Sziasztok!
> Felado :  [Hungary]
> Csak egy maganpanaszomat akarom kozolni, hatha erre lepni fog valaki.
> Siofok-kiliti hataraban, Toreki fele megy egy kis fold-ut, es igen
> bosszanto, hogy melle szorjak az okos emberek a szemetuket. Nem
> hiszem  hogy valakit meghatott ez a kornyeken. En csak diak vagyok, nem
> hiszem, hogy tudnek ez ellen tenni valamit.

Dehogynem tudsz, felteve hogy tudod, kirol van szo.
Szeretnem a figyelmetekbe ajanlani a http://www.nyugat.hu oldalon a
Szegyenfolt rovatot, azon belul is a "Tettenertuk a ???-i valalkozot", vagy
valami hasonlo. A lenyege, hogy egy mezei allampolgar eszrevett egy
kukoricafold melett halado traktort, fullra megpakolva szemettel. Az illeto
megallt, kiszalt a kocsijabol es futva kovette a traktort, ami akkor mar
boritotta a szemetet. Hosunk vegigfotozta az egeszet, plussz a menekulo
traktorost is, majd besetalt a Kozterulet-felugyelethez es egy CD-lemezen
atadta a feljelenteset. Mindenki le volt dobbenve (lasd KF es Onkormanyzat
koszonolevelet a lapon), tiz perc alatt kideritettek, kie a traktor es egy
honapon belul megbuntettek (penzbirsag), valamint koteleztek a szemet
szemettelepre szalitasara!

Summa summarum: mindenki tehetne valamit, csak egyszeruen nem akar. Igy
kenyelmesebb.

Ha meglatogatjatok a lapot (bocs, sajnos pontos cimet nem tudok), kerlek
kuldjetek el velemenyeteket az illetonek. En is irtam neki egy meltato
levelet. Legalabb erezze, hogy mas is hasonlo modon gondolkodik

Udvozlettel:

Misi

International Water Law Project - http://home.att.net/~intlh2olaw/

We have been asked by the World Dams Commission to prepare a paper for
them on the international and comparative water law  applicable to the
design, construction and operation of dams.   At this point the list of
selected countries has not been finalized but is likely to include:
Brazil, Turkey, the USA, India or Pakistan or China, Norway, South Africa,
Russia, Thailand. 

Our methodology for this study is to recruit a country legal expert for
each of the selected countries. This expert will prepare a summary of the
law in his/her country relating to each of the issues and topics that we
identify as relevant to dams plus other information that the researcher
wishes to include about the water law in his/her country.  The different
country studies will then be collated and compared in the final paper,
which will include both the individual country studies and our comparative
analysis of these country studies.   

I am writing to inquire if you can recommend lawyers (including yourself)
that you think may be interested in working on this project.  

I look forward to hearing from you.  Please respond directly to me at:


Sincerely,

Danny Bradlow 

Daniel D. Bradlow
Professor & Director
International Legal Studies Program
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Nem tudom konkretan mi van a bionex-ben, hasonlo termekekben valamilyen
bakterium szokott lenni. Sajnos nem csodaszer, es mivel bakterium azert
en nem locsolnam vele - mondjuk - az epret. Igazan egy harom (de legalabb
ketto) reszes hazi tisztitoban lehetne hasznat venni. Az ilyen poroknak
(pl septifos) az oldalara azt is rairjak, hogy szagtalan lesz. Ezt nem
tudom hogy kepzelik -- a szennyviz tartalmaz kenvegyuleteket, ezekbol
pedig a legbaratsagosabb bakterium is csak kentartalmu gazokat kepes
eloallitani (azok pedig budosek). Igy aztan a dobozra irt tobbi allitast
is ketkedve fogadom (kulonosen az ara miatt).

Az erzekenyebb bakteriumokat alaposan elpusztitjak a mostanaban sokat
reklamozott "modern" haztartasi tisztitoszerek, amelyek rengeteg sok
fertotlenito szert tartalmaznak. A gyartok nyilvan abban biznak, hogy
csak kevesen engedhetik meg maguknak ezeket a kloros szereket, igy a
sok haztartasi szennyviz, mire a csatornaban a tisztitomube erkezik,
"elhasznalja" a tisztitoszerek maradek klor stb tartalmat. A tisztitok
NAGYON ruhellik ha veletlenul nagyobb adag megezo szennyviz (peldaul
galvaniszap) elpuszitja az eleveniszapos medence bakteriumflorajat.
A fertotlenito kezmosok, szappanok, tusfurdok egyebkent sem egeszsegesek,
nem is ertem, hogy komoly emberek mind tisztiorvos stb hogy adhatja hozza
a nevet (igaz, a reklamokban sosem mondjak, hogy ajanlasaval, hanem hogy
az antsz csupan igazolta: elpusztitja a bacikat). A borunk felszinen sok
bakterium el folyamatosan, kvazi szimbiozisban velunk, mintegy nulladik
vedelmi vonalkent. Nem tudom, jo-e ha ezeket elpusztitjuk. Nemely orvosok
meg a reggeli furdest sem tanacsoljak, jobb este furodni, igy ejjel ez
a bakteriumflora valamennyire regeneralodhat reggelre amikor kimegyunk
a hazunkbol az ellenseges mikroorganizmusok tomegebe. A fertotlenito
kezmososzernek megvan a maga helye (pl a wc tisztitasa vagy hasznalata
utan, kutyafesules utan, sebkezeles elott stb) de nem mindenutt... naj
jo ez nem tartozik szorosan ide.

A komplett, keszen vasarolhato tisztito valoban nem olcso, talan kicsivel
olcsobban hazilag meg lehet epiteni. Mi egy ketrekeszeset epitettunk, hazi
kivitelezesben: a falakat zsalukovekbol raktuk azt kitoltottuk betonnal.
Anno bitumennel szigeteltunk, de manapsag kaphatok cementbazisu vizzaro
vakolatok is, azokkal sokkal konnyebb dolgozni (a bitumen forrrrrrrro...)

Ha nem fontos, hogy a keletkezett vizzel ontozzenek (pl van viz boven),
es a szennyviz mennyisege nem tul nagy, es nincs tul magasan a talajviz,
es eleg nagy a terulet, es a talaj nem tul agyagos vagy sziklas (es meg
sok feltetelnek kell hozza teljesulni) akkor lehet szennyviztarolo helyett
SZIKKASZTOT epiteni. Csaladi Haz c ujsagban volt hazi szennyvizkezelesrol
cikksorozat regebben, ott reszletesen irtak a szikkasztokrol (is).

Udv///Laci

PS: romai klub jelentes(eke)t konyv formajaban, penzert lehet megvenni.
az egyik szerzo Meadows annak a Donellanak a papaja, akinek a cikkeit
Diana szokta rendszeresen bekuldeni.

> Felado :  [Hungary]
> Olyan helyen lakom, ahol nincs - es a kozeljovoben nem is lesz -
> szennyvizcsatorna, ezert a haztartasban keletkezett szennyvizet el kell
> szallitatnom.

Probalkozz a nadagyas, gyokerzonas szennyviztisztitassal (ha van ra hely). 
A Bokorliget Alapitvanynal tudomasom szeritn mukodik ez a modszer...

Udv: Fidusz

A GAIA SAJTOSZEMLEBOL
THE ECOLOGIST, Vol 29, No2. May/June, 1999 Vandana Shiva: Reversing
Globalisation: What Gandhi Can Teach Us (Megsemmisitve a
vilaggyarmatositast: amit Gandhitol  tanulhatunk) Tobb, mint fel
evszazaddal ezelott Gandhi alkotta meg a „Swadeshi” es a „Satyagraha”
fogalmakat a gyarmati gazdasag eroszakaval szemben vivott harcban. Ma
mindazok, akik az  uj gyarmatositas, a vilagegysegesites ellen
kuzdenek, tanulhatnak a taktikajabol es hitebol. Gandhi mozgalmanak
kozeppontjaban a Swadeshi,  Swaraj es  a Satyagraha alltak. A Swadeshi
a helyreallitas szelleme, a teremto ujjaalakitas modszere a
gyarmatositas korszakaban. Ezen bolcselet szerint mindannyian 
rendelkezunk anyagilag es erkolcsileg mindazzal, ami szukseges sajat
tarsadalmunk es gazdasagunk megtervezesehez, valamint az elnyomo
rendszerektol valo megszabadulashoz. A gazdasagi szabadsag, avagy
Swadeshi, alapja a hazai fejlodes - a kulsoleg iranyitott fejlesztes
helyett.  A mindennapi emberek, akik visszaallitjak sajat maguk
szamara a termeles es a fogyasztas egyensulyat, szettorhetik a
gyarmatositas lancait. A Swadeshi alapja, Gandhi szerint, a meglevo
forrasokon, szakertelmen es intezmenyeken nyugvo kozosseg. A Swadeshit
kesobbi gazdasagi mintak is idezik, pl. Schumacher munkai es sok helyi
valtozat, amelyekert ma kuzdenek. A Swadeshi a gazdasagi szabadsag
alapja, amely nelkul nem letezhet sem politikai szabadsag, sem
onkormanyzas vagy  onigazgatas. A kulso uralom korszakaban, amikor az
embereknek nincs gazdasagi es politikai szabadsaguk, eroszakmentes
modon meg kell tagadni az egyuttmukodest az igazsagtalan torvenyekkel
es uralommal. Ezt nevezte Gandhi „Satyagrahanak”. Szo szerinti
forditasban az „igazsagert folytatott kuzdelmet” jelenti. Gandhi
szerint semmifele zsarnoksag nem tehet szolgava egy nepet, amelyik
erkolcstelennek tartja, hogy igazsagtalan torvenyeknek
engedelmeskedjek. Mikent a „Hindi Swaraj”-ban irta: „ Ameddig az a
babona el,  hogy az embereknek engedelmeskedniuk kell az igazsagtalan
torvenyeknek, addig a rabszolgasag is letezni fog. Csak egy 
eroszakmentes ellenallas kepes megszuntetni ezt a babonat.” A
Satyagraha az onallosag (onigazgatas), Swaraj kulcsa is. Gyakran a
celhoz vezeto egyetlen ut. *	A foaramlathoz tartozo indiai ujsagok a
Swadeshit ugy irjak le, mint egy elszigetelodo idegengyuloletet,
azonban ez Gandhi eszmeinek az eltorzitasat jelenti. Valojaban a
minden kulonbozoseget kiirto vilaggyarmatositas az idegengyulolo. Az a
teljes vilagmeretu ellenorzes, ami minden elotol, szabadtol es
onallotol valo felelembol taplalkozik. A vilaggyarmatositas szuli
magat az idegengyuloletet. Sok esetben a nepirtas es az etnikai
tisztogatas a vilagmeretu gazdasagi egybeolvasztas eredmenye, amely
elrabolja az emberektol az alapveto biztonsagukat es helyebe ulteti a
kivulallokkal szembeni gyuloletet es gyanakvast. A swadeshi, ezzel
ellentetben, egy onallo, biztos es megbizhato rendszer. Onszervezodo
rendszer, amelyik tudja, hogy mit kell behozni es kivinnie ahhoz, hogy
fenntartsa es megujitsa onmagat. Nem fel a kivulalloktol, mert biztos
sajat magaban. Politikai es kulturalis szinten szabadon szervezi
onmagat. Gandhi ugy latta, hogy az onszervezodes a kulonfele
tarsadalmak es kulturak egyuttmukodesenek, kolcsonhatasanak az alapja.
EGY „AHIMSIC ARTHA VYAVASTHA” (EROSZAKMENTES GAZDASAGI REND) FELE
Gandhi nagyon vilagossa tette, hogy az eroszakmentesseg nem egyszeruen
az eroszak hianya, hanem egy tevekeny, szenvedelyes elkotelezettseg.
Az ahimsza, vagy eroszakmentesseg sok, indiai talajon keletkezett hit
alapja. Ha a gazdasagra alkalmazzuk, az ahimsza azt jelenti, hogy a
termelesi, kereskedelmi es fogyasztasi rendszereink mertekletesek es
ellenorizhetok, nem uralkodnak mas tarsadalmak felett, nem romboljak
le azokat, sem a kornyezetet, sem az elet semmifele alakjat. Az
Isha-Upanishad mondja: „A Mindenseg a Legfobb Hatalom alkotasa minden
teremtmeny  jolete erdekeben. Ezert minden egyedi elet-alaknak meg
kell tanulnia elvezni a jotetemenyeit, gazdalkodva a rendszer egy
reszevel,  szoros kapcsolatban a tobbi fajjal. Egyik faj se avatkozzak
a masik faj jogaiba.” Ha olyan fogyasztasi es termelesi mintakat
kovetunk, amelyek tobbet hasznalnak fol annal, mint amennyire
szuksegunk van, elkoteleztuk magunkat az eroszak mellett. Mas
szavakkal: a tomeges merteku, fenn nem tarthato fogyasztas es termeles
egy eroszakos gazdasagi rendhez vezet. 

Az Isha-Upanishad szerint: „Egy onzo ember, aki tulzottan kihasznalja
a termeszet forrasait, hogy kielegitse sajat egyre fokozodo igenyeit,
nem mas, mint egy tolvaj, mert a sajat szuksegleten tul valo hasznalat
azt jelenti, hogy olyasmit hasznalunk, amihez masoknak van joga.”
Gandhi politikai bolcseletenek magva a forras-hasznalat korlatozasa es
a tarsadalmi igazsagossag kozotti kapcsolat. Hires mondasa: „A Fold
kielegiti mindenkinek a szuksegleteit, de nem  a kapzsisagat.” Ha nem
veszunk el tobbet annal, mint amennyire szuksegunk van, biztositjuk,
hogy az elo rendszerek forrasai elegendoek lesznek mas fajok szamara
es a lenyeges okologiai folyamatok fenntartasara. Azt is biztositjuk,
hogy a kulonfele embercsoportok eltero eletmodja szamara elegendo
forras marad, s mas-mas modon  biztositjak sajat szuksegleteiket. Az
ahimsza, vagy eroszakmentes gazdasagi rend  jellemzoje a kulonbozoseg
es tobbelvuseg („pluralism”). Ha nem avatkozunk be  masok jogaiba, a
kulonfele fajok es kulturak fenn fognak maradni. A kulonfeleseg az
eroszakmentes tarsadalom lakmusz-papirja; annak az egeszseges,
kislepteku es bekes tarsadalomnak a jellemzoje, amelyet mindannyian
ohajtunk.
 Pi.

Tisztelt Nagyerdemu!!


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keszitenem egy rovidke eloadast (20-25 perc) az Internetrol mint informacio
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kuldjek el nekem ezeket.
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Dear Friends & Colleagues:

You are cordially invited to the 3rd event in the
Env.Sci.& Policy Department's 1999-2000

SEMINAR SERIES 

********************************************
Ada Amon, Director 
Environmental NGO, Energia Klub, HUNGARY
will lead a discussion entitled:

"The Politics and Policy's of Hungary's Energy Sector"

Abstract: Ms. Amon will present a brief description of the Energy
Club, it's history, activities, international cooperations and recent
programs and projects. The presentation will focus on important issues
on energy policy in Hungary.  Specifically, she will examine the role
of  varied energy resources in Hungary as an example of a small and
import dependent country.  Special attention will be given to nuclear
power.  

Additional, supporting issues to be considered include: 
coping with region-wide nuclear poiltics and carving out a role for
energy efficiency and renewable energy sources in Hungary. 

Date: 	Wednesday, October 13th, 1999
Time: 	17:30 - 18:45 
Where: 	Room 609, Faculty Tower
                  Nador u. 9, Budapest 1051

We hope you will be able to attend !!
*********************************************

SIX BILLION OF US: BOO? HOORAY?

Months ago the United Nations decided to make an event out of the fact that the
human population meter would soon click over another billion.  They picked an
arbitrary date -- October 12 -- and declared it the Day of Six Billion.

What kind of event should this be?  A day of repentance?  A celebration?  In a
world of soundbites, what's the right tone here?  Six Billion, oh woe?  Six
Billion, yippee?

My guess is that "oh woe" will rule the day.  That's how we're used to talking
about ourselves.  Overpopulation, population bomb, population explosion, the
population problem.  Nobody is doing this population thing to us; we are doing
it to ourselves; but most of us seem to lament it.

I can surely understand why.  Our numbers are scary and getting scarier.  We
are growing at 78 million per year, the equivalent of a new Mexico City every
six months.  Virtually all that growth is happening in places we call
"developing."

>From the point of view of the planet, we must indeed look like an explosion. 
In 1800 there were just one billion of us.  We hit three billion in 1960 and
have doubled again in the blink of a planetary eye.  Our fifth billionth person
is now just 12 years old; our fourth billionth is just 25.

Not only are there so many more of us, but each of us is bigger, as measured by
the energy and material we use and the pollutants and wastes we spew out.  We
cover the globe with our lights and buildings and farms and roads and planes
and ships and dumps.  We have eaten into the ozone layer and are changing the
climate.  We're moving into the space of other species, causing an extinction
spasm greater than anything the earth has seen since the fall of the dinosaurs.

But we are, as far as we know, the first creatures on this planet evolved
enough to realize that there is such a thing as a carrying capacity and that
there are penalties for exceeding it.  Our scientists have begun to calculate
how many of us at what standard of living the earth can support.  They don't
agree on an exact number, but there's clear evidence that we're already beyond
it.

Our fisheries are crashing.

A coalition of thousands of scientists says we must cut back our fossil fuel
burning by 60 to 80 percent to have any hope of stabilizing our climate.

Our farmers are not keeping up with our population; grain output per capita has
been falling since 1984.

Huge rivers -- the Colorado, Yellow, Nile, Ganges, Indus, Chao Phraya, Syr
Darya and Amu Darya -- are so drained by irrigation and cities that their
channels run dry for some or all of the year.  In India, North China,
California's Central Valley and many other places, we are pumping down
groundwater at rates that cannot continue.

The World Commission on Forests says, "There has been a clear global trend
toward a massive loss of forested areas. ... Much of the forest that remains is
being progressively impoverished and all is threatened."

Two researchers at the University of British Columbia have calculated our
"ecological footprint" -- the amount of land needed to produce our resources
and absorb our wastes.  They say our footprint is now 20 percent greater than
the productive land base of the planet.  The only reason we can get away with
that overbig impact is there are still stocks of forest, fish, soils and waters
to draw down.

We can't go on drawing down forever, or even much longer.  We don't get a
choice about that.  If we don't reduce our load on the planet voluntarily, the
planet will do it for us.  That will solve our population problem.

Of course we don't have to submit to that outcome.  There are signs that we are
in fact an intelligent species.  Birth rates are coming down.  In the 1950s the
average woman bore six children; in the 1990s that number fell to 2.9.  In
every rich nation the fertility rate is below the replacement rate of two
children per woman.  Some, such as the United States, are still growing because
of immigration and/or baby-boom cohorts moving through their reproductive
years.  But if fertility holds at present levels, the population of Europe will
decline from 728 million in 1998 to 715 million in 2025.

We could, inspired by the awesome spectacle of our six billion, choose to bring
our numbers down gracefully, gradually, everywhere, over a century or two, to
around two billion, which would allow good lives for all humans and leave
plenty of room for nature as well.

The Day of Two Billion!  THAT would be worth celebrating!

To get there, we need NOT regard ourselves, especially not the poor among us,
especially not the poor mothers of many children, as a cancer upon the earth. 
Quite the contrary.  What is bringing down birth rates in Thailand, in Costa
Rica, in Malaysia, is the empowerment and enrichment of poor women.  Education,
health care, decent jobs, family planning programs, wherever these are
generously available, family sizes come down.

The other thing that has to come down is consumption.  The number of people is
not what degrades the earth; it's the number of people times the flow of energy
and material each person commands.  The ecological footprint of the average
American is 13 times that of the average Indian.  The 4 million babies born in
the U.S. this year will have twice the earthly impact of the 26 million babies
born in India.

If you know where to look, you can see how good lives can be lived with much
less load on the planet.  Organic farmers produce high yields of healthy foods
without chemicals.  "Green" architects design buildings that use less than half
the energy per square foot and are more comfortable.  Drip irrigation grows
crops with higher yields using less water.  Windmills and solar collectors and
fuel cells produce power without crazing the climate.  Best of all, many people
are freeing themselves from the steady brainwashing of the advertisers and
deciding that they actually have enough.

Whatever the media do with the Day of Six Billion, I'd suggest that we real
folks, each of us an infinitesimal drop in that huge sea, refuse to simplify or
trivialize it, refuse to caricature each other as either the scourges or the
conquerors of the earth, refuse either to despair or to rejoice.  We know of
the problems we cause each other and the millions of other creatures that
co-inhabit our finite planet.  We know of the accomplishments we've pulled off
just to be able to support six billion of us, however inadequately or
inequitably.  What I hope we will have the greatness to do is to respect each
other, encourage each other, reach out to each other, commit to the vision of
everyone being able to thrive and to contribute to a diverse, sufficient,
equitable, joyful, sustainable, nature-rich world.

Everyone, however many billion that turns out to be.

 (Donella H. Meadows is an adjunct professor of environmental studies at
Dartmouth College and director of the Sustainability Institute, a think/do tank
that promotes sustainable systems.)

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