wtorek, 5 lutego 2013
AgroBio
AgroBio
AGROBIO is a member of IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements), and a member of IFOAM-EU Regional Group. It has a recognised public utility status, and plays a threefold role as an association for agriculture, environment and consumer protection.
It currently develops activities in the following areas:
Technical and commercial support to organic farmers,
Training on Organic Agriculture and Environmental Education,
Research and Development on Organic Agriculture,
Social Farming and Reintegration,
Organic urban kitchen gardens,
Agrobio's street markets, in partnership with municipalities,
Organisation of events for disseminating and promoting organic agriculture (Organic Agriculture National Exhibition – Terra Sã, conferences, seminars, Agrobio's day, and other events),
Publications (magazine “A Joaninha”, newsletters “Infobio” and “O Quintal Biológico”, manuals, fact sheets and other).
It currently develops activities in the following areas:
Technical and commercial support to organic farmers,
Training on Organic Agriculture and Environmental Education,
Research and Development on Organic Agriculture,
Social Farming and Reintegration,
Organic urban kitchen gardens,
Agrobio's street markets, in partnership with municipalities,
Organisation of events for disseminating and promoting organic agriculture (Organic Agriculture National Exhibition – Terra Sã, conferences, seminars, Agrobio's day, and other events),
Publications (magazine “A Joaninha”, newsletters “Infobio” and “O Quintal Biológico”, manuals, fact sheets and other).
Agro Bio Produkt is a fast-developing company set up in 2006. We have a wide range of activity, beginning from the production of dried fruit from fruit pomace to wide trade activity, to transport services. .
These days, when enterprises hold every saved minute in high esteem, service complexity is worth its weight in gold. And this the characteristic feature of Agro Bio Produkt which organizes the whole transaction from the point of choosing a product to delivering it at the address given. Without needless phone calls and complications.
Agro Bio Produkt will meet your every expectation.
These days, when enterprises hold every saved minute in high esteem, service complexity is worth its weight in gold. And this the characteristic feature of Agro Bio Produkt which organizes the whole transaction from the point of choosing a product to delivering it at the address given. Without needless phone calls and complications.
Agro Bio Produkt will meet your every expectation.
Our company is mainly occupied with the production of dried fruit and vegetables coming from well known establishments manufacturing juices.
chokeberry, blueberry, apple, raspberry, carrot, currant, strawberry and cherry,
Because of the use of raw materials which meet the highest food standards, our products are characterized by high quality and they can be utilized in the tea, manufacturing and fodder industry.
Dehydrates are self-preserved during the pomace-drying process which guarantees the lack of any artificial preservatives. The goods may be received from our production plant or delivered by our means of transport directly to the place at your convenience..
Dehydrates are available bulk packed, in polypropylene bags and in big bags.
chokeberry, blueberry, apple, raspberry, carrot, currant, strawberry and cherry,
Because of the use of raw materials which meet the highest food standards, our products are characterized by high quality and they can be utilized in the tea, manufacturing and fodder industry.
Dehydrates are self-preserved during the pomace-drying process which guarantees the lack of any artificial preservatives. The goods may be received from our production plant or delivered by our means of transport directly to the place at your convenience..
Dehydrates are available bulk packed, in polypropylene bags and in big bags.
We can offer you the supply of goods, by cars weighing a few tons as well as by sets of semi-trailers 13.6 metres long.
We deliver the goods by small cars weighing a few tons as well as by sets of semi- trailers with the length of 16.6 m. long.
Our company cooperates with several dozen carriers who are equipped with sets with dumpers, side curtains, refrigerated trucks and cars Walkingfloor-type (walking floor of cubic volume 96m3 for transporting bulk cargo).
The vehicles and cargos have Comprehensive Insurance (AC and OCP) and our professional staff ensures the highest level of the services.
Our highest priority is a full satisfaction of our clients. We provide a full implementation of the logistics process from the point of receiving an order, to the shipment of goods at one of our plants, to its delivery to the recipient on term.
We deliver the goods by small cars weighing a few tons as well as by sets of semi- trailers with the length of 16.6 m. long.
Our company cooperates with several dozen carriers who are equipped with sets with dumpers, side curtains, refrigerated trucks and cars Walkingfloor-type (walking floor of cubic volume 96m3 for transporting bulk cargo).
The vehicles and cargos have Comprehensive Insurance (AC and OCP) and our professional staff ensures the highest level of the services.
Our highest priority is a full satisfaction of our clients. We provide a full implementation of the logistics process from the point of receiving an order, to the shipment of goods at one of our plants, to its delivery to the recipient on term.
"Ted Talks"
"Ted Talks"
"If Earth is a self-regulating system, it's clear that human activity is capable of disrupting it. Johan Rockstrom has led a team of scientists to define the nine Earth systems that need to be kept within bounds for Earth to keep itself in balance..."
Johan Rockstrom
Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems.
EcoTourism & Permaculture
Ecotourism is defined as "responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people."
Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial (mass) tourism. Its purpose may be to educate the traveler, to provide funds for ecological conservation, to directly benefit the economic development and political empowerment of local communities, or to foster respect for different cultures and for human rights.
Since the 1980s ecotourism has been considered a critical endeavour by environmentalists, so that future generations may experience destinations relatively untouched by human intervention. Several university programs use this description as the working definition of ecotourism.
Generally, ecotourism focuses on socially responsible travel, personal growth, and environmental sustainability.
Ecotourism typically involves travel to destinations where flora, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions. Ecotourism is intended to offer tourists insight into the impact of human beings on the environment, and to foster a greater appreciation of our natural habitats.
Ecotourism is a form of tourism that involves visiting natural areas—in the remote wilderness or rural environments. According to the definition and principles of ecotourism established by The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) in 1990, ecotourism is "Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people." (TIES, 1990). Martha Honey, expands on the TIES definition by describing the seven characteristics of ecotourism, which are:
Involves travel to natural destinations
Minimizes impact
Builds environmental awareness
Provides direct financial benefits for conservation
Provides financial benefits and empowerment for local people
Respects local culture
Supports human rights and democratic movements[4]
such as:
conservation of biological diversity and cultural diversity through ecosystem protection
promotion of sustainable use of biodiversity, by providing jobs to local populations
sharing of socio-economic benefits with local communities and indigenous peoples by having their informed consent and participation in the management of ecotourism enterprises
tourism to unspoiled natural resources, with minimal impact on the environment being a primary concern.
minimization of tourism's own environmental impact
affordability and lack of waste in the form of luxury
local culture, flora and fauna being the main attractions
local people benefit from this form of tourism economically, often more than mass tourism.
Involves travel to natural destinations
Minimizes impact
Builds environmental awareness
Provides direct financial benefits for conservation
Provides financial benefits and empowerment for local people
Respects local culture
Supports human rights and democratic movements[4]
such as:
conservation of biological diversity and cultural diversity through ecosystem protection
promotion of sustainable use of biodiversity, by providing jobs to local populations
sharing of socio-economic benefits with local communities and indigenous peoples by having their informed consent and participation in the management of ecotourism enterprises
tourism to unspoiled natural resources, with minimal impact on the environment being a primary concern.
minimization of tourism's own environmental impact
affordability and lack of waste in the form of luxury
local culture, flora and fauna being the main attractions
local people benefit from this form of tourism economically, often more than mass tourism.
Permaculture
Permaculture is a branch of ecological design, ecological engineering, and environmental design which develops sustainable architecture and self-maintained horticultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems.
The core tenets of permaculture are:
Take care of the earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply. This is the first principle, because without a healthy earth, humans cannot flourish.
Take care of the people: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence.
Share the surplus: Healthy natural systems use outputs from each element to nourish others. We humans can do the same. By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles.
The core tenets of permaculture are:
Take care of the earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply. This is the first principle, because without a healthy earth, humans cannot flourish.
Take care of the people: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence.
Share the surplus: Healthy natural systems use outputs from each element to nourish others. We humans can do the same. By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles.
The 12 permaculture design principles:
Permaculturists generally regard the following as its 12 design principles:
Observe and interact: By taking time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our particular situation.
Catch and store energy: By developing systems that collect resources at peak abundance, we can use them in times of need.
Obtain a yield: Ensure that you are getting truly useful rewards as part of the work that you are doing.
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback: We need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can continue to function well.
Use and value renewable resources and services: Make the best use of nature's abundance to reduce our consumptive behavior and dependence on non-renewable resources.
Produce no waste: By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste.
Design from patterns to details: By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.
Integrate rather than segregate: By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other.
Use small and slow solutions: Small and slow systems are easier to maintain than big ones, making better use of local resources and producing more sustainable outcomes.
Use and value diversity: Diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the environment in which it resides.
Use edges and value the marginal: The interface between things is where the most interesting events take place. These are often the most valuable, diverse and productive elements in the system.
Creatively use and respond to change: We can have a positive impact on inevitable change by carefully observing, and then intervening at the right time.
Observe and interact: By taking time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our particular situation.
Catch and store energy: By developing systems that collect resources at peak abundance, we can use them in times of need.
Obtain a yield: Ensure that you are getting truly useful rewards as part of the work that you are doing.
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback: We need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can continue to function well.
Use and value renewable resources and services: Make the best use of nature's abundance to reduce our consumptive behavior and dependence on non-renewable resources.
Produce no waste: By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste.
Design from patterns to details: By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.
Integrate rather than segregate: By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other.
Use small and slow solutions: Small and slow systems are easier to maintain than big ones, making better use of local resources and producing more sustainable outcomes.
Use and value diversity: Diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the environment in which it resides.
Use edges and value the marginal: The interface between things is where the most interesting events take place. These are often the most valuable, diverse and productive elements in the system.
Creatively use and respond to change: We can have a positive impact on inevitable change by carefully observing, and then intervening at the right time.
Manifest
Manifest
Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse or animal neglect, is the infliction of suffering or harm upon non-human animals, for purposes other than self-defense.
More narrowly, it can be harm for specific gain, such as killing animals for food or for their fur, although opinions differ with respect to the method of slaughter. It usually encompasses inflicting harm for personal amusement or to fulfill zoosadistic impulses.
Diverging viewpoints are held by jurisdictions throughout the world.
f you feel helpless about not being able to help stop animal cruelty because you do not have spare money to donate, do not despair! Further down this page, you will see lots of links to pages suggesting many different ways you can help stop animal cruelty and suffering.
It does not matter if you have not got much spare time, money or what kind of personality you have, as there is always something you can do. You don't have to move from the computer if you don't want to.
To be most effective in your efforts to help animals, you should be armed with as much knowledge about animal cruelty as possible so you know what you are talking about. To do this you can go to the Types Of Animal Cruelty section of this site.
It does not matter if you have not got much spare time, money or what kind of personality you have, as there is always something you can do. You don't have to move from the computer if you don't want to.
To be most effective in your efforts to help animals, you should be armed with as much knowledge about animal cruelty as possible so you know what you are talking about. To do this you can go to the Types Of Animal Cruelty section of this site.
Below: An "I don't want to know" attitude is often shown by people when it comes to facing animal cruelty. This is because it is an unpleasant subject. Sadly this attitude actually helps abusers, as it allows them to continue with their abuse unchallenged and unhindered.
It's time to stop it... !
Post Green
Green Cross Poland
Mission
The mission of Green Cross International is to help ensure a just, sustainable and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature.
Areas of Activity
From advocacy programmes at national and international levels to training individuals on how to construct rainwater-harvesting systems, Green Cross provides comprehensive programmes that further the values of cooperation among all stakeholders. The human relationship with nature crosses all boundaries and transcends all ideas of class, which necessitates a solution that goes beyond good governance and good policy, and hinges on the shared responsibility for a sustainable and just future for all.
Green Cross International works in the following areas:
Prevention and resolution of conflicts arising from environmental degradation;
Provision of assistance to people affected by the environmental consequences of wars and conflicts;
Promotion of legal, ethical and behavioural norms that ensure basic changes in the values, actions and attitudes of government, the private sector and civil society, necessary to build a sustainable global community.
Preventing and resolving conflicts over natural resources
In its mission to prevent and resolve conflicts over scarce natural resources, GCI runs the water for peace, access to water, right to water and smart energy for sustainable development programmes. Their objective is to promote cooperation between countries that share river waters, the meeting of basic consumption and sanitation needs of people for water, and the speedy deployment of renewable energy technologies to address climate change, rising energy demand and poverty. Addressing climate change and the inter¬-related challenges of security and development has become a focus point of GCI’s involvement in the UNFCCC climate change negotiation process.
Addressing the environmental consequences of wars and conflicts
The Legacy of the Cold War Programme, the Social and Medical Care Programme and Post-War Environmental Analysis are programmes implemented worldwide with the aim of assisting those affected by the environmental consequences of wars, conflicts and man-made calamities. Activities include support to children, families and communities suffering long-term socio-economic, medical and psychological stresses brought on by exposure to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. A number of successfully implemented projects include analysis of the environmental impacts of wars and conflicts in Kuwait, the Middle East, the Balkans, Argentina, Burkina Faso, and South Asia, ensuring that environmental rehabilitation is now regularly included within the umbrella of humanitarian assistance during and following conflicts. Expertise has also been developed in the clean up and conversion of military bases to civilian use, dealing with nuclear contamination, and the environmentally responsible destruction of conventional and chemical weapons stockpiles.
Promoting values and behaviour changes
GCI also seeks to attain a value and behaviour shift through initiatives such as the Earth Charter, the Earth Dialogues and the Environmental Education and Awareness Programme. The idea is to sensitise people, especially the young, with a positive awareness of and responsibility towards these common threats to humanity posed by poverty, insecurity and environmental destruction.
The mission of Green Cross International is to help ensure a just, sustainable and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature.
Areas of Activity
From advocacy programmes at national and international levels to training individuals on how to construct rainwater-harvesting systems, Green Cross provides comprehensive programmes that further the values of cooperation among all stakeholders. The human relationship with nature crosses all boundaries and transcends all ideas of class, which necessitates a solution that goes beyond good governance and good policy, and hinges on the shared responsibility for a sustainable and just future for all.
Green Cross International works in the following areas:
Prevention and resolution of conflicts arising from environmental degradation;
Provision of assistance to people affected by the environmental consequences of wars and conflicts;
Promotion of legal, ethical and behavioural norms that ensure basic changes in the values, actions and attitudes of government, the private sector and civil society, necessary to build a sustainable global community.
Preventing and resolving conflicts over natural resources
In its mission to prevent and resolve conflicts over scarce natural resources, GCI runs the water for peace, access to water, right to water and smart energy for sustainable development programmes. Their objective is to promote cooperation between countries that share river waters, the meeting of basic consumption and sanitation needs of people for water, and the speedy deployment of renewable energy technologies to address climate change, rising energy demand and poverty. Addressing climate change and the inter¬-related challenges of security and development has become a focus point of GCI’s involvement in the UNFCCC climate change negotiation process.
Addressing the environmental consequences of wars and conflicts
The Legacy of the Cold War Programme, the Social and Medical Care Programme and Post-War Environmental Analysis are programmes implemented worldwide with the aim of assisting those affected by the environmental consequences of wars, conflicts and man-made calamities. Activities include support to children, families and communities suffering long-term socio-economic, medical and psychological stresses brought on by exposure to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. A number of successfully implemented projects include analysis of the environmental impacts of wars and conflicts in Kuwait, the Middle East, the Balkans, Argentina, Burkina Faso, and South Asia, ensuring that environmental rehabilitation is now regularly included within the umbrella of humanitarian assistance during and following conflicts. Expertise has also been developed in the clean up and conversion of military bases to civilian use, dealing with nuclear contamination, and the environmentally responsible destruction of conventional and chemical weapons stockpiles.
Promoting values and behaviour changes
GCI also seeks to attain a value and behaviour shift through initiatives such as the Earth Charter, the Earth Dialogues and the Environmental Education and Awareness Programme. The idea is to sensitise people, especially the young, with a positive awareness of and responsibility towards these common threats to humanity posed by poverty, insecurity and environmental destruction.
Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry
Brian Swimme :
Brian Thomas Swimme is on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. He received his Ph.D. (1978) from the department of mathematics at the University of Oregon for work in singularity theory.
Swimme was a faculty member in the department of mathematics at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, 1978–81. He was a member of the faculty at the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names University in Oakland, California, 1983–89, and is presently adjunct professor for Holy Names University's Sophia Center.
Swimme brings the context of story to our understanding of the 13.7-billion-year trajectory of cosmogenesis. His published work includes The Universe is a Green Dragon (Bear and Company, 1984), The Universe Story (Harper San Francisco, 1992), written with Thomas Berry, and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis, 1996). Swimme is the producer of three DVD series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth’s Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe.
Thomas Berry:
Thomas Berry was a Catholic priest of the Passionist order, cultural historian and ecotheologian (although cosmologist and geologian — or “Earth scholar” — were his preferred descriptors).
Among advocates of deep ecology and "ecospirituality" he is famous for proposing that a deep understanding of the history and functioning of the evolving universe is a necessary inspiration and guide for our own effective functioning as individuals and as a species. He is considered a leader in the tradition of Teilhard de Chardin as demonstrated in the Introduction to his book, The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth.
Among advocates of deep ecology and "ecospirituality" he is famous for proposing that a deep understanding of the history and functioning of the evolving universe is a necessary inspiration and guide for our own effective functioning as individuals and as a species. He is considered a leader in the tradition of Teilhard de Chardin as demonstrated in the Introduction to his book, The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth.
Author Michael Colebrook describes two key elements in Thomas Berry’s thinking: “Firstly, the primary status of the universe. The universe is, ‘the only self-referential reality in the phenomenal world. It is the only text without context. Everything else has to be seen in the context of the universe’.
The second element is the significance of story, and in particular the universe as story. ‘The universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.
Togehter thay makes this works:
-The Universe Story From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era, A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos
-Berry also contributed two introductory essays ('Economics: Its Effects on the Life Systems of the World' and 'The Earth: A New Context for Religious Unity') to the volume Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology, in which Brian Swimme, Caroline Richards, Gregory Baum and others discuss the implications of Berry's thought for a range of disciplines and paradigms.
-Berry's 'Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process offer a postscript to this 1987 work.
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