Friday, 9 March 2012

6 Famous Trees Killed by Human Folly : TreeHugger

You will be surprsed how vulnerable trees are. NOT surprised?

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/6-famous-trees-killed-human-folly.html?campaign=daily_nl


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

USATODAY.com - Small farmer's fight becomes anti-biotech crusade

Profit from the technology and it will rule you forever! Lessons of a small farm operation. Monsanto is not helping sustainability!

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-01-19-schmeiser_x.htm


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Like the invention of gun powder the invention of a patented seed can be destructive! On knows, however, that monks engaged in genetics long before Monsanto. The issue is really why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeiser


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

The Future of Food

We would do well to reread or rewatch this one!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Food


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Keeping Christ in Christmas | Featured |Axisoflogic.com

Mr. Harris goes well overboard in his criticism of Christians. His words remind me of rantings and ravings of a man with a chip on his sholder who lumps every bad thing into one stockpile of logic before striking a match! One has to ask what the purpose might be. Scratch your head as you scratch your brain with this one!

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64163.shtml


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Book Burning in Connect-the-Dots: Holistic Weltanschauung | World View |Axisoflogic.com

Books are very important. It was with utmost disbelief that I read of the burning of the Koran in Afghanistan! What do people think they are doing? Do we not teach our children? Obviously not all!

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64304.shtml


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Tightening the hatches in Canada: UPDATED | Featured |Axisoflogic.com

We have to wonder at the present political climate in Canada. A lot happening there is pretty Uncanadian.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64322.shtml


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Britain Threatens Nuclear Attack on Argentina: How little islands are causing big problems…again | Critical Analysis |Axisoflogic.com

Does one have to be on any particular side? In the case of the Falkland Islands, the Marinas Islands distant to Argentina the fishing, settlement and mining issues are heated. The solution is, of course, a moratorium on development and a creation of an international preservation without commercial use other than is suffient for self sustenance of a smallish population. The idea that the islands resources are to be used as commercial enterprises is pretty outlandish and just an expression of competitive land grab mentality of large business! Put the conflict to rest and let no one cash in on these islands.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64333.shtml


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food-Part 2 | Environment/Nature |Axisoflogic.com

We need to think about the food we eat. How is it produced? By whom? Who owns the production? We are blinded by what we remember as an idilic past, and forget the present is pretty barbaric for too many creatures. Or, perhaps we just have not noticed! We need to wake up to the real dangers of our everyday world and how nasty it is, needlessly nasty! Eating squirrels is only a symptom of the modern sickness. It is an expression of how insane our world has become. That is why we need to create pockets of sanity in which we nourish diversity, protect small holdings and a sustainable life style. Your future world is not startrek, but earthtrek, and you really need to be proud of how you shelter the creatures around us.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_63589.shtml


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Between Barack and a Hard Place, Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

There is much that we can learn by gently scratching away at the surface of things. Politely make your way to a placecwhere you can read this book!

http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100273610


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

LOUDCANARY | One interconnected journey through everything & nothing

We often wonder about why we have diversity in life and why individually we are unique beings. Let me tell you that it took a long time to create...

http://loudcanary.com/


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Solar flare: Biggest in six years hits the Earth (+video) - CSMonitor.com

Next year is the peak of an eleven year cycle up!

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0308/Solar-flare-Biggest-in-six-years-hits-the-Earth-video


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Wild meat: Squirrel nutcase | The Economist

People who eat squirrel meat may get mad cow disease!

http://www.economist.com/node/21548935?fb_ref=activity


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Why the Republicans are on a track to lose big in November

It does not take anyone with a bit of intelligence to realize that George Bush was better than any of the new candidates the Republican GOP party offers voters. This is a turning point in American politics because the Republicans in their attempt to reinvent have managed the circumvent. Mish explains the economics of the politics:

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Apple Reveals The New iPad!

The new Apple iPad presents a challenge to both the computer and the hand held industries. It is a focused leap ahead!

http://www.businessinsider.com/live-apple-reveals-the-new-ipad-2012-3?utm_source=sailthrusuggest&utm_medium=rightrail&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=recirc


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Giant solar storm headed for Earth could disrupt power grid, air travel - The Globe and Mail

If it isn't rain and wind it's now the effects of solar flares that blow away at earth's protective shield. Too much solar wind and we are bombarded by cosmic particles from other galaxies or from stars within the milky way!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/giant-solar-storm-headed-for-earth-could-disrupt-power-grid-air-travel/article2361702/

Twitter: @renaturetek

Solar storms mean turbulent ‘space weather’ over Canada - The Globe and Mail

Sun spots occur in regular cycles of busy and quiet periods. The spots are indirectly responsible for magnetic storms that can affect communications. For about four years, we have had an exceptionally quiet period with low storm activity, but over the next few years things are now likely to get busier until the storms reach a peak.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/solar-storms-mean-turbulent-space-weather-over-canada/article2362368/?utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Morning%20News%20Update&utm_type=text&utm_content=Solar%20storms%20mean%20turbulent%20lsquo;space%20weatherrsquo;%20over%20Canada&utm_campaign=93454306

Twitter: @renaturetek

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Ten ways Windows 8 outshines the iPad - 1. Windows 8 is More Personal Than iOS - CSMonitor.com

I am still not convinced! I am so scared of buggy Windows programs and have shell shock memories, scars of the past!

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0305/Ten-ways-Windows-8-outshines-the-iPad/1.-Windows-8-is-More-Personal-Than-iOS


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Gingrich Adviser: Romney Should Quit Race, Leave It To Conservatives

See how they would run the country!

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Vince-Haley-Gingrich-adviser/2012/03/07/id/431766?s=al&promo_code=E59A-1


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

New iPad

Scratch your head over this one. It's almost everything we expected!

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-new-ipad-2012-3


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Yoga, meditation and nature

Meditation is a way to exercise hidden power over your mind and body. It is a step towards your inner nature. This is a sister blog to that of Wuhlax.

Http://www.woohs.blogspot.com

Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity? Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Yoga, meditation and nature

Meditation is a way to exercise hidden power over your mind and body. It is a step towards your inner nature. This is a sister blog to that of Wuhlax.

Http://www.woohs.blogspot.com

Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

The search for the Higgs: More tantalising hints, but no banana | The Economist

The Higgs Boson is as mysterious as ever! What next?

http://mcd.datavalet.net/signon/MCD_portal.asp?IP=172.30.98.27&SITE=00-23-68-91-42-2C&UIP=10.254.37.240&MAC=34-51-C9-65-76-24&OS=http://woohs.blogspot.com/


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.

Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.

Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

Anne now has two yoga blogs:

http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Ken Langone: US Faces 13% ‘Hardcore Unemployment’ Because of Obama’s ‘Punitive’ View of Business

This notion of hardcore unemployment because of Obama is so much very conservative bullshyte. It does not take into account very basic economics!

http://www.moneynews.com/Headline/Langone-US-Unemployment-Obama/2012/03/07/id/431690?s=al&promo_code=E57F-1


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your world. Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community.

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter.

Wuhlax ask farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nutured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com

RT

Fox News Explains Why Presidents Can't Control Gas Prices, In 2008 (Video) : TreeHugger

There is so much circularity of thinking and everyone is guilty of using words to push agendas. The question remains whether that agenda is sustainable and healthy economically. We are stretching our natural environment to its lomits and squeezing out the small creatures that give us so much joy!

http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/fox-news-explains-why-presidents-cant-control-gas-prices-2008-video.html


Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your world. Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community.

Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter.

Wuhlax ask farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nutured for diversity?

Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at thevsame time help your own health through love of your loving spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!

If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.

George Strombolopoulos

I could not blame you for getting George's name spelt incorrectly, which is probably why he has the twitter moniker of @strombo.

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/mobile/touch/videos.html


All the best @renaturetek

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Furniture factories in Bruce County

Interesting past histories!

http://www.brucemuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/furniture-factories.pdf


All the best @renaturetek

Iran 'to allow military site inspection'

It's important to remember that When Iran bluffs or lies it creates a more dangerous situation for itself!


Iran 'to allow military site inspection'

http://rdd.me/xbbjlcip

(Sent from Readability)



All the best @renaturetek

Is Apple facing its ‘Nike moment’? - The Globe and Mail

Well, one hopes that labour conditions will greatly improve and employees of Chinese firms will see their incomes rise much further!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/is-apple-facing-its-nike-moment/article2360066/


All the best @renaturetek

Monday, 5 March 2012

Egypt’s turmoil: It goes on and on | The Economist

Follow through is hard!

http://www.economist.com/node/21547294


All the best @renaturetek

Russia's presidential election: It brings a tear to the eye | The Economist

A sign of the times as Putin hangs desperately on to power, he looks increasingly like the fallen dictators that have forgotten how to capture the soul of their nations!

http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2012/03/russias-presidential-election?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C3-5-2012%7Cnew_on_the_economist


All the best @renaturetek

Michael Rafferty murder trial underway in London- CityNews.ca

Unbelievable!

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/videos/191423


All the best @renaturetek

London murder trial

Cynthia Mulligan (@CityCynthia)
3/5/12 3:18 PM
#Rafferty - trial adjourns for the day. First witness tomorrow morning.


All the best @renaturetek

How to Check if Your Art is Copied or Stolen Online With Google Image Search | Artpromotivate

http://www.artpromotivate.com/2011/12/art-copied-stolen-google-image-search.html

Twitter: @renaturetek

5 reasons US must avoid war with Iran - Iran is chiefly a threat to itself - CSMonitor.com

America is not Israel and should not let itself be drawn into a war that is pre-emptive because Israel decides to go down that route.

Should Iran act pre-emptively then America should still go the UN route!

The security council would react differently in the case of international conflict compared with a civil war.

More problematic is the deplorable way that the Iran authorities treat their own minorities.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0119/5-reasons-US-must-avoid-war-with-Iran/Iran-is-chiefly-a-threat-to-itself

Twitter: @renaturetek

Five urban garden programs that train inmates and help communities - CSMonitor.com

Gardens are what settled life should be all about. If you are not a nomad you should enjoy a garden you can call your own. If you are a nomad, you may enjoy more than one garden! There's always work for gardeners, and you never need to be unemployed as the garden becomes your partner in living!

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2012/0302/Five-urban-garden-programs-that-train-inmates-and-help-communities?cmpid=ema:nws:Change%20Agent%20weekly%203-5-12&cmpid=ema:nws:NzQ4MDU4NDEwMgS2


All the best @renaturetek

Across Canada, cash-strapped governments target education - The Globe and Mail

Goes to show the lack of foresight among the political, who would do anything to look good!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/across-canada-cash-strapped-governments-target-education/article2358500/


All the best @renaturetek

Saturday, 3 March 2012

GOP Is Now The Party Of Extremists | National Memo | Breaking News, Smart Politics

This is a reversal to past problems!

http://www.nationalmemo.com/content/gop-now-party-extremists


All the best @renaturetek

The Caucus - Is Focus on Limbaugh Blurring the Big Picture? - NYTimes.com

Republican Ms Snowe seems right on the money fo a number of important issyes affecting America. We need to see an exit plan behind subsidies to the rich. We need to eliminate, not reduce, the many fiscal advantages offered to the American wealthy. Their influence is no, no, no. Don't?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/us/politics/09caucus.html?_r=1


All the best @renaturetek

Obama Backs Student in Furor With Limbaugh on Birth Control - NYTimes.com

If Rush Limbaugh is a self appointed spokesperson for the Republicans, he is doing the political process no good. He comes across as a former xxx type with unreasonable ideas on almost all subjects. He is like a little dog that snips at your pant leg, huffing and puffing in order to make himself feel important in a more intelligent world that has lost interest in his meaningless animalistic rhetoric. He is the clown of the Republicans being absurd in order to draw attention to his wireless rantings. Clueless as to appropriateness this little hound barks aimlessly at flowers and then .... all over them!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/boehner-condemns-limbaughs-comments/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2


All the best @renaturetek

Obama Backs Student in Furor With Limbaugh on Birth Control - NYTimes.com

I don't find the lazy ideas of Limbaugh very fruitful. He should perhaps have his liver checked for hormone imbalance and I heard he was dependent on substances, not good for his health, hearsay! Seriously, can you blame women for thinking about Limbaugh : save me from domineering men! So, so, parental, father knows best and domineering, a creator of mythology, replacing one with another to dominate the air waves! What drives the man down his crazy path of logic? Not his golf swing?

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/boehner-condemns-limbaughs-comments/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2


All the best @renaturetek

Thursday, 1 March 2012

British bank chief warns quantitative easing is 'laying seeds for next crisis' | Business | The Guardian

I guess the point is that the money will be used to fight a spree of bank takeovers which is part and parcel of the original problem. Growing your balance sheet by purchase of assets was used to persue a competitive strategy. It was not so much seen as a means of profit, but as a means to garner bonuses and prepare for a takeover or fend against one. Any idiot realizes that the margin on such acquisition of assets is highly risky?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/29/ben-bernanke-qe3-hopes-us-economy?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355


All the best @renaturetek

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

This column will change your life: the two things | Life and style | The Guardian

You may not agree with the author's summary of economics! For many there is a free lunch, and it does matter what they do with the left overs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/24/two-things-to-know-oliver-burkeman


All the best @renaturetek

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Saturday, 25 February 2012

Fursdon House and Garden nr Exeter, Devon with quality self-catering holiday accommodation

http://www.fursdon.co.uk/


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Rethinking Pitt-Rivers | Marathon Spearheads

In ancient past, there was a battle of 490 BC that defined a course of history. Had the Greeks lost many of us would probably not be reading this now.

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/object-biography-index/1-prmcollection/648-marathon-spearheads


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Stratford Shakespeare Festival - 2012 Season Playbill

So this how you find out about the theater!

http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/landingpages/default.aspx?id=11274%20&utm_source=Homepage&utm_medium=newsbuttonimage&utm_campaign=hp-newsbutton


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Colors :: COLOURlovers

Colour your day!

http://www.colourlovers.com/colors/search/new


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Islamic schools and branches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We should be familiar with the various branches of Islamic thought and organisation!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Brandon Boyd and Bob Hurley | civilclothing.com | Celebrate The Difference - Civil Clothing LA

We are an island!

http://civilclothing.com/blog/2011/04/05/brandon-boyd-and-bob-hurley/


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Last Stand: Saving Rhinos by Removing Their Valuable Horns | Global Spin | TIME.com

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/02/24/last-stand-saving-rhinos-by-removing-their-valuable-horns/?xid=newsletter-daily


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Oscars 2012: A year of comfort | Reuters

A change of attitude!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-oscars-preview-idUSTRE81L1XS20120222


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Fwd: Thanks for taking action



All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter:  @renaturetek


Begin forwarded message:

From: "Avaaz.org" <avaaz@avaaz.org>
Date: 22 February 2012 09:40:04 AM EST
To: Wuhlax@gmail.com
Subject: Thanks for taking action

Thank you for taking action to help stop the flow of Canada's deadly tar oil into the EU.

This vote could happen in less than 48 hours! Send the email below to friends and family, and post this link on your Facebook wall.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uk_tar_sands/?tta

Thanks again for your help,

The Avaaz team

--------


Dear friends across the UK,

In 24 hours, Europe could pass a directive that would introduce strict pollution controls and stop the flow of deadly tar sands oil into the EU. But the UK is blocking this crucial law -- now only we can save it.

Tar sands oil destroys forests, lakes, and emits 25% more carbon pollution than other oil. But for Canada it is a money making bonanza, and the government and big oil companies are ferociously lobbying Europe to open the flood gates to this black gold. Right now the UK is close to caving, but if we can pressure Transport minister Baker to put people and the planet before oil profits, we can win!

The Fuel Quality Directive vote is on a knife's edge and it all comes down to us. We only have 24 hours to take action -- let's send a flood of messages now urging our government to be green champions. Click below to send a message and forward this to everyone:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uk_tar_sands/?tta

Tar sands fuel could not be any more destructive -- Canada has cleared millions of acres of pristine forests and displaced indigenous communities to extract it, all the while emitting cancerous heavy metals and sulphur to refine the dirty oil. It's so filthy that even the US doesn't want it -- their Environmental Protection Agency says refining tar sands causes 82% more carbon pollution than regular oil, and President Obama just halted plans for a cross-border pipeline.

Now Canada and the oil companies are looking for new markets to reap the fruits of their $379 billion tar sand investment. The EU's proposed Fuel Quality Directive would set a binding 6% climate pollution reduction target for Europe's transport fuels by 2020. But Canada wants the EU to ignore tar sands emissions -- hoping if they can slip it into Europe others are likely to do the same. It's a smart strategy, and unfortunately it's working -- the UK is doing dirty deals with Canada and urging other countries to follow.

Europe's global environmental leadership is on the line and our climate ambitions are shockingly being undermined by Canada, who has withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol! Norman Baker will join a European Council vote in 24 hours -- let's show him that UK voters expect him to stop tar sand pollution and vote for strong controls. Take action now and send this to everyone!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uk_tar_sands/?tta

Time and time again Avaaz members have galvanised to win major victories for our environment. Only a few months ago we pressured Europe into pushing forward new carbon-cutting aviation laws, supported by the UK. Let's come together once again and get our government to withstand Canadian pressure to drink down its deadly tar oil.

With hope,

Jamie, Iain, Alex, Antonia, Giulia and the rest of the Avaaz team

Sources

UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/27/canada-oil-sands-uk-backing

Canada threatens trade war with EU ahead of oilsands vote (Vancouver Sun)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canada+threatens+trade+with+ahead+oilsands+vote/6184897/story.html

Airlines and tar sands proxy for bigger climate battles (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17112187

UK undermining Europe's tar sands ban, say campaigners (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/30/uk-undermining-tar-sands-ban





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UK: 24 hours to stop tar sands

:

From: Arthur Lake <wuhlax@gmail.com>
Date: 22 February 2012 09:36:06 AM EST
Subject: UK: 24 hours to stop tar sands

The message below reflects how we feel about this abuse of capitalism. If it is not so bad that the Canadian dollar is so strong that it makes no sense to manfacture anything in Canada any more!

When will politics become statesmanship instead of short term thinking! We can only dream about what we have lost and what future generations will wake up to see!

All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter:  @renaturetek


Begin forwarded message:

From: "Jamie Choi - Avaaz.org" <avaaz@avaaz.org>
Date: 22 February 2012 08:08:57 AM EST
To: "Wuhlax@gmail.com" <Wuhlax@gmail.com>
Subject: UK: 24 hours to stop tar sands

Avaaz.org - The World in Action Dear friends across the UK,



In 24 hours, Europe could introduce pollution controls that could stop the flow of Canada's deadly tar sands oil into the EU. But the UK is moving to block the rules. Only a huge public outcry can save it now. Click below to send an urgent message to the Transport Minister Norman Baker:
In 24 hours, Europe could pass a directive that would introduce strict pollution controls and stop the flow of deadly tar sands oil into the EU. But the UK is blocking this crucial law -- now only we can save it.

Tar sands oil destroys forests, lakes, and emits 25% more carbon pollution than other oil. But for Canada it is a money making bonanza, and the government and big oil companies are ferociously lobbying Europe to open the flood gates to this black gold. Right now the UK is close to caving, but if we can pressure Transport Minister Baker to put people and the planet before oil profits, we can win!

The Fuel Quality Directive vote is on a knife's edge and it all comes down to us. We only have 24 hours to take action -- let's send a flood of messages now urging our government to be green champions. Click below to send a message and forward this to everyone:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uk_tar_sands/?vl

Tar sands fuel could not be any more destructive -- Canada has cleared millions of acres of pristine forests and displaced indigenous communities to extract it, all the while emitting cancerous heavy metals and sulphur to refine the dirty oil. It's so filthy that even the US doesn't want it -- their Environmental Protection Agency says refining tar sands causes 82% more carbon pollution than regular oil, and President Obama just halted plans for a cross-border pipeline.

Now Canada and the oil companies are looking for new markets to reap the fruits of their $379 billion tar sand investment. The EU's proposed Fuel Quality Directive would set a binding 6% climate pollution reduction target for Europe's transport fuels by 2020. But Canada wants the EU to ignore tar sands emissions -- hoping if they can slip it into Europe others are likely to do the same. It's a smart strategy, and unfortunately it's working -- the UK is doing dirty deals with Canada and urging other countries to follow.

Europe's global environmental leadership is on the line and our climate ambitions are shockingly being undermined by Canada, who has withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol! Norman Baker will join a European Council vote in 24 hours -- let's show him that UK voters expect him to stop tar sand pollution and vote for strong controls. Take action now and send this to everyone!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uk_tar_sands/?vl

Time and time again Avaaz members have galvanised to win major victories for our environment. Only a few months ago we pressured Europe into pushing forward new carbon-cutting aviation laws, supported by the UK. Let's come together once again and get our government to withstand Canadian pressure to drink down its deadly tar oil.

With hope,

Jamie, Iain, Alex, Antonia, Giulia and the rest of the Avaaz team

Sources

UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/27/canada-oil-sands-uk-backing

Canada threatens trade war with EU ahead of oilsands vote (Vancouver Sun)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canada+threatens+trade+with+ahead+oilsands+vote/6184897/story.html

Airlines and tar sands proxy for bigger climate battles (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17112187

UK undermining Europe's tar sands ban, say campaigners (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/30/uk-undermining-tar-sands-ban


Support the Avaaz Community!
We're entirely funded by donations and receive no money from governments or corporations. Our dedicated team ensures even the smallest contributions go a long way.





Avaaz.org is a 13-million-person global campaign network
that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 13 countries on 4 continents and operates in 14 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

This message was sent to Wuhlax@gmail.com. To change your email address, language, or other information, contact us via this form. To unsubscribe, send an email to unsubscribe@avaaz.org or click here.

To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact or call us at +1-888-922-8229 (US).

Thursday, 16 February 2012

Spherical Home Is Built from Abandoned Oil Silos : TreeHugger

like a round house this structure has real possibilities!

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-architecture/dome-home-made-old-oil-silos-and-disaster-proof/


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Species at Risk Stewardship Fund - Policy Division - Ontario Government, Ministry of Natural Resources

Of course, it's a good idea to try to preserve all land for potential stewardship of natural species. it's not a question of natural appartied.

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/Species/2ColumnSubPage/STEL01_131229.html


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

Common Five-lined Skink in Ontario - Policy Division - Government of Ontario, Ministry of Natural Resources

Think skink! one needss to know what a skink is to be able to understand how to preserve its potential natural habitat.

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/Species/2ColumnSubPage/STDPROD_066837.html


All the best

Arthur Lake
Twitter: @renaturetek

TreeHugger and UNEP Announce Third Annual World Environment Day Blogging Competition : TreeHugger

Blogging about recapturing nature in areas that have established, but redundant, activities destructive to our environment can't be bad. It's time to act for renaturalisation of regions suffering from neglect!

http://www.treehugger.com/about-treehugger/treehugger-and-unep-announce-world-environment-day-blogging-competition.html

Twitter: @renaturetek

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Allergy Show - Solutions for a free from life.

Allergies, and especially food allergies or intolerances are potentially dangerous. It is often only those that suffer who know! We need to strengthen the support base for those that are allergic!

http://www.allergyshow.co.uk/london/london-home.php


RT

RIM Director to BlackBerry Critics: No, You’re the Idiots | Techland | TIME.com

Ease of use and range of use requires a lot of thought.

The product needs to sell itself. Marketing is not the weakness, the product needs to outperform the iPad family linked to Apple computers.

RIM has an opportunity, but only a window, to do catchup on Apple. Its management needs to understand the hunger for technology software based on increasingly camera TV like hardware that can do an infnte number of jobs, not just reliability. It's all about integrating more and more gadgets into one object that is portable and high capacity.

The new device is a library, a photographic source and storage device, a movie projector and screen. It will replace the store, the movie house, the camera shop, the preacher, the music bar. It is a portable workd inside your pocket that can capture everything, show everything, decifer everything, treach everything. It's the new indstrial interface for all manufacturing and design. It's the big picture and the library. Its so much that RIM still doesn't get it, but could, and wow.

Minimum is an amazing camera, and amazing screen.
Go beyond 64 gig to 256 gig.
Rev up the motor.
Rev up security.
Bolster the phone and reduce charges per call.
Get all apps to do portrait and landscape.
Improve the art work and ease of use!

http://techland.time.com/2012/02/13/rim-director-to-blackberry-critics-no-youre-the-idiots/?iid=tl-article-mostpop1


RT

YOU HAVE REACHED WOOH'S STREAM
The Internet User's Best Kept Secret

Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth. ... more!