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Besticides – As The Bees Go, So Goes Humanity.

Honeybee loss can induce global threats for food production as it is estimated that one third of the entire world’s food supply comes from pollination. Pesticides are a key suspect for honeybee loss and there is something that we can all do to counteract their use.

Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a global phenomenon in which worker bees from European and North American hineybee colonies abruptly disappear. Colony collapse disorder is significant economically because many agricultural crops worldwide are being pollinated honey bees (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder).

The negative effects of the honeybee shortage were predicted years ago and there are several theorized causes of colony collapse disorder, from disease, to mites, to pesticides. However, in recent studies, e.g. U.C. Davis, where large sample of hives was examined, as much as 150 different chemical residues were found on the bees.

http://www.realfarmacy.com/effects-of-colony-collapse-disorder-now-manifesting-in-california/

Obama – Unequal Treatment Erodes Democracy

For decades the US has been pushing for two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestine conflict and there are no other alternatives seem to be avialable for achieving peace in the MENA region. The end of the road will be taking up the issue in the UN as all negotiations, options and details have been fully assessed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-dismisses-netanyahus-softened-stance-on-two-state-solution/2015/03/21/27f0148a-d02e-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html

22nd March 2015 – World Water Day

Water means everything from health, nature, urbanization, industry, energy, food and equality. It is part of our daily life everywhere and at anytime. It is the heart of sustainability and essence of life. Today the 22nd of March, World Water Day, is an occasion for us to celebrate water as ancient Egyptians did (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding_of_the_Nile). To promote water and sanitation in Africa there is a dedicated Facebook page for communication and information, visit it at: (https://m.facebook.com/commonwealthafricabuja/posts/1610941099118189).

World Water Day is a day to celebrate water to make a difference for the global population who suffer from water related issues. It’s a day to prepare for how we manage water in the future. World Water Day is shining the spotlight on a different issue every year. In 2015, the theme for World Water Day is “Water and Sustainable Development”. It’s about Water Nexuses, i.e. how water links to all areas we need to consider to create the future we want.

http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/

Egypt and The Boom of Renewables in the MENA Region

Egypt is in on its feet again after years of turmoil. On the top of Egypt’s long-term renaissance strategy is providing energy, housing, education and work for its growing population, in particular young people.

The MENA region as whole is investing heavily in renewable energy, unlike Iran with much investment in nuclear solutions. It is the particular geographical situation of the MENA region by being rich with solar resources and the long-term needs for desalination, water treatment and wastewater treatment, all of which are much power dependent. The region as whole still needs appropriate policies and sustainable long-term solutions for affordable and accessible water resources because of the arid and semi-arid nature of the region. Also, the negative impacts of climate change, in particular Egyptian Nile-delta, accelerating pressures not only of groundwater resources but also surface waters of the Jordan River, the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin, and the Nile River and their catchments with huge populations. Sound and sustainable large-scale and long-term policies for protection and conservation of the natural resources in the MENA region against waste and pollution are, also, important emerging necessities.

http://www.utilities-me.com/article-3326-mena-renewable-energy-zeal-spreads-to-egypt/#.VQv6kYp86nN

My Thoughts, Your Thoughts and Our Thoughts

My blog “sustain-earth”. I always needed someone in my real life to be curious and excited about the flow of thoughts that I bring in “sustain-earth”. My thoughts that makes me, your thoughts that derives me and all the thoughts that make our living and shape our reality, good or bad and for better or worse, no one really knows. But we need this as we can not run away from our lives. I always needed to share our living and the realities of everyday life, at home, in our families, at work, in our free time and out there in the world. I needed to feel my and our existence, and our engagement to understand life and shape it. Alone you and me worth nothing but together we can be something, YES WE CAN. Some friend asks me sometimes how is it going with you and your blog? My blog, it is about our thoughts, their evolution and how they would look like in the future. Good anyhow to hear and find someone caring and realizing your being and existence, we need this all and it is why we are blogging. It can be a scary thing to tell everything and be naked but that is our modern reality with all the social media that takes layers and layers of what we have on us and what we bear in our minds. Then commented I don’t really know much about blogging but I am happy about the stuff in it and the time you put in it to tell how things are, the needs and the values in our life. Thoughts are what drives our handling for good or bad, it is then your turn to share with us your thoughts and made the good to be better the bad to vanish.

Terrorist – Looking For A Way to Belong and Not Finding It

No one is born to be “terrorist” and there are reasons why “terrorism” is becoming a global threat hidering security, stability and safety on different levels and scales. There are many basic and fundamental questions: what is “terrorism” and how people become terrorists.

Anders Behring Breivik, Norway, who murdered 77 people in the 2011 is a key case, that gives some clues on the phenomena, but in one of the most socially stable and peaceful societies on Earth. Anders Behring Breivik hated most humans, but women and Muslims above all. Seierstad, an extraordinary researcher, writes calmly and draws few conclusions. One of Us, which is as much about the victims as the killer, is a book “about belonging, a book about community,” she says, “about looking for a way to belong and not finding it.” “Our answer,” Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Norwegians after the attack, “is more democracy, more openness and more humanity. But never naivety.” It seems that Breivik was, above all, a product of social isolation. He was a typical extremist, or more correctly “gradually turned to a permanent outsider”: friendless, unemployed, unmarried, living life online. Like every mass killer, he selected his victims. There are plenty of Breiviks around us but this one was handed luck. But who is Anders Breivik, what turned him to be a “terrorist” and what was the micro-social condition around him.

Read the story written by a high quality global journalist, Åsne Seierstad – author of the bestselling “The Bookseller of Kabul” (2002), a book on the nature of Afghan family life.

One of the most serious social defects and mental disorder is extreme and continual social isolation. It is, indeed, the very root of modern global threats “terrorism” that can turn people, rich and poor, or groups of people, to time-bombs. It is the cause of many instabilities in the MENA region and Africa, see the effects and details here: https://jl10ll.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/the-effects-of-extreme-and-continual-social-isolation/

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Global View of Past and Modern Slavery.

Slavery is not only daily pain for humans but it is a national socio-economic defect that cause pile-up of different threats on several national and international levels. Such threats can and do cause long-term and large-scale barriers in secio-economic and socio-political structures. This is evident from the historical evolution of slavery (http://youtu.be/nHk-WceZeFg). It is interesting to see how developing countries suffered and still suffer from severe socio-economic disparities, and also mental health problems, from slavery. Slavery of yesterday still affect our ability to be successful today. There are interesting statistics, e.g. from the USA, that need to be taken into account (http://thyblackman.com/2015/02/15/the-slavery-card-fact-or-just-the-ultimate-excuse/).

Among important features of modern slavery are acceleration of different forms of gender and age discrimination and abuse of children (http://youtu.be/nNY2Vl8jUjU).

MENA – Climate Chellenges Of Groundwater Resources

Water management is becoming IMPERATIVE with the increasing concern about the effects and impacts of global warming. Many ancient civilizations, if not all, evolved and sustained around water resources by using intensive water-demanding irrigation techniques.

The MENA region which helped birth of earliest agricultural civilizations is now signaling one of the strongest warnings of its mortality. It lost huge amount of its water resources mostly because the groundwater pumped up and out of the region’s fragile aquifers for irrigation. Groundwater is/was being over-pumped, some massively so, at rates much higher than ability to recharge. Ongoing global warming poses further threats for additiknal severe decline in groundwater resources unless counter measures and mitigation actions can be done.

http://ensia.com/features/groundwater-wake-up/

“Egypt The Change” – Sustainability Challenges In A Dynamic Reality.

Be part of a new future and join the ongoing changes in one of the most dynamic regions in the world where all challenges, but yet diverse and new possibilities, for socio-economic developments, co-exist.

http://youtu.be/UK1B412J5Yg

Why Is “Egypt The Future”?

Hear what global investors tell about investing in Egypt. The call is still opened for any to join and respond to people’s call for major changes. Yes, you can contribute in creating sustainsble societies.

http://youtu.be/UK1B412J5Yg

Egypt is heading Towards A New future – The New Cairo

Among the new plans for the socio-economic developments of Egypt a new capital “New Cairo” is planned to be established in region of the Red Sea so the pressure on the existing capital can be mitigated. Interesting enough the Red Sea region and Sinai, including the Suez Canal are becoming among the major changes and reforms in “Egypt the Future”. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=941998875850439

To know more visit also, http://m.bbc.com/news/business-31874886

Over 19 billions US dollars – The Road To A New Egypt

After long period with political ups and downs with associated challenges for stability and hopes for better future, the Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi outlined Cairo’s long-term development strategy in his address to the Egypt Economic Development Conference on Friday as media reports confirmed that Egypt had secured more than 19 billion US dollars in investment pledges on the first day of the summit “Egypt the Future” at Sharm El-Sheikh.

http://www.aawsat.net/2015/03/article55342321/egypt-bags-over-19-billion-in-investments-on-summit-opening-day

Democratic Capitalism – Work Versus Family Needs

Generally speaking there are two global systems characterising world economy with all ranges of sub-systems and combinations in between: Main Street Markets and Wall Street Capita (http://www.neweconomyworkinggroup.org/visions/new-economy-vision/real-markets-and-real-democracy/main-street-markets-vs-wall-street-capita).

The balance between Capitalism and Democracy, however, has been a central global issue in human history. It went through a long journey with different acts. In this context, Democratic Capitalism is a system of political economy of three more or less independent systems: free economy, free polity and free morals and cultures. Democratic Capitalism has attractive features with many different kinds of capitalism and varieties of democracies: France is not the United States; Sweden is not Italy; the United Kingdom is not South Korea; Japan is not Singapore, …….. and so on.

The prosperity of free societies depends on certain moral and cultural practices and in the long run, democracy is a necessity for the success of capitalism. Historically, the last act of Democratic Capitalism is the moral and cultural component: granted that people has gained economic liberty from poverty and political liberty from tyranny, what is the moral and cultural ecology for the survival of free people. A corrupt, lazy, dishonest and decadent society cannot preserve human liberty. It will breed a nation of serfs and slaves, who do not want to carry the responsibilities of free persons, but want only to have others take care of their needs.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/359306/democratic-capitalism-michael-novak

Poverty-Waste Nexus has Impacts on the Global Quality of Life.

Poverty is not only a scarcity or dearth, or the the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty). It is a complex and multifaceted concept, which includes social and economic political elements as well as environmental and health threats. As a dynamic concept, poverty is changing and adapting due to consumption patterns, social dynamics, technological change and urbanization.

Sustain-earth.com discusses and debates the complex issues of poverty-waste nexus and its impacts on the global quality of life.

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Is Iran’s Science and Technology a Global Threat?

Nuclear technology in Iran is part of Iran’s major development in other disciplines in science and technology, e.g. space science http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safir_(rocket)

There are claims that the global community is judging Iran on “speculations” without valid proves that Iran is seeking a hidden agenda that threats the world peace. Meanwhile, as long as Iran has no prove that their nuclear technology is for peaceful and safe use we can not take for guarantee that this will not lead to nuclear weapons. Several other countries around the world have developed and even used destructive weapons that pose and still pose considerable threats for peace and stability. So, we need to safeguard future populations from further expansion of non peaceful and destructive technologies.

To know more about Iran’s challenges and on-going struggle for advances and development in science and technology, we invite you to visit http://sustain-earth.com.

Iran’s Revive Of The Golden Age And Its Path To High-Tech Society

Iran is emerging as high-tech society, it has also a rich scientific heritage. In spite of its complicated political historical evolution to shape its identity as a nation it kept strong, coherent and systematic focus on education.

Though the political instabilities after WW-II, the war with Iraq and international sanctions, Iran made considerable advances in science and technology in almost all research aspects during the past decades. Iran’s scientific and technical progress, including aerospace, nuclear science, medical development, stem cell and cloning research, is among the fastest in the world. It has high university population with 70% women in science and technology (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Iran). Iran, for example, is the 9th country to put a domestically-built satellite into orbit using its own launcher and the sixth to send animals in space http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safir_(rocket)

This indeed, didn’t develop and emerge from thin air but has its roots in rich scientific and cultural heritage throughout long periods. Percia was a cradle of science, e.g. medicine, mathematics, science, and philosophy. Trying to revive the golden time (http://www.great-iran.com/Iranology-video.htm) of Persian science, Iran’s scientists now are cautiously reaching out to the world.

Iran’s Nuclear Program – Luanched with Support from US and Europe

Iran’ nuclear Program is an old story and goes back to 1950s when it was launched with help from the USA. Also, the participation of the USA and Europe continued until 1979 Iranian Revolution that changed the political course of Iran, i.e. after the Shah of Iran was toppled (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran).

Later on, in 1990s, Iran shifted to China and Russia for further development of their nuclear programs. As by today, Iran made considerable progress what regards developing it’s nuclear energy program (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-G-N/Iran/). Iran has a major project developing uranium enrichment capability. However, the IAEA report on 23 May 2014 said that Iran had not enriched any uranium above 5% at any declared facility, had downblended 100 kg of near 20% enriched UF6 and converted the rest to oxide, it had not installed any further centrifuges, it had not progressed further work for fuel production and provided access to the Arak heavy water plant. The 20 July 2014 IAEA report confirmed these data for

the near 20% enriched material, and that 1505 kg of ca. 5% enriched UF6 had been converted to UO2.

As November 24 in 2014 approached, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said, “In order to avoid a bad deal, the P5+1 must hold strong on achieving an agreement that limits Iran’s nuclear program to a reasonable civilian capability, significantly increases the timelines for breakout to nuclear weapons, and introduces enhanced verification that goes beyond the IAEA’s Additional Protocol. A sound deal will also require Iran to verifiably address the IAEA’s concerns about its past and possibly on-going work on nuclear weapons, which means Iran must address those concerns in a concrete manner before a deal is finalized or any relief of economic or financial sanctions occurs.”

Lessons To Be Learned In Education – Why The Model Of Finland?

http://sustain-earth.com/2015/03/integrated-education-vision-levels-and-dimensions-in-a-holistic-perspective/

http://www.centerforglobaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/FLYER3.pdf