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.

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.

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.”

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Ms Li Quan, founder of Save China’s Tigers today announced that a male South China tiger cub (Chinese:華南虎, Panthera tigris amoyensis) was born at Laohu Valley Reserve, Free State, South Africa at 23:30, November 23rd 2007.

It is truly a historic event, because it is the first time that a South China Tiger has been born outside of China. Only around 60 South China Tigers exist in captivity and less than 30 survive in the wild.

The male South China Tiger cub, is at this stage healthy and strong. He weighed 1.2 kg at birth (larger than normal), he is already quite vocal, especially at feeding time. He is the first cub born to the female tiger, Cathay and the male tiger, TigerWoods who are both undergoing rewilding training at the Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa. He will undergo the same rewilding training.

Since 2003, 4 tigers have undergone rewilding training at Laohu Valley Reserve, 600 km from Johannesburg, the biggest city in South Africa. They have learnt to cope with the elements and to catch a variety of prey from wild guinea fowl and hares to blesbok. They have learnt the necessary hunting skills using stalking and camouflage techniques. To date they have successfully hunted more than 60 blesbok, proving that their natural instinct to hunt has been awakened.

Laohu Valley Reserve covers 330 square kilometers of land in both the Free State and Northern Cape Provinces. There are more than 10 species of endemic game on the reserve including blesbok, eland, springbok, black wildebeest, zebra, ostrich, gemsbok, as well as some small predators such as jackal, caracal and African wild cat.

China is also doing preparation work to establish a Pilot reserve for the eventual return of these rewilded tigers.

http://english.savechinastigers.org/

Laika (from Russian: Лайка, a breed of dog, literally: “Barker”) was a Russian space dog which became the first recorded living creature from Earth to enter orbit. At one time a stray wandering the streets of Moscow, she was selected from an animal shelter. Originally named Kudryavka (Russian: кудрявка), she was renamed Laika after her breed type. After undergoing training with two other dogs, she was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 and was launched into space on 3 November 1957.

Laika died a few hours after launch from stress and overheating, probably due to a malfunction in the thermal control system. The true cause of her death was not made public until decades after the flight. Although Laika could not survive the trip, the experiment proved that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness. It paved the way for human spaceflight and provided scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.

For the 50th anniversary of the russian dog, Laika, Directors Niels Grabøl and Ulrik Crone dedicated their beautiful video for Danish DJ and producer Anders Trentemøller Moan to the Russian space dog. The song “Moan” by Trentemøller feat. Ane Trolle was a big hit in Denmark as well as a top 30 hit in the Belgium Singles Top 50 for 2007. Check the video:

Trentemøller and his live partner DJ. T.o.m. Bertelsen played more than 100 shows over the last 1 and a half years with their raving and energetic live sets mainly based on Trentemøller‘ s dancefloor singles. Trentemøller will play live in concert @ I Love Techno Festival 10.11.2007 in TBA, Belgium . In 2006, his debut album “The Last Resort“ on Poker Flat gathered a big haul in many many reader polls and scored the #1 album of the year in many magazines.

This year for the first time Trentemøller Live Band are performing tracks from the album „The Last Resort“ live on stage! The band members are: Henrik Vibskov on drums, Mikael Simpson (guitar/bass) and of course Trentemoller.

TRENTEMØLLER live in concert