About melcir.meri

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEEN ON OCEAN-EARTHCARE + SUSTAINABLE LIVING?

Prince Charles: "The grim reality is that our planet has reached a point of crisis and we have only seven years before we lose the levers of control." Copenhagen Confererence, 2009.

Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: "The desire and hope and desperate need for planetary transformation is what brought me here." Copenhagen, 2009.

"Now is a time to put Earth first - before self in this critical moment in Earth History. Duty before self, as socially, we create the future we need, a new society -- whole, free, and remarkable. ... Here's to our wonderful home, reborn, as 'the sustainable blue-green planet, EARTH!' -- "FIRST - THE EARTH!" - Melcir ~ ~ ~ WANT TO HELP ? ~ ~ ~ See below.



"EARTHCARE Action!! ~ 'FIRST - THE EARTH!' Photo-ART" - www.flickr.com/groups/first-the-earth/,

An FTE group milestone ... We celebrated!! our 2nd Birthday -- 24th March 2009!!!

. WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR EARTHCARE?
READY TO HELP? -- Just offer, online, or anywhere!! You can easily HELP MODERATE in our groups. -- Just invite-Award all those wonderful images of nature and helpers, which we find on flickr. Or take great photos of Volunteers at work, as images of EARTHCARE. Help to NURTURE KINDNESS and ENTERPRISE for a POSITIVE FUTURE, in our group.

For our OCEAN & EARTHCARE Actions & Eco-Sail Training project, we also seek many other Volunteer activities: including IT website developers, to create and launch a WEBSITE plus expert graphics design volunteers, eg. we love inspired art and photography, and cool graphics, with regular updates to keep it all flowing. ~ We seek vital-component support consultants, such as a globally-active Patron who has vast interest in eco-sustainable living summer and winter cities and communities. Others include legal support to develop our Foundation documentation and setup. We seek MAJOR eco-sustainable financial sponsorship, that is Ocean Earthcare professional!! ~ Additionally, we need volunteer teams for strategy development, non-profit business research, investor relations, concept development and management, sponsorship marketing, educational media and technology tool developers, special events production, promotional edu-documentaries, general news releases, website, online and media promotional literature, news and features for group journal, technical writers media assistants, membership liaison and development, and all the other essential teams for a global non-profit futurustic r & d group. ~ Your suggestions appreciated.

. VISITORS: Thanks for making me part of your world by your visits, and kindnesses, or by adding me as your contact/ friend or family. Thanks for helping to spread the positive goals of EARTHCARE. ~ I am delighted when you "brave the world", to add to discussions in my groups !!!! -- While I can't always reply quickly, I love your green and commuunity service Volunteering, your care for the Environment by all of you. ~ All my original pictures are copyright ©2006-9 Melcir Erskine-Richmond. All rights reserved. Please contact me, if you wish to use my images, or have some ideas or questions. Again, thank you so much.
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Check out my other groups -- 2 opened in April 2008, and more since then:


"EARTH Smiles - 100++ Comments" - www.flickr.com/groups/100comments_/,
plus "EARTH Marvels! - 50++FAVES" - www.flickr.com/groups/50comments_/



In 2008, I gained my first SPONSORSHIP! Special thanks to Clustr Maps for choosing my Profile page here for their User of the month award for February/ March 2008 (combined) clustrmaps.wordpress.com/user-of-the-month/ -- with prize of a cool 2 years free upgrade, along with fellow winners: Edublogs Tutorials -- AK Gupta on Tripod.com -- Robert Bruce Group on MySpace -- Flickr: melcir.meri -- Familien Schøler’s blog -- Geoffrey Laurence – Contemporary Realism – Fine Art -- Your House Auctions -- Hotel Discount .
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My friends ~ Wow!!! -- My first photo upload was 29 Dec. 2006, and now [November '09], my photos have gained + 35,000 visits!!! ~ My images have been awarded an average about 12 FAVES each! It's all so heartwarming. Thanks to all of you!!! My images have also won special awards!!! ~ I have + 4,000 contacts and friends, and have given out + 17,000 FAVES!! ~ Oohh, and I've created 5 groups - ;-) ... !! Scroll down to see them, plus my photos. Keep up your great flow of 'People + NATURE' images to Earthcare ACTIONS!! ~ and kindness!!

. HOW DID I GET HERE?: This is a great way to face just about any personal growth issue!! -- While working for the UN Freedom from Hunger Campaign in London in 1965, I shared a flat with a UK Olympic fencing sportswoman, "Poppy", and so grew interested in the Olympics. Next I moved to Quebec, and wrote radio-TV commercials for contemporary Habitat Architecture, a part of Expo '67, in Montreal. Then I moved to Toronto, and ran a bookshop. In 1972, I returned to UK, to gain insights into the ancient landscape planning mysteries of Somerset's Glastonbury region, and later stayed in Scotland's experimental Findhorn Community, A few years later, I co-ordinated a 3-day music festival for the "1977 World Environment Day", in City Hall Square, Brisbane. Returning to North America, I toured aboard a Tall-Ship in Vancouver, about 1978, was volunteer Video Editor for the 1979 World Symposium on Humanity in Los Angeles, and Promotions support for the 1980 First Global Conference on the Future, in Toronto. Back in the UK, I was awarded consecutive grants from London's Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1987 and 1988.
In 1989, I was an invited speaker on "The Future Global Prototype Model Cities and Oceangoing Schooner Ambassador-ship", at the World Future Society 6th General Assembly Conference, Washington DC. From 1989 - 1994, I developed and managed numerous Internet Discussion Groups to advance Internet Communications globally. In 2006, I gained a Post-graduate Certificate in Arts Administration.
Now, for 2010, I wish to make, with other interested grants winners, sports-people, futurists, ethical entrepreneurs, etc., some original group grant applications in futuristic eco-arts community projects, and manufactures. -- If interested, DO drop me a note.
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Sadly, [until we have our own Website], I've no room here for information and news on :

. WORLD CRISES //. ANIMAL TROUBLES //. ANCIENT CULTURES //. FUTURE THEMES
. or my EXHIBITION of images!
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My top FAVED images [Click on an image to Comment + FAVE!]:


For more images, see my photostream.



MY AWARD-WINNING IMAGES: [More, on black - www.flickriver.com/photos/38123137@N00/popular-interesting ]

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1. "Breaking through -- Full moon over mellow Mangroves ..." ||
2. "Nature's art! ~ Half-circle and stripes ... " ||
3. "One of Life's greatest mini-adventures, lazing about in a boat!!" ||

1. Awarded - "by Blue Ribbon Photography [Invited Images Only]! for receiving 5+Blue Ribbons."
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2. Awarded - This is EXQUISITE! 5 EXQUISITE IMAGE Awards!!!

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Featured Photographers Batch# 19
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! ! !! ★ Premium Quality Image ★
!!★ 8 High Quality Images ★

Qualified Members Only
www.flickr.com/groups/exquisiteimage/
Featured Photographer
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3. Awarded - Congratulations!!
You have received 5 or more awards from the Colour Art AwardsGroup!!
This shot is truly an exceptional colourful wonder!
Kindly post this image at Photographic Art Legacy - Invites Only!!
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MAJOR INTERESTS: EARTH-Life; Biodiversity; Animal Conservation; Wisdom; eco-tourism; sustainable living; Volunteerism; Current Affairs; Communications; community; FUTURE; Olympics; Arts; Health; green architecture; Love; Kindness; Music; Joy; Fun; Heritage; Promoting "Eco-Heros"; Helping others; Non-profits; Mentors; Photography; Art; Computing, EXPLORATION; Travel; Cosmic cities in history; Civilizations; Architecture and technology; Ancient Earth; Future life.
. COOL BOOKS 'N' AUTHORS: ** NON-FICTION **
* ~ * Liz Simpson: "The healing energies of Earth", Axiom; * ~ * John Michell & Christine Rhone: "Twelve Tribe Nations and the Science of Enchanting the Landscape", Thames and Hudson; * ~ * William James Perry: "The Children of the Sun", Adventures Unlimited; * ~ * Herbie Brennan: "The Secret History of Ancient Egypt: Electricity, Sonics and the Disappearance of an Advanced Civilisation", Piatkus; * ~ * Emmeline Plunket: "Calendars and Constellations of the Ancient World", Senate; * ~ * Graham Hancock: "Fingerprints of the Gods: A Quest for the Beginning and the End", Mandarin; * ~ * Zecharia Sitchin: "The 12th Planet: Book 1 of the Earth Chronicles", Avon. ** AUTO-BIOGRAPHY ** * ~ * Joan Grant: "Far Memory", Ariel Press; * ~ * Jenny Cockell: Yesterday's Children: The Search for my Family from the Past, Piatkus. ** NOVELS ** --- * ~ * Dan Brown: "The Da Vinci Code".
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So much to see ... !

Map Legend: 7%, 19 of 263 Territories Red=Visit or Residence

My travels ... www.worldmapmaker.com/ |
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. SOME P~E~R~S~O~N~A~L QUIZZES -- GREAT FUN! Enjoy completing Personality & Character Quizzes ... ? -- If you find others, do please tell me their URLs ... !!!
Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP)

Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant. Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men. You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving.
How Rare Is Your Personality?
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Your Aura is Violet


Idealistic and thoughtful, you have the mind and ideas to change the world. And you have the charisma of a great leader, even if you don't always use it! The purpose of your life: saying truths that other people dare not say. Famous purples include: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan B. Anthony. Careers for you to try: Political Activist, Inventor, Life Coach
What Color Is Your Aura?
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I am a Canna
What Flower Are You?
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I'm a Porsche 911!

You have a classic style, but you're up-to-date with the latest technology.
You're ambitious, competitive, and you love to win. Performance, precision, and prestige - you're one of the elite,and you know it.
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
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Which famous photographer are you?Ansel Adams: Known for large scale silver gelatin landscapes especially of Yosemite National Park"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."Click Here to Take This QuizBrought to you by www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm quizzes and personality tests.
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[Joined 01/01/2010] - Globetracker - describes my visitors

Here's my ongoing earlier flag-list of visitors [I forgot the join-date, but think it was in 2009]. by country. Below that are very recent US visitors, listed in frequencies by State.


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PROFILE PROTEST: DEAR FRIENDS -- How long will this environmentally ruinous 'commercially-driven' social focus spoil the fullness of Earth life? -- The more things deteriorate, the quicker ALL will see: we MUST re-focus, to save the planet. ~ Must we suffer planetary disasters to get it? -- Speak up, to help all wake up! ... One day, Wisdom will rule, and drive exciting, positive goals, so ALL may enjoy the beautiful paradise which many have glimpsed. Don't let ruinous things happen because you opt out. Stop the rot! Guide wisdom [harmony and balance] to take the lead -- with finance returned to it's support-role, so it is not destructive of the ethics of life. Or the joy of a happy, clean, vibrant and enegetic life, inviting of inspired participation.

CHANGES I DO NOT ENJOY: [Dear Flickr -- Please restore my full PROFILE ... ie. read this.]
1. "DEMOTING" OUR TESTIMONIALS: Please restore my greatly treasured "Testimonials" back up top on the right, along-side my own words. I love to see them there, to think, "Thank you dear flickr and these friends, for the kind thoughts and helpful comments." Now I see the empty space where they were, and I think "This is NUTS!" This is 'my profile', so please, put them back where they have meaning. Let us each choose how our personal Profile page looks. -- Thanks, flickr.
2. FAVORITES FARCE: I did NOT 'choose' which FAVORITES appear here. -- I did not want to place my personal favorites here at all.
3. 'Let's all uplift, and live happily together''. Dear Flickr: Please don't be "FREE RADICALS" who diminish customer joy.
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