Climate change is the symptoms of suffering on the planet. The plants, animals and human beings suffers because every day the balance of nature is sacrificed on the altars of the god of profit. Giuseppe Serravezza and Patrizio Mazza, coordinated by Tonino Girau, will lead us in the adventure of complex prevention and treatment of cancer, but also on the prospects opened up by the new local law. The talk is broadcast live on the Internet Wednesday, 11 March 2009 at 21, at www.oistros.it/lunapiena web – it is advisable to book the activities at lunapiena@oistros.it or email to skype contact casaoistros.
Archive for the ‘animals’ tag
Zuerst die Füsse. The Frog Prince(ples), Museion, South Tyrol
The work by the German artist Martin Kippenberger, Zuerst die Füsse, a crucified green frog – about one metre (three feet) high – on a cross gripping a mug of beer on one side and an egg on the other, has stirred a neverending controversy in the staunchly Roman Catholic country – simply Italy .
Bishop Wilhelm Egger criticized the work, also regional governor Luis Durnwalder : the sculpture could be perceived as a provocation by the people of the Alto Adige region, which is 99 percent Catholic. And Volkspartei …
Add to that today : Franz Pahla’ hunger strike as an act of protest to remove the “Frog” before the Pope Benedikt XVI ’s holiday in South Tyrol. The Pope will will spend his summer vacation in the seminary of Bressanone in Valle Isarco.
On May 24th Museion had inaugurate its new building, designed by the Berlin studio of KSV Architects: Krüger, Schuberth, Vandreike : the front and rear facades are largely transparent, and place the city’s historical center in dialog with some of its more recent areas, as well as with the meadows that flank the Talvera River.
What surprise me most ABOVE ALL is the Museum’s Art Collection: very good – almost a MIRACLE (for Italy) – where you can find some pretty interesting works of contemporary art. One is Zuerst die Füsse by Kippenberger, who died in 1997 aged 44.
The Glass Ark. Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences
Renzo Piano’s new green museum, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is almost finished. Located in famous Golden Gate Park, and housing an aquarium, planetarium, and natural-history museum under two “hills” which are really a two-and-a-half-acre “living roof”, the building looks like a part of the park from some views.
As Piano says: “The building had to be green and sustainable to go with its purpose—study of the earth and science. It is also in a very unusual place, the middle of one of the most beautiful parks in the world. You almost never get a chance to build something in the middle of a great park, so it needed to be transparent. You needed to see where you are. Normally, a museum of natural science is created like a theater, so that you can have the exhibits inside. All museums normally are opaque; they are closed, like a kingdom of darkness, and you are trapped inside. But here you need to know about the connection with nature, so almost anywhere you are in this building you can see through to the outside.”
FARM-Africa. Christmas (Living and Growing) Presents
In Africa’s rural areas, many poor families rely on their land to survive. But with such barren earth to farm and unreliable rains, they struggle to harvest enough food to stay healthy.
Through a FARM-Africa goat project, you can transform life for a poor community providing poor families with goats and training in how to care for them. Also give one member of the group Toggenburgs to breed with local goats, so the hardier offspring produce lots of nutritious milk. This can be drunk or sold to help pay for medicine and schoolbooks. Plus, the goats’ manure is a great fertiliser for the family’s crops.
Please buy from FARM-Africa Living PRESENTS
Chicken
Goat
Beehive
Camel
or from Growing PRESENTS
http://www.farmafricapresents.org.uk/buy/item/5
It is also possible to choose from an amazing range of quirky and memorable gifts which represent just some of the ways that your donation can be used to make a difference to the lives of poor African farmers.
See how it works here and how we use your donations here.
Cloning (Cat) with Colours
A cloned Turkish Angola kitten gives off a red fluorescence glow while an ordinary one appears to be green in this picture taken under ultraviolet light at a laboratory of Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday. The cloned cat’s genes were modified with a fluorescent protein.
via Korea Times
A Gyeongsang National University team said they have succeeded in cloning cats after modifying a gene to change their skin color. The red cloned cat research is expected to be utilized in dealing with certain genetic diseases in animals and humans. It will also help reproduce rare animals, such as tigers and wildcats, which are on the verge of extinction, the team said.
LOVE AT FIRST BARK
P. Selvakumar, a 33-year-old farm labourer from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, who believed he had been cursed for stoning to death two dogs, has atoned for his sin by marrying another dog in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony.
The four-year-old stray bitch was bathed and processed to his village temple dressed in an orange sari and garlanded with flowers.
