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27/12/2024

🌲🌳🌴Let's give thanks to our wonderful trees!

26/12/2024

Mexico to replace 16 million tonnes of GM corn with native varieties & ban the toxic herbicide glyphosate. WHY are they doing this?
Corn is more than a food ingredient in Mexico. Corn holds tremendous cultural, symbolic, and spiritual value for Mexico’s Indigenous peoples. Preserving the integrity and diversity of native corn species is essential to protecting Indigenous rights and cultural heritage.

This is a first opportunity to interpret an Indigenous Rights General Exception in any trade agreement involving the U.S. USMCA Article 32.5 on Indigenous Peoples Rights allows parties to adopt or maintain measures “necessary to fulfill its legal obligations to Indigenous peoples,” provided the measures are not unjustified discrimination or disguised restrictions on trade. It builds on similar, but vague, language in other trade agreements. The language of the USMCA general exception is bolstered in the Environment chapter, which elaborates on the links between Indigenous rights and biodiversity.

26/12/2024

2025 GOALS to have a ridiculously large eildflower meadow in my garden and to convince all my neighbours to do the same!

23/12/2024

Food is Medicine!

22/12/2024

Why can't more supermarkets do this? If Canada can do it, anywhere can!

21/12/2024

Why can't more communities do this?

20/12/2024

Is not just about aesthetic but each of our responsibilities to support biodiversity. Lets make 2025 the year of native yard gardening!

19/12/2024

Why can't we do this everywhere?

18/12/2024

Why aren't more supermarkets doing this?

18/12/2024

How to turn a lifeless lawn into a nourishing veggie garden without having to dig out the tuff!

17/12/2024

Many know about the tradition of giving oranges 🍊 at Christmas 🎄 but very few know how useful orange peel can be to protect your family at Christmas! 😲A range of seasonal holiday products containing high levels of toxic chemicals are being sold by top retailers. Researchers tested beaded and tinsel garlands, artificial wreaths and greenery, stockings, figurines and other tabletop decorations, and gift bags. The study identified lead, flame retardants, tin compounds and phthalates, among other hazardous substances. These have been variously linked to asthma, birth defects, learning disabilities, reproductive problems, liver toxicity and cancer.

Beaded garlands were found to contain a “multitude of toxic contaminants”, while light strings consistently showed high levels of lead and bromine. Of the products tested, 13% contained lead above 100 parts per million (ppm). Twelve percent contained more than 800 ppm of bromine, indicating the presence of brominated flame retardants, which the Environmental Protection Agency has linked to developmental and reproductive issues.

According to the study’s researchers, home decorations are largely unregulated and may legally contain lead or phthalates, for example, in quantities prohibited in children’s products by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. As long as a product is not labeled as being intended for children, it is not subject to lead, cadmium or phthalate restrictions.

Protect your family and save the planet, reduce waste and make a creative activity fun for adults and children by making your own decorations, why not try orange peels instead?

10/12/2024

Let's restore the planet 🌍 China shows us how it can be possible to restore degraded desert into fertile farmland & forest.

09/12/2024

It Can Snow In Africa! Rare photos show cheetahs 🐆 & giraffs 🦒 in a snowstorm.

The images, taken in South Africa’s Rogge Cloof Nature Reserve, show that the wildlife are much more adaptable than we thought.

For two days, Kirsten Frost 📸 had tracked the radio-collared female cheetah through the stony hills of Rogge Cloof Nature Reserve.

07/12/2024

Do you know where the tradition of eating turkey on Christmas Eve comes from?... a country you might not first imagine!

Turkeys originated in Mexico and were brought to Europe and the rest of the world by the Spanish.

The Mayans of southern Mexico likely domesticated turkeys around 2,000 years ago. Turkeys were a significant part of the culture and symbolism of Pre-Columbian Mexico.

The Classical Nahuatl word for the turkey, huehxōlō-tl (guajolote in Spanish), is still used in modern Mexico, in addition to the general term pavo. The Aztecs ate guajolote (turkey) during the winter solstice to celebrate a feast called Panketzaliztli in honor of the god Huitzilopochtli, who was celebrated for his triumph over the moon goddess, Coyolxauqui.

In the 1500s, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés was one of the first Europeans to see turkeys in the palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma. Moctezuma gave Cortés and his men over a thousand turkeys as a gift.
Introduction to the New World

The Spanish brought domesticated turkeys to Europe and Asia, and then to eastern North America in the 1600s. The turkey was a sensation in Europe, where it was a new addition to the fine dining menu.

In 1528 the first Christmas in America was celebrated thanks to Fray Pedro de Gante, one of the first evangelizers in the time of the Colony.

The winter solstice became opaque with this celebration and the proximity of dates with Christmas, influenced the tradition of eating guajolote on Christmas Eve.

07/12/2024

Its time to plan planting for next season, let's help the monarch on its epic journey 🦋 plant native.

05/12/2024

Tiger named Amur 🐅 refused to eat a goat named Timur 🐐 who was given to him as live food. Instead, Timur and Amur became friends and the pair were inseparable. Timur would chase Amur out of his sleeping quarters and sleep on the tiger's bed. The pair even took daily walks together.
The friendship between Timur and Amur gained international fame and increased zoo attendance at the Far Eastern Safari Park by 300%.

04/12/2024

In Holland, Cycle Paths Glow in the Dark, Charged by the Sun! This technological idea is to increase bike safety at night & is inspired by Van Goghs painting, The starry night.

This 1 km bike path near where Vincent van Gogh grew up features a special paint that uses solar energy to create patterns from the artist's The Starry Night. The path also has LED lights embedded in the surface.
Glow-in-the-dark cycle paths can help reduce the number of accidents between cyclists and pedestrians at night. They can also be more cost-effective than providing overhead lighting for city bike paths.

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