GREEN FILMS: Princess Mononoke

GREEN FILMS: Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke (Japanese: もののけ姫 "Spirit/Monster Princess") is a 1997 anime epic action historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was animated by Studio Ghibli and produced by Toshio Suzuki. The film stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Akihiro Miwa, Mitsuko Mori and Hisaya Morishige.

Princess Mononoke is set in the late Muromachi period (approximately 1336 to 1573) of Japan with fantasy elements. The story follows the young Emishi warrior Ashitaka's involvement in a struggle between forest gods and the humans who consume its resources. The term "Mononoke" is not a name, but a Japanese word for a spirit or monster.

A central theme of Princess Mononoke is the environment. The film centers on the adventure of Ashitaka as he journeys to the west to undo a fatal curse inflicted upon him by Nago, a boar turned into a demon by Eboshi Michelle J. Smith and Elizabeth Parsons said that the film "makes heroes of outsiders in all identity politics categories and blurs the stereotypes that usually define such characters". In the case of the Deer god's destruction of the forest and Tataraba, Smith and Parsons said that the "supernatural forces of destruction are unleashed by humans greedily consuming natural resources". They also characterized Eboshi as a business-woman who has a desire to make money at the expense of the forest, and also cite Eboshi's intention to destroy the forest to mine the mountain "embodies environmentalist evil".

Two other themes found in the plot of Princess Mononoke are sexuality and disability. Michelle Jarman, Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Wyoming, and Eunjung Kim, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the disabled and gendered sexual bodies were partially used as a transition from the feudal era to a hegemony that "embraces modern social systems, such as industrialization, gendered division of labor, institutionalization of people with diseases, and militarization of men and women." They likened Lady Eboshi to a monarch.  Kim and Jarman suggested that Eboshi's disregard of ancient laws and curses towards prostitutes and lepers was an enlightenment reasoning and her exploit of using disability furthered her modernist viewpoints.

Researching and tracking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150612131632.htm

Due to human improvement the information about animals, plants, rocks, climatology, outer space, physics and many other questions have been studied in-depth, getting to us a very extensive knowledge. 

This is just  the next step to reach the development in the animal world, because we need to discover and see what people haven't seen before, and that's make us this incredible like living forms.

I think that this new era bring us solutions to the problems we couldn't solve in the past and this new way to see through a wildlife animal it's just incredible. We are not talking about just tracking, we're talking about see what it sees and  hears, we are not limited by the eyes already.

I believe that many wildlife researchers will squeeze this technological advances to show us the secret live of the animals, and maybe we'll enjoy and learn.

Did you now that problems of environmental conservation in the Canary islands started before the european people landing? 


 Most of the people, when think in ancient or primitive "uncivilized" cultures of the past like the Guanches  (Tenerife´s aborigin folk) use to think that they lived in total harmony with the nature and that they didn´t damage it in any way,   respecting it totally,  


But nothing further from reality!!

These people inhabited the island during centuries, and for the begining  they changed forever  

without damage the fragile ecosystem of the island.

PROBLEMS WITH THIS ENTRY.

THE FIRST TIME THAT I,VE DO IT  I DIDN,T SAVE THE CHANGES, CORRECTLY, 
AND WHEN I NOTICED IT WAS TOO LATE. 

BUT DON´T WORRY, IN A FEW HOURS WILL BE FINISHED AND COMPLETE!!

THE FIRST ORIGINAL ENTRY WAS REMARABLY LONG AND COMPLETE, I WANT TO DO THIS ONE AT LEAST WITH THE SAME  LENGHT.

. Canary limpet 

. Canary quail (Coturnix gomerae) a fligtless quail.

. Tenerife giant lizard (Gallotia goliath or Gallotia maxima)

. Tenerife giant rat (and one more in Gran Canaria) (Canariomys bravoi)

.  2 different shearwaters:

"pardela del malpaís" () and "pardela del jable" (Without english common name)

. an unnamed storm petrel (Pterodroma sp.)

. Atlantic monk seal 

. 

Almost finalizing this course (or curse, depending of your point of view) we know by heart that for respect somethig you have to know it.

One of the "mantras" of the environmental education is " For take care you have to respect, for  respect you have to love, for love you have to know".

And the best way to know and respect the nature is living near it. Or much better inside it. For example inside a forest among the trees or or in the countryside.

But building a common house in the middle of the nature can be a great problem and a big conservation impact for the landscape and the ecosystem (foundations, heavy vehicles, walls of brick or rocks, many months of  construction, a lot of time of noisy activities....

So, what can be the solution?


     Huts.

A hut is a small building made of wood or local and easy to find and transform materials.

In Scotland, the northern region of the Great Britain island people that live in rural zones use to have a wood hut and for that they are more in contact with the nature.

From here to ten years ago a lot of people is building itself a hut in the woods for having peace and tranquility and enjoy the wildlife.

Even exists a NGO called "A thousand huts"that promote and foment rustic huts in order to promote and foment an easier and healthier lifestyle closer to nature and the love and the respect for that.

They are having more and more success every year, and this is a really nice initiative.

You join them?

This is the link of their web page if you are interested:

http://www.thousandhuts.org/?page_id=2

Pet or Slave?

Since human beings developed the curiosity for other creatures their abilities to capture and use them improved too. With the beginning of the agriculture and livestock the animals started to breed under human will, leaving their instincts and wild life aside forced by the man's hand. People don't mind how much an animal has suffered, working till the horrible death by tiredness or being caged as a rare property or "pet".

I'd like to show you my point of view about the zoos and pet shops, just saying that both activities are a way of making money at the expense of animals. Usually people say "Oh this little dog is so cute!" or something like "I want this dog because I like this breed". Skin-deep people often say that they prefer one breed or another and I'm conscious about the fact that there are many animals in refuges that are sacrificed, and the "survivors" are waiting for a person to take care of them and give them all the love that they need.

And what to say about dogs like French Bulldog or Chihuahua, animals that have evolved into anthropogenic creatures that have lost a regular and healthy body by the selection of the smallest dogs or the most flattened faces, these two are an example of this fact. 

Maybe you're thinking that I hate animals or something else, but actually I've seen very awful things that people do unintentionally or intentionally, and there isn't an adequate control of pet shops, the pets that people buy, the people that earn money breeding dogs, cats and everything that could give birth to new living beings... There are many examples of how people make use of animals and they don't receive at least an appropriate treatment.

It's too hard to watch a dog in a cage without the opportunity of talking about the cares that it likes to receive from its master, caged without getting out and running, playing or breathing fresh air, not just the smell of the cage where it has to pee, poop and eat.

Zoos are part of this, although they take care of endangered species, only a gear that spins before people`s eyes making those pictures of caged animals make little sense... But it doesn't make any sense. Animals deserve freedom and we're refusing them that right. 

They don't like it, and you wouldn't like it. Protect the animals and their rights.

Thank you for reading.

Entry-Duction

Hello everyone! We're D and J, two Environmental Education's students, and we've made this blog to expose information about environmental problems, curiosities, nature, animals, plants and many more things related to nature, like books, films, hunting, fishing... 

We'll give our opinion about this issues, and we'll be pleased if you look them at least! We'll try to expose the best information to everyone, just our specialities.

Enjoy Nature and take care of it!

P.S. Global Warming is a serious problem that affects to every living creatures. If you like Futurama or simply Matt Groening's creations you'll apreciate this little video.

Maybe we couldn't change the world, but we hope to change your mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2taViFH_6_Y