Viet Ecology Foundation

Gió, đất, lửa, nước là 4 chất lớn trong vũ trụ nên gọi là Tứ Đại theo Phật giáo. Thực vậy, từ giây phút thành lập đầu tiên của Trái đất mà các nhà khoa học gọi tên là Big Bang

Sinh thái học dưới góc nhìn của Tam giáo (Nho, Phật, Lão )
Vietnamese in their majority practice a syncretism of 3 religions, namely confucianism, bouddhism, taoism and where ecology is omnipresent. Following general introduction about ecology in section 1, section 2 discusses about the ecological crisis of the world today, as it gets hotter, stormier, crowded and less biodiverse

Môi sinh trong kinh A Di Đà
Trong rất nhiều kinh Phật, thiết nghĩ Kinh A di Đà đề cập đến môi sinh nhiều nhất và liên hệ giữa môi sinh và cõi Cực lạc. Thực vậy, hãy ghi dưới đây vài đoạn chính trong kinh: 'Lại còn đây nữa, ông Xá-lỵ-phất, nước Cực lạc có 7 trùng lan can, 7 trùng màn lưới, 7 trùng hàng cây, những trùng trùng đó bằng 4 ngọc báu, vây bọc xung quanh, thế nên nước kia gọi là Cực lạc.

Nguời cổ Đông Nam Á
Đông Nam Á là nơi cư trú lâu đời của con người từ khi con người hiện đại đi từ Đông Phi qua Ấn Độ đến Đông Nam Á hơn 60000 năm nay. Từ Đông Nam Á, con người đã đi đến Úc châu, và sau đó đã đi lên Đông Á. Người cổ nhất được tìm thấy ở Úc, ở hồ Mungo (nay là sa mạc), được định tuổi là khoãng 50000 năm

STOP ANOTHER HUNGARIAN ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IN CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF VIETNAM

Let’s protect the safety and livelihood of 14 million people living in the Central Highlands and Dong Nai river basin of Vietnam

The Viet Ecology Foundation has launched an online petition for concerned world citizens to join Professor Nguyen Hue Chi, the co-founder of the Bauxite Vietnam website and several thousands of Vietnamese citizens, scholars, scientists, and environmentalists to call for the Government of Vietnam to stop the mining projects in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

http://www.gopetition.com/petition/40122.html

The Central Highlands of Vietnam is known to have 5.4 billion tons of bauxite reserve base or the world’s third largest; if the extraction project is not stopped, its total caustic mud generated would reach 90 million cubic meters. This caustic mud would be stored in reservoirs at an altitude hundreds of meters above sea level, subjected to 2.5 meter annual rain fall, flash floods and over 14 million basin residents.

Vietnamese scholars and scientists believe the $15.6 Billion Mining Project in Central Highlands of Vietnam is economically, technically and environmentally unsound; it does not include all social and long term environmental costs and does not address the transportation system. In addition, the World Intangible Cultural Heritage Gong Culture of the Central Highlands of Vietnam, the traditional and sustainable agriculture of the Dong Nai river basin people would be gravely endangered by this project.

For more information please contact Long Pham (949) 309-7767 Email: longpp@vietecology.org

PETITION

www.gopetition.com/online/30896.html

We the undersigned wholeheartedly support the Chinese scientists and scholars’ petition and wish to join them in putting forward this petition again for the Chinese people overseas, the concerned Southeast Asian people living downstream of the Yunnan seismic faults and giant dams, the concerned world citizens on behalf of the millions people and their descendants - that the Chinese should set up a joint investigation team, which would include experts and scholars who have done long-term research in this field of study, to carry out the following tasks as soon as possible:

Re-examine the seismic intensity originally set for each of all large-scale hydro dams in the southwest of China;

Re-examine the risks posed by the cascades of dams and reservoirs to the downstream areas in the event of earthquakes;

Conduct further studies to determine the risk that reservoirs could induce seismic activity (RIS) in geologically unstable regions;

Make public the results of the re-examination and information generated;

Prepare special emergency plan for the regions, where hydro dams have already been built, based on the conclusions obtained by the joint investigation team; and, at the same time, make necessary adjustments to official plans to massively and intensively develop southwest China’s water resources and construct cascades of hydro dams throughout rivers in southwest China in keeping with the principles of planning and environmental assessment.

Temporarily suspend the approval of big hydro dams in geologically unstable areas in southwest China before carrying out all the above tasks.