Nell’ aprile 1815 ci fu la devastante eruzione del Tambora originata dalla subduzione della Placca australiana al di sotto della Placca della Sonda, che provocò disastri di enormi proporzioni: alle primissime 12.000 vittime se ne aggiunsero moltissime altre. In tutto il pianeta il totale dei morti dovuti anche ai successivi sconvolgimenti climatici globali che provocarono… Read More L’anno senza estate
Gianni Rodari, lo scrittore, giornalista e pedagogista italiano scomparso il 14 aprile 1980, ha sempre dato insegnamenti e fatto viaggiare con l’immaginazione grazie alle sue poesie, filastrocche e storie fantastiche. “Ci vuole un fiore” è una sua filastrocca messa in musica da Sergio Endrigo e Luis Bacalov nel 1974, diventata la colonna sonora di molti… Read More Da Rodari a Fukushima
“Amici dei miei amici, buonasera…”, questa era la frase con cui un signore imponente dall’aria bonaria apriva il programma televisivo “L’ amico degli animali” Il conduttore era Angelo Lombardi (1910 – 1996), il primo divulgatore scientifico in assoluto della televisione, le cui semplici tecniche presentazione erano ben adatte agli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta. La… Read More 📺 L’amico degli animali 📺
I am sometimes asked, ‘Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?’ I answer: ‘I am working at the roots.’ (*) George Thorndike Angell was born on 5 June 1823, and died in 1909. He was an American… Read More The Friend of Animals 🐶 🐱 🐰 🐴 🐹
VERSE 1 What about sunrise What about rain What about all the things that you said We were to gain What about killing fields Is there a time What about all the things That you said were yours and mine In the first verse Michael Jackson begins with very natural images, such as sunrise and… Read More 🎶 Earth Song 🎶 (2. analysis)
What about sunrise What about rain What about all the things that you said We were to gain What about killing fields Is there a time What about all the things That you said were yours and mine Did you ever stop to notice All the blood we’ve shed before Did you ever stop… Read More 🎶Earth Song🎶 (1)
Tonight’s full moon is a Supermoon, because its centre is less than 360,000 kilometres from the centre of Earth. Being so close to us, it will look bigger and brighter than an average Full Moon. The March Full Moon, the last before the first day of spring, is also known as the Worm Moon, which… Read More 🌕 Worm Moon 🐛
Whaling refers to the hunting and killing of whales by humans for their resources, which has been done at least since 3000 BC. The purpose of the slaughter of these giant mammals is to get their usable products such as meat, bones, blubber. Meat is used in pet food, or served to tourists as a… Read More Whaling 🐋
And still I feel a great sensation here in the park And in the grass I share the life of flowers and dew And still I can find again A sense of freedom in my mind With all your silence And with the smell of your green land And while the birds fly… Read More ♪ “Lambro River” ♪ (by Angelo Vimercati)
Today, 29 July 2019 is Earth Overshoot Day (EOD), previously known as Ecological Debt Day, the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year will exceed what the Earth can regenerate. By midnight, humanity’s allotment of natural resources for 2019 will be all used up. Each year, the human population grows and we keep… Read More Earth Overshoot Day 🌍
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