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# Kivu

Knowledge Imagery Vision Undertanding about Nature and Culture

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## Posts

- [The Blog!](https://kivu.com/the-blog/)
- [Attawapiskat Long Term](https://kivu.com/test-post/) - Native People to move into the future using their own initiatives and decisions within the modern contexts of their own cultures, languages, and knowledge systems, including the ownership rights to the land they still have under treaty and the ability to directly control, manage, and if appropriate to use the natural resources on and in the land for commerce.
- [Planetary Society](https://kivu.com/video/) - Resources of any type Human Behaviour, selfish, greedy, avaricious, sharing, altruistic, empathetic. Governance: preserving the nation, preserving the citizenry Economy governed by internally imposed rules or externally imposed rules
- [Natural Law: Locke and Hobbes](https://kivu.com/natural-law-locke-and-hobbes/) - John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Milton Friedman, all are mistaken that the principles of evolution apply to the modern management of capitalism and the economy
- [Capitalism Doesn't Need Employees](https://kivu.com/free-market-and-natural-selection-the-fatal-flaw/) - Capitalism spontaneous strategy to control production, distribution, and wealth exchange. No responsibility for employees if machines or cheaper labour will do.
- [Plants and Plants](https://kivu.com/plants-and-plants/) - Ever wondered why industry is so environmentally unaware with huge collateral damage? No incentive to provide for offspring or future generations in manufacturing plant
- [Competition in Nature and Capitalism](https://kivu.com/competition-in-nature-and-capitalism-different-results/) - Free market competition is not evolutionary. it is ecology-based. Model predicts reduced corporate diversity and increased corporate size. Labour just resource.
- [Evolution of the Economy](https://kivu.com/economic-evolution/) - Economics and evolution have analogous processes. Economic competition in an ecological model acts on entrepreneurs. Economic and biological DNA are the same.
- [Labour: an Expendable Resource](https://kivu.com/labour-as-an-expendable-resource-in-capitalism/) - The only people in the equation describing capitalism are entrepreneurs. Everyone else is either irrelevant or treated as an expendable resource.
- [100,000 Years of Economic Evolution](https://kivu.com/100000-years-of-of-economic-evolution/) - Economies evolve over thousands of years, not decades or centuries. History of economic evolution up to present time showing process and time frames.
- [Musings on Ecology and Economy](https://kivu.com/musings-on-ecology-and-economy/) - Building a model of economy using an ecological model, not an evolutionary model. Traces energy and raw material from subsistence to bartering to monetary systems.
- [Proposed (Preliminary) Evolutionary Taxonomy of Economic "Species"](https://kivu.com/proposed-preliminary-taxonomic-structure-of-evolutionary-economic-systems/) - A table showing parallels between evolutionary species in nature and economies. Demonstrates individuals, species, genera, families, classes, and phyla of both systems.
- [An Ecological Economy Model](https://kivu.com/an-ecolecon-model/) - Natural ecosystems, economic systems flow energy and raw materials. Unlike natural ecosystems, today's economic systems very primitive, rely on fossil fuels, limited by raw materials and energy.
- [Determinants of Diversity in an Ecological Economy](https://kivu.com/determinants-of-diversity-in-an-ecological-economy/) - Draws a comparison between ecological and economic systems and asks where does one find maximum diversity and richness of economies, parallel to organic matrix.
- [Managing Evolution, Ecosystems, and Economies](https://kivu.com/managing-evolution-ecosystems-and-economies/) - Discussion of why attempting to manage economic systems using the wrong model will never work, and even with the right model will be difficult.
- [Biomes and Economes](https://kivu.com/biomes-and-economes/) - compares biome classification as a useful modelling tool to economic classification of equivalent systems. Finds nothing economically useful as modelling tool
- [An Economic Evolutionary Tree](https://kivu.com/an-economic-evolutionary-tree/) - Hypothetical evolutionary tree for the economies of the world divided into three major divisions: Subsistence, Barter, Monetary.
- [Looking for Economes](https://kivu.com/looking-for-economes/) - Developing the parallels between biomes and ecozones to understand what a large economic system is and how to describe it to allow predictive modelling.
- [Organic and Commercial Matrices Enhance Diversity](https://kivu.com/organic-and-commercial-matrices-enhance-diversity-2/) - Explanation of an organic matrix and a commercial matrix to describe how diversity of species in biomes and lucrespecies in eoconomes are similarly influenced.
- [Naming Major Econonomes](https://kivu.com/naming-major-econonomes/) - Describing the main variables of economes and providing descriptive names to characterize them with country examples of each econome.
- [Recap: Parallel Biological and Economic Concepts](https://kivu.com/recap-parallel-biological-and-economic-concepts/) - summarizing economic evolution; three main lineages (subsistence, barter, monetary), economic ecology & economes. Variables latitude, resources, infrastructure.
- [Predicting in Econosystems](https://kivu.com/predicting-in-econosystems/) - Working from the base strategies of natural law or
- [Management Strategies in Biology and the Economy](https://kivu.com/management-strategies-in-biology-and-the-economy/) - The description of how managing in broad areas is difficult and not easily predicted. Provides examples of yield equations and models.
- [Quick Sketch: The Key Economic Modellers](https://kivu.com/quick-sketch-the-key-economic-modellers/) - Most important people who describe the economy in terms that are useful for modelling the economy based on biology. Hobbes, Locke, Smith, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman
- [Testing the Bio Economy Metaphor](https://kivu.com/testing-the-bio-economy-metaphor/) - Using a biometaphor for economy reveals a better way to predict results of policy changes in economic and political arenas. Slavery is the example used.
- [Testing the Theory: Greece](https://kivu.com/testing-the-theory-greece/) - Nine predictions of the outcome of IMF and World Bank measures imposed on Greece based on an ecological model of the economy, not an evolutionary model.
- [Tax Rates, Wealth, Job Creation, Fish Eggs and Baby Bunnies](https://kivu.com/tax-rates-wealth-job-creation-fish-eggs-and-baby-bunnies/) - Changing the tax rates. Tax rates are equivalent to cover in ecosystems, they distribute the resources, resulting in greater diversity of species.
- [Zero is not Nothing](https://kivu.com/zero-is-not-nothing/) - Musings on the concept of zero and its relationship to "nothing." If zero is not nothing, then it is merely a concept, a transition from +1 to -1.
- [Econosystems That are "Blowin' in the Wind"](https://kivu.com/econosystems-that-are-blowin-in-the-wind/) - Both eco- and econosystems can become rich by deriving primary and secondary productivity from drifting ecosystems by standing in their path, mouths wide open.
- [MegaCorporation Econosystems are like Ancient MegaFauna Ecosystems](https://kivu.com/megacorporation-econosystems-are-like-ancient-megafauna-ecosystems/) - Describes the similarities between dinosaurian megafauna and current megacorporations in an ecological context and metaphor. Diversity requires an organic matrix.
- [Determinants of Diversity (continued)](https://kivu.com/determinants-of-diversity-contined/) - Update on the 1972 Robert May diversity equation demonstrating that the equation had incorrect assumptions. Correcting the assumptions corrected the equation.
- [The Fate of Individuals in Capitalism](https://kivu.com/the-fate-of-individuals-in-capitalism/) - How individuals can cope in a capitalist environment by becoming entrepreneurs or part-time entrepreneurs and take advantage of communication infrastructure.
- [1983 Fiji Intersecting Economic Cultures](https://kivu.com/1983-fiji-intersecting-economic-cultures/) - A description of the intersection of a sharing and a market economy in Fiji in 1983. The incidental observations were based on a visit for marine research.
- [Sustainable Capitalism? Nice Idea, But ...](https://kivu.com/sustainable-capitalism-nice-idea-but/) - A critique of the concept of sustainable capitalism. Suggestions for how to predict the behaviour of capitalism, and the future based on observed human behaviour.
- [Capitalism Can Leak Empathy and Wealth](https://kivu.com/capitalistism-can-leak-empathy-and-wealth/) - Capitalism has no inherent mechanisms to require moral or responsible behaviour. Natural justice, fair play, and empathy are animal and human characteristics.
- [Natural Justice, Fair Play, Empathy, and Personality in a Capitalistic Society](https://kivu.com/natural-justice-fair-play-empathy-and-personality-in-a-capitalistic-society/) - Natural Justice, Fair Play, Empathy, and Personality in a Capitalistic Society do not have any impact on the parallels between economic and ecological systems.
- [Managing Free Market Capitalism from Within?](https://kivu.com/managing-free-market-capitalism-from-within/) - Managing resources sustainably in practice only happens after over-exploitation. Enlightenment is difficult when profit and wealth are motivating forces.
- [James Hansen on Climate Change](https://kivu.com/james-hansen-on-climate-change/) - James Hansen, climate change expert and scientist discusses the physics and impacts of global warming as well as the limits to the ability of humans to control the effect.
- [Combatting the Oncoming Anti-Science Tsunami Cloaked in Ideology](https://kivu.com/combatting-the-oncoming-anti-science-tsunami-cloaked-in-ideology/) - Anti-science and anti-intellectual forces need to be offset by science outreach by scientists to vastly improve the level of scientific literacy in the general public.
- [Sustained Growth in Ecosystems and Econosystems](https://kivu.com/sustained-growth-in-ecosystems-and-econosystems/) - Comparing econosystems and ecosystems reveals that sustained growth and a stable economy are oxymorons. Growth does not produce a stable economy.
- [Global Warming is Now](https://kivu.com/global-warming-is-now-2/) - A summary of popular, scientific, and political positions about the reality, impact, and planning regarding global warming and climate change, including deniers and advocates.
- [False hope? Do Lower Corporate Taxes Really Mean More Jobs?](https://kivu.com/false-hope-does-economic-growth-really-mean-more-jobs/) - Politicians equate lower taxes to more jobs, free market capitalism a panacea unemployment. Actual observations are the opposite. Consumer confidence best match.
- [Why Does Unemployment Match Consumer Confidence Index?](https://kivu.com/why-does-unemployment-match-consumer-confidence-index/) - Before pants length of women's skirts predicted health of the economy: causal relationship? Consumer confidence index similar predictor. Artificially raise?
- [Who is Responsible for the Unemployed, the Weak, the Poor, and the Desperate?](https://kivu.com/who-is-responsible-for-the-unemployed-the-weak-the-poor-and-the-desperate/) - Benjamin Franklin claimed helping the poor should be limited to leading them from poverty, that the burden should be shared by everyone, but that the wealthy could add more.
- [Econosystems: Spontaneous or Planned?](https://kivu.com/econosystems-spontaneous-or-planned/) - Econosystems and their lucrespecies components develop spontaneously in response to changing conditions based on existing characteristics and innovations or mutations.
- [Why Capitalism Fails Society](https://kivu.com/why-capitalism-fails-society/) - Capitalism is not a social system. It is an economic system that benefits capitalists. Everyone else is excluded or is an expense to be reduced as much as possible.
- [Climate Change: a Testable Hypothesis](https://kivu.com/climate-change-and-the-hansen-predictions/) - James Hansen (1981) predicted that global warming would occur and cause significant damage and death but that changes to energy policies would be delayed until about 2081.
- [World Opinions About Anthropogenic Global Warming](https://kivu.com/world-opinions-about-anthropogenic-global-warming/) - Anthropogenic global warming is a controversial topic amongst the people of the world, although not amongst scientists. Why is there a difference in opinion?
- [Controversy: Distinguishing Fact, Theory, and Belief](https://kivu.com/controversy-distinguishing-fact-theory-and-belief/) - Belief systems have no theories, no hypotheses, no fact-checking, no experiments. Science on the other hand has no beliefs, no absolute truths, and no faith.
- [Exponential Population Growth](https://kivu.com/exponential-population-growth/) - In general people think in arithmetic terms. We are very good at extrapolating if things expand by adding. So if something is piling up by having a certain amount added each day, it is pretty simple to estimate how long it will be before the bucket is half full. For example, if a bucket has
- [Unintended Consequence? Traditional Inuit Ring Seal Hunt](https://kivu.com/unintended-consequence-traditional-inuit-ring-seal-hunt/) - While the intentions of the anti-seal activists are laudable, in at least the case of the Inuit people, the indiscriminate strategy of undermining the market for sealskin has had a profoundly negative impact on the Inuit people who do not really have an option to move to a second income source. This has resulted in
- [Measuring Natural Justice, Fairness, and Empathy in Political/Economic Systems](https://kivu.com/measuring-natural-justice-fairness-and-empathy-in-politicaleconomic-systems/) - People are naturally interested in justice, fair play, empathy, altruism, reciprocity and many other aspects. A method of measuring the degree to which these concepts are applied in an economic and political system would be both interesting and potentially instructive. Any economic and political system is a complex interplay of an enormous number of factors
- [Motivational Shades of Capitalism](https://kivu.com/motivational-shades-of-capitalism/) - So just because you run a business, does this mean you are a "CAPITALIST?" If I operate a consulting business out of my basement, am I a capitalist? What about a local bakeshop or an independent family farm, or a medical doctor or a dentist? Now if I asked you if the owner of the
- [The One Percent Syndrome](https://kivu.com/the-one-percent-syndrome/) - Concentrating most of the wealth in a few individuals or corporations is perfectly natural. Is it desirable in human society?
- [Climate Model Perspectives](https://kivu.com/climate-model-perspectives/) - A brief summary of what a climate model is and how it works, the main models and their characteristics as well as some of the limitations and alternative ideas.
- [I am a Seventh Generation Grandchild.](https://kivu.com/i-am-a-seventh-generation-grandchild/) - I am, like you, a seventh generation grandchild. I am also a grandfather. What did Chief Seneca have in mind when he suggested we should consider the needs of the seventh generation grandchildren when we make decisions? He spoke as an adult, an Elder, a decision-maker, and a leader, but his advice was for all.
- [IPCC, Working Group 1, and CMIP5 (AR5): Random Thoughts](https://kivu.com/ipcc-working-group-1-and-cmip5-ar5-random-thoughts/) - My thoughts on how the next round of IPCC reports will be put together with emphasis on the basic physical sciences, the approach used and how the data is shared.
- ["KISS"ing Global Warming](https://kivu.com/kissing-global-warming/) - KISS information - just the facts clearly shows global warming is real and is caused by greenhouse gases. Managing climate sensibly and banking carbon for future
- [Caribbean Reef Sharks Posing for the Movies](https://kivu.com/caribbean-reef-sharks-posing-for-the-movies/) - Photographs of Caribbean Reef sharks off Nassau New Providence in the Bahamas.
- [Capitalism Without Employees](https://kivu.com/capitalism-without-employees/) - As John Locke pointed out centuries ago, capitalism is a self-initiating strategic response to the possibility of becoming independently wealthy once the state lost or diminished its ability to arbitrarily assume ownership of individual wealth. The idea is simple enough: combine the assets of several people into a single corporate body so that each contributes
- [Guns, Crime, Homicide, Gun Ownership: Statistical Trends](https://kivu.com/guns-crime-homicide-and-gun-ownership-statistical-trends/) - Surprising results from a seat-of-the-pants statistical analysis of gun ownership, gun-related deaths, crime rate, and the likelihood of being involved in a crime
- [From My Archives](https://kivu.com/from-my-archives/) - These photos are all copyright Creative Commons so that you can use them for educational purposes or for illustration in editorial copy, but not for commercial use. If you want high resolution digital copies or large prints mounted and laminated, let me know in the comment section.
- [Criminals Don't Obey the Law](https://kivu.com/criminals-dont-obey-the-law/) - Can the US find moral compass in a "lawless" system quickly enough to reduce the horrific rate of gun deaths? Would a modified Xeer system help?
- [Terminology](https://kivu.com/terminology/) - Terms such as models, hypotheses and others get tossed around without clear descriptions of their meaning and implications. This post clarifies those definitions.
- [Red Flag Review - Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy. Kinzig et al](https://kivu.com/red-flag-review-social-norms-and-global-environmental-challenges-the-complex-interaction-of-behaviors-values-and-policy-kinzig-et-al/) - A review of a paper on monitoring and manipulating social norms to better reflect the public good with comments on the potential for misinterpretations and misunderstanding.
- [Global Warming Policy Formulation](https://kivu.com/global-warming-policy-formulation/) - Global Warming Policy Concepts Strategies flow from goals, and tactics flow from strategies. Policies are essentially political implementations of tactics by setting up rules. The political agents setting the rules in the policies can be government, corporate, or organizational. Think about how the goals set the stage for the strategies. For example, if the goal
- [Developing Anthropogenic Global Warming Policy Options](https://kivu.com/developing-anthropogenic-global-warming-policy-options/) - Background of Policy Development for Anthropogenic Global Warming Policies are rules of laws imposed to ensure the implementations of tactics chosen to fulfill the needs of a strategy that is support of a goal or objective. A goal or objective is often part of a project or a solution to a problem. A suite of
- [Anthropocene](https://kivu.com/anthropocene/) - Illustrated analysis of the changes in important, potentially limiting factors governing the survivial of human civilization and possible of the human species.
- [Ecomodernist Manifesto](https://kivu.com/ecomodernist-manifesto/) - The idea of an ecomodern view point makes eminent good sense. Take the best of modern technology combined with modern understanding of global ecology, human societies, human needs and desires and put them all together in a winning package. The purpose of this Ecomodernist Manifesto, authored by some 26 scholars is essentially to propose an
- [The Eco-Modernist Paradox: Snakeoil?](https://kivu.com/the-eco-modernist-paradox/) - Introduction An Ecomodernist Manifesto "demands that humans use their growing social, economic, and technological powers to make life better for people, stabilize the climate, and protect the natural world." The eco-modernists argue that humanity must shrink its impacts on the environment to make more room for nature, while human societies must not harmonize with nature
- [More on Ecomodernist Snakeoil](https://kivu.com/more-on-ecomodernist-snakeoil/) - The Ecomodernist Manifesto is, in my opinion, a cleverly designed marketing tool to allow continued exploitation of extractive energy and mineral resources while encouraging damaging intensive agricultural practices that ignore the limits of soil recovery. There are many messages about how technology will save us all, but on climate change and global ecological challenges, they
- [Human Population Increase - How Are We Doing?](https://kivu.com/human-population-increase-how-are-we-doing/) - Population is a critically important variable in the quest for a sustainable and healthy world. Population dynamics of natural populations is relatively well-understood. Introducing an exotic species into a new habitat where it faces little competition and has rich resources results in a steeply rising curve usually with pronounced exponential rates of increase. Here is
- [Perception in the Fourth Dimension](https://kivu.com/perception-in-the-fourth-dimension/) - What if we actually live in a four dimensional world but only perceive three of those dimensions? Other beings might wink in and out of our perception: Fairies?
- ["M" Theory with 11 dimensional space - Wow!](https://kivu.com/m-theory-with-11-dimensional-space-wow/) - Imagining more than 4 spacetime dimensions is difficult. M theory goes way beyond and predicts an 11 spacetime universe - Wow!
- [Comments on the TransPacific Partnership Agreement](https://kivu.com/comments-on-the-transpacific-partnership-agreement/) - Swimming with Sharks? Trade agreements are always a mix of benefit and risk. So the calculation of net benefit or risk is very important. The benefit of this proposed agreement is presumed to be a much wider market with a considerable relaxation of trade barriers for those who agree to partner inside the agreement. It
- [Sea Level Changes Revealed](https://kivu.com/sea-level-changes-revealed/) - This map depicts the approximate sea level (shown as the new shoreline) for different amounts of sea level rise. To change the amount of sea level rise click on the little arrow beside the number in the upper left hand corner, then choose a new sea level rise. To change the location, you can simply
- [New Insights into Sea Level Rise and Superstorms](https://kivu.com/new-insights-into-sea-level-rise-and-superstorms/) - James Hansen and 18 other authors have stated firmly that the sea level rise and superstorms of the ancient past are very real possibilities for our present-day climate if we do not rapidly remove carbon from our emissions. This is not the first time climate scientists have spoken out about the conservative views of the
- [A Year in the Life of CO2 2006](https://kivu.com/a-year-in-the-life-of-co2-2006/) - NASA scientists have put together a high resolution timelapse map of the circulation and distribution of CO2 for the year 2006 on a daily basis. The seasonal changes are easily seen and the remarkable concentration of the greenhouse gas effect in the northern hemisphere during the winter months is visually obvious.
- [Divesting from Exxon for Moral Reasons](https://kivu.com/divesting-from-exxon-for-moral-reasons/) - The family that founded Standard Oil is disinvesting in what was their company. Let's hope this is a first step in getting Exxon to change their business plan to preserve some of the assets for the long term while developing alternative energy sources. I regard hydrocarbons as more important for the chemical products that start easily from them than as a compact source of energy.
- [Ft Lauderdale's next few years should be interesting](https://kivu.com/ft-lauderdales-next-few-years-should-be-interesting/)
- [Does natural selection and evolution depend on living things?](https://kivu.com/does-natural-selection-and-evolution-depend-on-living-things/) - Reproduction is the key to natural selection in organisms. Although the norm for organisms is sexual reproduction, that is not necessary for evolution to take place. Bdelloid rotifers (metazoans), for example, have no males, no hermaphrodites and no meiosis. As far as we can tell they have been this way for millions of years. In
- [How CO2 Infrared trapping increases the planet's temperature](https://kivu.com/how-co2-infrared-trapping-increases-the-planets-temperature/) - The sun heats up the plants, earth, lakes, air and ocean. The warm earth radiates infrared (heat or IR) back toward space. CO2 traps the IR to increase the temperature.
- [Fear of Nuclear Power Makes Solving Global Warming Difficult](https://kivu.com/fear-of-nuclear-power-makes-solving-global-warming-difficult/) - Michael Schellenberger is a principal in the Ecomodernist Movement. While I do not approve of all the policy positions and strategies of his version of Ecomodernism, Michael has done a brilliant job of presenting the case for nuclear power. He has made it quite clear that while nuclear power is in fact both very safe
- [Amazing New Video of Our Planet](https://kivu.com/amazing-new-video-of-our-planet/) - A great series of images from Russian weather satellite, Elektro-L! The weather satellite’s image used data based on wavelengths of visible and infrared light. This means vegetation red-brown, and less vegetation is green - kind of opposite to what you might think at first glance. Images are from a single point 35,000 kilometers over the
- [NASA Video](https://kivu.com/nasa-video/) - The animations represent aerosol optical thickness from a portion of GEOS-5 simulation from September 2006 to April 2007. Major tropospheric aerosol types are emitted into the atmosphere and transported by winds, turbulence, and deep convection across the globe. Dust is represented with orange to red colors, sea salt with blue, organic and black carbon with
- [The Breathing Earth](https://kivu.com/the-breathing-earth/) - NASA: The average annual ebb and flow of Carbon Dioxide Earth’s oceans and land cover are doing us a favor. As people burn fossil fuels and clear forests, only half of the carbon dioxide released stays in the atmosphere, warming and altering Earth’s climate. The other half is removed from the air by the planet’s
- [Greta Thunberg: Climate activist and genius](https://kivu.com/greta-thunberg-climate-activist-and-genius/) - I will let Greta speak for herself. She presents the case better than most fully qualified scientists or activists.
- [Greta Thunberg Scolds the COP24 Leadership](https://kivu.com/greta-thunberg-scolds-the-cop24-leadership/) - Greta Thunberg Scolds the COP24 Leadership for not doing its job. She also accuses them of not being mature enough to speak the truth.
- [Temperature Anomalies](https://kivu.com/temperature-anomalies/) - To start the chart, click on the date. This animation compares the global and regional trends in temperature anomalies as the global temperature increases overall. The equatorial and global temperature increases are roughly comparable but the southern hemisphere increases far more slowly than the northern hemisphere. This is because the southern hemisphere is mostly ocean

## Pages

- [KIVU Home](https://kivu.com/) - KIVU Nature Inc brings greater awareness of science and indigenous traditional knowledge through guides, videos, PowerPoint presentations, photographs, articles
- [Books](https://kivu.com/home/) - Index page to books: Symbiont, Impressions of Moscow, Close-Up, My Notebook On a Vienna Theme, My Notebook on an Australian Theme
- [University of the North](https://kivu.com/university-of-the-north/) - A short Powerpoint presentation on the findings of a workshop to create a vision for the University of the North.
- [TK and Science: Differences and Similarities](https://kivu.com/tk-and-science/) - A Powerpoint presentation demonstrating the similarities and differences between indigenous traditional knowledge and science.
- [Interweaving TK](https://kivu.com/interweaving-tk-4/) - Powerpoint: Interweaving Traditional Knowledge and Science, two similar means of understanding the universe, with different constructs and assumptions.
- [Photographs](https://kivu.com/photographs/) - This is an index page leading to photo portfolios: Australia Portfolio, Close-up Portfolio, Moscow Portfolio, Vienna Portfolio
- [CIDA and TK](https://kivu.com/cida-and-tk/) - PowerPoint prepared for Canadian International Development Agency developing a strategic guidelines to use Traditional knowledge in environmental assessments.
- [Vienna Portfolio](https://kivu.com/vienna-portfolio/) - Photographs taken during a short stopover in Vienna to visit the city and our pals. Images include buildings, street scenes, statues castles, buildings, people.
- [Guides: TK and Environmental Assessments](https://kivu.com/guides-tk-and-environmental-assessments/) - This page indexes the several guides to using traditional knowledge in projects involving indigenous peoples, including environmental assessment projects.
- [Battle of the Oleander Caterpillars](https://kivu.com/battle-of-the-oleander-caterpillars/) - Documentary shows two Oleander caterpillars fighting over a leaf. They bash each other for over six hours. Why? The whole tree is available; they are juveniles?
- [A Walk by the Pond - Autumn](https://kivu.com/a-walk-by-the-pond-autumn/) - A high resolution nature documentary video about the autumn period near a small pond in Ontario featuring detailed close-ups and science-based interpretations.
- [Australia Portfolio](https://kivu.com/australia/) - The Australia Portfolio is a wonderful selection of slides taken in Australia in the late 1990's showing a wide array of animals, plants, and scenery.
- [Two Perspectives on Global Warming](https://kivu.com/two-perspectives-on-global-warming/) - Global warming documentary explores two perspectives on what we should do about it if it does occur. One person, two roles, split-screen and green screen.
- [Night Blooming Cactus](https://kivu.com/night-blooming-cactus/) - Night Blooming Cactus is a time-lapse video of a cactus that blooms only at night and lasts one day before it withers and dies. Close-up views are included.
- [Fear and Loathing on Parliament Hill](https://kivu.com/fear-and-loathing-on-parliament-hill/) - Trailer based on a script by Alec Emery and Karel Cespiva, 16 years old. Ana-Maria Jerca and Jovanny Venegas also 16 years old co-star with them.
- [Characteristics of a Good Bassoon Reed](https://kivu.com/characteristics-of-a-good-bassoon-reed/) - Trailer for a "How-To" on building a professional bassoon reed from a gouged piece of Donax cane. Rapidly summarizes characteristics to play in an orchestra.
- [Contact Us](https://kivu.com/contact-us/) - This is the contact page with a form to contact KIVU Nature Inc with your comments.
- [Close-Up](https://kivu.com/close-up-2/) - This book is a collection of colourful and unusual photographs taken over a number of years that all feature a closer look at the subject.
- [Vienna Notebook](https://kivu.com/vienna-notebook/) - Notebook series combining wonderful photographs with blank pages squared off in a grid pattern making it easy to jot down notes or sketches.
- [Videos](https://kivu.com/videos/) - This page has thumbnails of each video. Oleander Caterpillars, Fear and Loathing on Parliament Hill, A Walk by the Pond, Two Perspectives on Global Warming, and others
- [DVDs](https://kivu.com/dvds/) - DVD, sales,
- [Moscow Portfolio](https://kivu.com/moscow-portfolio/) - Impressions of Moscow is a colour slideshow featuring downtown Moscow, Red Square, Russian people, buildings, old architecture and pretty women.
- [TK PowerPoint Presentations](https://kivu.com/tk-powerpoint-presentations/) - an index page Powerpoint presentations on traditional knowledge in sustainable projects and environmental assessments as well as the University of the North
- [Close-up Portfolio](https://kivu.com/close-up/) - This is a compilation of some of the close-up photographs that I have taken over the years and that particularly appealed to me. These are also in the book.
- [Impressions of Moscow](https://kivu.com/impressions-of-moscow/) - Impressions of Moscow is a full colour illustrated book of images taken in Moscow on a two-day opportunity to visit the downtown and Red Square areas.
- [Test charts](https://kivu.com/test-charts/) - This is a test to 10 pixel font This is a test to 7.8 point font This is a test to 11 pixel font This is a test to 8.1 point font This is a test to 12 pixel font This is a test to 9.4 point font This is a test to 13 pixel
- [Percent females by country](https://kivu.com/percent-females-by-country/) - This chart (I made it up from World Bank Datasets) shows the percentage of women compared to men in all countries of the world (nearly all). There are way too many women in Russia and the Ukraine by comparison to men. This would be a great place to implement the SeptemberMay website because older women
- [Australian Notebook](https://kivu.com/australian-notebook/) - An attractive notebook illustrating amazing Australia. Alternating grid pattern pages enhance note-taking and sketching. Handy size and very attractive.
- [About Us](https://kivu.com/about-us/) - KIVU Nature Inc. was established in 1997: projects stress environmental sustainability and the power of traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples.
- [Traditional Knowledge](https://kivu.com/traditional-knowledge/) - Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples is a powerful adjunct to science in environmental assessments. Many countries acknowledge this potential but few make use of it.
- [Symbiont](https://kivu.com/home/symbiont/) - Symbiont: An exciting new science fiction novel based on real scientific principles but told in a "can't put the book down" story that explains the science.
- [CIDA Handbook](https://kivu.com/pdf-test/) - A summary of practical information to guide CIDA project planning and implementation when indigenous peoples are affected by a project supported by CIDA.
- [TK Resources](https://kivu.com/world-council-guidelines/) - Includes Best Practices, Traditional Knowledge Centres, Traditional Knowledge Newsletters, Traditional Knowledge Websites, and Traditional Knowledge Literature.
- [General Guidelines](https://kivu.com/general-guidelines/) - The general guidelines are for proponent, government, or NGO in planning a development project with indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge.
- [Partnership Guidelines](https://kivu.com/partnership-guidelines/) - Traditional Knowledge GUIDELINE development initiatives be sustainable projects, benefit all people, broad knowledge base to achieve the best possible results.
- [Prototype Guidelines](https://kivu.com/prototype-guidelines-1997/) - The Guidelines intended to guide the parties on how to include indigenous people and their knowledge in a mutually beneficial process based on fair play and equity.
- [Traditional Knowledge on the MacKenzie River](https://kivu.com/traditional-knowledge-on-the-mackenzie-river/) - Video presentation to introduce Nuclear Waste Management Organization to real-life working traditional knowledge in the Mackenzie River area.
- [FAQs](https://kivu.com/faqs/) - Questions frequently asked about logistics of the site, author of blogs, portfolios, books, DVD,s Traditional Knowledge guides, PowerPoint presentations
- [Museums](https://kivu.com/museums/) - A monologue inviting comments about future-oriented leadership in museums and the needed actions to make it work.
- [Partial Report: University of the North](https://kivu.com/university-of-the-north-report/) - Report from a workshop in NWT on the concept and vision of a University in the North. Much of the discussion was about aboriginal values and knowledge systems.
- [The Fijian Woven Mat](https://kivu.com/the-fijian-woven-mat/) - One of the most commonly used items in Fijian traditional culture is the "grass mat." It is woven by hand from pandanus leaves. The long process of preparation includes scraping and boiling the leaves, and drying them in the sun. There are different mats used for different occasions, and some are made as gifts for
- [UN Resolution: Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication](https://kivu.com/un-resolution-indigenous-women-key-actors-in-poverty-and-hunger-eradication/) - The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women just passed a resolution entitled: "Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication." The resolution recognized the special disadvantages the indigenous women face and set out a wide range of suggestions urging states to follow their recommendations. You can read it here or download a
- [Fijian Tapa Cloth](https://kivu.com/fijian-tapa-cloth/) - A description of the traditional method of preparing Fijian tapa cloth from which masi is made. The cloth is a ceremonial cloth used for special occasions.
- [Divers and The Aquatic Animals and Plants](https://kivu.com/aquatic-animals-and-plants-an-introduction/) - Beginner diver introduction to the underwater world of plants and animals that are important to a diver including dangerous animals.
- [Beginnings: Hooded Mergansers courting, mating, and ducklings](https://kivu.com/beginnings-hooded-mergansers-courting-mating-and-ducklings/) - Hooded Mergansers are very small diving ducks that feed on a wide range of material, but prefer fish. They arrive in our pond shortly after the ice leaves (or even sit on the ice edges until it does go). They use the pond for a period of about 3 months and then depart. However during
- [The ROM Ichthyology Collection: A Video History](https://kivu.com/the-rom-ichthyology-collection-a-video-history/) - A reflection on the origins and growth of the collection of fishes at the Royal Ontario Museum by many of the important contributors. Current and past curators share memories from nearly 100 years of collecting, cataloguing, and describing species from the basement of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto
- [Testing 1,2,3](https://kivu.com/testing-123/)
- [Water and the Diver](https://kivu.com/water-and-the-diver/) - The slideshow was prepared for a novice diving course under the Canadian Diving Program leading to certification by CMAS. The presentation is copyright protected so don't copy the material until you get permission by using the comment form or the contact form.
- [SCUBA](https://kivu.com/scuba-tips/)
- [Instructional Slideshows](https://kivu.com/instructional-slideshows/)
- [Fiji Heritage: Kava Gift and Ceremony](https://kivu.com/fiji-heritage-kava-gift-and-ceremony/) - Kava is prepared from the roots of a plant similar to the pepper. It is used as a gift to introduce yourself to a village, and is drunk in a forma l ceremony.
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## Contus Video Gallery

- [Pacific Rim Official Wondercon Trailer ( 2013 ) - Guillermo del Toro Movie HD](https://kivu.com/videogallery/pacific-rim-official-wondercon-trailer-2013-guillermo-del-toro-movie-hd/)
- [GI JOE 2 Retaliation Trailer 2 - 2013 Movie - Official [HD]](https://kivu.com/videogallery/gi-joe-2-retaliation-trailer-2-2013-movie-official-hd/)
- [2012 - Full HD trailer - At UK Cinemas November 13](https://kivu.com/videogallery/2012-full-hd-trailer-at-uk-cinemas-november-13/)
- [Iron Man - Trailer [HD]](https://kivu.com/videogallery/iron-man-trailer-hd/)
- [THE AVENGERS Trailer 2012 Movie - Official [HD]](https://kivu.com/videogallery/the-avengers-trailer-2012-movie-official-hd/)
- [Cronicles of Narnia :Prince Caspian Trailer HD 720p](https://kivu.com/videogallery/cronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian-trailer-hd-720p/)
- [The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug International Trailer ( 2013 ) - Lord of the Rings Movie HD](https://kivu.com/videogallery/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-international-trailer-2013-lord-of-the-rings-movie-hd/)
- [Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Trailer HD](https://kivu.com/videogallery/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides-trailer-hd/)
- [Fast & Furious 6 - Official Trailer [HD]](https://kivu.com/videogallery/fast-furious-6-official-trailer-hd/)
- [Samsung Demo HD - Blu-Ray Sound 7.1 ch](https://kivu.com/videogallery/samsung-demo-hd-blu-ray-sound-7-1-ch/)
- [White House Down Trailer #2 2013 Jamie Foxx Movie - Official [HD]](https://kivu.com/videogallery/white-house-down-trailer-2-2013-jamie-foxx-movie-official-hd/)
- [Landscapes: Volume 2](https://kivu.com/videogallery/landscapes-volume-2/)
- [Krrish 3 - Official Theatrical Trailer ( Exclusive )](https://kivu.com/videogallery/krrish-3-official-theatrical-trailer-exclusive/)
- [THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 - TV Spot Generation](https://kivu.com/videogallery/the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-2-tv-spot-generation/)
- [Journey To The Center Of The Earth HD Trailer](https://kivu.com/videogallery/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-hd-trailer/)
- [ICE AGE 4 Trailer 2012 Movie - Continental Drift - Official [HD]](https://kivu.com/videogallery/ice-age-4-trailer-2012-movie-continental-drift-official-hd/)
- [Big Buck Bunny](https://kivu.com/videogallery/big-buck-bunny/)

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