Category: environmental
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Day Twenty-Four of ORCA in Switzerland – The Smell of Colza
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I walked along roads that would be filled with non-stop traffic if we weren’t in a pandemic. As a result I could enjoy almost the entire walk without avoiding people. In the process I passed by colza fields, an open garden centre and more. The image above is of a colza…
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Day Twenty-Three of ORCA in Switzerland – The Chernobyl Fire
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn normal times a forest fire in the Chernobyl exlusion zone would attract attention and environmentalists would actively speak about it. The world would pay attention. Due to the pandemic the news story is low on the agenda. I mentioned that a coffee shop and a pet shop had reopened on Monday…
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Day Twenty-One of ORCA in Switzerland – A Morning Walk
Reading Time: 3 minutesI had a morning walk this morning because I found that there are too many people to avoid during my afternoon walks. During my morning walk I took images of flowering plants, bees collecting pollen from flowers, roses budding and Apple orchards getting ready to blossom. During the walk I also listened…
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Day Twenty of ORCA in Switzerland – An Island of Tranquility
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went on my daily walk and found an island of tranquility. Instead of walking in one direction I reversed it. In doing so I saw the river from another point of view. I was on a trail and saw that I could get down to the riverbed and did. I…
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Day Nineteen of ORCA in Switzerland – TGIF
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo you have that TGIF feeling like no one else does? In theory today is the day when people are happy, knowing that the weekend is about to start and they can do the things they love for the next two days. In this context though, that is unlikely. We’re meant to…
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Day Seventeen of ORCA in Switzerland – April Fool’s During Self Isolation
Reading Time: 3 minutesApril Fool’s during self isolation is not fun. People made jokes about how our freedoms would be limited even further. In ordinary situations those jokes would be detected but because we have the freedom to get food, go for walks, and sit at home we have no other rewards as such. One…
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Day Sixteen of ORCA in Switzerland – Pandemic Solitude
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was writing a Facebook post when I thought of the term Pandemic Solitude and I love it so much that I wanted to use it as a title for today’s blog post. For most people during the pandemic the order is, stay with the people you live with but avoid being…
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Day Fifteen of ORCA in Switzerland – Pandemic Fatigue
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow that we’re in week 5 of self-isolation and Day fifteen of ORCA I am getting pandemic fatigue. As it’s Monday I could make the effort of going to the shops to get fresh food rather than deplete the reserves I have but my motivation is not there. It has come cold…
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Day Fourteen of Orca in Switzerland – Simulating An Epidemic
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I watched the Simulating an epidemic and it’s interesting. The person is not an expert. He played with various models to show how epidemics spread over a period of time when variables such as infectiousness, social distancing, quarantining and other variables are implemented. If one hundred percent of people self-isolate…