Here
are links to some of my favorite websites:
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Favorite Environment and Health websites:
- Biodiversity loss: How much do human activities contribute to biodiversity degradation? Why is biodiversity loss a concern?
- The Chernobyl accident: what is the
impacts of Chernobyl on health and the environment, 20 years after the nuclear accident?
- Phthalates are additives
widely used in plastics and other materials,
mainly to make them
soft and flexible. What is known about possible effects
on environment and health of DIDP
and DINP, and
DBP?
- Endocrine
disruptors: are some chemicals affecting our hormonal system?
- Aspartame :
is this artificial
sweetener really toxic?
Read the summary the European scientific review on this sweetener, often
misspelled aspertame, and
sold in tablets under the brand names Nutrasweet and Canderel.
- Ecosystem
change: How to limit harmful consequences of ecosystem degradation?
A popularized summary of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the comprehensive
scientific study launched by the UN on the current changes to ecosystems,
their impact on humanity and the solutions to limit their consequences.
- Genetically
Modified Crops: GM foods are in our plates. In what way are
they different from conventional crops? What is known about the
possible risks for health or the environment?
- Air
Pollution: Do current levels of air pollutants, notably by
Ozone,
Nitrogen Dioxide and
Particulate Matter, still affect public health, cause respiratory diseases and reduce life expectancy?
- Alcohol: what are the effects of its consumption on health and society?
- Diet and Nutrition: can a healthier diet and physical activity help improve health?
- PCBs: what are the risks for health?
- Static fields: do they pose health risks when used in medical imaging (NMR)?
- Tobacco:
what are the health effects caused to smokers and passive
smokers?
- Fisheries:
To what extent are fish stocks overexploited?
- Fluorides help preventing cavities. Can they also be bad
for the health?
- Respiratory
Diseases: Asthma and allergies are increasing. What can cause
children to develop these diseases?
- Arsenic:
when can it presence in water cause health problems?
- Power
lines: are they dangerous for our health?
- Dioxins:
how dangerous are they really?
- Water
disinfectants: are their by-products threatening our health?
- Mercury:
what are the risks for the environment and health?
- Boron:
could its presence in food and drinking water harm my health or the
environment?
- forestfacts.org presents
some environmental aspects of forestry and forest depletion in
the GreenFacts 3-level structure of increasing details.
- Biodiversity loss is a MAJOR CONCERN!
The diversity of life on Earth brings essential contributions to our well-being, including all the food we eat. However, human activities are causing irreversible losses to this biological diversity, especially in the past 50 years. More in the GreenFacts Digest on Biodiversity...
We MUST preserve our precious natural resources. Governments worldwide have promised to save biodiversity by 2010. See the Countdown 2010 website and help them moving governments from words to action!
- The
oceans are being over-fished: save them!
Many fish species are currently over-fished, leading to drastic reductions in their numbers.
As a scuba diver for nearly 25 years, I have clearly observed a sharp decline in marine life.
More in the GreenFacts Digest on Fisheries...
You can buy fishes that not threatened by extinction by buying MSC-labelled seafood - see where to find them on eng.msc.org/html/content_531.htm.
The Marine Stewardship Council
(MSC) is an independent, global, non-profit organization, set
up to find a solution to the problem of over-fishing. It was established
in 1997 by Unilever (the world's largest buyer of seafood) and WWF (the international
conservation organization), then became fully independent in 1999.
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Interested in sustainable housing?
Then visit adobealliance.org,
the website of my friend Simone
Swan: she is developing environmentally-friendly, owner-built adobe housing
in the desert of West
Texas and Northern Mexico, using the design revived by Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy. Such houses are ideal for desert
or semi-desert regions. They are inexpensive
to build and to maintain. Because of adobe's high thermal inertia, they remain
reasonably
warm in
the
winter and cool
in the winter, therefore requiring
virtually no air-conditioning
or
heating...
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Favorite Art and Museums websites
- Wanna
see an amazing museum?
Then visit the Clockarium,
Museum of Art Deco Ceramic Clocks in Brussels, Belgium.
You will discover an unique collection of popular Belgian, French and Czech
art deco ceramics. It will be a delightful journey in time and imagination!
And it is an exceptional place to rent
a meeting room or organize a reception in Brussels...
(www.clockarium.org).
- Amateur of beautiful books?
You will find major classic literature works illustrated by most famous painters on www.editionsdianedeselliers.com/edition_eng.htm.
- Intrigued by traditional cultures?
Discover the aesthetic beauty of
the festivals of the indigenous cultures of Mexico in www.thessenceofmexicoproject.org,
the website of my photographer friend George O. Jackson.
- Interested
in art deco ceramics?
Then see the amazing collection of art
deco ceramics with abstract airbrushed decors of Dutch collector Wil
de Boed (www.art-deco-ceramics.com).
- Is
it furniture, is it sculpture?
Make your own opinion by visiting www.PeterMenzies.com,
and seeing the art of Peter Menzies, an extraordinary artist cabinet-maker,
sculptor and contemporary art
furniture designer,
creating amazing furniture - sculptures in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Interested
in figurative avant-garde painting?
See some of the acrylic portraits of Belgian artist Charlotte
d'Aspremont (www.daspremont.com).
- Is it photography, is it painting?
Hard to guess that the beautiful pictures on www.karelynsiegler.com were actually painted by talented artist Karelyn Siegler...
- Wanna discover the view from Brussels pinnacle?
See on www.brusilia.be the photos
shot from the top floor of the Brusilia, the tallest all-residential building in Belgium
- Do you like underwater photos?
Even if you don't, you will be amazed by the beautiful underwater photographs
displayed on Scuba-Photos.net.
This website is open to all talented scuba photographers (including
me!), who can freely post their best scuba diving
shots on Scuba-Photos.net.
- Wanna
discover the beauty of the Bahamas sea bottoms?
Then visit www.scubahamas.com and
see the underwater photos I shot there...
- Interested in art photographs?
Discover www.pellizzari.net, the
website of Paolo Pellizzari, an outstanding photographer.
- Fan of Jean-Michel Jarre?
See his biography book in Brasilian: "O Homem Que Faz a Luz Dançar" (The Man Who Makes the Light Dance), published by Renato Mundt, containing many of my photos of Jean-Michel Jarre's concerts.
- Like ephemeral art?
Click to see photos of amazing sand sculptures, ice sculptures, and amazing chalk drawings.
- Are you an artist without a presence on the web?
You may then want to apply to the Artistarium, an artists'
virtual gallery
which will help you creating your website...
and will host it for free
(www.artistarium.org).
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Other favorite websites:
- Say no to email spamming: webmasters, crypt
the email addresses on your websites using the script available
on JSM-Hosting.com.
- Beware of chain mails: most of them contain junk
or obsolete information - but circulate for years on the web. Before
you forward any chain mail, please consult one of the several websites
devoted to investigating them: hoaxbusters.ciac.org, hoaxbusters.org, www.snopes.com, urbanlegends.about.com...
and find more such websites on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legen.
- Hippotherapy in Brussels?
The hippotherapy center and pony club "Les Rênes de la Vie" asbl is a non-profit organization teaching horse-riding to a mix of both handicapped and valid children, in view of developing them and blooming their personality.
It provides congenial horse-riding classes in the magnificent domain of the La
Hulpe castle, just ten minutes away from the Brussels center (in the province of Walloon Brabant,
Belgium).
See the photos I shot at "Les Rênes de la Vie"...
- Buying camera equipment?
First consult www.kenrockwell.com and find lots of useful recommendations...
- Recruiting
in Brussels?
Then place an add on EuroBrussels.com :
it's free and you'll get lots of excellent applications.
Looking
for a job in Brussels?
Then go to EuroBrussels.com and "find
your perfect job in Brussels, the EU institutions, or international organizations."
- And
if you need a really good website, contact the webdesign
mobile studio of Jacques Moyersoen on macrosens.be :
he will create just the website you need... at an affordable
price.
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Enjoy your surfing!
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