Celebrate Earth Day with free organic flowers, apples: event by Alphar

April 21, 2009 - PRLog -- Dunedinites will be able to celebrate Earth Day with free organic flowers and apples for the week beginning 22 April, in an event being coordinated by Alphar Publishing.
Alphar Publishing and the Thomas Moore Foundation will be giving away free organic flowers and apples, along with information about the environmental benefits of organic farming, at the Alphar Ranch, 101 Blanket Bay Road, Dunedin, on Earth Day, Wednesday 22 April, and the rest of the week. Email Elsinoretimes@gmail.com or tom.moore@xtra.co.nz
“Conventionally grown flowers and fruits are among the most sprayed crops in the world, with potentially devastating impacts on the health of the farmers and their environment. Organic farms have a greatly reduced impact on waterways as a result of avoiding the use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides.
The healthy soils and whole-system approach to farming encouraged by organic production has benefits for biodiversity, climate change, water quality and energy use - issues of key concern for sustainability-conscious Dunedinites.
"Enjoying organic flowers and fruits while finding out about the environmental benefits of organic products will encourage people in the heart of New Zealand's Green culture to think about where our produce comes from, and the wider costs of producing it”, Dr Thomas Moore said.
Al Gore puts it staright in the introduction to his book “An Inconvenient Truth”:
“The climate crisis also offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing: a generational mission; the exhilaration of a compelling moral purpose; a shared and unifying cause; the thrill of being forced by circumstances to put aside the pettiness and conflict that so often stifle the restless human need for transcendence; the opportunity to rise.”
Or the philisopher who said: “And there wasn't such a thing as a single flower suddenly appearing on Earth as a result of random mutations, but rather humans or order intelligent beings seeing flowers in the unmanifest and materializing them in great numbers all at once. This makes more sense if you believe that Spirit comes first: "In the beginning was Intelligence".
The most revered force of William Shakespeare and his most famous play “King Lear,” is reinforced by Dr. Thomas Moore in his new novel, “The Last Warning about Global Warming” (www.AlpharPublish.com) where he demonstrates that Shakespeare was probably strongly influenced by the Biblical creation story where the family figurehead, Mr. G (God), delegates his inheritance and 2IC authority to three sons (Lucifer the satanic force, archangel Gabriel, and the healer and redeemer; Jesus of Nazareth.)
Also see UPLAND ROAD, HILLARY, and THE PROGRESS OF MAN by same author (www.alpharpublish.com)
Or, as Edgar Poe wrote: “And, here and there, in groves about this grass, like wildernesses of dreams, sprang up fantastic trees, whose tall slender stems stood not upright, but slanted gracefully toward the light that peered at noon-day into the centre of the valley. Their mark was speckled with the vivid alternate splendor of ebony and silver, and was smoother than all save the cheeks of Eleonora; so that, but for the brilliant green of the huge leaves that spread from their summits in long, tremulous lines, dallying with the Zephyrs, one might have fancied them giant serpents of Syria doing homage to their sovereign the Sun.”
Alan Marshall’s article to be published in Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy and Alan’s website http://alanmarshall.org/index.htm also soberly provokes urgent attention to our environmental deadline:
“The next major impact of our environmental mismanagement is loss of (human, ed.) habitat. Many creatures have been driven to extinction, and hundreds of species are endangered.  “Biodiversity” may be a catch-cry of today’s greenies, but it is something God cares about.  There are profound lessons from the biblical flood story, whether or not one views it as a literal account.  In fact, this story is also in the Koran,  the Hindu sacred texts,  and the folklore of numerous indigenous peoples.
For a doubling in CO2, the projected rise in temperature varies from 1.5 to 5.2°C.   These are only medium-term models, however, and the long-term model, on which I focus, projects a rise in temperature of 4.7°C (8.5°F).  
   The online article “New Antarctic Ice Core Data” demonstrates that the pre-industrial concentration of CO2 determined by NOOA was 278 ppm.  The current concentration of CO2 is 381-385 ppm, so the pre-industrial level was 103-107 ppm lower than today’s levels.  If you then factor in the contribution of the other greenhouse gases, most of which are man-made, our predicament becomes worse.  The combined concentration of all greenhouse gases is currently  back in 2006 was 433 ppm of CO2 equivalent,  so we are well on the way to the doubling in CO2.
   If all this is starting to sound rather scary, then you are beginning to understand the magnitude of the problem we face, and will see that as we respond to this challenge, the industrial, economic, and political landscape of the world will fundamentally change.  The world was transformed in the industrial revolution from dependence on animal power to dependence on coal, and with the later invention of the motor car, to dependence on oil.  The industrial, economic, and political changes will be just as great as we move into a world freed from its addiction to fossil fuels, and powered instead by sustainable energy.
   As the leaders of tomorrow, your generation has the challenge and opportunity to manage this change in such a way that the outcomes are effective, environmentally and economically sound, equitable, and democratic.”