Acid Rain?
Mission Accomplished. I have a working phone, I went to the beach, and overall I had a good day. I would like to point out the backwardness of this country though. I bought a new phone from a woman who told me the previous day that she didn't know enough about the phone to sell it to me. Discuss amongst yourselves. During the day yesterday I also visited a jewelry shop where local village women are taught to make jewelry by Aurovillians and a stone carving shop where young village men are taught the art of stone carving. Both are projects that were developed by Auroville and implemented in the surrounding villages.
On a tangent......India has a very effective recycling/trash removal campaign that to me, is surprisingly unorthodox. Around villages, towns, and cities you can see men who ride bikes around and appear to shout randomly into the sky. In reality though, what they are doing is shouting for things like bottles, bags, paper, cardboard, etc. Once the men find or collect enough material (they collect only a specific thing and are paid by the kilogram) they take it to a collecting area and are paid for their "findings". These are not governemnt jobs, although the program is funded by the government. For example, if I could speak Tamil, I could ride a bike around yelling "Cardboard', collect it, and take it to the collection center to collect my earnings. It's an effective way to clean-up the villages/cities and it decreases unemployment......If only the government of NYC would pay the bums to collect trash......
On a tangent......India has a very effective recycling/trash removal campaign that to me, is surprisingly unorthodox. Around villages, towns, and cities you can see men who ride bikes around and appear to shout randomly into the sky. In reality though, what they are doing is shouting for things like bottles, bags, paper, cardboard, etc. Once the men find or collect enough material (they collect only a specific thing and are paid by the kilogram) they take it to a collecting area and are paid for their "findings". These are not governemnt jobs, although the program is funded by the government. For example, if I could speak Tamil, I could ride a bike around yelling "Cardboard', collect it, and take it to the collection center to collect my earnings. It's an effective way to clean-up the villages/cities and it decreases unemployment......If only the government of NYC would pay the bums to collect trash......
Lastly, I went swimming in the Bay of Bengal yesterday. It was warmer than bathwater. I plan on going every day or every other day from now until I leave..... There was some floating trash in the water though, which I am a little unaccustomed to. I was told that the amount of trash is directly correlated to the direction of the current. Hopefully today the current is flowing north to south......
Jing, one of the hostel-mates.
A very weird rainbow-like halo surrounding clouds......the rays of the sun coming through the clouds (upper right of image) were black....any thoughts on what this could be? I thought it could be acid rain clouds......
A village road that I drive down everyday.
posted by Jon at 00:10
5 Comments:
I really look forward to reading your blog. It all sounds fascinating and fantastic.
I'm glad you have a phone. What is your phone number should we have to reach you?
Black and whites r great. Am keeping an eye out for some to use in a photo display project I have in mind! What do all of those people that you live with do there? Just passing thru or what? U make me laugh outloud every day when I read these stories. Maybe you should write Mayor Blumberg and propose the recyclng plan to him. I have always felt the same way about inmates too; we should require that they contribute something to improve local community. (Drimmer is pretty funny to!)
Iridescence in a pileus cloud is what you saw. Go here to read about it and see: www.sundog.clara.co.uk/droplets/iridim0.htm
Site is called Atmospheric Optics.
the beach every day sounds amazing! maybe we can start the collecting trash for money in rochachacha!11
A history lesson, Jon. People did that very thing in the U.S. about 75 yrs, ago. Usually push carts were used. Back then we called that person the "rag man".But no funding: it was their own little business. Love ya, Grandma
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