{"id":170,"date":"2012-02-29T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iceh.net\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-03-06T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:10:23","slug":"hymn-from-bali-a-sign-of-confidence-in-our-environmental-health-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Hymn from Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=text-align:right;><a class=\"wpptopdfenh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noindex,nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/?p=170&#038;format=pdf\" title=\"Download PDF\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Download PDF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iceh.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanced\/asset\/images\/pdf.png\"><\/a><\/div><p>On January 1, 2012 I received news of the Hymn from Bali from Henning Hansen, Webmaster of IFEH and shared some thoughts with him and others receiving the news:<\/p>\n<p><em>What a wonderful greeting it was to receive on January 1, 2012 a song celebrating World Environmental Health Day from Indonesia and performed on September 26, 2011 in Indonesia, Bali. What a moving rendition by the Environmental Health Students of that country. The lyrics inquire of a future world and invites a genuine commitment to a healthy planet for us all. The hymn reminded me of a very popular song performed by Ed Ames around 1970 on the \u2018global destruction\u2019 themes of the day, titled \u201cWho Will Answer?\u201d [RCA Victor 9400]. The 1970\u2019s song had nine verses, including the following \u2018who will answer\u2019 question (verse 8):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><!--more--> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs our hope in walnut shells<\/p>\n<p>Worn &#8217;round the neck with temple bells,<\/p>\n<p>Or deep within some cloistered walls<\/p>\n<p>Where hooded figures pray in halls?<\/p>\n<p>Or crumbled books on dusty shelves,<\/p>\n<p>Or in our stars, or in ourselves,<\/p>\n<p>Who will answer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Congratulations to the students who highlight the significance of the environment, our very home [forest, bird\u2019s nest, flowers, grass, insects] which provides the most eloquent of answers and must always be consulted on these matters. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Principle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Treasure the incomparable dignity of all of our students.<\/p>\n<p>Read the signs of our times from the environment itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf the environment is endowed with its own integrity and dynamic balance, and<\/p>\n<p>\u25cfeach and every person and the communities of peoples bear a responsibility for the care of the environment [From IFEH Policy 8]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifeh.org\/docs\/ifeh_policies\/policy8.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ifeh.org\/docs\/ifeh_policies\/policy8.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hymn links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6BGUd9njId0&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Link to the movie file on YouTube.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifeh.org\/wehd\/Hymn-to-the-World-Environmental-Health-Day.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Link to the lyrics and name of composer etc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 1, 2012 I received news of the Hymn from Bali from Henning Hansen, Webmaster of IFEH and shared some thoughts with him and others receiving the news: What a wonderful greeting it was to receive on January 1, 2012 a song celebrating World Environmental Health Day from Indonesia and performed on September 26, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,26,14],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-environmental","tag-future","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}