DAWN! A new day emerges. Another beginning . . . . by fieldmaster

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jan 07, 2009

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DAWN! A new day emerges. Another beginning . . . . Image of Global Warming　(Port of Tacoma, WA) The waste steam co-generation system is considered a promising technology to generate electricity and hot water with high efficiency and low environmental impact. Don't you think? "Mottainai" is a Japanese term, that has become a catchphrase for Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, equating it roughly to the English phrase "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". In the past, "Mottainai" has had various meanings, including, "it was inconvenient" and "more than my situation". However, today Mottainai has a meaning, roughly translated as "The value such as the thing, the people, and phenomena cannot finish being made the best use of enough and it is useless". Wangari Maathai visited Japan for an event related to the Kyoto Protocol in 2005. At this time, she learnt this word through newspaper coverage of the event. She was impressed by the depth of similarity between the Japanese meaning of the world and equivalent concepts in English and Swahili, about how a person has a responsibility to respect the earth through frugality and conservation in behavior. Since her learning of the word, she has attempted to enter it into the international lexicon, as a symbol of the truly global and ancient nature of environmental respect. She has used the word in numerous speeches on her current world lecture tour, and while speaking before the United Nations, has made the General Assembly repeat it in chorus. (From Wikipedia)

Comments (25)

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Kaartijer

8:31PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

I'd rather say "Global Cooling"... the winters are getting longer and cooler, while the summer, even if there some real hot days, it's getting shorter... Well seen, excellent shot!

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YARDOBE

8:31PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

I'm caught between being impressed by the pic and saddened by the subject....so your job has been well done!

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schonee

8:38PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

WOW What a powerful image! I am with YARDOBE he said it just right!

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evensteven

8:42PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

"The old world will burn in the fires of industry." Sauruman Great shot!

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dbrv6

8:50PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Its a very cool capture. It is an interesting chracteristic to take a word from anouther language as if that might change the thing. Some of the things that corporations are doing in the name of it just makes economic sense are very amazing from an enviromental sense. Never forget where the money is.

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