President – The Dalai Lama Foundation
Today’s Date: 19 December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
I used to ride a horse called Tara for many years in Darjeeling, India, when I was young. Even then I would sense that Tara knew me and we “communicated” somehow.
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
Up in high mountains on rocky perches
Now? Just in the backyard with a little bit of nature
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
Dogs & horses because they seem so close to humans and because they interact & communicate.
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
-water shortage, waste, & misuse
-car pollution & industrial pollution
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
-each person & every small unit, a shop, a school, a business has a big role to play
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Tenzin Tethong is the founder of key Tibet initiatives in the U.S. including the Tibet Fund, Tibet House-New York, and the International Campaign for Tibet. He is a former Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in New York and Washington, D.C., and former Chairman of the Kashag, the Tibetan Cabinet. Mr. Tethong currently serves as Chairman of the Committee of 100 for Tibet and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Taken from http://www.dalailamafoundation.org/members/en/founders.jsp#tethong
Thanks to my sister Michelle McIlroy for designing the logo!
December 31, 2007
Cosmas Nguya
Executive Officer - Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania, Arusha Branch
Today’s Date: 18 December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
-Through study tours to the national parks
-Looking at various pictures and movies about animals and nature
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
No! I did not have a favorite place in the great outdoors.
Now? Yes! Now I have such favorite places.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
My favorite animal is a giraffe. Giraffes are very polite and are rarely heard although they have a variety of sounds. Giraffes sleep for a very short time – hardly for 12 minutes in a day and they normally sleep standing up (interesting).
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
The greatest environmental challenge facing us now is global warming/climate change. The greatest challenge in the future will be the environmental destruction.
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
People especially youth should be aware of and respect and care for the environment to make the world a better place for living. The spirit and dedication to making this world a better place for all of us to live is an essential or a must. Good environment for good living.
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Today’s Date: 18 December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
-Through study tours to the national parks
-Looking at various pictures and movies about animals and nature
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
No! I did not have a favorite place in the great outdoors.
Now? Yes! Now I have such favorite places.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
My favorite animal is a giraffe. Giraffes are very polite and are rarely heard although they have a variety of sounds. Giraffes sleep for a very short time – hardly for 12 minutes in a day and they normally sleep standing up (interesting).
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
The greatest environmental challenge facing us now is global warming/climate change. The greatest challenge in the future will be the environmental destruction.
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
People especially youth should be aware of and respect and care for the environment to make the world a better place for living. The spirit and dedication to making this world a better place for all of us to live is an essential or a must. Good environment for good living.
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Besoeker
Private Citizen
Today’s Date: 30 December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
Dogs probably. Farmer's boy so we had cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs etc.
But the dogs get your trust and yours theirs.
Send a brace over a hill out of sight and they come back with the flock. Time after time.
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
Mile Hill.
Now? The Sahara. Remote and desolate, but indescribible as an experience. The Great Karoo gets runner up for me.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
Dogs for the reasons in point 1.
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
Warming.
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
Go nuclear.
Posted at http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=111400#111400
Today’s Date: 30 December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
Dogs probably. Farmer's boy so we had cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs etc.
But the dogs get your trust and yours theirs.
Send a brace over a hill out of sight and they come back with the flock. Time after time.
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
Mile Hill.
Now? The Sahara. Remote and desolate, but indescribible as an experience. The Great Karoo gets runner up for me.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
Dogs for the reasons in point 1.
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
Warming.
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
Go nuclear.
Posted at http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=111400#111400
Wowbagger
Private Citizen
Today’s Date: 30 December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
I have a very neutral and emotionless relation with nature and animals, but I also have a very neutral and emotionless relation with myself and everything. Therefore, I give the same value to myself as I give to all other forms of life. This is this system of values that has the biggest impact on myself and in my relation with other forms of life.
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
I've never really been aware of places, as I've always been watching at the ground when I walked. It sounds ridiculous, but it's true, I missed a lot of scenery because I was watching the ground.
Now? Now, I rarely move away from my computer, but the favorite places I go to happen to be in my dreams.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
Squirrels are pretty funny. I like them most.
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
Without mentioning the catastrophic scenarios that could cause much environmental destruction like a nuclear war, I would would say that we aren't really facing any environmental challenge. Of course, human activity can be detrimental to us, but not enough to be challenging. When the water of or oceans will raise, we'll simply move away from it. Other species than ours are going to face real challenges however, and this is the real challenge for us, which s not environmental, but ethical. I'd be very surprised if humanity ever overcome this ethical challenge however.
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
Tell yourself that our existence today is only possible because during our long evolution in ancestral times, there wasn't a species like ourself that had great destruction powers but took no responsibility to restrain it.
Posted at http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=111400#111400
Today’s Date: 30 December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
I have a very neutral and emotionless relation with nature and animals, but I also have a very neutral and emotionless relation with myself and everything. Therefore, I give the same value to myself as I give to all other forms of life. This is this system of values that has the biggest impact on myself and in my relation with other forms of life.
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
I've never really been aware of places, as I've always been watching at the ground when I walked. It sounds ridiculous, but it's true, I missed a lot of scenery because I was watching the ground.
Now? Now, I rarely move away from my computer, but the favorite places I go to happen to be in my dreams.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
Squirrels are pretty funny. I like them most.
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
Without mentioning the catastrophic scenarios that could cause much environmental destruction like a nuclear war, I would would say that we aren't really facing any environmental challenge. Of course, human activity can be detrimental to us, but not enough to be challenging. When the water of or oceans will raise, we'll simply move away from it. Other species than ours are going to face real challenges however, and this is the real challenge for us, which s not environmental, but ethical. I'd be very surprised if humanity ever overcome this ethical challenge however.
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
Tell yourself that our existence today is only possible because during our long evolution in ancestral times, there wasn't a species like ourself that had great destruction powers but took no responsibility to restrain it.
Posted at http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=111400#111400
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