Siegfried Gärtner's Blog (12)

I had hoped that season 2 would cover topics like the protection of wildlife, the constantly increasing criminality, the hopelessness among the European youth, especially in southern Europe, and the increasing divergence of social cla**** regarding financial means, but since the season 2 of Evoke is out already and the focus of season 2 is on trash, i would like to see those topics covered in season 3.

Moreover, Urgent Evoke had some technical deficiencies, which were quite…

Psychological First Aid is based on an understanding that disaster survivors and others affected by such events will experience a broad range of early reactions (physical, psychological, behavioral, spiritual).

Some of these reactions will cause enough distress to interfere with adaptive coping, and recovery may be helped by support from compassionate and caring disaster responders.

In the last 10 years the psychological damage left in the wake of tsunamis, earthquakes, droughts…

In the history of mankind there were a variety of different languages, dialects and accents.

Many of them have been long forgotten, for those civilizations have perished a long time ago.

Still, there is an ancient language which stood the test of time and is as old as humanity itself.

I speak of the language of pictures.

Already the cave dwellers used the language…

Forest ecosystems support human, animal and plant life, and provide humanity with a rich endowment of natural, renewable resources such as timber, herbs, different types of mushrooms and many more.

Approximately 31% of the land surface is covered with forests.

This corresponds to an area of 4 billion hectares.

Russia has the biggest share of forest area wolrdwide with approximately 809 million hectares (20.1%) .

Indonesia has at least a forest area of approximately 94 million…

The most realistic scenario which might possibly occur in northern Germany is an outbreak of infectious diseases.

Already in the past diseases like the avian flu and tuberculosis occured in Germany.

The biggest difference to other diseases consists in the fact that tuberculosis and avian flu are often transmitted by multi-resistent pathogens.

While other diseases are easily treated by antibiotics, multi-resistent pathogens are known to be resistant to all kinds of…

Probably everyone knows about the reputation of Thailand as a paradise for sex tourists.

But not everyone knows that Thailand is the number one destination for phaedophiles.

Thousands of children in Thailand, especially young and innocent virgins are abducted, drugged and then forced into prostitution.

The girls are brought to brothels where they are constantly raped, beaten and humiliated in order to break their resistance.

Afterwards they are put to work…

I've found several examples for alternative ways of payment or rather complementary currencies.

One of this complementary currencies is "The Yamato Love Machine".

I must admit that it didn't sound too reputable when i first read the description.

If i haven't informed myself about the project, i would have probably associated all sorts of things

with "The Love Machine" but definitely not a currency.

So that you will not be facing the same fate as me, I'll briefly…

The Ganges is second largest river in India and provides water for 40 percent of India's population in 11 states through which it flows.

People all over India come to the river to drink the sacred water and to receive the blessing of the goddess Ganga.

Unfortunately, the river is not only used as a source of water but also for a variety of religious rituals, for doing the laundry and also as a public bathroom. Additionaly, the industry pump their unfiltered waste directly into the…

My favorite secret is "Innovate on existing platforms" rather than bringing in completely new technologies.

You're probably wondering why I am of the opinion that existing technology should be improved, rather than introducing new innovative technologies.

Well, on the one hand, many people in the poor regions of the world, simply do not have the financial means to acquire new technologies and on the other hand, no profit-oriented company will introduce new technologies in areas,…

I've decided to pick Antezana Perez, Juan Carlos as my personal hero, mostly because he has dedicated himself to the preservation and conservation of the natural ecosystem and the protection of mother Earth's most vulnerable children, the animals.

Especially the part with the wildlife has a great importance to me for i feel myself attracted to all forms of animal life and i cannot bear to witness the suffering of helpless beings caused by human ignorance and cruelty.

One example…

The climate change is a gradual process, which effects are not immediately visible.

However, considering the climatic development over a longer period of time, for example the past 12 years, we have to realize that the natural disasters have increased in their intensity and frequency in comparison to the first 50 years of the last century.

The devastating tsunamis in Thailand and Japan are just one example of many.

In addtition to property damage in the million or even…

In my search for a social innovator, i came across a man named Gyanesh Pandey, whose idea to provide power plants for rural India using discarded rice husk as power source, made these peoples life's a lot easier and helped them save money.

Growing up in a village himself, Gyanesh Pandey knew only too well the poverty and the bad living conditions of these people.

He felt himself obliged to do something about the prevalent hopelessness in Indian villages.

Together with his…