Tag: nature

Your Soul Food for Friday May 10th 2024: How Can You Not Be Blown Away by These Amazing Animals

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Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week: These Amazing Animals!

If some of these stories don’t blow you away, you might want to check your pulse 😊

Waay better than doom scrolling…

Play, healing, tool usage, language, and friendship!

A New Declaration of Animal Consciousness
A group of prominent scientists believes fruit flies, fish, and mollusks might experience pain and pleasure. April 27, 2024, this article was originally published by Quanta Magazine. In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in activity that could only be described as play. Given small wooden balls, the bees pushed them around and rotated them.

A New Declaration of Animal Consciousness – The Atlantic

Orangutan heals face wound using medicinal plant in Indonesia in documented first:
A Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was seen using a medicinal plant to heal a facial wound at an Indonesian research site.

Orangutan seen healing face wound with medicinal plant for first time (usatoday.com)

10 animals that use tools in surprising and clever ways – from primates and dolphins to birds and fish:
It is not just humans that regularly use tools to solve problems and make our lives easier. Other animals do it too!

10 animals that use tools in surprising and clever ways – from primates and dolphins to birds and fish – Discover Wildlife 10 animals that use tools

Sperm whales communicate through a ‘complex phonetic alphabet,’ study finds:
Researchers analyzed the codas of approximately 60 sperm whales.

Sperm whales communicate through a ‘complex phonetic alphabet,’ study finds – ABC News (go.com)

Seal Kept Poking Diver’s Arm Until He Finally Realized What Was Going On, Here’s What Happened:
One experienced diver and his friend had a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with some seals. They were even lucky enough to capture the moment on film!

This Diver Couldn’t Figure Out What A Seal Was Trying To Tell Him – Buzznet

Please pay it forward and love those wondrous creatures that we share this tiny blue planet with!

Love,

Neville

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“Find your way out. Go home and master Death by becoming alive.” 

– Don Miguel Ruiz

Happy Soul Food Friday for the Weekend before Earth Day 2024

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Happy Soul Food Friday for the Weekend before Earth Day 2024

This week:

Which Wolf Will You Feed?

We have important decisions to make that will affect the rest of our lives on earth and those that come after us.

What choice are you making and why it matters?

(14) Which Wolf Will You Feed? Or, the unedited story of the two wolves | LinkedIn

Let’s Unleash our Creativity with the mindset, heart set and skill set to change what we measure and manage-

What Would a Sustainable, Universally Beneficial Economy Look Like?

Are you willing to co-create a new model to save our planet and uplift humanity?

What happens when we stop our structural dependency on growth, we have seemingly become addicted to

Here is a different model to reimagine our future and reignite your hope for a better future!

Kate Raworth: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow | TED Talk

Opinion: When celebrating Earth Day, don’t forget our coast and the ocean
Make a difference: Protect, restore and take care of the only home we have

Opinion: When celebrating Earth Day, don’t forget our coast and the ocean – The San Diego Union-Tribune (sandiegouniontribune.com)

Why does this matter and who gives a $#!+?

Ten photographs that made the world wake up to climate change:
Award-winning photographers Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier choose 10 powerful photos that have changed our attitudes to climate change.

Ten photographs that made the world wake up to climate change | CNN

Calling Our Times the ‘Anthropocene Epoch’ Matters Dearly to You:
The name means human activity is profoundly changing our environment, and you’ll have to plan for those changes

Calling Our Times the ‘Anthropocene Epoch’ Matters Dearly to You | Scientific American

The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change:
Droughts, heat, and extreme weather are pushing crops to their limits. The race is on to innovate faster than the Earth warms.

The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change | WIRED

These five species may vanish. If they do, we’re all in trouble.
One animal purifies our water. Another provides a vital food source for three other species. This photo essay from Joel Sartore shows how saving one animal saves so many more.

These 5 lesser-known species may vanish. If they do, we’re all in trouble. (nationalgeographic.com)

Everyone says trees are good for us. This scientist wants to prove it.
An ongoing science experiment involves nearly 8,000 trees and shrubs in southern Louisville and health data from nearly 500 residents.

A scientist in Louisville is compiling data on trees and human health – The Washington Post

People stunned to learn plants ‘scream’ when you cut them:
But you’ll probably never hear it

People stunned to learn plants ‘scream’ when you cut them (ladbible.com)

What a Living Whale is Worthin the Fight against Climate Change:

Ralph Chami: translating the value of nature into dollars and cents in the fight : NPR

To know and not to do, is not to know…

Please think global, act local and remember action precedes motivation!

EVERY day is Earth Day…

Love,

Neville

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“If you have come to help me, you are

wasting your time. But if you have

come because your liberation is

bound up with mine, then let us walk

together…”

— Lila Watson, Australian Aboriginal woman, in response to

mission workers.

Your Soul Food for Friday March 29: Can You Believe It? They Say It’s My Birthday and No Speciesism

by Soul Food Friday, posted in Community Outreach, Education, Leadership Development, Wellness/Energy Work

Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

“I will see it when I believe it.”
— Dr. Wayne Dyer

If you are local-

Happy Spring Kats and Kittens!

We are back with live music to launch into Spring.

 Drivin the Bus will be playing on Saturday March 30th at Coomber Craft Wines in Oceanside from 6-9pm:

Coomber Craft Wines – Drivin’ The Bus (dtbband.com)

and Mr. Peabody’s Bar and Grill on Friday April 5th from 8:30 to 12:30:

Mr. Peabody’s Bar & Grill – Drivin’ The Bus (dtbband.com)

When I’m 64:

Believe it or not, I turn 64 on 3/29 (today) so I am considering the 3/30 show my “birthday show”, whether the band likes it or not, and for my birthday I want to make memories, doing what I love with those I love. 😊

If you are free, swing by for some classic jams with some spring frivolity and camaraderie!

You can reserve tables at Coomber’s if you are so inclined, call (760) 231-8022 for more info…

More gigs later in the month with both

Drivin the Bus and Strange Crew– (Phil’s birthday bash) and deets to follow.

No Speciesism-

Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human
Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are. Researchers now report that these clever birds are able to understand recursion—the process of embedding structures in other, similar structures—which was long thought to be a uniquely human ability.

Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human | Scientific American

These mega-smart crows are cleaning cigarette butts off city streets — and saving millions of dollars in the process:
Cigarette butts alone make up a whopping 62% of all street litter in Sweden. You’ve heard of cleanup crews, but what about … cleanup crows? As part of a new anti-litter initiative, the Swedish city of Södertälje is using some fine-feathered friends to help clean cigarette butts off of its streets. The startup behind the mass crow-bilization is called Corvid Cleaning, in honor of the crow family’s scientific name, Corvidae.

Corvid Cleaning is training crows to pick up cigarette butts (thecooldown.com)

Thanks to family and friends everywhere!

Love,

Neville

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