-Ecology of Imagination-

Mr.Masayuki Kurechi ( Chairman, The Japanese Geese Protect Association) is asking your financial support for the restoration project for the Aleutian Canada Goose between the Sendai Yagiyama Zoological Park and the Rusian Science Academy :the Kamchatka -Pacific Geographphical Research Institute.


His e-mail: son_goose@sky.plala.or.jp

Thank you very much!

This book is selected by bookshop sales men and women as the 2010's best book to be sold.

How I could describe about this book's attraction and
the hero's charming character and achievements !

Japanese voters have had longstanding headaches because Japanese politics has been influenced by US foreign policies
since the end of the World War II.
One day the US government wanted and forced Japan to abandon the military and next day the US government wanted and forced Japan to have the military, although the Japanese Constitution has the chapter 2. article 9 : Renunciation of War.

I t was just 160 years ago!
Can you imagine how we have changed so quickly ?

You could enjoy these shapes, colors and tastes!



























　　　 ( from the comic "Andomaxtsutsu ", " BIG Comic Original", June 5,2010, Shogakukan Publishing Co.）

( from the comic "Andomaxtsutsu ", " BIG Comic Original", June 5,2010, Shogakukan Publishing Co.）

Are these only ways of the 21 century to deal with this BP's massive oil spill disaster?

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“ Stifling of evolutionary striving could lead to extinction of the race through lack of interest in ecological or mutual relations between man and man and between man and nature. We do not as yet understand how to put to full use the strength of the child’s appetitive need for the power to know and to create his environment, nor do we know how to fully exploit the death of the human urge to continue to find satisfaction in knowledge of the outer world. Whereas sexual aims and purposes require moral creative restraints and restrictions in order to curb, narrow, and civilize sexual behavior, the striving to evolve richer and more creative cultural aims and social purposes that act as releasers for the formative energy of this development. As in sexual behavior, unused energy of the body seeking to fulfill this psychological and mental trend will be displaced onto the ingenuity of delinquency and crime.
　The common-plus-cosmic of the beginnings of the child’s thought establishes a basic need for outer expression of the power to model and mold his environment. This can be achieved through cooperation and mutual relations with his total environment in which learning, imagination, and the process of evolution will be geared to one another in the child’s personal development. If cultural attitudes could be shifted toward a recognition of human desire to exercise a compassionate intelligence, not only as tool and method but also as the chief human survival function, we would, I believe, find ourselves capitalizing on the human impulse to nurture, cultivate, and extend this vast potential. It is even conceivable that the economic motive, which at present dominates social structure and stifles other styles of motivation, could be enlisted if all humanity’s health and welfare were seen to be at stake. The counterpoint between life and death, even in wartime, tends to evoke man’s nurturing impulses, thus developing new methods of hearing that lead to new techniques of learning. When these conditions prevail, the world-or the particular ecological niche we inhabit- becomes in truth a “vale of soul-making,” to quote Keats again. We are today in a position to release this creative drive in the world. “


　　
　　　　　




　　

“ The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood”, Edith Cobb, Columbia University
Press, 1977.
　 Contents
Introduction by Margaret Mead
　
　One 　　Prelude to a Method
　Two 　　Wonder as the Genesis of Knowledge
　Three Anatomy of the Sense of Wonder
　Four 　The Ecology of Perceptual Organization
　Five 　The Biocultural Continuum
　Six 　 The Ecology of Individuality
　Seven 　The Evolution of Meaning
　Eight Creative Evolution: A Process of Compassion

References
Biographies and Autobiographies of Childhood in Many Countries in the Edith McKeever Cobb Collection.

What heartbreaking pictures these are !!!

Why the USA could not develop the technology to stop the oil spill, although she could develop the high technology to kill ordinary people in Iraq and Afghanistain from the sky ?
Why ?
Why ?
Why?


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" I Want My Earth Back, by Chris Durang
Posted: June 4, 2010 01:37 PM

The oil spill. "I am overwhelmed by the post-apocalyptic sensory experience of a man-made disaster irretrievably destroying part of our country."
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I want to end this with a very full statement that Rachel Maddow made at the end of her program last night. She has been in the Gulf, seeing the results of the spill for herself. I think what she says is extremely articulate and extremely important. Please read it:


...The oil now coating wildlife and the beaches of this beautiful coast stinks. It stinks, it smells bad, it is filthy, it is slimy, it is sticky, it is toxic - even if Mississippi governor Haley Barbour wants to say that it's not... it is irredeemably foul, and it is everywhere.

And when you come upon it in person having only seen it on televsion, at least if you're me, you are overwhelmed by the post-apocalyptic sensory experience of a man-made disaster irretrievably destroying part of our country.
You are disgusted that BP put this ocean and this coast and the communities inland in jeopardy. Disgusted at the billions of dollars in quarterly profits that lined the oil industry's pockets and deepened their wells, and didn't do a thing to prevent this.
You are disgusted that the government let BP and the rest of the oil industry do that. Disgusted that American leaders screamed "drill, baby, drill!" without considering the consequences, all in the name of whoring themselves for a few votes during the few months that gasoline prices were rising.
Disgusted that the booms off this coast meant to protect it mostly aren't doing anything. Disgusted that those booms remain largely unmanned. Disgusted that there isn't much more to do, except maybe put more people here to try to make this totally inadequate technology try to work less horribly than it does.
This is not Hurricane Katrina. This isn't another Katrina, This isn't another anything. This is a whole new thing, happening to us. This is America's Deepwater Horizon disaster, we all own it forever.
And right now, right here in Grand Isle and all along the Gulf Coast, there are really only 3 things that matter: stopping the oil from flowing, protecting the coast and the ocean from the millions of gallons of oil that are already spilled, and making sure that this never, ever happens again.
You can diagnose whether we have a functioning media in this country by whether or not the country understands that this is a vile environmental mega-disaster. You can diagnose whether we have a functioning political system in this country by whether or not the results of this mega-disaster is change.
Big oil has been too rich to care about what it was putting us all at risk for. And we've been too cowardly to change direction and break free from them. If that changes because of our national disgust at this disaster, then America's political system in 2010 works. If it doesn't change, then it doesn't work. "
( I Want My Earth Back , Chris Durang, Posted: June 4, 2010 01:37 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/i-want-my-earth-back_b_600859.html )