Hexagons are in all sorts of places across the universe, the bees make them, and there is a hexagon on the north pole of Saturn (the south pole is a spinning vortex)
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From Masonic ritual, the bee hive, “is an emblem of industry, and recommends the practice of that virtue to all created beings, from the highest seraph in heaven to the lowest reptile of the dust. it
teaches us that as we came into the world rational and intelligent beings, so we should ever be industrious ones, never sitting down contented while our fellow creatures around us are in want, when it is in our power to relieve them without inconvenience to ourselves.” – http://www.scribd.com/doc/29302196/Masonic-Rituals-Fo-the-Grand-Lodge-of-Alabama#stats

Nature

Look at these pictures

The World’s Ugliest Animals

Favorites: the Blobfish, and the Aye-Aye

Self Growing Bridges

http://newglobalwarmingeffects.com/2010/03/01/wonderful-self-growing-bridges-in-india/

Stone Forest

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/11/stone-forest/alvarez-photography

taking back rights

“Today the citizens of Shapleigh, Maine voted at a special town meeting to pass a groundbreaking Rights-Based Ordinance, 114 for and 66 against. This revolutionary ordinance give its citizens the right to local self-governance and gives rights to ecosystems but denies the rights of personhood to corporations. This ordinance allows the citizens to protect their groundwater resources, putting it in a common trust to be used for the benefit of its residents.

Shapleigh is the first community in Maine to pass such an ordinance, which extends rights to nature, however, the Ordinance Review Committee in Wells, Maine is considering passing one in their town. These communities have been under attack by Nestle Waters, N.A., a multi-national water miner that sells bottled water under such labels as Poland Springs.

Communities have opposed the expansion by Nestle Waters, but the corporation will not take no for an answer. The town of Fryeburg, Maine has been in litigation with Nestle for six years. Nestle wants to expand and the town’s people say no to the tanker trunk traffic which has disrupted their quiet scenic beauty, so Nestle’s tactic is to wear them down, and break their bank….”

more at link:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/40335

Awesome! City by city, county by county, state by state we can take our power back. Corporations have rights but nature does not? Its time to assert control by the people, not by the few elite that are driven only by profit.

camera clicks and chainsaws

design with nature

let’s hope this catches on

“Ten leading designers have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design.”

http://www.nature.org/design/

i know how to save the economy

An Ontario company says it has secured $2 million from investors to open the first North American bio-processing plant for industrial hemp.

Stonehedge Bio-Resources Inc., based in Stirling, Ont., north of Belleville, announced it plans to open a bio-refining facility this year.

Hemp is the common name for the cannabis plant, which has fibrous roots, stalks and stems useful for producing a variety of products and seeds that are edible. The flowers, buds and leaves of some strains are used to produce drugs such as marijuana and hashish because they contain a psychoactive compound called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), but industrial hemp is bred to produce very little THC.

The Stonehedge plant would produce Hemcrete, a limestone building material similar to concrete that is considered to be more environmentally friendly.

The company also expects to produce more than $17 million per year in renewable hemp fibre, wood-like chips, pellets, matting and seed products.

Stonehedge Bio-Resources says it plans to start with five employees this year and employ up to 27 people by 2011.

The company says the global renewable and bioproducts industry is expected to exceed $125 billion in revenues by 2010.

nature?