I know there are many people here who meditiate and are deeply concerned about the state of our beautiful planet. I have just come acros…
I know there are many people here who meditiate and are deeply concerned about the state of our beautiful planet. I have just come across an amazing website that offers us a way to contribute our energy to its healing. If you have read and appreciated my poem Gaia – she is rising, if you are concerned about the rapidly deteriorating state of our beautiful home, please check out this website and read this woman’s amazing story. www.firethegrid.com/eng/home-fr-eng.htm
With >20cm falling on the Victorian Alps during the last 24hrs, it seems appropriate to contrast the seasons that are being experienced a…
With >20cm falling on the Victorian Alps during the last 24hrs, it seems appropriate to contrast the seasons that are being experienced across the globe today. From the icy chill of winter, to the warming rays of summer – each season provides those with keen eyes, spectacular scenery to capture and beauty to inspire creativity. Remember to TAG TAG TAG your work, so that everyone can search with success!
This message is so timely, so important, that I wanted to share it with all my RB friends and acquaintances. Yes, today our world is sick…
This message is so timely, so important, that I wanted to share it with all my RB friends and acquaintances. Yes, today our world is sick; sick in many ways, and now our world has a fever. If I tried for the rest of my life I don’t think I could express my concerns about our global situation any better than Al Gore has done here. We need to personally, collectively, and actively begin to do our very best to discern what the Truth is concerning our relationship to each other, to our earth, and to our God. Gore’s speech is rather long, but in my humble opinion almost each and every sentence has important meaning and the ring of truth, and should be a wake-up call for all of us. All good people want to help and do whatever they can to make our world a better place, but the inevitable question arises: “What can I do?” You can start by buying products that are clearly better for the environment and facilitate energy independence. You can start communicating your concerns to others and to your news agencies, and to your government representatives. You can confront and address your own inner conception of how our government and our citizens should react to coming threats and how we can work together to help each other. And you can apply subtle pressure on business and government to begin to accept a less selfish, less wasteful, and more w/holistically enlightened approach to social and economic problems and their potential solutions. And as difficult as it is, you can also start by addressing your own shortcomings as an individual, and by trying to be a little less selfish, a little less consumptive, a little less ego driven, and a little more concerned about the welfare of others and the proper stewardship of the earth. Cast all fear aside and find just purpose and healthy development in this new opportunity for personal and spiritual growth. If you have any helpful ideas or ways that the rest of us can start to live more appropriately and harmoniously with each other and with our environment, please pass them along and share them with the rest of us… / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- Dear Curtis, I wanted to share with you my speech from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. Check AlGore.com for video of the event later today. Thank you, Al Gore SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE / OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE / DECEMBER 10, 2007 / OSLO, NORWAY / Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen. I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it. Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life’s work, unfairly labeling him “The Merchant of Death” because of his invention – dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace. Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name. Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken – if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose. Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here. Even though I fear my words cannot match this moment, I pray what I am feeling in my heart will be communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, “We must act.” The distinguished scientists with whom it is the greatest honor of my life to share this award have laid before us a choice between two different futures – a choice that to my ears echoes the words of an ancient prophet: “Life or death, blessings or curses. Therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency – a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst – though not all – of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly. However, despite a growing number of honorable exceptions, too many of the world’s leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitler’s threat: “They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.” So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer. And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun. As a result, the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising. The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself. We asked for a second opinion. And a third. And a fourth. And the consistent conclusion, restated with increasing alarm, is that something basic is wrong. We are what is wrong, and we must make it right. Last September 21, as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented distress that the North Polar ice cap is “falling off a cliff.” One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study, to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week, warns it could happen in as little as 7 years. Seven years from now. In the last few months, it has been harder and harder to misinterpret the signs that our world is spinning out of kilter. Major cities in North and South America, Asia and Australia are nearly out of water due to massive droughts and melting glaciers. Desperate farmers are losing their livelihoods. Peoples in the frozen Arctic and on low-lying Pacific islands are planning evacuations of places they have long called home. Unprecedented wildfires have forced a half million people from their homes in one country and caused a national emergency that almost brought down the government in another. Climate refugees have migrated into areas already inhabited by people with different cultures, religions, and traditions, increasing the potential for conflict. Stronger storms in the Pacific and Atlantic have threatened whole cities. Millions have been displaced by massive flooding in South Asia, Mexico, and 18 countries in Africa. As temperature extremes have increased, tens of thousands have lost their lives. We are recklessly burning and clearing our forests and driving more and more species into extinction. The very web of life on which we depend is being ripped and frayed. We never intended to cause all this destruction, just as Alfred Nobel never intended that dynamite be used for waging war. He had hoped his invention would promote human progress. We shared that same worthy goal when we began burning massive quantities of coal, then oil and methane. Even in Nobel’s time, there were a few warnings of the likely consequences. One of the very first winners of the Prize in chemistry worried that, “We are evaporating our coal mines into the air.” After performing 10,000 equations by hand, Svante Arrhenius calculated that the earth’s average temperature would increase by many degrees if we doubled the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Seventy years later, my teacher, Roger Revelle, and his colleague, Dave Keeling, began to precisely document the increasing CO2 levels day by day. But unlike most other forms of pollution, CO2 is invisible, tasteless, and odorless—which has helped keep the truth about what it is doing to our climate out of sight and out of mind. Moreover, the catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented – and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. We also find it hard to imagine making the massive changes that are now necessary to solve the crisis. And when large truths are genuinely inconvenient, whole societies can, at least for a time, ignore them. Yet as George Orwell reminds us: “Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” In the years since this prize was first awarded, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been radically transformed. And still, we have remained largely oblivious to the impact of our cumulative actions. Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself. Now, we and the earth’s climate are locked in a relationship familiar to war planners: “Mutually assured destruction.” More than two decades ago, scientists calculated that nuclear war could throw so much debris and smoke into the air that it would block life-giving sunlight from our atmosphere, causing a “nuclear winter.” Their eloquent warnings here in Oslo helped galvanize the world’s resolve to halt the nuclear arms race. Now science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent “carbon summer.” As the American poet Robert Frost wrote, “Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice.” Either, he notes, “would suffice.” But neither need be our fate. It is time to make peace with the planet. We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge. These were not comforting and misleading assurances that the threat was not real or imminent; that it would affect others but not ourselves; that ordinary life might be lived even in the presence of extraordinary threat; that Providence could be trusted to do for us what we would not do for ourselves. No, these were calls to come to the defense of the common future. They were calls upon the courage, generosity and strength of entire peoples, citizens of every class and condition who were ready to stand against the threat once asked to do so. Our enemies in those times calculated that free people would not rise to the challenge; they were, of course, catastrophically wrong. Now comes the threat of climate crisis – a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion? Mahatma Gandhi awakened the largest democracy on earth and forged a shared resolve with what he called “Satyagraha” – or “truth force.” In every land, the truth – once known – has the power to set us free. Truth also has the power to unite us and bridge the distance between “me” and “we,” creating the basis for common effort and shared responsibility. There is an African proverb that says, “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” We need to go far, quickly. We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions are the answer. They can and do help. But they will not take us far enough without collective action. At the same time, we must ensure that in mobilizing globally, we do not invite the establishment of ideological conformity and a new lock-step “ism.” That means adopting principles, values, laws, and treaties that release creativity and initiative at every level of society in multifold responses originating concurrently and spontaneously. This new consciousness requires expanding the possibilities inherent in all humanity. The innovators who will devise a new way to harness the sun’s energy for pennies or invent an engine that’s carbon negative may live in Lagos or Mumbai or Montevideo. We must ensure that entrepreneurs and inventors everywhere on the globe have the chance to change the world. When we unite for a moral purpose that is manifestly good and true, the spiritual energy unleashed can transform us. The generation that defeated fascism throughout the world in the 1940s found, in rising to meet their awesome challenge, that they had gained the moral authority and long-term vision to launch the Marshall Plan, the United Nations, and a new level of global cooperation and foresight that unified Europe and facilitated the emergence of democracy and prosperity in Germany, Japan, Italy and much of the world. One of their visionary leaders said, “It is time we steered by the stars and not by the lights of every passing ship.” In the last year of that war, you gave the Peace Prize to a man from my hometown of 2000 people, Carthage, Tennessee. Cordell Hull was described by Franklin Roosevelt as the “Father of the United Nations.” He was an inspiration and hero to my own father, who followed Hull in the Congress and the U.S. Senate and in his commitment to world peace and global cooperation. My parents spoke often of Hull, always in tones of reverence and admiration. Eight weeks ago, when you announced this prize, the deepest emotion I felt was when I saw the headline in my hometown paper that simply noted I had won the same prize that Cordell Hull had won. In that moment, I knew what my father and mother would have felt were they alive. Just as Hull’s generation found moral authority in rising to solve the world crisis caused by fascism, so too can we find our greatest opportunity in rising to solve the climate crisis. In the Kanji characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, “crisis” is written with two symbols, the first meaning “danger,” the second “opportunity.” By facing and removing the danger of the climate crisis, we have the opportunity to gain the moral authority and vision to vastly increase our own capacity to solve other crises that have been too long ignored. We must understand the connections between the climate crisis and the afflictions of poverty, hunger, HIV-Aids and other pandemics. As these problems are linked, so too must be their solutions. We must begin by making the common rescue of the global environment the central organizing principle of the world community. Fifteen years ago, I made that case at the “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro. Ten years ago, I presented it in Kyoto. This week, I will urge the delegates in Bali to adopt a bold mandate for a treaty that establishes a universal global cap on emissions and uses the market in emissions trading to efficiently allocate resources to the most effective opportunities for speedy reductions. This treaty should be ratified and brought into effect everywhere in the world by the beginning of 2010 – two years sooner than presently contemplated. The pace of our response must be accelerated to match the accelerating pace of the crisis itself. Heads of state should meet early next year to review what was accomplished in Bali and take personal responsibility for addressing this crisis. It is not unreasonable to ask, given the gravity of our circumstances, that these heads of state meet every three months until the treaty is completed. We also need a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store carbon dioxide. And most important of all, we need to put a price on carbon—with a CO2 tax that is then rebated back to the people, progressively, according to the laws of each nation, in ways that shift the burden of taxation from employment to pollution. This is by far the most effective and simplest way to accelerate solutions to this crisis. The world needs an alliance – especially of those nations that weigh heaviest in the scales where earth is in the balance. I salute Europe and Japan for the steps they’ve taken in recent years to meet the challenge, and the new government in Australia, which has made solving the climate crisis its first priority. But the outcome will be decisively influenced by two nations that are now failing to do enough: the United States and China. While India is also growing fast in importance, it should be absolutely clear that it is the two largest CO2 emitters — most of all, my own country –– that will need to make the boldest moves, or stand accountable before history for their failure to act. Both countries should stop using the other’s behavior as an excuse for stalemate and instead develop an agenda for mutual survival in a shared global environment. These are the last few years of decision, but they can be the first years of a bright and hopeful future if we do what we must. No one should believe a solution will be found without effort, without cost, without change. Let us acknowledge that if we wish to redeem squandered time and speak again with moral authority, then these are the hard truths: The way ahead is difficult. The outer boundary of what we currently believe is feasible is still far short of what we actually must do. Moreover, between here and there, across the unknown, falls the shadow. That is just another way of saying that we have to expand the boundaries of what is possible. In the words of the Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, “Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk.” We are standing at the most fateful fork in that path. So I want to end as I began, with a vision of two futures – each a palpable possibility – and with a prayer that we will see with vivid clarity the necessity of choosing between those two futures, and the urgency of making the right choice now. The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, “One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door.” The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: “What were you thinking; why didn’t you act?” Or they will ask instead: “How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?” We have everything we need to get started, save perhaps political will, but political will is a renewable resource. So let us renew it, and say together: “We have a purpose. We are many. For this purpose we will rise, and we will act.”
... to GailD from rural New South Wales, and check out her shearing shed...
... to GailD from rural New South Wales, and check out her shearing shed – I just love the light in this one!!
Wow! I am really honored and happy to see my iCare t-shirt on the fron…
Wow! I am really honored and happy to see my iCare t-shirt on the front page of RB! Not only because I made this one but because I am spreading my feelings and thoughts with this t-shirt and I wish the message gets as much people as possible since we need all to be aware about our future and our earth’s health! Oh, by the way, if you have some nice images or photos or poems or journals about rising awareness concerning our mother’s health, join our Environmental Awarenes Club! Diana
Had a fantastic weekend with my kids and bubble members down at Powlett River on the weekend. Got there Friday night in time to catch the…
Had a fantastic weekend with my kids and bubble members down at Powlett River on the weekend. Got there Friday night in time to catch the last rays at the river mouth then went back in the morning again with Tony Middleton (photo’s to come). My kids absolutely loved it playing in the sand, water and rocks and it was great to finally put a face and voice with my much conversed with bubble mate Tony. I caught up with a few other bubble members at the cafe in Killcunda and had probably what was the best hamburger of my life there before I had to take my kids home. Unsurprisingly I was inspired and challenged by simply hanging out with Tone as we chatting about our journeys together. Foremost in his thoughts and passions was the plight of this gorgeous and often overlooked part of the coast. Visiting an area under threat certainly gives you a different perspective on the need to preserve it. The Powlett River is the location of Melbournes planned desalination plant. Over the last 10 years Melbournes water catchment levels have been dropping and despite a 20% reduction in consumer water use it is continuing to fall. The government has come up with two proposals to combat this crisis. One is to pump water over the Great Dividing Range to supplement the city supply an act which has enraged the irrigation dependant farmers from that equally drought effected area. The other brilliant government idea (proposed by our former Premier who resigned weeks after announcing it probably because even he knew it was stupid idea) is to combat our global warming decreased water supply by building the southern hemispheres biggest desal plant which will pump 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year. The $3,200,000,000 plant will also pollute the local marine environment disgorging 7,000litres a second 600m from shore, which puts at risk the local Seal and Fairy Penguin (Parade) population which adds $75,000,000 a year to the economy. On top of that the site for the plant is an absolutely beautiful bit of coastline, turning it into an industrial pollution factory would be a tragedy of the highest magnitude. All up the government has proposed to throw 5 billion plus at the problem why they arn’t proposing to channel this into water tanks for Melbourne residents I can’t figure. This would solve the issue without the negatives of the current proposals, it would be more sustainable in the long term and cheaper than the proposed 5 fold increase in water rates the commercial backers of the desal plant are mooting. Other issues we chatted about were the increasing consumerism in our society and how the more competitive/ achievement oriented of us can so easily fall into the trap of devaluing bubble and our art into a numbers game of hits, favouritings and sales. I regret not getting to chat with all the other bubble members while strolling along the beach but I certainly had a great night away with my kids and had a brilliant time chatting with my like minded bubble buddy Tony. Cheers Trav
Prasad asked if I would work on a couple of his photographs to provide collaborations. The first of these two has been uploaded in his…
Prasad asked if I would work on a couple of his photographs to provide collaborations. The first of these two has been uploaded in his gallery tonight, Blossom in the Blue He is donating any proceeds from sales to “Green Earth – peoples or organizations working for Global Warming”. Please visit and encourage him in his endeavour!! Thank you my friend for the opportunity of working on your fine image! Rosalie
Just wanted to send a warm thank you to everyone who favorited and commented on my barred owl series! I was amazed to see all the favorit…
Just wanted to send a warm thank you to everyone who favorited and commented on my barred owl series! I was amazed to see all the favorites and comments over night! I’m still in awe of watching them :) thanks everyone your the best! i tried replying to all the comments but i might have missed a few so if i did… thank you :) /
Hey Guys & Gals…..heading off tomorrow,Indonesia bound for three weeks of diving some of the best dive sites the world has to offer,can…
Hey Guys & Gals…..heading off tomorrow,Indonesia bound for three weeks of diving some of the best dive sites the world has to offer,cant wait.Brief stop overs in Darwin,Bali & West Timor before we embark on our 30 dives or so in Alor & Komodo National Park which is world heritage listed.No doubt many great photo opportunities with amazing ocean dwelling critters which I cant wait to share with you.I was working today in Trentham,Central Vic & it was snowing,weather in Indo is about 30 deg every day & water temp about the same :-)will spare a thought for all you Melbournians while Im out there doing what I love.Until I get back all the best Matt
Stop Global Warming before it’s too late w…
Stop Global Warming before it’s too late was featured in the Abstract Digital Art and Writing group. GRIN:-)
No Smoking Hot Spot / David Evans | July 18, 2008 I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenh…
No Smoking Hot Spot / David Evans | July 18, 2008 I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I’ve been following the global warming debate closely for years. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects. The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet. But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts: / 1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it. Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever. If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again. / When the signature was found to be missing in 2007 (after the latest IPCC report), alarmists objected that maybe the readings of the radiosonde thermometers might not be accurate and maybe the hot spot was there but had gone undetected. Yet hundreds of radiosondes have given the same answer, so statistically it is not possible that they missed the hot spot. Recently the alarmists have suggested we ignore the radiosonde thermometers, but instead take the radiosonde wind measurements, apply a theory about wind shear, and run the results through their computers to estimate the temperatures. They then say that the results show that we cannot rule out the presence of a hot spot. If you believe that you’d believe anything. 2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. / None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that / carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no / observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global / warming. 3. The satellites that measure the world’s temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, / and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). / Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the “urban heat island” effect: urban areas / encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate around the thermometer, due to / vegetation changes, concrete, cars, houses. Satellite data is the only temperature data we can trust, / but it only goes back to 1979. NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming / trend and recent cooling. The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land / measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling. 4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the / temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric / carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect. / None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would / dispute their relevance. / The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and / presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. / In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this / dishonest and widely questioned the politician’s assertion. / Until now the global warming debate has merely been an academic matter of little interest. Now / that it matters, we should debate the causes of global warming. / So far that debate has just consisted of a simple sleight of hand: show evidence of global warming, / and while the audience is stunned at the implications, simply assert that it is due to carbon / emissions. / In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated / with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn’t noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not / proved. / If there really was any evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming, don’t you think we / would have heard all about it ad nauseam by now? / The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual / evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. Evidence consists of observations made by / someone at some time that supports the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. Computer / models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory. / What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The / Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. / If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government / for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the / ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen / through it. And if the Liberals support the general thrust of their actions, they will be seen likewise. / The onus should be on those who want to change things to provide evidence for why the changes / are necessary. The Australian public is eventually going to have to be told the evidence anyway, so / it might as well be told before wrecking the economy. / Dr David Evans was a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005.
Hello hello!! I am delighted to see so many of my dearest most cherished family and friends in my social network from other websites are …
Hello hello!! I am delighted to see so many of my dearest most cherished family and friends in my social network from other websites are present here on redbubble!! That is so wonderful!!!!!! I love this site. I only joined a few days ago and am in the midst of transferring my photographs, digital art, extensive text, quotes and poetry in developing my portfolios here on this site and exploring the many fascinating groups. The many wonderful possibilities are exciting. I am dazzled by the wide range of extraordinary talent and creative personal vision with the brilliant works of art in the galleries on this site. It is a visual sensation and so wonderfully inspiring!! Aloha kakahiaka, Sharon
Check it out she is loving it! I am so tickled she i…
Check it out she is loving it! I am so tickled she is finally warming up to me = ) / She is not biting me but nibbling and cooing so freaking cute lol Thanks for looking = ) Im outta here till late. My Husbands is coming home tonight whahooo. he has been gone all week and is sorely missed = )
I am so very grateful to have found this Red Bubble. The people here, so welcoming, so kind and supportive. I am thankful to have fou…
I am so very grateful to have found this Red Bubble. The people here, so welcoming, so kind and supportive. I am thankful to have found a place that has so much wonderous stuff… All of your writings, your photographs, your digital art, your painting, your linocuts, your encaustics, and the myriad of thoughts and images are a constant inspiration to me! I give my heartfelt thanks to all of you that have sent me birthday wishes and sent me such positive and warm thoughts… And I am thankful to have a person in my life that can make 1200 miles away seem like the next town over, and 6 months is like yesterday…
After joining RB I’ve met so many people from different parts of the world; especially Australia! And I’ve never been there in real life!...
After joining RB I’ve met so many people from different parts of the world; especially Australia! And I’ve never been there in real life! I’m so used to having cold climate at this time of year that when I see summer pictures uploaded at this time by the Aussie bubblers I say “Oh yeah, it’s summer time over there!” Meanwhile I hope that someone out there will enjoy my sunny artwork Sunset with Blue Trees. I don’t know who bought it, but based on the fact that it was bought in Australian dollars, I assume one of the Aussies enjoying the warm weather now. Thank you very much; you’ve made my day warmer on this colder side of the earth!
I think it is a bit of a miracle that I have felt more like writing about my experienceS in India.. and quite another for the work to be …
I think it is a bit of a miracle that I have felt more like writing about my experienceS in India.. and quite another for the work to be appreciated… HE BELONGED TO ANOTHER / was featured in that amazing group… / ! / MUCH THANKS… / USHNA SARDAR / THE YELLOW FURY AND TO THE GROUP… FREEDOM IN WORDS / EA WILLIAMS‘ / ROBERT MATTHEWS / THANKS SO MUCH! for featuring same piece! I FEEL PRETTY WARM AND FUZZY THIS EARLY MORNING.. IT IS 7:21AM!! / AND I FEEL RESTED AND WILL BE WORKING MOST OF THE DAY.. / MUCH LOVE TO ALL OF YOU HAVE A BLAST DAY/NIGHT.. / XOXO / LINAJI
OR wipe me off the watchlist as this IS one of the biggest yet, its been an emotional few weeks to say the least! Just an up date on my r…
OR wipe me off the watchlist as this IS one of the biggest yet, its been an emotional few weeks to say the least! Just an up date on my radiation treatment IT BLOOD HURTS :( The people looking after me at the hospital are just so beautiful especially Tony (l’m trying to convince hubby if l can bring him home) Tony gives a great shoulder massage & Cooks too but hubby won’t be init (YET). Radiation is starting to really burn & my skin is breaking(red roar is an understatement) but the good news is just 2 more days before they start in a totally new area for my LAST week of treatment which will give effected areas a break. Hey guess what my photo of ‘kissing cousins’ won my first ever challenge & l have had 7 features in one week HOWZZAT ! OH Yeh l got all your cards today l can’t wait to show you in the bubble buyers booth hopefully by the weekend. I just GOTTA tell ya they are 3 times as incredible in real life. l really do feel you all with me now & l am over the moon with the quality. Well l better get ready for me slide show now but be warned its VERY eclectic & probably around 20 but l think you’ll like it. I won’t bombard the groups so if ya like one of my pieces please tell a friend :) l’ve missed you heaps & l hope l catch up with you tonight XXXXXXXXXXX Flip ya in 5
I was out and about the other day, and spotted something from the top of the Gateway Bridge that I wanted to photograph, so I looked for …
I was out and about the other day, and spotted something from the top of the Gateway Bridge that I wanted to photograph, so I looked for a spot to take the photo I wanted. Needless to say, I couldn’t find a way to frame it, but discovered that the bridge looked pretty interesting against the sky. The new bridge is being built on the other side of the one you can see here….20 years later… The whole point of this ramble is the differences noticeable in my images shot with the polariser I had on my lens. I bought a Singh Ray warming polariser last year, but haven’t used it much because I don’t like being out in the middle of the day. Too hot, and tooooo sunny here in Qld. I used the polariser for this first image, but not turned to it’s correct position. When I checked the image on the back of the camera, I thought it looked dull and lifeless, so I rotated the circular polariser until the sky looked better, and I noticed that the white across the top of the bridge stood out a lot brighter too. Here’s the second shot. Much more vibrant! Doesn’t a polariser make a difference! Polarisers can also be useful for hiding and or enhancing reflections, in water and glass, however they can do nasty things to the sky when used with ultra-wide lenses. They generally work best with skies when you are 90degrees to the sun, I believe. Here’s the final image after some tweaking
/ As a lot of you know, there is a forum he…
/ As a lot of you know, there is a forum here at RB to make Front Page suggestions – Choose the Red Bubble Home Page is basically a personal reference journal for me which i’ll continually add to along the way. / Some Useful Links Rules, Guidelines & Tips on Submitting Sanne’s Red Bubble Homepage Blog – for an updated daily record of Red Bubble Home Page features Aglaia’s Calendar Code – the code for squaring off calendars for HP submission on this page of the forum Link to the HP Suggestion Forum Link to the HP Comment & Chat Forum / and totally unrelated – but i keep getting asked for the link How to Add a Slideshow with your Images Dave Pearson’s Better Formatting Hack Edit a Work from Public View Hack Add a Share Button ...just so i can keep track of what and who I’ve suggested (in order not to double up!) i’ll throw my suggestions in here… they should be all hopefully be clickable links / Comments @Chat Forum Here Way Too Cute! / 23/9/09 – Pg 310 Extra / Ooops! / 23/9/09 – Pg 310 Shoes and Socks / 22/9/09 – Pg 309 / / Extras Stars and Stripes / 21/9/09 – Page 308 Extras / The Smiling Assassin / 21/9/09 – Pg. 307 Bounce – my assignment! / 21/9/09 – Pg.306 Of Clowns and Jellies / 20/9/09 – Pg.305 Loss / 20/9/09 – Page 301 / Minimalism / 19/9/09 Pg 299 / Front Page Selection 20/9/09 Beautiful Behinds! / 18/9/09 – Page 290 Extras / ...and wasn’t that little search educational!!! T...and Toast / 18/9/09 – Page 288 Extras / Hugs! / Revised 16/9/09 – Page 279 These are All Calendars / 16/9/09 – Page 276 Extras / Geeks & Nerds / 15/9/09 – Pg 271 and 17/10/09 – Pg 328 / Extras / Elves / 15/9/09 – Pg 269 Extras / Mirror Mirror / 15/9/09 – Pg 266 Cubism / 15/9/09 – Pg 265 Balance / 14/9/09 Extras Global Warming / 14/9/09 – Pg 263 Extras Chalk and Cheese / ...and viva la difference!!!! 14/9/09 – Pg 263 Niagara Falls and Vikings ♥ / random monday madness / 14/9/09 – Pg 263 Spheres / 14/9/09 – Pg 262 Extra / Surrealism / 13/9/09 – Pg 260 Extras / Impressionism / 13/9/09 – Pg 259 Extras / Sightless – as requested Ma’am / 13/9/09 and Revised 16/9/09 – Pgs 259 and 274 Extras / / (i keep seeing michael jackson’s face in the side of that bandage which is creeping me out a little!!!) From Grapes to Wine / 13/9/09 – Pg 259 and again 11/10/09 Pg 325 Extras Music Notes / 13/9/09 – Pg 259 Extras / Barcodes / 13/9/09 – Pg 259 Extra / Summer! / 13/9/09 – Pg 258 Extras / Upside Down / 13/9/09 – Pg 258 Extras / ...and finally (for today at least) shameless pimping of the amazing talent in my three groups / Frogs-Giraffes-Elephants / 13/9/09 – Pg 258 Take a Bow! / 12/9/09 – Pg 258 Extras / Say Ahhhh / 11/9/09 – Pg 258 Extras / Hula Hoops / A Couple of Groovy Spares! / Hopscotch! / Pg 257 / Extra / Pinstripes! / pg257 A couple of eye-popping spares! !http://
Well it was worth getting out of my warm bed this morning to see a few features….hehehe and being mentioned in the SOLO Magazine…I am…
Well it was worth getting out of my warm bed this morning to see a few features….hehehe and being mentioned in the SOLO Magazine…I am so flattered. Thank you to the hosts of the Just Lines Group for featuring 2 of my images today; Curves (I LOVE this image) and Doe Ray Me. I am most grateful for the recognition. I thank you kindly. Also want to thank the Hosts of Dilapidated Buildings for featuring Down the Up Stairs. This is my first feature in this Group and I thank you. Also got 2 features this week in The Fine Art of Peeling Paint Group with Can’t See The Forest 4 The Trees and Door to Heaven or Hell. Thanks my good friends (Richie and Bob) for selecting my work. I also got featured this week in the Friends of Red Bubble Group with Harvest Moon. I believe this is my first feature with this group and I’m thrilled to be picked. And last, but not least, thank you to the Hosts of Macro Abstract Urban Group for featuring Blowing Off Steam. I thank you for the encouragement. I also want to thank the Host of Solo Exhibits for her fine work on putting together the Solo Magazine and for the mention in it about my front page feature…I thank you for kindly for the acknowledgement. HAPPY DANCING!!! Thank you for your continued support. DebraLee Wiseberg / / / / / /
A parody of “Draggin the Line” by Tommy James and the Shondells.
A parody of “Draggin the Line” by Tommy James and the Shondells.
Twelve Days of Global Warming / A Youtube Presentation /
Twelve Days of Global Warming / A Youtube Presentation /
Arent you frustrated? All this rubbish in Copenhagen? Global warming, well its all pretty easy fixed for my way of thinking, Turn off al…
Arent you frustrated? All this rubbish in Copenhagen? Global warming, well its all pretty easy fixed for my way of thinking, Turn off all excess city and town lights at night All year round, not just one stupid night? Embrace new renewable power, here in WA we have wind all year round, ten metre tides and sunlight that crisps bacon. / All unused! Give every home solar power and compost toilets, give every home a large water tank no arguments! Lets get Honda making these new enviroment cars that run on water a boost! And properly sort the oil companies and governments that want to turn a profit at our expense. And how does paying for credits so you still pollute work? Still polluting while someone gets rich? I didnt need a stupid meeting in Copenhagen to work that lot out! Oh yes, water, gigalitres pour out into the ocean every winter from run off, why isnt that harvested? Bunnings collect and store the water off their stores why isnt this policy everywhere? Why, as a small person we cant shout loud enough to get our pollies to hear?
1. I am not a queen in any sense of the word, ducky. / 2. Merry Christmas / 3. Stop hating each other, try being friends – it’s actually ea…
1. I am not a queen in any sense of the word, ducky. / 2. Merry Christmas / 3. Stop hating each other, try being friends – it’s actually easier / 4. Eat less of the things that walk, fly, swim or wiggle. / 5. Don’t get too drunk. / 6. If anyone knows what ‘too drunk’ means, please tell me. / 7. In the time it took you to read this, at least one child has died from hunger. / 8. What sort of 21st century is it when I can write 7. above and be right. Which I am. / 9. Global Climate change is a fact. Only the causes are debatable. What is not debatable is the fact that if it changes too much, we are all going to die. / 10. Why are people only interested in punishment and never in learning why people do the terrible things they do? / 11. The best time to change is right now. / 12. They say the world will be destroyed in 2012. I want some sort of assurance that we’ll last that long. / 13. I am not triskadecaphobic / 14. Have a happy New Year.
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