By Patricia Burke The blog, “Future Conscience, What Do We Want to Be” explores human progress in all of its various forms and asks the question: What do we want to be? “It is important in this day and age to look closely at the…
By Patricia Burke, Images Courtesy Flo Freshman It’s a common practice in many circles to conduct a review of past, as the year turns. In this case, as the year supposedly turns. Looking a little bit further into the past, we can recognize how ironic…
Submitted by Patricia Burke In a joint letter, representatives from 11 Nordic organisations active in the field of health risks from radiation from wireless technology, request that humans and the environment be better protected. People are today completely unprotected from a variety of harmful effects,…
By Patricia Burke On December 17, Phys.org published a paper, “After thousands of years, an iconic whale confronts a new enemy,” from the University of Copenhagen. Teetering at the Tipping Point We can shift the balance of humanity’s environmental impacts from damaging to harmonizing, by…
By Patricia Burke with Kate Kheel At the Solstice, many groups and individuals were reflecting on the balance between darkness and night, observed by indigenous groups though-out millennia. The Ocean Mammal Institute and Stop 5G International hosted a gathering, identifying the need to address the…
Submitted by Patricia Burke In 2015, pioneer Olle Johansson published his paper, “Johansson O, “Electrohypersensitivity: a functional impairment due to an inaccessible environment”, Rev Environ Health 2015; 30: 311–321.” The abstract stated, In Sweden, electrohypersensitivity is recognized as a functional impairment which implies only the…
By Patricia Burke An “animal tracking bracelet” is being promoted for holiday gift giving. One group offers the option of a bracelet, in partnership with Sea Turtle Conservancy, Save the Elephants, Track a Shark, or Track a Polar Bear. SOURCE A non-profit says: “Every Sea…
By Amelia Gilardi with Patricia Burke Natural Blaze readers are familiar with the ongoing saga in Pittsfield, MA, where a cell tower installed in a residential area has caused tremendous harm to the community. Residents continue to lobby to have the tower turned off so…
By Patricia Burke, Carmen Miranda Banana, and Flo Freshman Carmen Miranda Banana is BACK! She was with us for April Fool’s Day, talking about Oturd Otard rule making. Now, she’s on a rant of run-on sentences about unscientific science and yelling “Liar Liar Pants On…
By Patricia Burke with Flo Freshman As Christmas approaches, nativity scenes depict the birth of a newborn child in a manger. Catholics worldwide are observing the Advent season, with candles, wreaths, and prayers. In truth, centuries earlier, before the Church took the calendar away from…
By Kate Kheel, Stop 5G International “Let Consciousness be our guide and use science as a tool.” Wisdom of the Universe Please join us for two events this solstice season to help raise awareness and encourage change in the wildly out of balance use of technology on Earth, in…
By Patricia Burke “The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, (also known as the ‘Global Network‘ or the ‘GN’) is an international network of organizations and individuals [] concerned about the militarization and exploitation of space. In just a few decades outer…
By Patricia Burke Technology, and Lack of Quietude, Lack of Community, and Lack of Reverence for Nature; “Time” for a Re-set When I was a child growing up in Southeast Asia, we visited Bali several times. Each day at sunset, islanders would stream down to…
By Christine Albers reprinted by permission, adapted for length and clarity by Patricia Burke Whales and other ocean mammals need to be protected from the adverse effects of sonar, which can cause brain hemorrhage and death. Dr. Marsha Green, founder of Ocean Mammal Institute, has…
By Patricia Burke Back in 2001, as published by Acoustic Ecology, Kenneth Balcomb corresponded with the military about an environmental impact statement covering sonar. I have had the unique opportunity to witness and study a mass stranding of whales and a dolphin caused by a…
By Patricia Burke Plans are accelerating to pursue an Internet of Underwater Things and the increased militarization of the oceans, including the use of sonar. As noted in yesterday’s article, EMF/RF/5G/Internet Of Underwater Things: Devastation To Whales Is Warning Us, although the story has received…
By Patricia Burke Whales Warned Us About Radar–Years Ago In 2014, the NRDC published, “U.S. Navy Implicated in New Mass Stranding of Whales.” Yesterday afternoon, while the U.S. and other navies played war games somewhere offshore, Cuvier’s beaked whales began stranding along the southern coast…
An online streaming event and meditation, inspired by whales, on the Solstice December 21st at 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern, featuring Dr. Marsha Green from Ocean Mammal Institute. Sign up for the Zoom event here or https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcuGgqz8uEtaJxlUusogsfkGXNpoVro6. You can also email us at whales@oceanmammalinst.org….
By Patricia Burke Whale Trust reports, “The humpback whale song is one of the most complex, non-human, acoustic displays in the animal kingdom. But why males sing is still a mystery. [ ] Whale Trust Maui researchers have been following, recording, and tracking humpback whales…
By Patricia Burke “Regulatory agencies should apply the Precautionary Principle when making decisions about acoustic activities to be conducted underwater.” In Part 1, we looked at the on-going colonization and exploitation of indigenous lands and peoples by the U.S., including military-occupied Guam. (While the U.S….
