quarry pond böhmer weiher ~ the nature comes back :o)

crazy, it looks like we come once a year here 😄. 

enjoy few pictures from december 2021 ⛄. any insights this time? yes. it is nice that the beavers came back too, of course. but if you asked me, there are not enough trees for that snappy beavers (bissige biber), are there?

addendum 22.02.2020 (what a nice date, isn't it?):
we planned to walk at the lake pilsensee today, but because of traffic jam we have soon changed our mind and went to the nearby böhmer weiher. today was a different light outside than during out first visit here, so i think it is a good idea to add few 'different' pictures to my old blog post 😄

enjoy 45 amazing 'professional' shots from all over the world 'nature took back HERE' and enjoy the example from our neighborhood below. it was a gravel pit (kiesgrube) in the 60ties and a factory for cement and concrete (betonfabrik) after that:

 

the small lake, kleiner böhmerweiher (weihergraben)

the bigger lake, großer böhmerweiher (böhmer weiher)

birch trees (birken) are often the first trees which start to grow ... like in the abandoned open pit brown coal mines in the northwest czech republic
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our first visit, 14.04.2019: what the hell is the böhmerweiher? a quarry pond? why should i make a blog post about a quarry pond (baggersee)? well, just for one reason: it was sooooo amazing to see how the nature takes back industrial sites when we simply allow it to happen by doing NOTHING.

enjoy few pictures from böhmerweiher (baggersee böhmer weiher) in aubinger lohe (between gröbenzell, puchheim (+ eichenau) and lochhausen in western part of munich). it was a gravel pit (kiesgrube) in the 60ties and than a factory for cement and concrete (betonfabrik) later. the nature has taken this former industrial zone back under its control today :-)

our starting point this time was the nearby allotment garden area in lochhausen

two of us 

 böhmer weiher information board 

the best and one of the craziest wives on earth 😂

grosser böhmerweiher

still not too romantic, is it?

kleiner böhmerweiher (weihergraben)

the forest comes back

btw, few years ago there was just one big lake, but the owners (the böhmer family or the concrete factory?) filled it with stuff + earth, so that we have two lakes today

source: google maps

what the hell is that? well, google's 'Then & Now' pictures feature wants to tell me, that google, NSA, BND, police and other authorities know EVERYTHING about me and my life. ok, i've understood :-(

 

more pictures here

more bavarian lakes here

maybe you would also like my old save the world 😉 blog post, won't you?
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mark boyle ~ the man who lives without money (already for fifteen months)

source of the picture + the story: world observer

let's save this great article on my website in order to find it fast + easily when needed ~ enjoy and yes, let's think about your own way to improve the world :-)

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The man who lives without money

OCTOBER 4, 2013 11:09 AM                                                  VIEWS: 368490

Irishman Mark Boyle tried to live life with no income, no bank balance and no spending. Here’s how he finds it.

If someone told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and economics degree, that I’d now be living without money, I’d have probably choked on my microwaved ready meal. The plan back then was to get a ‘good’ job, make as much money as possible, and buy the stuff that would show society I was successful.

For a while I did it – I had a fantastic job managing a big organic food company; had myself a yacht on the harbour. If it hadn’t been for the chance purchase of a video called Gandhi, I’d still be doing it today. Instead, for the last fifteen months, I haven’t spent or received a single penny. Zilch.

The change in life path came one evening on the yacht whilst philosophising with a friend over a glass of merlot. Whilst I had been significantly influenced by the Mahatma’s quote “be the change you want to see in the world”, I had no idea what that change was up until then. We began talking about all major issues in the world – environmental destruction, resource wars, factory farms, sweatshop labour – and wondering which of these we would be best devoting our time to. Not that we felt we could make any difference, being two small drops in a highly polluted ocean.

But that evening I had a realisation. These issues weren’t as unrelated as I had previously thought – they had a common root cause. I believe the fact that we no longer see the direct repercussions our purchases have on the people, environment and animals they affect is the factor that unites these problems.

The degrees of separation between the consumer and the consumed have increased so much that it now means we’re completely unaware of the levels of destruction and suffering embodied in the ‘stuff’ we buy.

Very few people actually want to cause suffering to others; most just don’t have any idea that they directly are. The tool that has enabled this separation is money, especially in its globalised format.

Take this for an example: if we grew our own food, we wouldn’t waste a third of it as we do today.

If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn’t throw them out the moment we changed the interior décor.

If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn’t shit in it.

So to be the change I wanted to see in the world, it unfortunately meant I was going to have to give up money, which I decided to do for a year initially. So I made a list of the basics I’d need to survive. I adore food, so it was at the top. There are four legs to the food-for-free table: foraging wild food, growing your own, bartering and using waste grub, of which there far too much.

On my first day I fed 150 people a three course meal with waste and foraged food. Most of the year I ate my own crops though and waste only made up about five per cent my diet. I cooked outside – rain or shine – on a rocket stove.

Next up was shelter. So I got myself a caravan from Freecycle, parked it on an organic farm I was volunteering with, and kitted it out to be off the electricity grid. I’d use wood I either coppiced or scavenged to heat my humble abode in a wood burner made from an old gas bottle, and I had a compost loo to make ‘humanure’ for my veggies.

I bathed in a river, and for toothpaste I used washed up cuttlefish bone with wild fennel seeds, an oddity for a vegan. For loo roll I’d relieve the local newsagents of its papers (I once wiped my arse with a story about myself); it wasn’t double quilted but it quickly became normal. To get around I had a bike and trailer, and the 55 km commute to the city doubled up as my gym subscription. For lighting I’d use beeswax candles.

Many people label me an anti-capitalist. Whilst I do believe capitalism is fundamentally flawed, requiring infinite growth on a finite planet, I am not anti anything. I am pro-nature, pro-community and pro-happiness. And that’s the thing I don’t get – if all this consumerism and environmental destruction brought happiness, it would make some sense. But all the key indicators of unhappiness – depression, crime, mental illness, obesity, suicide and so on are on the increase. More money it seems, does not equate to more happiness.

Ironically, I have found this year to be the happiest of my life. I’ve more friends in my community than ever, I haven’t been ill since I began, and I’ve never been fitter. I’ve found that friendship, not money, is real security. That most western poverty is spiritual. And that independence is really interdependence.

Could we all live like this tomorrow? No. It would be a catastrophe, we are too addicted to both it and cheap energy, and have managed to build an entire global infrastructure around the abundance of both. But if we devolved decision making and re-localised down to communities of no larger than 150 people, then why not? For over 90 per cent of our time on this planet, a period when we lived much more ecologically, we lived without money. Now we are the only species to use it, probably because we are the species most out of touch with nature.

People now often ask me what is missing compared to my old world of lucre and business. Stress. Traffic-jams. Bank statements. Utility bills. Oh yeah, and the odd pint of organic ale with my mates down the local.
(source: world observer )

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what  about my save the world link library, my dears?

anything else? coming soon or never ...

one earth, one world, one humanity

source: here

one world => one humanity :-)

source: here

friends, it is really that way. i have been to so many countries this year: poland, germany, austria, vietnam, switzerland, egypt, jordan, israel, usa, belgium, netherlands, luxemburg (if i remember the string in the right order :-) and you know what? there is just one world, one earth, one planet. even we folks are so similar: need some food, the same air to breathe. we are happy when not hungry + not thirsty + have shelter + enjoy our time with people we like or alone in the nature ... we have so much in common and there is so little difference ... do not believe that nationality, religion or the like divides us in completely different universes as the politics of the current financial-military-industrial complex and its small dirty mainstream media is trying tio suggest us. do you still remember that all recent western imperialistic wars (iraq, afghanistan, libya) were based on lies? so be careful if the 'system' will attack syria + lebanon + iran + south korea or any other country which is not willing to 'give' all its resources to the huge corporations ...

what not to do? of course, do not destroy life (stop wars) or nature and do not support people / political parties / organizations (NATO) / corporations etc. which are involved in the destruction process ...

source: here (~the OWS facebook page)

what to do? that's easy, but please DO SOMETHING good ... protect the nature, clean-up the nature whereever possible, eat less meat, consume less and try to buy sustainable products, support peace and freedom, join movements which are against wars + unfairness, like the OccupyWallStreet (OWS) movement, greenpeace, WWF, ... damn, there are so many movements for the good, just support / join the ones which fits to you :)

btw, when in or close to NY on sept 17th, you could join the OWS fellows at their 2nd anniversary demo in NYC (zuccotti park ~ former liberty square):

source: here .. and here is a nice report about how the event was + what to do next

and always remember, there is no planet B.

source for both planet pictures: here

if you have time, maybe you would like to read / watch more about 'safe the world' issues? well, i have few link libraries with interviews, videos, movies, pictures here:

• save the world
• if people united, cannot be defeated (OWS)
• stop wars

anything else? coming soon or never ...

oktoberfest

we drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~ jerome k. jerome (1859-1927) ~ cheers :-)

few drink champagne ...

... the most drink beer and dance on the tables ...

... and yes, nobody here worries about our future, peace & war, inflation, democracy, politics, r-evolution, climate change, nature or any other important issue ... is really bread and games all we need like the ancient roman saying tells? hmmm, the life is good ... isn't it? well, thus my dears: Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ~ Omar Khayyan

coming soon or never: more pictures + insights (inflation: the beer price is 3.87% higher than last year, on average 9.30 €uros (= USD 12). quite a lot for 1 liter of beer, wouldn't you say?)

what about last year's oktoberfest / octoberfest / wiesn event in munich / münchen? here :-)

addendum september 29th: omg, omg, omg ... i think i have been in paradise today :-). my dears, forget beer tents, forget beer gardens, the chocolate & coffee & wine tent rischart is the place to be .... food, drinks (no beer at all) and soooo many pretty women, that was the heaven i know ... and yes, the best of all wives was with me, the nicest day 2012 so far ...

well we have met funnny swiss girls (so beautiful, i will probably get one special picture by email next week), nice to speak to group of bavarians from dachau and 7 or 8 girls from NYC. well, the americans arrived in the centre of munich (marienplatz / town hall) and most of them (5 or 6) bought the same blue bavarian folks dress for the oktoberfest, what a circle! a dress just for 2 or 3 nights? a really bad investment, wouldn't you say? nope, they are going to come next year as well ;o)

heaven #1 ~ our table today

haeven #2 ~ the swiss girls table next to ours

what about tomorrow? an easy decision, isn't it?

HOME

what is more important than money + gold + success + glory + all the power of the world combined? folks, its the life, the planet, the climate, the nature, u know? of course, im heavily impacted by the movie HOME i watched yesterday => 1.5 hours, great pictures, great message!

save the climate = save ourselves! 
thats the summary i think ... here is the link (there was no embed code):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

and here is the cover picture:

pls, just give it a try, im sure it will start/deepen a process of thinking abt our poor planet earth, which suffers like hell under all that mankind destroying the nature wherever he moves ...

of course, im afraid the accelerating climate change will force us to change our views on many things (money, profit, energy consumption, ...) and even words like 'my', 'yours', 'theirs' will become a new dimension as we will prolly recognize that there is only 'our' and we cant afford 2 destroy the nature no matter if it is 'somewhere' in brazil, congo, indonesia, europe, china, canada, ... lets hope the homo sapiens is smart enough to understand that soon enough :-)

what can we do concretely and immediately 2 avoid that sad scenario? well, 1st im going 2 tell u what im already doing, ok? of course, there are few things i think im doing already right and few not sooooo right

good:

• i switched from a standard electric power supplier to an ecological power supplier (btw, its greenpeace energy) already few years ago, so im sure there is no coal heating and no nuclear power threatening because of my energy demand/consumption
• i support both greenpeace + WWF with fixed amounts on a monthly basis
• i participate on demonstrations for peace and climate
• i try to reach and inform other homo sapiens' (thats you, my dear reader :-) through my blogs, facebook or twitter accounts
• i often use ecosia, the green search engine when i surf the web
• i try to buy products which are ecologically friendly and thus support the good companies and force the bad ones to change their policies or even to disappear ...
• i use public transport as often as possible (e.g. for my way to work each day)
• i support many online petitions for the 'good' + nature ...
• i invest my money in sectors like green energy, water, gold/silver (= honest money instead of the fraudulent fiat money which destroys our planet that damned fast!), food, ...
• ???

evil:

• i eat too much meat (on average more than once a day)
• i waste too much water (i plan 2 shower instead of bathing at least on 6 days a week)
• ???
• lets think abt the areas of improvement later ... im sure there is a lot what i still can improve :-)
• ...
• ????

of course, u would like 2 know how does climate and financial market fit together? well, we (= folks, consumers, electors, decision makers, ...) decide what will survive and what not. lets support the 'good ones' and lets fight against the destroyers of nature, ok? last but not least, what abt donating some (small?) amount of money for nature protecting organizations after each 'killig' we made in the financial markets?

peace!