but a little too one-sided

[Zhanneel]

"An Inconvenient Truth" is some scary stuff. Also need to rent that.

And METB, I feel so bad for the boy who got treated like that. One of my best friends is gay and he's just about the sweetest guy I know. I can't deal with some close-minded individuals, but taking it as far as killing is terrible and creates paranoia in those who wish to live the way they think best for themselves. But of course some people think their opinions are absolute and can't be questioned. And I have a weird question: If you can't talk the whole day, and the teacher calls on you, do you refuse to answer back?

[Jahnavi]

someone's banner (i cant remember who's) is awesome:
"Just because nature is beautiful, it doesn't mean it can't fight back!" with some awesome Flora pics

Yeah, that's a banner that I made for METB.

[mightymarty2]

I know it is terrible I don'tpersonalknow any guys but I know one bi and we get on well, I know I am straight, but I do not care for who the other person wants to go out with