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Radiation from Japan is now detectable in the atmosphere, rain water and food chain in North America. Fukushima reactors are still out of control and hold 10 times more nuclear fuel than there was at Chernobyl, thousands of times more than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The official refrain is, “No worries here, perfectly harmless.” Our best scientists of the previous century would be rolling over in their graves.

One of the fastest growing plants known, water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) reproduces primarily by way of runners or stolons, which eventually form daughter plants. It also produces large quantities of seeds, and these are viable up to thirty years. The common water hyacinth are vigorous growers known to double their population in two weeks.

Water Hyacinth is a weed which provides a natural filtering system for the waters in our rivers, removing nutrient rich run off from monoculture farming systems, acting as a "buffer zone" before those nutrients reach our oceans and inshore reef systems and the precious Great Barrier Reef.

The plant is extremely tolerant of, and has a high capacity for, the uptake of heavy metals, including Cd, Cr, Co, Ni, Pb and Hg, which could make it suitable for the biocleaning of industrial wastewater. In addition to heavy metals, Eichhornia crassipes can also remove other toxins, such as cyanide, which is environmentally beneficial in areas that have endured gold mining operations.

Water hyacinth is also observed to enhance nitrification in waste water treatment cells of living technology. Their root zones are superb micro-sites for bacterial communities.

Australia needs to grow away from the "control and destroy" mentality and move to "utilise and capitalise" on this introduced water- weed.

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Water hyacinth is;

- very easy to manually harvest as it floats on the surface and can gathered by skimming.
- beneficial to our water systems feeding on excess nitrogen inputs from farming and suburban run off.
- once removed from the surface, the water below is crysal clear and clean.
- when returned to the soil as a conditioning agent (or green mulch) it reduces the need for fertilisation, watering and weeding.

Local testing within the Sugar industry showed an increased productivity yeild of up to 300% on some farms.

We currently poison this weed with "frog friendly" glyphosate. Poisoning our river systems further will not remove the weed as the seed is viable for long periods of time, beneath the surface, meaning that if just one flower survives to seed, the local government will need to continue poisoning our waterways for at least the next 30 years.

From water weed, to soil, with up to 300% increase in productivity in the Sugar Cane Industry (alone) this is a weed worthy of keeping in place not only to protect, but to improve conditions of waterways and soil and to supply a sustainable feedstock for the creation of further value added industry.

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From Paul Connor (now day 43) to the over 3000 people around the world who have fasted, or are fasting, for climate justice today

Dear Climate Change Minister Penny Wong,

What incredible power you hold in the palm of your hands.
Power that was given to you by the people of Australia, who you must honourably represent.
A very large and important responsibility.

I ask you to lead Australia to a sustainable future, one of clean energy supplies and jobs for all. I ask you to NOT CAUSE the extinction of millions, perhaps billions, of species. Please do not commit premeditated murder.

What road will you take Climate Change Minister Penny Wong?
The road of honour, or the one lined with gold...?
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Walk Against Warming march in Melb... accounts vary between 10,000 - 40,000 marchers. See and hear the people Penny Wong...
REPRESENT THEM!
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Finally, are you aware of the Climate Justice Fasters?
Please ensure these wonderfully brave young people will grow old and fat.
Paul's Blog Day 36 - only water:
http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/day-36-paul/
Day 30 - only water:
http://www.climatejusticefast.com/blog/entry/day-30/
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Saturday, 12th December, 2009, register here:
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Senator MILNE (Tasmania) (1:55 PM) -As I rise to speak today, the earth, its people and its ecosystems are facing a planetary emergency driven by global warming and the Rudd government has demonstrated not only that is it not up to the task of addressing a global emergency but also that it has deliberately, willingly and knowingly turned its back on this generation, future generations and in particular all of those people in developing countries who are already suffering from climate change.

It is extraordinary that in human history one generation of humans has the power to impact overwhelmingly on all generations to come after. What we have seen here in this parliament today is a government thinking that a superficial political deal will suffice as a response to climate change.

Taking $6 billion away from Australia's households and handing it across to the coal industry-to coal-fired generators-is not an appropriate response to climate change. ...

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COSMOS magazine: Helen Camakaris "We evolved when there were no issues of sustainability; I believe our instincts and cultural attitudes are therefore preventing us from responding appropriately. I have suggested strategies that might help."
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Helen Camakaris is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne.

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snip "Achim Steiner, United Nations Environment Program's executive director, says that "2008 was the first year where there was more investment in non-carbon energy sources than in high carbon and nuclear energy."

I was recently made aware of an extensive list of Scientists who refute Global Warming/Climate Change as a man made phenomena. These scientists do not dispute that Climate Change is happening, they argue that it is a natural cycle. They go on to ask governments to steer taxes into disaster preparation and continued growth to tackle the problem. The link is here:
http://www.rense.com/general79/d3m.htm

I have replied to them below:

I am not a scientist and my first glimmer of climate change came in 1998 when there was a really big heat wave. The shallow waters of Picnic Bay on Magnetic Island was too hot to walk into without burning your feet. I lived in the tropics of Qld, Australia, on an island surrounded by incredibly beautiful and diverse inshore coral reefs. Over the next two years many of these inshore reefs began to bleach and crumble. Then algae took hold. What was left (particularly in the shallower waters) was quickly suffocated by a forest of seaweed and turned into a muddy slush when the seaweed that fed off it ran out of fuel and was washed away by a minor cyclone. Said seaweed was then washed ashore and protected the trees roots (before it was cleaned up) which were badly exposed by the disappearing sand lines.

These sand lines continue to disappear on every beach I have visited in Qld over the last ten years or so. I don’t know where the sand is going, but it is rather amusing to watch the bulldozers attempt to put it all back year after year while the tides continue to grow higher and ever higher…

I watch this happening with my own eyes and try and understand why it is happening. It is very sad to witness first hand. It is not confined to any one particular beach but all of the beaches I have visited (even the ones with no continual human occupation).

I began to learn back in 1998 about global warming and climate change. Now, I do not dispute it. I just hope that there is time left for humanity to make the changes needed in order to survive as a species. Many have already lost their lives. I feel great sadness for their loss. Many more will perish in the not too distant future, particularly if we continue to deny what is happening before our very eyes.
see: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25555143-1702,00.html

I want a future for my children. I would like to ask those who remain in denial, what harm is there to TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION NOW? Disaster mitigation strategies must be put into place to protect those most vulnerable.

Natural or man made...does it matter?

What harm (apart from loss of income to multi-national corporations) will become this planet we all share, if we move AWAY from polluting industries and INTO a clean energy future? Whether the climate change/global warming scientists "preachers" are all full of hot air, or the others are “big industry” paid liars, there will be A LOT LESS HARM DONE to humanity and the home we all share if we clean up our act now.

Might I add that it is also ignorant and foolish to ignore the impact of multi-national corporations on our planet. Their retrenched employees (often paid off with the minimum possible) which has been ... to date... to ensure their shareholders get a nice, fat, continual return on investment and control of market share, is ensured by the fattest and most heartless.

Take a look now at what is happening to those very same shareholders... their retirement funds not up in smoke but lining the pockets of a small handful of CEO's and crooked politicians.

Time is here and now to get out of bed with multi-nationals, crooked politicians and their reckless behaviours of despoiling our planet for a quick buck ... it just makes the thin starve and fat obese... whilst continuously ignoring the fate of our children's futures.

No matter who or what you believe, cleaning up our act and getting out of bed with multinational despoilers can do us no harm.

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