#172 desert farming

I found this videoclip at International Herald Tribune on the risks of desert farming.
Israel is a country that makes the most of every drop of water there is to produce food…Naturally the cost of producing food this way is costly and there is no way that man can control the weather. Will man die of starvation when there is massive [...]

#158

Living in these days of uncertainties and a sense of hopelessness pervades –
senseless killings where suicide bombers and terrorists made war on the innocents and civilians by planting bombs around the most crowded and unexpected areas;
mother nature wreaks havoc — global warming; earthquakes, droughts…
perplexing economic crises — staple food crises, fuel hikes, subprime and credit crunch, etc;
and political hagglings around [...]

#143 a world without waste

Japan is the cleannest country in the world. I’m impressed by the orderliness and environmental cleanliness. 
Today the Japanese champion to living a world without waste…a community living on zero waste policy. They recycle and going-green conscious. Please the view and listen to the videotape and read the link below…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7502071.stm
Scotland, in 2005, adopted this zero waste policy.
Will countries in [...]

#127

Will there be fewer obese kids around now that the food prices soared especially in the more affluent countries?
The only sad situation is the really poor suffer for want of basics.
It seems the world leaders were making concerted effort to eradicate poverty only to find food prices soar — the days for cheap food is gone — poverty remains. Indeed the [...]

#119 one prays for China

I’m praying that my Lord Jesus Christ will give the Chinese the courage to face tomorrow and at some unkind and callous words of discouragements to the victims and people of China. 
I pray for all aftershocks to cease and allow those in authority to concentrate on reconstruction and serving her people.
I pray for salvation and healing [...]

#118

多难兴邦 :
the 4-character Chinese phrase is an apt encouragement given to the students by Premier of China after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan that took many lives and left 5 million or more homeless.
The Chinese language has that terse quality in describing the devastation as nation’s hardships. I doubt if the English language is able or do justice to translate these [...]

#114 a 3-day national mourning

image from xinhua
Wenchuan earthquake claimed 40,000 to date… The air was filled with ammonia and lime powder to prevent epidemic resulting from the decayed under the inaccessible rubbles.

On 19th May at 2.28pm, China called for a national 3 minutes silence with sounds of air-raids, honks of cars and ships to observe those who died at [...]

#113

Most interesting! I received this sms on the recent happenings in China — when adding the single numerics, they all add up to 08.

On Jan 25, the snowstorm preventing many from returning home for family reunion at the Spring festival celebration – mother nature from the sky (天灾）:   1+2+5= 8
Mar 14, human rights groups gathered in protest about Tibet during the Olympic Torch Relay – man [...]

#112 earthquake 4

A Time’s reporter wondering why the earthquake was not predicted (even when she knew earthquake was not predictable) when it first struck.
Alerting a tremor is different from predicting a tremor.

#111 earthquake 3

I continue to follow the earthquake at Sichuan with great heaviness. Like BBC’s James Reynolds shared — one cannot fully understand the scale of disaster or even describe fully that seen on sight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/ – on 16th & 18th May posts.
Yesterday at 2.28pm — that was when the 7.9 richter scale earthquake struck on 12th May, China observed [...]