Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Left brain functions: uses logic, detail oriented, facts rule, words and language, present and past, math and science, can comprehend, knowing, acknowledges, order/pattern perception, knows object name, reality based, forms strategies, practical, safe.
Right brain functions: uses feeling,
Today is Blog Action Day, and I thought I’d use this day to post 10 simple rules that we can all apply in our everyday lives to help our environment.
Of course there are more than 10 things we can all do, and we should do, but well we can start with these really easy ten, and then move on step by step.
So here goes the list:
1. Take showers rather than baths: This way you
Rising flood waters caused by devastating rains swept across northern Tunisia, killing at least 11 people and leaving six others missing.
Torrential rains fell mainly on the north of the country on Saturday, filling formerly dry river beds known as wadis and causing them to overflow in a very short period of time..
The rains and subsequent flooding blocked traffic on many roads and isolated some towns.
Nine people died after their vehicles were swept away by the swelling flood waters, one person was killed outside Tunis and eight others died in the region of Sabbalat Ben Ammar, some 30 kilometers to the northwest on the road to Bizerte. Search teams discovered another two victims later Sunday, and the search continues.
Over the past few years, we’ve been seeing more and more of these heavy torrential rains that hit the northern parts of Tunisia, and that in a matter of hours cause incredible floods, deaths and many material damages.
I don’t know how much can be done to avoid this in the future, but something has to be done, because things will only be getting worse; due to climate change, the planet is pretty much going mad and spinning out of control, which means that we’ll be seeing more and heavier rains in the future.
It’s obvious our infrastructure wasn’t built with these massive quantities of rain in mind, especially in the older and poorer zones and suburbs, where the damages are greater and more felt by the population. This is due to everything being built in the old days when the weather was stable and the precipitation was moderate.
But now that this problem has become a constant one that we’re seeing every year, it’s clear that a huge scale project has to be launched to find and put in place solutions to this problem before it gets even worse, especially in the areas surrounging river beds that are prone to overflow quickly like Oued Mejerda, Oued Gueriana, …etc.
It’s also obvious a project of this scale is really big for a country like Tunisia, one that I’m not sure we’re entirely capable of taking on on our own both financially and logistically, but it is essential and very important, so the government should maybe pursue aid from the international community to solve this problem.
The amounts of rain we’ve been seeing in these past years also has to be taken into consideration for the new areas being prepared and built, I think it’s inconceivable and unacceptable for newly built neighbourhoods to face these same problems too in the future.
Here’s a photo I found of a drowning bus somewhere near the northern outskirts of the capital Tunis.
Well most of you must already know the news by now; I’ve been expecting it and was pretty sure it would happen, and even though I’m a bit late, I just had to write about it: US Former Vice President Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.
Gore, whose film “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Oscar earlier this year, has made climate change the focus of his public life in the years since he lost the 2000 US presidential election.
There’s a lot of talk today going on about how Al Gore shouldn’t have won the nobel prize, and how its value is being wasted on him and the other environment advocates.
Personally, I think the people saying that are the same kind of people who got us into this environmental mess in the first place. There’s nothing that we have that is more valuable than our planet, if people who actually care and want to make a difference in this area aren’t worthy of this award, then I don’t know who is.
Al Gore now joins Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter among prominent U.S. politicians to have won the prestigious prize.
First of all, Eid Mubarak to everyone…
Yesterday was the first day of Eid ul-Fitr here in Tunisia, as well as in most Arab and Muslim countries, marking the end of Ramadan for this year.
This Ramadan was a bit harder than previous ones, mainly because the weather is still hot, and the day is long; still it’s only a preview of what’s coming in the next years as Ramadan advances well into the burning hot endless summer days.
As usual, we hopped into our little car and zipped around Tunis, greeting family members and wishing them all a happy and blessed Eid.
Now we’ll be back to our usual lifestyle and daily routine, back to a normal diet, back to everything as it was a month ago; I hope, at least, that some people will take away something more from it than just a few extra kilos from all the eating and sweets, something a bit more spiritual.
Again, may it be a blessed and happy Eid for everyone.
They say to me in their awakening, “You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea.”
And in my dream I say to them, “I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.”
[Quote from Sand And Foam by Khalil Gibran]
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
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Imagine… if one million people demanded an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with one voice.
On Oct. 18th, 2007 hundreds of thousands of people all over the world will unite for the OneVoice Summit
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
