[Sust-mar] sust-mar Digest, Vol 40, Issue 3
Laura
simms.laura at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 15:43:25 EST 2008
Hi everyone,
This message is in response to Pat Fleck's excellent email about Battery
Disposal.
In Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) batteries fall under the category
Household Hazardous Waste. To find an HRM Hazardous Waste drop off depot or
to find out what other products are accepted, visit this link:
http://halifax.ca/wrms/hhw.html
For information on battery recycling and retailers that accept batteries in
their stores (e.g. Home Depot, Canadian Tire, Sears, Staples, etc), visit
this site:
http://www.rbrc.org/index.html
For facts about battery recycling and/or disposal, go here:
http://www.rbrc.org/consumer/howitallworks_faq.shtml
Most *akaline* batteries are *not* recyclable due to the mercury in the
batteries. The good news is *rechargeable* batteries are recyclable! So not
only can you reduce waste by buying rechargeable batteries (because they
last so much longer than one-time-use only akaline batteries), but you are
helping the environment by buying a recyclable product. So even though
rechargeable batteries are more costly up front, long term they will save
you money and the earth!
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> 1. International Year of Astronomy 2009 | Dark Skies Awareness
> (Dave Chapman)
> 2. An Open Letter from Captain Paul Watson from the Tasman Sea
> (Ellen durkee)
> 3. Battery disposal (Pat Fleck)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:09:33 -0400
> From: Dave Chapman <dave.chapman at ns.sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [Sust-mar] International Year of Astronomy 2009 | Dark Skies
> Awareness
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> 2009 is the UNESCO International Year of Astronomy, a global
> celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first use of the
> telescope to investigate the sky. Astronomy has deep roots in Nova
> Scotia, and there is a vibrant community of both professional and
> amateur astronomers who have come together under the banner of
> Astronomy Nova Scotia to organize and promote activities for IYA.
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> As "naturalists of the night sky" astronomers have a strong kinship
> with nature and environmental groups. One of the IYA Cornerstone
> projects is Dark Skies Awareness:
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> It is now more urgent than ever to preserve and protect dark night
> skies in places such as urban cultural landscapes, national parks and
> sites connected with astronomical observations, to preserve sites of
> astronomical importance for posterity.
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> The ongoing loss of dark night skies for much of the world's
> population is a serious and growing issue that not only impacts
> astronomical research, but also human health, ecology, safety,
> security, economics and energy conservation.
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> http://www.astronomy2009.org/globalprojects/cornerstones/darkskiesawareness/
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> Collectively, we have put together an Opening Celebration of astronomy
> events for the week 7-13 January, 2009, outlined below. A portion of
> our programs and educational handouts for IYA are directly concerned
> with Dark Skies Awareness and responsible Lighting.
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> We would greatly appreciate you helping us promote Dark Skies
> Awareness, our IYA Opening Celebration, and Astronomy Nova Scotia to
> your membership. During 2009, we hope to launch some initiatives for
> urban sky parks and dark sky reserves in Nova Scotia.
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> IYA Nova Scotia Opening Celebration week January 7-13 (sneak peek)
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> *Jan 7: Astronomers on the Radio: CBC Maritime Noon phone-in
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> *Jan 9: Astronomers Drinking Coffee: "Where are the Aliens?" Cafe
> Scientifique at Uncommon Grounds, South Park Street
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> *Jan 10: Astronomy Display at Mic Mac Mall, StarLab shows for Kids at
> the Discovery Centre, Public Astronomy Lectures at Saint Mary's
> University and Acadia University, Sidewalk Astronomy at SMU, Tour of
> Burke-Gaffney Observatory (SMU)
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> *Jan 11: Public Sky Shows at the Halifax Planetarium (Dal), StarLab
> shows for Kids at the Discovery Centre
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> *Jan 13: Astronomers at the Library: "Gravity and Black Holes" at
> Spring Garden Road Branch
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> Details at http://www.astronomynovascotia.ca/
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 05:28:13 -0400
> From: Ellen durkee <ellen_durkee at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Sust-mar] An Open Letter from Captain Paul Watson from the
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> ----- Forwarded message from paulwatson at seashepherd.org -----
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> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:43:52 -0800
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> From: paulwatson at seashepherd.org
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> Reply-To: paulwatson at seashepherd.org
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> Subject: An Open Letter from Captain Paul Watson from the Tasman Sea
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> To: paul at seashepherd.org
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> An Open Letter from Captain Paul Watson from the Tasman Sea
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> Dear Friends,
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>
> We are finally on our way. My ship Steve Irwin and my crew left Brisbane
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> in Queensland, Australia on December 4th. We made a brief stop in
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> Newcastle in New South Wales to take on fuel and oil and departed on
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> December 7th. We will make another brief stop in Hobart in Tasmania to
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> top up the fuel tanks to allow us the maximum range when we head to the
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> Ross Sea to intercept the Japanese whaling fleet.
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> We are under no illusion that this will be an easy campaign. Japan has
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> budgeted 8 million dollars to oppose our efforts. What this means we
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> have no idea. Will they send a gunboat? We don't know for sure but they
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> have said they will arrest us if we interfere with their illegal whaling
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> operations. How they will do that is unknown. Will the fire on our ship
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> or board our ship? - we don't know. We just need to be prepared for all
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> possibilities.
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> This is a four part campaign. Basically it gets down to "prepare,
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> search, intercept, and stop".
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> We are prepared. We have improved the ship substantially since the last
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> campaign.
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> We have a newly constructed helicopter deck and hanger, a completely
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> over-hauled helicopter and in addition to our very experienced
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> ex-military (U.S. Marine) pilot we also have a dedicated helicopter
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> mechanic.
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> On deck we have a new hydraulic winch and two new fast interceptor
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> boats.
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> We have three times the safety equipment required including immersion
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> suits, survival suits, lifeboats, and EPIRB's. We also have a medical
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> doctor onboard and officers holding EMT certificates.
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>
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> We have a master welder, master carpenter, and a crew of very
>
> experienced engineers led by our longtime Chief Engineer Charles
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> Hutchings. We have qualified divers, communication techs, and navigators
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>
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> We also have new tactics, new equipment and new ideas to help us with
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> our mission.
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>
>
> And we have an excellent crew. There are 40 crew presently, plus an 8
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> person crew from Animal Planet to shoot the 2nd season of Whale Wars. A
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> third of the crew is Australian and a third American with the remaining
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> third composed of citizens from Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Bermuda,
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> New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, Hungary and Japan.
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> A third of the crew are women and half of the crew are returning
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> veterans.
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> Upon leaving Hobart, we will begin the 2nd phase of the campaign - the
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> search. This year the Japanese whaling fleet is operating in the Ross
>
> Sea and that is where we will be heading. It's a long haul to get there
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> and once there it's a vast area to search but we will scour those remote
>
> frozen seas until we find them and once we do we will intercept them and
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> hopefully before they kill too many whales.
>
>
>
> There are quite a few differences between this campaign and our previous
>
> four voyages to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
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> This year we will be very much alone down there.
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>
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> The new Australian government of Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett has
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> reneged on their election promises and they will not have any ships in
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> the Southern Ocean.. In fact the Australian Navy has been ordered into
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> port - practically all of their ships and their officers and crew have
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> been sent home for a two month vacation. There is not a single
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> Australian government ship patrolling the Australian Antarctic
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> Territorial waters despite the fact that the Japanese whaling fleet has
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> been killing whales in direct contempt of an Australian Federal Court
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> ruling specifically forbidding the killing of whales in waters over
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> which Australia has declared sovereignty.
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> Greenpeace will not be down in the Southern Ocean, despite raising
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> millions of dollars for that express purpose. They have backed out
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> primarily because they do not want to be associated with Sea Shepherd
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> actions. Their excuse is that they need to address the trial of two of
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> their Japanese activists. Greenpeace has the funding to do both and they
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> certainly have the ships. The truth is that they have surrendered the
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> Southern Oceans to the Japanese whaling fleet. They no longer have the
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> stomach for confrontation.
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> The key to success with the Japanese whalers is persistence. We must
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> never retreat or surrender the Southern Ocean Sanctuary to them. We must
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> continue to undermine their profits and we must continue to expose their
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> illegal activities to the world.
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>
>
> We must do this no matter what obstacles they throw up before us, no
>
> matter how violent they become, no matter what political, media and
>
> economic pressure they direct at us.
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>
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> They can call us all the names in the world but they cannot deny the
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> reality that they are targeting threatened and endangered whales in an
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> established whale sanctuary in violation of the international moratorium
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> on commercial whaling and in contempt of the Australian courts.
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> Sea Shepherd on the other hand has not, and is not violating
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> international law. We have not injured anyone and we have not been
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> charged with any crime. We are acting in accordance with the principles
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> established in the United Nations World Charter for Nature by working to
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> uphold and enforce international conservation law.
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>
> I have called this year's campaign - Operation Musashi. This is in
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> recognition of Miyamoto Musashi, who is to the Japanese what Robin Hood,
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> Ned Kelly and Jesse James are to the British, the Australians and the
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> Americans.
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>
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> Aside from being an outlaw, Musashi was also a master strategist. I have
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> incorporated his strategy of a twofold way of pen and sword which means
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> the approaching of the problem through confrontation and communication
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> or education.
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> Our physical interventions to stop the killing of whales is the sword
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> and our participation in the television series Whale Wars is the pen.
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> And we also carry the most effective weapon ever designed - the camera.
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> What will happen this year?
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> It is hard to predict with certainty? Will we find the fleet? I am
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> confident that we will. Will they react more violently this year than
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> last year? We suspect that they will. Will we prevent them from killing
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> whale? I am confident that we will be able to do so.
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>
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> But as Musashi once observed with regard to strategy, we need to proceed
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> towards the whaling fleet with absolute resolve, with courage and
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> determination, focusing on the goal of saving the lives of as many
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> whales as possible, undeterred by threats or physical violence,
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> unconcerned with the consequences, prepared and cautious yet committed
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> to a policy of no retreat and no surrender. We need to understand that
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> when we say we are willing to risk our lives for the whales that it is
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> not a meaningless slogan on a banner to us - it is what we do. We need
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> to demonstrate to the world that there are human beings willing to risk
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> all to protect diversity and the right of other species to live
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> unmolested by the rapacious greed of humankind. We fight not just for
>
> the whales in those remote southern waters - we fight for the diversity
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> of life and thus the future of our own kind upon this planet.
>
>
>
> It will be a dramatic campaign and I will direct all my energies into
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> ensuring that it will be an effective campaign and that the lives of
>
> whales will be saved.
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>
>
> I cannot tell you in words just how wonderful it is to have intervened
>
> for the whales in the seasons past. To know that at this moment, there
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> are whales swimming freely in those lonely waters that would now be dead
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> if not for our interventions. To know that so many baby whales have been
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> brought into being because we were able to force the whalers to spare
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> their mothers is a source of great happiness for me. I feel them out
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> there, so alive and so aware, in those dark and cold waters and it is
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> this connection that calms my soul with the purring hum of contentment
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> in my heart. In truth to die in defense of life is the most honourable
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> death I can think of and thus there can be no fear - only enlightenment
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> and contentment.
>
>
>
> And so it is southward that our bow is pointed and it is two thousand
>
> miles to the south amongst the ice bergs in the remote frozen south
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> polar seas that we will once again skirmish with the killers of the
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> gentle giants of the sea.
>
>
>
> And for their sake and for the sake of our children we will prevail and
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> we will drive these vicious killers from the Southern Ocean Whale
>
> Sanctuary and thus we will restore the integrity of the Sanctuary in a
>
> world where governments seem to have lost the meaning of the word
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> "sanctuary."
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>
>
> And so for the whales we sail on towards what I believe will be our most
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> aggressive and most effective confrontation with the Japanese whalers
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> ever.
>
>
>
> Captain Paul Watson
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>
> Founder and President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (1977-
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> Co-Founder - The Greenpeace Foundation (1972)
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> Co-Founder - Greenpeace International (1979)
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> Director for Greenpeace (1972-1977)
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> Director of the Sierra Club USA (2003-2006)
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> Director of the Farley Mowat Institute
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> Working Partner with the Ecuadorian National Environmental Police and
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> the Galapagos National Park
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> Master of the M/Y Steve Irwin
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> Master of the M/Y Farley Mowat
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>
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> "Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
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> Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee and thou with me,
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> For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
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>
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> And we risk the ship, ourselves and all"
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>
>
> - Walt Whitman
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> www.Seashepherd.org <http://www.seashepherd.org/>
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> Tel: 360-370-5650
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> Fax: 360-370-5651
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> Cell: 310-701-3096
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> Address: P.O. Box 2616
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> Friday Harbor, Wa 98250
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> USA
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> MySpace Address: myspace.com/captainpaulwatson
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> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:01:55 -0400
> From: Pat Fleck <snowfleck at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Sust-mar] Battery disposal
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> I have no data to back up my assumption, but it seems to me that there are
> a tremendous amount of batteries being disposed of in landfills across the
> maritimes. Even rechargeable batteries can only be used for just so long and
> they too become part of the toxic waste.
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> While on vacation last year, I visited West Sacramento, California. Their
> Recycling Division of the city government took it upon themselves to tackle
> the battery issue. There are battery buckets in stores, gas stations,
> libraries, post office, city government offices, banks, schools, etc.
> People are encouraged to bring their dead batteries and dispose of them at
> these sites.
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> I admit that I have no idea of how they are processed once collected.
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> In this electronic day and age, and with batteries all containing toxics
> (no matter how environmentally friendly they claim to be), I wonder if
> something similar is possible in the maritimes?
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