17 Year Old Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai Tells World Leaders A Thing Or Two...

During Malala's powerful acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo a few days ago, the young Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban two years ago and has become a global icon, was now sharing the most prestigious of prizes with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi. The gutsy and eloquent Malala criticised world governments for having the resources to begin wars but not the will to enable peace and universal education.
The world's youngest Nobel laureate's wonderful acceptance speech laced with self-deprecating humour is here.
She called as all peace prize winners do, not just for education but also fairness and caring.
The so-called world of adults may understand it, but we children don't. Why is it that countries which we call 'strong' are so powerful in creating wars but so weak in bringing peace? she said.
Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so difficult?
World leaders aren't interested in peace Malala,
there's no money in it...

The World's Oceans Are Gasping. We Can't Breathe They Cry. We're Choking To Death...

The world's oceans are gasping.
We can't breathe they cry.
The world's oceans are choking to death on an estimated 270,000 tons of plastic pollution caused by mankind.
Mankind. That's you and me.
I can't breathe is a cry for help that seems to fall on deaf ears these days but mankind must respond to this global disaster.
Mankind. That's you and me again.
It's estimated that there are five trillion pieces of plastic littering the oceans, that's around seven hundred pieces for every man woman and child on the planet.
And we could all be culpable of littering
without actually knowing it.
Most modern clothing companies use plastic man-made fabrics like polyester and nylon.
Each time we wash a shirt, jacket, or other clothing made from these materials, plastic microfibers get washed into the sewage system and flow into the ocean. From there the microfibers are ingested by small fish, and make their way up the food chain.
And these fibers are everywhere.
They contaminate not only our waterways, but also our food and air.
When ecologist Mark Brown studied microplastics on shorelines across the globe, he discovered that a full 85% of the plastic came from man-made clothing fibers.
Experiments with washing machines reveal that 1,900 pieces of plastic microfibers come off of a single piece of clothing every time it’s washed.
Since nearly every major clothing company now uses these sorts of man-made fibers, it adds up to a huge amount of plastic microfibers entering our waterways each year. And just like other plastics, plastic microfibers contribute toxins to our environment.
Science has only recently discovered this problem, and what we need now is a solution
to this mess.
You and I are the problem. And the solution...

A Cacti Diet Helps Save The Giant Galapagos Tortoise From Extinction...

Remember Lonesome George?
With his demise in 2012 his particular species would be no more but fortunately on the island of Espanola, another island in the Galapagos group, conservation efforts over the last number of years ridding the area of goats which were decimating the sometimes many hundreds of years old cactus plants, a staple diet of the tortoise, the numbers of the almost extinct giant tortoise have risen from just fifteen to over a thousand. There's more to this wonderful story
of survival here.
But there's still only the one Flying Tortoise...

Quck. Call The Polce...

Brtan's South Yorkshre Polce have been embarrassed recently by a burglar stealng a valuable letter from ther patrol car.
The offender seems to be stll at large and the polce are appealng to the publc for assstance...

Where A Few Of The Rich Might Survive The Apocalypse...

When the end of the world happens one day soon,  there'll be a few paranoid but happy doomsday preppers who've paid a few million to Larry Halls for his retirement fund who'll be able to say to anyone who's still alive, we told you so.
Anyway, Larry has purchased some Missile Barns in  Kansas and is currently turning them into luxury doomsday shelters 
and survival condos.
He'd better hurry and get them finished.
From what I hear the end is nigh.
Could be Tuesday...

 

Time For A Change...

It's time for a change of thinking.
Try giving someone ten today...

Toronto's Good Food Mobile Market Provides Healthy Food Sharing For Less...

A cherished childhood memory is one of the local fruit and vegie man, Mr Mazzola arriving at our Eastbourne street in his wonderful converted van with shelves and baskets brimming with fresh edible delights. Those were the days.
Now Canada's enlightened city of Toronto have set up a scheme where neighbourhoods that find it difficult  and too expensive to travel to get the fresh fruit and vegetables so vital for good health can do so with this new new Good Food Mobile Market coming to their areas.
A city that cares for its people.
An idea worth spreading...