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(photos: Heike)

Those are some gorgeous pictures! Awwww…..

Wilbar’s a happy pea in a pod.

Click the photos to see them in color and larger, and many more beauties.

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Al Gore talk at TED titled: 15 ways to avert climate crisis.

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(photo permission from: msc-web.de)

Who are you?

Is it me, Wilbär? Son of polar bear Corinna, born in Stuttgart Zoo in Germany?

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It’s start of the weekend, and it’s time for:

The Arctic Times

This week lots of green green green news and ideas:

• ♥First up, may be not any kind of breaking news but it’s been abuzz for a while that Chicago is working itself up to become the greenest city in the world. With its Millenium Park designed by world’s most prominent landscape architects, Mayor Daley’s fierce green agenda, and a prospect of the Summer Olympic Games, this dream may become true, and Chicago may gain one more resident- in me.

• ♥It is a container, it is biogradable, it contains crushed coconut shells, tree seedlings, fertilizer, and… human ashes… The Bios Urn is an eco-design idea to modernize the end of life rituals.

Created by a sustainable design company OnSustain.com.

• ♥Tree Hugger has a few interesting posts this week (as usual anyway):

One of them is about a glass breakthrough that may lead to new sustainable materials. Glass is one of the natural biogradable and as a result, a sustainable material already, but knowing the crystal nature of the beast, opens up doors for new glass applications in product design.

Another has Jelly Fish delivering signs of climate change evident in unusual numbers of jelly fish across planet’s oceans due to overfishing and warming. Jelly fish are tangible indicators of dramatic shifts in oceans’ ecosystems.

And one more brings sad news from the world’s oceans largest mammals: the whales. Whales numbers are diminishing fast and the highly sociable and intelligent animals seem to feel it by expressing inertia and sadness, and lack of will to reproduce.

• ♥Greenz.jp posted a story of two Greenpeace activists having been arrested in Japan for intercepting whale meat from a shipping company whaling in a Southern Ocean Sanctuary. Japanese Yomiuri Online also has an article on the story. Greenpeace also writes about it.

• ♥ Discover the concept of Amazingness, from an artist photographer Anna Hilman.

A photography project that finds amazingness in least expected places:

“Every day the sky is different, seasons change, different flowers grow, buildings weather, shadows appear and disappear, rain drops splash, puddles dry up, blossom tumbles in the wind, colours change with the changing light…there is always something new to enjoy.”

• ♥ At Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden you may find some extraordinary architectural eco sculptures forming a forest friendly “Catawampus”. The nest like twiggy houses are created by artist Patrick Dougherty.

This is it for this week.

Wishing you a peaceful weekend and a happy 4th of July next week.

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