悦耳的鸟鸣也扰人

案情简介家住广州市天河某小区的一位60岁老太太,其邻居家养了一只小鸟,每天清晨小鸟都会在阳台上发出阵阵欢叫。这令体弱多病的老太太感到万分痛苦,因为小鸟的叫声会让她心跳加快,血压上升。对此,她多次与该邻居交涉,并终因交涉未果将邻居告上了法庭。她认为,几个月来尖锐刺耳     

母爱不老

这位母亲88岁了,她自己这样介绍。她身体看上去也不是特别硬朗,在她健谈的间隙,必须要停下来喘一阵气。这医院的病号是久病成医,都说,老太太呀,呼吸道不好吗?老太太不管这些,她唠叨这医院的楼太高了,她说她从乡下来,大家才注意到她穿得很朴素很干净。她是来看儿子的:“这小子,有病了不给我老娘讲。”老太太是听儿媳说儿子在这里,儿子有个小名叫“大脑壳”,问医院的护士,没一个人知道,老太太又急又失望,便一个病房挨着一个病房找。我正好在这里修理我身体出了问题的零件——胃,正如中医理论所讲的那样,当你觉得身体的哪一部分最重要的时候,实…     

奶奶爱环保

我的奶奶是一位普通的农村老太太,她已经六十多岁了,花白的头发,黝黑的脸上布满皱纹。奶奶是一位环保达人,她虽然只读过两三年书,讲不出什么环保的大道理,但是她的环保意识与环保行为一直在生活中坚持了下来。在我家,奶奶的环保故事多得数不清。比如家里的旧报纸、废纸盒,奶奶从不乱丢,都叠得整整齐齐收起来,攒多了就卖给收破烂的;家里的瓶瓶罐罐用处就更大了,奶奶用它们装     

汉江女儿运建立

初到中原腹地襄樊，一条穿城而过的江就让人怦然心动，好似一幅渲染得极好的水墨画。这条江就是长江的最大支流——汉江，流经襄樊195公里，是滋养580多万襄樊人的母亲河。在襄樊的一次环保经验交流会上，笔者见到了一个幽默健谈、精神面善的68岁老太太，她叫运建立。此后通过几天的接触，笔者一步步地在她身上求解到汉江丽质的谜底。     

“春天”的觉醒——《寂静的春天》诞生前后

正整整50年前的那个春天,远在大洋彼岸,一位年仅57岁的优雅女士,怀着对这个世界的深情眷恋和深重忧虑,撒手离去。她留下了一部给全球带来极大震撼的警世之作——《寂静的春天》,还有纷纷扰扰的"争议"。有人说,只要春天还听得到鸟叫,我们就应该感谢她——蕾切尔·卡逊(Rachel Louise Carson,1907~1964)。这句话或许有点儿夸张,但今天应该没人会否认,现代环境运动的肇始,当以1962年《寂静的春天》问世为标志。     

纤纤圣手送子来

今年“五·一”,北京动物园人头攒动,来自全国各地的游客们沉浸在好奇与兴奋之中。人流中有一对年轻夫妇和一位老太太也带着一个三四岁的小男孩在游览。所有的人都会以为这位老太太是小孩的奶奶或姥姥,没有人会想到这是一位治疗不孕不育的老大夫在陪着经自己治疗而出生的小宝宝在游玩。这位老大夫就是京城有名的“送子观音”林颖超女士。林大夫从上个世纪60年代     

马霞与我们同行(续)

7月25日是绿色营出发的日子。我一早起来，整理行装。6点40分电话铃响了，一个万万没有想到的噩耗从医院传来：马霞刚刚去世了。当时我好像非常冷静，第一个念头是感谢上帝，她没有经历痛苦。许多人告诉我，癌症的痛苦是非常可怕的。这种信息一直折磨着我，比自己得了癌症还痛苦。现在她突如其来地异常平静地走了。昨天她还接待了三起客人：两位亲戚，一位作家，一位在家护理过她的护士。还对我说：“明天绿色营学生要见我，给我带把梳子来。”我告诉她：“明天中央电视台只跟绿色营到石家庄就返回来，31号再乘飞机去追他们。我也准备这样，…     

八·方·寄·语《环境教育》——教学的好帮手

在《环境教育》创刊100期之际，我作为一名从教20年的地理学科带头人，发自肺腑地说“感谢!感谢《环境教育》伴我成长、伴我成功!”《环境教育》是我教学生涯中的好帮手，给我带来收获。     

头顶一斤铅

正我一直捉摸着想要为这位妇人写点什么,可是脑子里却铅也似的模糊沉重,渴望激情却丝毫没有激情的莅临,我甚至记不起她长得什么样子?记不得她曾经说过什么?甚至连她的姓名都记不起来。20世纪末那个春夏交替的下午时分我采访了一位从事铅中毒研究的专家。这是一位年迈的职业妇人,微胖,分布有鱼尾纹的眼角干痼着,只在地层深处的眼底,有两粒惴惴不安的晶莹顽强地闪动。说到诸种艰难,妇人潸然泪下。我却一任自己的情感深     

有机农夫市集发起人：用最自然的方式生活

如果一位母亲从不给孩子买超市里零食,也从不给孩子打针吃药,包括预防针,几乎不到外面餐厅吃饭,你会不会觉得她很另类、大胆甚至有点＂变态＂？张映辉就是这样一位母亲,她按照这套方式养育了两个已经分别11岁和13岁的男孩。为什么会有这样的选择？怎么坚持做到？这让很多人好奇,也让她身边出现了很多＂志同道合＂的朋友。不过,和她站在一起的这些人追求的远不止给孩子吃什么,也不止是怎样养好孩子。     

How good is GLASOD?

The Global Assessment of Soil Degradation (GLASOD) has been the most influential global appraisal of land quality in terms of environmental policy. However, its expert judgments were never tested for their consistency and could not be reproduced at unvisited sites, while the relationship between the GLASOD assessments of land degradation and the social and economic impact of that degradation remains unclear. Yet, other methodologies that could respond to urgent calls for an updated assessment of the global environmental quality are not operational or, at best, in progress. Therefore, we evaluate the reliability and social relevance of the GLASOD approach and assess its candidacy for new global environmental assessments. The study concentrates on the African continent, capitalizing on new GIS data to delineate and define the characteristics of GLASOD map units. Consistency is tested by comparing expert judgments on soil degradation hazard for similar combinations of biophysical conditions and land use. Reproducibility is evaluated by estimating an ordered logit model that relates the qualitative land degradation classes to easily available information on explanatory variables, the results of which can be used to assess the land degradation at unvisited sites. Finally, a cross-sectional analysis investigates the relation between GLASOD assessments and crop production data at sub-national scale and its association with the prevalence of malnutrition. The GLASOD assessments prove to be only moderately consistent and hardly reproducible, while the counter-intuitive trend with crop production reveals the complexity of the production-degradation relationship. It appears that increasing prevalence of malnutrition coincides with poor agro-productive conditions and highly degraded land. The GLASOD approach can be improved by resolving the differences in conceptualization among experts and by defining the boundaries of the ordered classes in the same units as independent, quantitative land degradation data.     

How to do Animal Ethics

Many think doing animal ethics demands we see moral humanism as a speciesist prejudice of the kind found with sexism and racism. The only serious case for this rests on the Argument from Marginal Cases. We find that argument to the point, but show that properly understood it supports humanism. Understanding why it does this lets us see how we ought to go on in animal ethics.     

How local environmental stewardship diversifies democracy

Although recent studies have suggested that environmental participation may be a countertrend to decreasing civic engagement in the United States, there are very few empirical studies that examine these claims. This paper studies participation in local environmental stewardship as such a countertrend. Using data collected from participants in the Watershed Stewards Academies (WSAs) of Maryland, we assess how these organisations are successful in mobilising individuals to be environmentally and civically engaged in their communities. We argue that hybrid organisations like the WSAs represent a countertrend to diminishing rates of civic engagement by offering citizens what a “paper-membership” cannot: the chance to lead their own environmental restoration projects, create tangible change in their communities, and network with other like-minded individuals. These environmental programmes serve to diversify democracy at the local level, providing a unique form of civic engagement and enriching the connections between individual citizens and their civic communities.     

如何表示我爱你

丫头把语文卷子拿回家,96分,被扣的4分,在试卷背面的最后——迅速挪到后面看,你可以想象,一个小学一年级学生的家长,拿到卷子时那眼神那心情,跟捏到年终奖的红包差不多,心扑扑跳,多么迫不及待地,想找个没人的地方知道谜底啊。     

让我们学会珍惜

有一天，我忽然发觉，这个世界上居然有很多宝贵的东西是我们可以无偿获取的：如信念、期望、梦想、阳光、月色、空气，甚至于亲情、友情、爱情以及同情等等。     

Potentially recoverable resources: How recoverable?

There are a number of factors which are likely to limit the proportion of potentially recoverable resources that will actually be recovered. The most important of these concern the way minerals are distributed within the crust and trends in energy costs associated with mineral production. This article offers a pessimistic view of the prospects for mineral supplies early in the 21st century. The resource situation is even less hopeful when the possibility of extending the material living standards of the developed countries to everyone likely to be living on earth late next century is considered.     

How living systems recognize applied electromagnetic fields

Natural and man-made magnetic and electromagnetic fields are important factors in the contemporary life. The paper discusses the role of environmental magnetic and electromagnetic fields in origin and evolution of life. A brief review of the characteristics of Earth magnetic field, Earth magnetosphere, and their role as a shield for cosmic radiation follows. The role of endogenous and exogenous magnetic fields is discussed in respect of the clarification of the potential hazard and benefit of electromagnetic fields. The second part of the paper discusses the mechanisms of detection and response to exogenous electromagnetic fields, as well as threshold versus window hypothesis for mechanisms of interactions. Finally, the necessity of accurate dosimetry at the target site and the importance of relevant research and clinical protocols in studying biological responses are pointed out.     

如何改进大学英语词汇教学

英语词汇对整个英语学习起着至关重要的作用.对于英语词汇的学习,大学生已经认识到了其重要性,但仍然存在各种各样的误区.为了提高学生的单词学习效率,教师应该采取科学方法来呈现英语词汇;借助英文电影、动画片、歌曲等激发学生的学习兴趣,以生动、形象、直观的方式进行英语词汇教学,给学生讲述成语和典故加深学生对英语词汇的印象和理解,采取灵活多样的教学形式进行英语词汇教学.