Working for Water in the Klein River Catchment Area - editorial in Stanford 150th anniversay booklet

about 400 words - my first draft and I need to run it by Tarron Dry and James Coetzee for their comments.

If you can send it back with highlighs of the things you find intersting, I can work on it over the weekend.

Have a great evening.
Cheers,
Philippa

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Working for Water in the Klein River Catchments

 

by Philippa E Castle

www.philippacastle.blogspot.com

 

 

The essence of the Working for Water project under the auspices of D.W.A.F. (Dept. of Water & forestry) is “Water Conservation through Poverty Alleviation and Alien Eradication.”

 

According to Tarron Dry, senior Project Co-coordinator for the Klein River Catchments, the core objectives are to approve areas for clearing from a conservation point of view, namely, water conservation and biodiversity.

 

Poverty alleviation goes hand in hand with social skills & physical development in terms of free training given to alien clearing teams.  The teams are set up with start up tools, which they buy over time.  Assistance is given with regard to hire purchase of vehicles as well as all other requirements and aspects of setting up full businesses and creating effective alien clearing teams.  Each team leader is awarded 24 clearing contracts over a minimum period of two years.

 

All Schedule 1, 2 & 3 aliens are removed through a process of spraying target specific poisons, cutting, felling and stacking.  The individual land-owners are responsible for obtaining fire permits to burn the cleared aliens.  The Govt. funded clearing project for each area includes 2 follow up cleans over a period of about 3 years, after which the responsibility for keeping the area free from alien plants reverts to the land-owner.  The land-owner, by way of contract, is also obliged to allow re-growth of indigenous plant species for an additional period of 3 years.

 

The Working for Water project received an estimated R1m funding for the 2007/8 Annual Plan of Operation (APO) to tackle the alien re-growth in the burned areas of the Klein River Catchments.  The funding for the entire project encompassing the whole Overstrand Municipality is estimated to be in the region of R3m.

 

As with many Govt. projects there is a tight trail of red tape, for obvious good reason, however, it is frustrating for the land-owners in the region who sign the relevant applications for clearing assistance, have their farms surveyed and mapped for clearing and are then informed, nearly a year down the line, that they are still not on the APO.  One hesitates to ask if these demarcated areas are, in reality, going to be cleared.

 

James Coetzee, a Nat. Parks consultant, says the WFW project’s initial focus needs to be the 30m area along each bank of the Klein River area as well as its main tributaries.  Sporadic alien eradication higher up is simply not being effective enough in contributing to the health of the Klein River.

Ek is jammer ek is...

Don't be sorry, buy me a farm, I hear you say. Ya well no fine. Make of it what you will, "they" say, it's a tough life out here in Africa, but somebody's got to do it...

Flower picking, rainbows, sunsets, birds, buck & bees - sounds like heaven you say, T'is Heaven.

My 'off the cuff' definition of my gift of bi-polar: To experience simultaneously the extremes of emotional states, where Heaven & Hell co-exist as two sides of the same coin, like yin & yang, darkness & light, Alpha & Omega, positive & negative and to balance these two opposing poles in a constant, ever-changing, cycling & re-cycling of MIT (moments in time).

Oh yes, I nearly forgot to pass on the message: "Jy moenie you languages opmix nie, want dis 'n baie bad habit en dit sal groot kak vir jou in jou near toekoms maak!"

Met glimlaggies en liefde

Lady Phi 1.618

Stop Nuclear Power at Pearly Beach, Overberg, Western Cape, South Africa

Just because it is the PBR (Pearly Beach Region), what in God's name allows Anyone to believe that a PBR (Pebble Bed Reactor) would fit into this awesome, Divine environment?

God help all of those who do not try to put a stop to it...

MY ASS... Alphabet Soup for the Soul...

I'll be the Lighthouse, if needs so be,
You keep the Nuke Nerds under tight lock and key!
I was in Atlantis. or so my colour therapist tells me
and now I'm reincarnated as a modern PC.
The letters of the alphabet, yes from A to Zee,
always lead me to B and fine spot of T.
At this X-road of life, where yet you may be,
you can ask for directions, just don't follow D.
V has a nack for showing the way,
yet if you are still in doubt, then refer it to G.
If it's fun that you want, then K's definitely your man,
he'll call up ol' E and they'll sure make a plan!

(By the by it just reminds me of BA Baracus & Abacus... & Allan Clive Baker and the ABC's of Life, Love & S...omething else)

AngelShade

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From: Universal Tides <editor@universaltides.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2007 8:58 PM
Subject: Spiritual Warriors - Healing Our Earth Karma
To: AngelShade <mamasilver@gmail.com>

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HEALING OUR EARTH KARMA
by M. J. MILNE
http://www.universaltides.com/

Do you love your home, meaning the planet you live on? Of course
you do. Then why do we hurt the one we love?

During our many past lives each of us has done something to harm or
hurt Mother Earth, our home planet known as Gaia. Now, She seeks
retribution and we must comply. Gaia hurls major earth changes at
us, such as solar flares, hurricanes, earthquakes, global-warming,
and tsunamis to get our attention, wanting us to make amends. And
the time has come.

How do we go about 'giving back' to our planet and correcting our
karma with Her?

For instance, those of us who took part in the destruction of
Atlantis with the misuse of power, probably of a nuclear nature; or
creating a chemical overload in our food and earth; or the hundreds
of souls who participated in the World War II atomic bombs both
before and after, and other nuclear tests around the world - these
events and countless others have caused huge environmental rifts
and energetic dimensional cracks.

It's obviously time to make amends. It's time to take
responsibility for our home - Mother Earth. Here's how:

Gather together, or on an individual basis to pray, meditate, and
focus on healing your home planet: the earth, the core, the water,
the air, the sky, the sun, the galaxy, the dimensional doorways
from us to other worlds. Singing "HU" is a great healer. The word
HU is the ancient and sacred name for Divine Love, and is
pronounced like 'hue' or 'Hugh' and is sung in a long-drawn out
tone, over and over, rolling it off your tongue. HU is
ever-expanding and harmonious, healing you and opening your heart
to allow Divine Spirit to spiritualize yourself and your
environment - a personal way to make amends for past life karma.

When you consider how many people have performed guerrilla warfare
against the environment, clear-cutting, burning forests, scrapping
out mines, creating nuclear and chemical waste dumps, using plastic
containers - we all know what we've done - you will understand how
each act of unkindness adds up and has created our present dilemma.
Am I being hard line? You bet. But then our future is at stake,
nothing less.

Once a day for fifteen minutes per day singing HU out loud while
sitting, or inwardly as you go about your day, would help to heal
the rifts and doorways, mending portals of time. There is still
time, regardless of what anyone says: If you focus on and sing HU
once a day, practice recycling as if it were your religion, join an
environmental group that directly affects your neighborhood, and be
a co-worker on your planet it will change our future direction. And
what a lovely way to meet new people!

The slogan from my novel "Spiritual (r)evolution is the solution!"
is the only solution left open to us. What do I mean?
Microbiologist Dr. Dierdre Brown (the main character) calls for a
total revolution of our beliefs that are based on an old state of
consciousness, which is partially embedded in traditional
religions. She calls for a symbiotic spiritual union, bringing
Muslims, Christians, and Jews together in to one spiritual ring. We
have been taught to be separate. Our tribal divisions are healing.
As the Beatles once sang: Come together.

For more information on healing your karmic past with the earth &
the new energies see these websites:
http://www.universaltides.com/
http://www.alunajoy.com/
http://www.firethegrid.com/
http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/

For information on the HU, see: http://www.eckankar.org/

Live to Live!
M.J.M.
Editor @UniversalTides.com
http://www.universaltides.com/

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