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Rainforest Connection – Phones Turned to Forest Guardians

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Hi all,

I have been checking this out and find it fascinating on how we can use old phones to potentially stop illegal deforestation of the rain forests, in both Africa and South America. This illegal logging speeds the extinction of endangered species and significantly adds to the effects of global climate change!  This ultimately effects every one of us as we share this planet with many other creatures all of which have a right to survive.  Take a moment to check it out and I think you’ll appreciate what these guys are trying to do. They can also use a little help to get this great project well and truly off the ground.  Great work guys and you’ve got my support!!!

Here is a an extract from their site – the project is supported by KICKSTARTER…

See what Neil Young, Environmentalist, Musician, Inventor, has to say...

Watch the Video

Technology to stop illegal logging and poaching on-the-spot. It’s our answer to climate change & mass extinctions.
Rainforest Connection - Kickstarter

Rainforest Connection – Kickstarter

How will it be done…
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Rainforest Connection

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What is Rainforest Connection?

 

Rainforest Connection (RFCx) transforms recycled smartphones into autonomous, solar-powered listening devices that can detect and pinpoint signs of environmental destruction activity—such as chainsaws, gunshots and animal distress calls—at great distance.

Current detection systems rely on satellites which show rainforest destruction days or weeks too late. Our system provides  the world’s first real-time logging/poaching detection system. We can pinpoint deforestation activity the moment it begins, while simultaneously streaming the data openly and immediately to anyone around the world.


Rainforest Connection - Kickstarter

Rainforest Connection – Kickstarter

With the Rainforest Connection mobile app, any interested person from around the world can listen-in on the rainforest anytime, from anywhere…

Taking it one step further: the Rainforest Connection mobile app

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PLAY 

 

In late 2014,  web & mobile apps will be released to let backers stream the LIVE sounds of the rainforest in Africa and the Amazon. Just click Play above to hear the sounds of the rainforest as captured by the RFCx system in Sumatra.

Rainforest Connection - Press

Rainforest Connection – Press

 

Listen to the cry of the forest!

Rainforest Connection

 

Learn more…

 

VIDEO

 

I really appreciate you taking a moment look at this as it’s using technology for a great cause! I like it a lot…

Mike-Hope

Redondo Beach Home Sales – June 2014

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Hi all,

Well it’s July already and the Redondo Beach Home sales for our area are out. Sales are up slightly on the previous month with a movement upward on pricing! Let’s see how it continues through the summer as sales are expected to be good. For more information or if you are thinking of buying or selling your home give Cecily Lee a call on 310-376-5673 or visit her on the web at cecilylee.com

 

Redondo Beach Pier Sunset by Mike-Hope

Redondo Beach Pier Sunset by Mike-Hope

June 2014 Townhome sales in our neighborhood

 

ADDRESS SQUARE FT BED BATH YR BUILT SALES PRICE DOM LOT SQ FT SALE DATE
239 N Juanita AV #A 1,347 2 2 1979 $620,000 86 — 06/27/14
110 S Guadalupe AV #5 1,615 3 3 1983 $715,000 9 — 06/10/14
211 S Helberta AV #8 1,449 2 2 1986 $720,000 7 — 06/12/14
505 Agate ST 2,304 3 3 1989 $862,500 177 — 06/27/14
407 Anita ST #B 2,700 3 2 1990 $900,000 23 — 06/02/14
204 N Irena AV #A 2,090 3 2 2003 $925,000 17 — 06/05/14
708 Garnet ST 1,974 3 2 1989 $932,000 37 — 06/19/14
215 N Irena AV # A 2,283 4 2 1998 $1,000,000 5 — 06/26/14

 

June 2014 Single Family Home sales in our neighborhood 


ADDRESS SQUARE FT BED BATH YR BUILT SALES PRICE DOM LOT
SQ FT		 SALE DATE
220 N Lucia AV 1,604 3 2 1940 $850,000 161 6,031 06/10/14
1408
N Paulina AV		 1,814 4 1 1963 $875,000 131 4,997 06/12/14
410
N Paulina AV		 1,760 4 1 1963 $995,000 22 5,011 06/03/14
414 N Lucia AV 1,764 3 1 1950 $1,087,000 35 7,049 06/25/14

Information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Cecily Lee, Redondo Beach Realtor, Redondo Beach Homes for Sale and Redondo Beach CA Real Estate

Century Park Towers in Black & White by Mike-Hope

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Hi all,

Hope you have a Happy and Safe 4th of July!!! 

I just posted this one on 500px and thought you might like to take a look! It is the two towers at Century Park where the Annenberg Space for photography has some great exhibits, currently Country: Portraits of an American Sound. It really is worth a visit and is always free!! Can’t beat that… I took this photo while looking up on a sunny and clear afternoon. Then I used some post black and white filters to give it the dramatic effect.

Towers by Mike-Hope

Towers by Mike-Hope

Thank you again for taking a look!! and Happy 4th!!

Mike-Hope

Hermosa Beach – One Minute on Earth Project – June 21st, 2014

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Hermosa Beach – One Minute on Earth Project – June 21st, 2014.

Hermosa Beach – One Minute on Earth Project – June 21st, 2014

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I took this shot on Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach yesterday as part of the One Minute on Earth photo project with Kujaja.com. Everyone takes a photo at exactly the same time around the world. Then Kujaja will put together a book where all the proceeds go to helping a children’s orphanage in Cape Town South Africa!! I’ll keep you posted on the progress…
Taken at Hermosa Beach Pier Ave. June 21st, 2014

Taken at Hermosa Beach Pier Ave. June 21st, 2014

You can see the actual picture at Kujaja.com
Thank you for taking a look and check out all the One Minute on Earth photos at KuJaJa. I think you’ll like them…
Mike-Hope

Hi all,

I was inspired to put this together from another picture using wet glass. I took five pictures of the sunflowers with different exposures and fused them in an HDR program. Then I used filter software to create the wet glass layer look and blended it together.  Let me know if you like it!!

 

Wet Sunflower by Mike-Hope

Wet Sunflower by Mike-Hope

Thanks for checking it out!!

 

Mike-Hope

Wet Sunflowers by Mike Hope

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Time Moves

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Hi all,

Thought you might like to take a look at this one. I took a shot of an ornamental gift clock / weigh machine in a great curio shop in Lake Arrowhead. Hand held with the Canon EOS-M and a 40mm lens on f/2.8 in low light so I could get a narrow depth of field and natural look. Then I applied some oil paint effects in post to give it the oiled canvas look, adjusting light contrast etc., as I went. Let me know what you think?

Time Moves

Time Moves by Mike-Hope

 

Thank you for taking a look,

Mike Hope

Redondo Beach Home Sales May 2014

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Hey all,

Here is a quick update for the Redondo Beach Home sales in our neighborhood for May of this year. Sales are still pretty good with a slight upward trend in price. Some potential buyers are still holding back due to lack of equity in the property they would like to sell helping to cool the market. For more information on property values and sales check out Cecily Lee at ceilylee.com or call Cecily Lee on 310-376-5673

 

Rescue by Mike Hope

Rescue by Mike Hope

 

 

Townhome sales in our neighborhood for May 2014

 

ADDRESS SQUARE FT BED BATH YR BUILT SALES PRICE DOM LOT SQ FT SALE DATE
222
S Irena AV #D		 1,352 2 1 1979 $564,000 156 — 05/16/14
606 N Guadalupe AV #G 1,504 2 2 1979 $615,000 12 — 05/23/14
708 El
Redondo AV #4		 1,541 2 2 1980 $626,000 10 — 05/13/14
506 N
Helberta AV #3		 1,292 2 2 1980 $710,000 7 — 05/07/14
212 N Lucia AV #B 1,766 3 2 1990 $768,000 23 — 05/06/14
523 N Juanita AV #A 2,200 3 2 2005 $1,075,000 6 — 05/05/14
205 S
Helberta AV #B		 2,644 4 3 2000 $1,125,000 0 — 05/20/14


Single Family Home sales in our neighborhood for May 2014

 

ADDRESS SQUARE FT BED BATH YR BUILT SALES PRICE DOM LOT SQ FT SALE DATE
103
N Lucia		 592 2 1 1924 $540,000 93 4,032 05/07/14
103 N Juanita 1,012 3 1 1924 $799,000 53 3,013 05/07/14
301 N
Francisca AV		 3,233 5 3 1990 $895,000 102 3,735 05/23/14

Information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Cecily Lee, Redondo Beach Realtor, Redondo Beach Homes for Sale and Redondo Beach CA Real Estate.

Thanks again for stopping by,

Mike-Hope

 

COSMOS -A Spacetime Odyssey

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Have you been watching  Cosmos 2014 with Neil DeGrasse Tyson? This is quite amazing and a real tribute to Carl Sagan who co-wrote and presented the original awesome series!! If you haven’t seen this series you should check it out the production is amazing and the logic flawless.  The last enthralling episode will help many of us understand more fully the causes and consequences of global climate change. For some this may be an eye opener and for all it should be a call to action!! You can check it out on-line at COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey

Ancestors

“We are alive thanks to our countless ancestors who have survived for over 3 billion years”

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. Carl Sagan

Let’s turn Carl Sagan’s vision and Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s tenacity into reality. We can make this into a “Garden of Eden“, we have the power if we have the will!! The strength of humanity is in it’s common bond and that common bond can drive us to great things. As it says on the web photo “We are alive thanks to our countless ancestors who have survived for over 3 billion years” To reflect on this, just for a short time, makes us realise that hardships and sacrifices they all went through to bring us to this point in our long and turbulent history. Let’s not forget our heritage and do what all those millions of voices would be imploring us to do! After all it is their world too…

Thanks for stopping by,

Mike Hope

 

Mike-Hope at 500px Prime

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Hi everyone,

Just thought I’d let you know that some of my photo’s are now up on 500px Prime. It’s a new site from 500px and thought you might like to take a look and let me know what you think. Of course unless you want to license a photo don’t buy anything!!! Just go to the regular 500px site and you can download the same image for a lot less 🙂  Anyway, take a look and let me know what you think of the site!

Mike-Hope at 500px Prime

Mike-Hope at 500px Prime