Featured Discussions - Fix Our World2024-03-29T08:48:05Zhttps://fixourworld.ca/forum/topic/list?feed=yes&xn_auth=no&featured=1What's Your Challengetag:fixourworld.ca,2020-04-30:2024711:Topic:859582020-04-30T20:29:40.015ZFixOurWorldhttps://fixourworld.ca/profile/Chad
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<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto">During these challenging times I've been pushing myself to conserve even further! One of the challenges I'm doing is to see how much Water I can conserve. Daily I have been taking a 2 Cup Mug of Water and seeing how much I can do with it. So I brush my teeth then stand in the tub and wash my body by dunking my cloth in the cup. Then any left over water I use to water a plant. It amazes me how far a Mug of…</div>
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<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto">During these challenging times I've been pushing myself to conserve even further! One of the challenges I'm doing is to see how much Water I can conserve. Daily I have been taking a 2 Cup Mug of Water and seeing how much I can do with it. So I brush my teeth then stand in the tub and wash my body by dunking my cloth in the cup. Then any left over water I use to water a plant. It amazes me how far a Mug of water can go! Once a month I take a bath in as little water I can, and wash my hair as well. (Together We Will Fix Our World) </div>
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</div> Free China Human Rightstag:fixourworld.ca,2015-02-13:2024711:Topic:691782015-02-13T21:45:17.799ZMaria Wanghttps://fixourworld.ca/profile/MariaWang
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<p><font size="3">Who cares about Freedom these days? Well, if you do…check this out!</font></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.helpfreechina.com/"><font size="3">www.HELPFREECHINA.com</font></a></p>
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<p><font size="3">Forced Organ Harvesting! ISIS does it and people go crazy. The Chinese Communist Party has done it for YEARS and no one bats an eye.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Today, we want to write to you about taking<br></br></font> <font size="3">a stand for FREEDOM,…</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Who cares about Freedom these days? Well, if you do…check this out!</font></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.helpfreechina.com/"><font size="3">www.HELPFREECHINA.com</font></a></p>
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<p><font size="3">Forced Organ Harvesting! ISIS does it and people go crazy. The Chinese Communist Party has done it for YEARS and no one bats an eye.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Today, we want to write to you about taking<br/></font> <font size="3">a stand for FREEDOM, specifically against the <br/></font> <font size="3">world’s</font> <u><font size="3">largest</font></u> <font size="3">oppressive regime.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Watch the award-winning film ‘Free China’ and you<br/></font> <font size="3">will understand why we can’t just sit by and do <br/></font> <font size="3">nothing about this authoritarian regime’s rise <br/></font> <font size="3">to power…</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"! </font></p>
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<p><font size="3">As Einstein once said "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">So what’s this all about?</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">You see our friends, Michael Perlman and Kean <br/></font> <font size="3">Wong are award-winning documentary filmmakers <br/></font> <font size="3">who were contenders for an Academy Award for <br/></font> <font size="3">their latest work.<br/></font> <font size="3"><br/></font> <font size="3">And for the last 18 months they’ve been to over<br/></font> <font size="3">a dozen countries on their ‘Help Free China’ <br/></font> <font size="3">campaign in an effort to bring greater freedoms<br/></font> <font size="3">to the people of China as well.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Think about this…</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Wouldn’t it be in our own interests to be dealing<br/></font> <font size="3">with a government that wasn’t ‘Communist’ or<br/></font> <font size="3">allowed freedom of press and expression so we <br/></font> <font size="3">actually know what’s really happening inside <br/></font> <font size="3">China?</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Which is why this film is waking people up…</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">From a growing grassroots campaign that <br/></font> <font size="3">has resulted in over 1000 screenings worldwide <br/></font> <font size="3">in 26 languages, garnering the support of <br/></font> <font size="3">dozens of Free China Ambassadors such as…</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">…Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, Dr. Randy Sherman</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">(Operation Smile), Hollywood Actors Eric and <br/></font> <font size="3">Eliza Roberts to name a few…</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">… we are now excited to help spread the word<br/></font> <font size="3">about their eye-opening film called “Free China”<br/></font> <font size="3">which is just about to premiere online.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3"> “Stirring…Narrative Power” – New York Times</font></p>
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<p><br/> <font size="3">This film is a MUST SEE if you care about<br/></font> <font size="3">your freedom and certainly your children’s</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">freedoms. Check out their campaign video.</font></p>
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<p><br/> <font size="3">Help bring greater freedoms to 1.3 billion people and also get paid doing so.</font></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.helpfreechina.com/"><font size="3">www.HELPFREECHINA.com</font></a></p>
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<p></p> Got a charge out of the Festival!tag:fixourworld.ca,2012-09-17:2024711:Topic:519822012-09-17T17:18:31.363ZL0cKhttps://fixourworld.ca/profile/L0cK
<p>Thanks to Linda for helping out an electric rider to plug in/recharge their electric bike at the Festival! We had a small group of ebike riders attend the Festival for the first time this year and next year there'll be twice as many of us coming! Most of us were Hamiltonians and local to the Festival so didn't need to plug in but I came from Toronto and the bike was "thirsty" after this long ride. What a treat to plug in to Bullfrog power for the ride home!</p>
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<p>Thanks to Linda for helping out an electric rider to plug in/recharge their electric bike at the Festival! We had a small group of ebike riders attend the Festival for the first time this year and next year there'll be twice as many of us coming! Most of us were Hamiltonians and local to the Festival so didn't need to plug in but I came from Toronto and the bike was "thirsty" after this long ride. What a treat to plug in to Bullfrog power for the ride home!</p>
<p>Regards and best wishes to Fix Our World for EVery success in the future.</p>
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<a href="http://www.ebikeriders.com/">http://www.ebikeriders.com/</a></p> SUDDEN IMPACT.tag:fixourworld.ca,2010-11-11:2024711:Topic:260632010-11-11T00:20:45.516ZNICOLAS KYNIGOS.https://fixourworld.ca/profile/NicolasKynigos
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">EDITORIAL; NICOLAS KYNIGOS.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">ENVIRONMENTAL AVISOR: CIVIL RIGHTS PARTY OF CANADA.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">Global warming is real and here to stay, humanity is facing a new threat that has never occurred on this scale for thousands of years called, {Global Warming & The Green House Gas Effect}. Humanity has to set a new course and take affirmative action to deal with this global threat. This unpredictable climatic crisis we are all about to face will manifest a sudden impact on earth and humanities future existence. Each degree our planet warms up will determine a radical future outcome for man-kind. Current data shows the average global temperature has already risen .08 degrees Celsius, less than a degree of warming we are now experiencing could easily transform any given continent causing severe flooding and drought world wide. Green house gases, a toxic cocktail made up of methane, water vapour, carbon dioxide, nitrus oxide, ozone trapping more heat in earth’s atmosphere and radically transforming the entire Planet.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">For over the last 100 years green house emissions have soared as we find more ways to use up more energy. Poisonous<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> carbon dioxide still continues to rise in our atmosphere causing skin cancer and respiratory ailments. If this planet continues to warms up by one degree the Arctic will be ice free for half the year. Severe flooding world wide will occur, frequent earthquakes, forest fires, droughts and hurricanes will increase intensity. Just one degree increase can turn Americas farmland into desert land & sand dust, a shift in one or two degrees will evaporate moisture on land and bring forth drought or a sudden (Dust Ball Effect). Our planet has experienced climate change before, this natural climatic progression has played out over thousands and millions of years, global warming now is measured in terms of decades & years. Species are not able to keep up with these intense warming trends. Global warming at this rate can send us back to uncharted territory, nothing like we have ever experienced in the history of life on earth. Global warming started with our insatiable appetite for energy, every click of a switch we turn on or even pressing our gas pedal requires some kind of energy resource, nearly 90% of global energy starts as a fossil fuel, coal, oil or natural gas. The consequences of using prehistoric remains for fuel is inescapable, carbon dioxide fumes are pouring into our atmosphere suffocating our entire planet.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">If the world warms by two degrees some changes to the bio-sphere are no longer gradual, Greenland’s glaciers will disappear, polar bears will struggle to survive, insects will migrate in new directions. Pine beetles will infect and kill off forests then tragically exterminate thousands of species that rely on food and protection from the forest. Millions of species feed and breed in coral reefs, if we reach a 2-3 degree tipping point waters will warm up dramatically killing algae and most aquatic life forms in the oceans. The oceans are the planets largest carbon sink, natures primary mechanism for absorbing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, there are numerous indications that these eco-systems are breaking down.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">The tipping point is excess carbon dioxide sitting in the lower waters of the reef turning oceans into acidic dead zones, the fate of all creatures at the bottom of the food chain hangs in the balance. It took nature approximately 150,000 years to create Greenland’s ice sheet now melting into the sea faster than at any time recorded in earth’s history. This is the fastest moving ice field on the planet, more than forty meters a day melting quickly into the sea. In 1992 there was 5.6 kilometres slipping into the sea and disappearing rapidly, in 2002 that number more than doubled to 15.5 kilometres annually. Greenland’s ice sheet contains enough frozen water to raise global sea levels up to 7 meters, scientists agree a two degree warming is the actual tipping point that determines how we fundamentally live on this planet. Loss of ice sheets accelerates global warming, water from melting ice absorbs more of the suns heat warming the planet a lot faster, this chain reaction is harder to predict the overall climatic effect & condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> If the world warms by three degrees, the Arctic is ice free all summer, the Amazon rainforest will dry out, snow caps on the Alps will all disappear, the Mediterranean and parts of Europe wither in searing summer heat, intensive hurricane activity and massive coastal flooding occur world wide.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">During the heat wave in 1993 signs of photosynthesis were breaking down forest and plant. Under normal conditions trees and plants are a first line of defence against green house gases, absorbing carbon dioxide then converting it into oxygen then releasing it back into the atmosphere. What would happen to the bio-sphere if one of the planets most important mechanisms for converting carbon dioxide into oxygen stops working on a regular basis ? In extreme heat wave conditions some plants retain oxygen releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere instead. A three degree global warming increase could possibly exterminate the Amazon forest and turn it into a patch work of arid savannah, for each tree we loose were are taking an incremental step towards fire and drought in any given forested region on the planet.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">Global warming and deforestation will be reaching a tipping point within twenty years we will experience positive kick backs, vicious cycles of drought and massive forest fires leading to more drought and desertification. Loosing most of the Amazon forest to warmer climatic conditions will result<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> in releasing hundreds and millions of tons of stored carbon into the atmosphere, possibly intensifying global warming by another degree. If the world temperature increases by four degrees oceans will rise overtaking heavily populated cities collapsing entire civilizations Deltas home to billions of people, Bangladesh will be washed away, Egypt inundated, Rome submerged, glacier ice sheets will disappear shutting off the flow of fresh water to billions. Northern Canada becomes one of the worlds bountiful agricultural zones, while a beach in the Mediterranean becomes a tropical hot spot. The entire West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse sending sea levels rising even higher than 7 meters. A world of four degrees warming will start to look unrecognisable, we will see some of the most important rivers of the world drying up, this will endanger billions of people forcing a massive exodus towards fertile ground and fresh water rivers.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span xml:lang="EN-CA" lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><font color="#000000">Lastly, a global warming increase of 5-6 degrees will result in total devastation and mass extinction, Los Angeles, Bombay, Cairo, and thousands of cities around the world will dry up, climate refugees by the millions will try to escape this planetary chaos. Human civilization will not be able to withstand this kind of climatic shock wave, this will be the twighlight- zone end of climate change. Life on earth will never be the same, the most frightening thing is not knowing the final outcome concerning climate change and the conditions it will bring upon us. Rich or poor these fatal conditions will be equally felt world wide, a six degree global warming increase is called the dooms day scenario, life on earth will cease to exist.</font></span></p> Power for The worldtag:fixourworld.ca,2009-11-19:2024711:Topic:156802009-11-19T10:29:08.564ZKentCrawfordhttps://fixourworld.ca/profile/KentCrawford
When the tides rise and fall in the seas, they represent huge volumes of energy. One can imagine the amount of strength that is needed to make a pale of water to rise. This huge natural energy can now be used to the benefit of the mankind. Tidal energy can act as an ideal source of alternate energy. It can team up as an alternate energy resource that is devoid of any sort of harm to the environment. The…
When the tides rise and fall in the seas, they represent huge volumes of energy. One can imagine the amount of strength that is needed to make a pale of water to rise. This huge natural energy can now be used to the benefit of the mankind. Tidal energy can act as an ideal source of alternate energy. It can team up as an alternate energy resource that is devoid of any sort of harm to the environment. The <a href="http://www.worldenergyresearch.com/ServiceandContact.aspx?id=4" target="_blank">tidal energy investment</a> has risen in recent times.<br />
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With the fossil fuel energy on the verge of extinction, it has become important to take steps towards better fuel options. The best thing about tidal energy is that it is highly predictable. The occurrence of tides can be deduced some hundred years in advance. So even when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining, energy can be produced from underwater, in the form of tides. The tide tables are available in the surf store and can be used to calculate the occurrence of tides.<br />
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The extraction of tidal energy poses some technological issues as the tidal energy industry is in its nascent stage. If these technological issues are overcome, the tidal energy can be used to power up the whole of this world. Help Inspire Otherstag:fixourworld.ca,2008-04-08:2024711:Topic:10432008-04-08T14:11:32.429ZFixOurWorldhttps://fixourworld.ca/profile/Chad
<p>Please add information about yourself to your page to help inspire others. Initiatives, goals, events, things you do to make a difference. in the areas of Peace, Poverty, Environment, AIDS.<br></br> <br></br>This will help others around the world to see what is working and where help is needed and unite us as a Global Family.<br></br> <br></br> If you belong to a club, organization, group etc.. Add in the Groups section for others from your group to join. <br></br> <br></br> If you are holding an event:<br></br> Add…</p>
<p>Please add information about yourself to your page to help inspire others. Initiatives, goals, events, things you do to make a difference. in the areas of Peace, Poverty, Environment, AIDS.<br/> <br/>This will help others around the world to see what is working and where help is needed and unite us as a Global Family.<br/> <br/> If you belong to a club, organization, group etc.. Add in the Groups section for others from your group to join. <br/> <br/> If you are holding an event:<br/> Add your Location as a Group for others to see the Venues around the world and for people who are attending/helping/participating in that event to join. This will give recognition to all who are involved with that event. Please add statistics available about your area.</p>