terracotta -- images & words for my ancestors

Stop .... SOPA & PIPA

2012-01-18T14:14:00.001-05:00

When the greenland ice sheet melts this boom is going to have to be raised 23 feet...

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And if the West Antarctic ice sheet were to break up entirely, sea level would rise 16 feet. Together, the melting of these two ice sheets , which scientists believe to be he most vulnerable, would raise sea level 39 feet. Lester R. Brown World ON The Edge

World on the Edge

2012-01-09T06:28:00.002-05:00

If we hope to stem the mass destruction...

2012-01-08T19:06:00.000-05:00

that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?” ― Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe

Inner cities vision

2012-01-05T18:12:00.001-05:00

Concrete Plant Park

2011-12-30T19:26:00.001-05:00

biodiversity that we must care for..

2011-12-29T08:25:00.003-05:00

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. David Attenborough

Explore the World of Birds and Biodiversity

2011-12-28T08:43:00.000-05:00

390.31ppm Atmospheric CO2 for November 2011

2011-12-26T21:00:00.000-05:00

CO2 Speaker's Corner | Gauthier | Antarctica | February 2009 from Michael McGee on Vimeo.

Once the mind is reasonably stabilized and clear...

2011-12-18T16:56:00.001-05:00

Soundview fly by

2011-12-11T23:24:00.001-05:00

Yin & Yang

2011-12-06T10:47:00.001-05:00

Daily Srub

2011-11-27T14:19:00.001-05:00

Be engaged

2011-11-26T14:00:00.001-05:00

historical tipping points don't come often : Occupy Everywhere

elephants can fly...

2011-11-24T12:38:00.001-05:00

Who would have thought a Multiverse exists or a an Octopus could walk on land...Well all kids new that elephants could fly when I was young.

El Silencio

2011-11-21T07:41:00.001-05:00

El silencio es como el portero de la vida interior - Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer ~ Camino

Upstream

2011-11-20T19:46:00.001-05:00

LIfe's spiritual journey is an upstream pilgrimage all the way. There are no permanent ports.

April 2011 Tornadoes ~ NOAA

2011-11-18T23:37:00.001-05:00

April Tornadoes - NOAA from The Rachel Maddow Show on Vimeo.

Can't see the forest for the trees

2011-11-12T06:18:00.001-05:00

Can't see the forest for the trees the micro or the macro environment, the cosmic or the eternal ... " normal consciousness "If the earth's natural resources were as well protected as this little piece of native forest that survives in the Bronx.... then mountain top removal, hydro-fracking, deep ocean mining & tar sands oil extraction would not continue to threaten our planet with eco-cide & the end of civilization.

In search of ecotopia

2011-11-08T15:54:00.001-05:00

plankton

2011-09-14T13:17:00.001-04:00

In pursuit of social justice, sustainability & spiritual fulfillment

2011-09-08T21:55:00.000-04:00

The Waterpod @ Concrete Plant Park ~ Sept 2009

2011-09-02T07:53:00.004-04:00

Cormorant in a hurricane

2011-08-29T10:28:00.000-04:00

Environmental restoration of the Bronx River...

2011-08-27T09:23:00.001-04:00

must not lead to gentrification, a social injustice inflicted
on the present residences of the South Bronx.

Love the land that you were born in...

2011-08-10T08:58:00.000-04:00

Water your local tree..

2011-08-06T19:36:00.001-04:00

Tomorrow may rain so I'll follow the sun

2011-08-03T15:11:00.000-04:00

duck profile

2011-08-01T07:01:00.000-04:00

Bronx River

2011-07-10T02:57:00.000-04:00

Spectrum

2011-07-05T15:01:00.000-04:00

A spectrum: a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary infinitely within a continuum.

Osprey

2011-07-01T23:59:00.001-04:00

egret

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feeding

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Om

2011-06-24T00:10:00.000-04:00

un regalo del fuego

2011-06-23T12:18:00.000-04:00

雨低下

2011-05-31T10:47:00.002-04:00

幸福な母の日

2011-05-08T04:44:00.006-04:00

दिन खुशी माताएं
שמח אמהות יום
سعيد عيد الأم
Ευχαρίστως μητέρες ημέρα
Les Mères heureux Jour
Счастливый День Матерей
Día feliz de Madres
Dia feliz de Mães
Happy Mothers Day

Nourishing the Planet

2011-05-06T04:41:00.000-04:00

H2O

2011-05-04T21:01:00.001-04:00

I slept and dreamt that life was joy...

2011-05-02T23:24:00.000-04:00

I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

Good Friday

2011-04-21T20:47:00.000-04:00

along the bank

2011-04-19T22:33:00.001-04:00

Chris Hedges: Corporatist America

2011-04-17T15:47:00.002-04:00

The End of Poverty

2011-04-10T09:56:00.000-04:00

Saving Civilization is Everyones Business

2011-03-31T06:01:00.001-04:00

Watch the full episode. See more Journey to Planet Earth.

walking & biking ~ green transport in a concrete environment

2011-03-30T08:09:00.002-04:00

Cultivating the right confluence…

2011-03-24T08:26:00.002-04:00

of things that exude love & well being is
the course of a sane life

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people...

2011-03-20T15:10:00.001-04:00

who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
David Korten

Only after the last tree has fallen

2011-03-19T11:38:00.001-04:00

Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will we realize that money cannot be eaten.

District 12 Presidents Council Meeting ~ March 15 2011

2011-03-15T13:27:00.010-04:00

Jennifer Plewka, the director of the education program in Phipps CDC speaking on the upcoming Drew Gardens Schedule of Events

Drew Gardens PDF

Simona Bojkova Program coordinator of Esperanza Family Literacy Program
Free ... English Classes (Childcare available!)
Free ... Parent & Child Activities
Free ... Academic Support for Children Ages 4-10 & Cultural Trips

Learn more or register for the Esperanza Family LIteracy Programs at:
718 542 -0109
Phipps Community Education Center
1030 East 178th Street ( at Boston Road)
Bronx, NY 10460

Dr Richard Izquierdo of Health & Science Charter School
800 Home Street
Bronx, NY 10456
HealthScienceSchool.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 11, 2010
Contact: David Nachtweih, 212-561-8730 ext. 229 NEW BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL TO OFFER EMT CERTIFICATION,
PREPARE STUDENTS FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH CARE
~ The Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School to be First Charter School to Offer Career and Technical Education Program Geared Toward Health Services Professions ~ School to Partner with Urban Health Plan for Support and Professional Development
January 11, 2010 (Bronx, NY)—When the Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School opens its doors next fall, it will be the first charter school in New York City to offer a Career and Technical Education program geared specifically toward preparing students for jobs in the health care sector, including Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certification. The New York State Board of Regents authorized the school at its latest meeting.
“Health care is one of the fastest growing and most lucrative sectors in the country, and yet the Bronx has one of the lowest rates of high school graduates entering this field,” said John Xavier, principal of the school. “Lack of education and opportunity are keeping our students out of this sector, and our goal with the Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Sciences Charter School is to change that.”
The school, which will open in September 2010, will initially serve 100 students in grade six. Each year the Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School will add one grade, eventually growing to serve 700 students in grades 6-12. The school will combine a strong science and mathematics curriculum with career education in health science, and students will have the opportunity to enroll in EMT certification courses. Students will take multiple science courses every year in addition to mathematics, English, Latin, history and dance or martial arts. As the school grows to capacity it will develop a comprehensive after- school program that will provide fine and performing arts, including music, drama and film, and boys and girls team sports, including baseball, basketball and soccer.
“The school was created to provide a quality education that would free the children of the South Bronx from the bonds of poverty and ultimately provide quality health care and a happy and healthy community,” said Dr. Richard Izquierdo, who founded the school and has been a prominent pediatrician, family physician, and community and public health advocate for the past 40 years. “Our communities need this type of school,” Dr. Izquierdo continued.
To support its curriculum, the school will partner with the Urban Health Plan, Inc. (UHP), which will provide professional development to enhance the health and science curriculum and create an effective career education model. The school will have access to UHP’s human resources in order to draw highly qualified instructors and mentors from a workforce that includes nearly 400 employees and 80 medical professionals. UHP will also provide professional and academic opportunities to students through seminars, site visits, health career counseling and an internship program and summer and part-time job opportunities.
“The beauty of this school is that upon graduation, not only will students be ready academically to enter college, they will also be prepared to enter a number of health careers,” said Paloma Hernandez, President & CEO of Urban Health Plan.
Open house information sessions for students and parents will begin at the end January at Urban Health Plan’s El Nuevo San Juan health center in the South Bronx (1065 Southern Boulevard) and will continue through the winter and into the spring, when the school will hold a reception to introduce itself more formally to the community. For further information please contact: Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health & Science Charter School c/o NYC Charter School Center 111 Broadway, Suite 604, New York, NY 10006, by phone: 212.227.2763, or e-mail: info@HealthScienceSchool.org
About Urban Health Plan
Urban Health Plan is a network of federally qualified community health centers based in the South Bronx and Queens. Its mission is to improve the health status of underserved communities. In 2009, UHP served over 33,000 patients at four clinic sites, five school-based clinics, and four off-sites. It is recognized by United States Department of Health and Human Services as one of the top 20 family health centers in the country. It was recognized by Hispanic Magazine as one the top 25 Hispanic non-profit organization in the United States. It has served the Hunts Point, Mott Haven and other surrounding communities of the Bronx since 1974.

Drew Gardens Schedule of Events March / April 2011

Date March 31, 2011
Location - Drew Gardens
time 4 - 5 PM
Drew Gardener 2011
Season Kickoff Meeting
Sponsored by - Phipps

Date April 6, 2011
Location - Drew Gardens
Time 4:30 - 6PM
"Born Again" Installation
and performance along
the Bronx River.
Sponsored by Longwood Art Gallery

Date April 16, 2011
Location - Drew Gardens
Time 9:30 - 3:30 PM
NY Cares Hands on
New York Day
Sponsored by NY Cares

Date April 28, 2011
Location - Drew Gardens
Time 5:30 - 7:00 PM
"Maximizing Your Harvest
With Solita Stephens"
Sponsored by - Greenthumb
New York City Parks & Recreation
*** Free Supplies - Raised
Bed Lumber Request for
your Garden. ( May delivery)***

Date April 30, 2011
Location - St Mary's Park Bronx
Time 11 - 2:00 PM
Native Plant Share
Sponsored by : The Butterfly Project NYC
*** Free Supplies - Native Butterfly garden plants***

trailing threads of continuity

2011-03-14T19:29:00.006-04:00

Tenth Annual Colloquium : The Culture of Climate Change ~ Waterwash ABC

2011-03-12T06:47:00.007-05:00

Tenth Annual Colloquium
The Culture of Climate Change
March 11th, 2011

The Graduate Center
The City University of New York

Mertin E. Segal Theater

Waterwash ABC: A Permanent Wetland Park, Lillian Ball

Rising PH levels in Oceans world wide ….

2011-03-10T05:45:00.001-05:00

is decimating the fundamental food chain of sea life that sustain one fifth of the earths human population.

District 12 CEC Meeting March 9, 2011

2011-03-09T21:08:00.006-05:00

HOME (English with subtitles)

2011-03-08T07:55:00.001-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

Haven't We Lost Enough

2011-03-08T00:03:00.000-05:00

Ocean Acidification : The other CO2 Problem

2011-03-07T09:48:00.001-05:00

A millennium ago natures natural structures & life cycle…

2011-03-05T19:57:00.001-05:00

A millennium ago natures natural structures & life cycle…
cleansed & replenished the river.
Today watersheds can be constructed to reclaim what we have lost…
clean fresh water a most precious & important natural resource.

District 12 Town Hall Meeting

2011-03-03T21:25:00.003-05:00

District 12 Town Hall Meeting

Division of Community Engagement
Deputy Chancellor
Santiago Taveras

District 12 Community Superintendent
Myrna Rodriques

District 12 Community Education Council Members

Carmen Taveras, President
Wilfred Colton, 1st Vice President
Kyheim Paul, 2nd Vice President
Catherine Baez, Secretary
Maryluz Reyes, Parent Member

Suzana Figuueroa, Parent Member
Marisol Torres, Parent Member
Ilka Rios, Parent Member
Pedro Torres, Parent Member
Shalanda Barlow, Parent Member
Marisol Torres, Parent Member

Soft Landing

2011-03-02T12:28:00.001-05:00

beautiful & gracefully done by an Egret, more importantly to be done by dominant culture & aging empires…

awake lizard

2011-02-26T21:19:00.000-05:00

the two legged bipeds have really made of mess of things...

Determined to Survive...

2011-02-05T18:36:00.001-05:00

the Sixth Extinction

Ama la tierra en que naciste

2011-01-31T07:11:00.001-05:00

Naomi Klein : Addicted to risk

2011-01-21T04:46:00.001-05:00

First Wheel of Dharma

2011-01-12T11:25:00.002-05:00

The Dhammapada
Translated by Thomas Byrom

1. Choices
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind And trouble will follow you As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness will follow you As your shadow, unshakable. "Look how he abused me and hurt me, How he threw me down and robbed me." Live with such thoughts and you live in hate. "Look how he abused me and hurt me, How he threw me down and robbed me." Abandon such thoughts, and live in love. In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible. You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel? How easily the wind overturns a frail tree. Seek happiness in the senses, Indulge in food and sleep, And you too will be uprooted. The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters himself and minds the dharma. If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe. Mistaking the false for the true, And the true for the false, You overlook the heart And fill yourself with desire.
See the false as false, The true as true. Look into your heart. Follow your nature. An unreflecting mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter.
Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly
When he sees the wrong he has done. But whoever follows the dharma Is joyful here and joyful there. In both worlds he rejoices
And how greatly When he sees the good he has done. For great is the harvest in this world, And greater still in the next. However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act upon them? Are you a shepherd Who counts another man's sheep, Never sharing the way? Read as few words as you like, And speak fewer. But act upon the dharma. Give up the old ways - Passion, enmity, folly. Know the truth and find peace. Share the way.

Green is local

2011-01-05T11:26:00.001-05:00

Ice & boom & snow

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tierra ~ viento ye fuego

2010-12-27T04:36:00.004-05:00

We shot their bold chief at the head of their band

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He died like a warrior with his bow in his hand.
When they saw their brave chief lie dead in his gore
They whooped and they yelled and we saw them no more.

Sioux Indians
Pete Seeger

Where have all the flowers gone..

2010-12-17T20:25:00.000-05:00

Where have all the flowers gone..
long time passing

Breathe in the converging realms of awareness

2010-12-02T00:04:00.001-05:00

Sometimes the days end speaks ….
and encourages
a continuity & closure.
"Embrace the beauty & temporality of the moment.
Breathe in the converging realms of awareness
that your ancestors could see
so clearly … the infinite , the finite are bound
in the synergistic miracle that is your life. "

Are Sustainability & Civilization incompatible...

2010-11-30T08:10:00.004-05:00

Dominant culture is killing the planet

2010-11-29T13:50:00.002-05:00

More than 150 species are going extinct daily...
background rates—or rates of extinction are a thousand to ten thousand times background rates

fall

2010-11-21T07:40:00.002-05:00

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.
The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars…

Stray Birds By Rabindranath Tagore

Crow fly by

2010-11-01T14:28:00.000-04:00

Hermann Scheer - Interview

2010-10-16T10:07:00.000-04:00

River Park

2010-09-28T02:33:00.001-04:00

Trashing city streets

2010-09-22T06:21:00.001-04:00

NYC sanitation workers throw garbage on side walk obstructing parents & children near PS 102

When I asked if they were aware that children going to school had to pass here , one of them said " go call a trooper"

Trait diversity is more significant than biodiversity..

2010-08-29T00:00:00.000-04:00

for spices migrating through the matrix hostility of the human landscape

Hey, look yonder, tell me what's that you see

2010-08-28T00:00:00.000-04:00

Marching to the Afghanistan war...

Public Spaces

2010-08-27T10:39:00.001-04:00

lagrima

2010-08-22T09:26:00.004-04:00

Dirty Air Kills
Pollution knows no boundaries. It crosses state lines, creating nationwide health problems.

But the EPA is fighting back with its proposed Good Neighbor Rule, which will limit air pollution from power plants and prevent at least 23,000 heart attacks, 26,000 hospital visits and 240,000 asthma attacks, according to EPA estimates.

Conventional Cosmology is in dire need ...

2010-08-21T10:23:00.002-04:00

of a prodigious amount of dark matter

Sinking Ship

2010-08-20T12:50:00.000-04:00

Sinking Ship

The ship was sinking---and sinking fast. The captain told the passengers and crew, "We've got to get the lifeboats in the water right away."
But the crew said, "First we have to end capitalist oppression of the working class. Then we'll take care of the lifeboats."

Then the women said, "First we want equal pay for equal work. The lifeboats can wait."

The racial minorities said, "First we need to end racial discrimination. Then seating in the lifeboats will be allotted fairly."

The captain said, "These are all important issues, but they won't matter a damn if we don't survive. We've got to lower the lifeboats right away!"

But the religionists said, "First we need to bring prayer back into the classroom. This is more important than lifeboats."

Then the pro-life contingent said, "First we must outlaw abortion. Fetuses have just as much right to be in those lifeboats as anyone else."

The right-to-choose contingent said, "First acknowledge our right to abortion, then we'll help with the lifeboats."

The socialists said, "First we must redistribute the wealth. Once that's done everyone will work equally hard at lowering the lifeboats."

The animal-rights activists said, "First we must end the use of animals in medical experiments. We can't let this be subordinated to lowering the lifeboats."

Finally the ship sank, and because none of the lifeboats had been lowered, everyone drowned.

The last thought of more than one of them was, "I never dreamed that solving humanity's problems would take so long---or that the ship would sink so SUDDENLY."

Daniel Quinn

boom lift

2010-08-17T14:52:00.001-04:00

How many galaxies fit within a mans consciousness …

2010-08-16T19:52:00.002-04:00

If only one could be as free as I imagine a seagull to be...

2010-08-14T09:34:00.002-04:00

Thousands missing after mudslides in China

2010-08-11T16:43:00.003-04:00

Just this in the last week...
Thousands missing after mudslides in China
Monsoon rain floods in Pakistan
Gigantic flaming conflagration of Forrest fires surrounding Moscow
Ice sheets ten time bigger than Manhattan braking off glaciers in iceland…
Main stream media -- silent
Network meteorologists in denial …. and silent

Ignorance is biss
life goes on as usual

Could't happen here in the Bronx
even though July 2010 has been the hottest month in recorded history….

ANTS in my scanner

2010-08-08T09:32:00.002-04:00

ANTS in my scanner > a five years time-lapse! from françois vautier on Vimeo.

Sweet bird of Paradise

2010-08-07T20:38:00.001-04:00

Moonrise over Soundview

2010-08-06T08:02:00.004-04:00

Bronx Metal Recycling

2010-08-01T10:23:00.001-04:00

bonded

2010-07-31T11:48:00.001-04:00

And the dreams that you dare to dream ...

2010-07-20T16:07:00.000-04:00

Yes they do, really do come true

OF wild flowers & enchantments

2010-07-15T11:15:00.005-04:00

baby loves salsa

2010-07-13T00:00:00.002-04:00

shore

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DSC_9277 ~ I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

2010-07-11T08:02:00.004-04:00

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

BOB DYLAN
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Samba De Verao

2010-07-02T18:12:00.001-04:00