I give you a link to Bicycle City

I thought you might find Bicycle City interesting and sent you this link:

http://www.bicyclecity.com/

Thank You,

Bicycle City - An Eco-Friendly Place to Live, Work & Play.

Send your favorite nature photos!

I have joined The Nature Conservancy - an conservation community - in April 2007. Since then I always get news from the site about the activities related to conservation efforts worldwidely. Though I have not taken any participation yet, except reading the news, including in my area - Indonesia -, I enjoy it very much. I told some friends of mine about the community, and they are interested in it.

One of many that I like most is that I can travel over the world virtually. There are so many beautiful photos shared by the members. Some are very awesome. I wonder if I could share my photos as contribution to the efforts.

Today I got an email from the community. I get informed about 2008 Digital Photo Contest held by the community. Here is a copy-paste of the announcement:

"Dear Mr. Sukandar,
Your favorite nature photos could win and inspire others! Enter The Nature Conservancy's 2008 Digital Photo Competition by submitting your favorite images.
Just like the more than 25,000 entries we received since our first contest in 2006, we're looking for beautiful nature photography representing the diversity of life on Earth — including forests, grasslands, lakes, rivers, deserts, rainforests, oceans, coral reefs, and more!

Your own original digital images of our lands, waters, plants, animals and people in nature are all eligible for the competition. View last years' finalists here.
At least 35 photos will be selected as honorable mentions and finalists. Your favorite will be declared the Grand Prize Winner and will be featured in the 2010 Nature Conservancy calendar.

To enter one or more images use the Conservancy's free Flickr™ photo-sharing group and tag each with "PhotoContest-TNC08". Or, if you prefer, you can complete our online form and e-mail each photo, one at a time.

The contest is open to all photographers age 18 or older regardless of residence or citizenship, so long as the laws of their jurisdiction allow participation. Photo submissions must be uploaded by 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. Please read the full rules before entering.

Thank you for all you do to showcase and celebrate the beauty of our natural world — inspiring others to protect our most critical natural resources. And good luck!"

I have an account at Flickr.com already. Then I uploaded some pictures that I have by my own shots. Want to see my photostream at Flickr? Click here! Would you participate in the contest? Good luck! [skd]

Beware of the believes behind your actions!

What is making this human world beauty? Beauty-making is action, as life is also action! Thus, the most important thing is action. Without it, anything will remain as nothing. The question is, what kind of action do we have to do? That will include our morality as well as our religiousity and spirituality. When we agree that human being is the image of God himself, or when all of us dream of a union with God, humanity would be the basic measurement.

However, practically our understanding about "the most right humanity" seems to be always in disputes, rather than serious efforts of making it real. Human being is an uncomplete creature in terms of evolution theory. He is still in-progress to be a perfect human being. He has to learn to be (more) human. The understanding about "the most right humanity" would be in the learning process that no one knows when it will come to an end. We just need to believe in the existence of it, to convince that it is real eventhough it is beyond! The thing is how to consolidate many believes among us! Again and again, we can fall just into disputes about the most right belief!

So, wacth out! [skd]