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Adopt a diamond

14.07.11

For a &hammer out;30 donation you can adopt a diamond on the new Sherman Theatre Cymru building and transform the incident that you and thousands of audience members will have in the future.

Designed by architect Jonathan Adams who designed Wales Millennium Meet and WJEC, the new Sherman Cymru will be a landmark building in the heart of the Cathays side of Cardiff.

The £30 offering adopts one of the unique diamond shaped pieces which will make up the iconic new front of the building.

You can adopt a diamond for yourself, or for a room-mate or family as a gift or in memory of someone.

In return for your donation, you will have the opportunity to be one of the first in the building with an invitation to a preview vernissage events, you will receive a thank you diamond certificate and a thank you on the Sherman Cymrtu Theatre website.

The diamonds on the construction will be unmarked in order to preserve them.

You can buy your diamond online at the Sherman Theatre website or by phone: 029 2064 6970

Source: News Wales

Jonathan Adams - Bookshelf

267 pages	The future of the wild, radical conservation for a crowded world Creator: Jonathan S. Adams \| Nature - 2006-01-30 Offers a new modus operandi to conservation built upon the latest findings in conservation science, along with the desires of local communities to mind the places ... Publisher: Beacon Pr
About this book In this high-ranking book, biologist Jonathan S. Adams explains an exciting new approach to conservation. The main strategy behind it involves using the latest in protection science along with the desires of local communities to protect the places where people live and work. In this way, each elfin success moves conservationists closer toward creating huge protected landscapes large enough to truss animals like bison and wolves. Only with freedom to roam through and between these lands, using wilderness corridors, can such on the loose animals flourish.Adams provides numerous examples of how this new conservation is succeeding around the country: cooperative ranchers occupation together to preserve wilderness in Arizona; activists fight the encroachment of big business on the Florida Everglades; and a maverick scientist struggles to invent safe passageways for pumas in California’s overpopulated Orange County. Each example proves the benefits of combining the latest thorough studies with practical...

282 pages	The myth of wild Africa, conservation without illusion Creator: Jonathan S. Adams, Thomas O. McShane \| History - 1992 "The enlivening position of Africans in effective conservation has not been well described for the Western public, and "The Myth of Untamed Africa takes an important ... Publisher: Univ of California Pr
About this book Most people would sensible of a great loss if elephants, hippos, or gorillas were to become extinct, with photographs and fossils our only record of their being. But would we willingly move our families, change our means of earning a living, and disrupt our culture merely to smoke some large mammal? Many African peoples are being asked to do just this by the world community, without any respect for the information that these tribes have lived on their land for hundreds of years, if not longer. And they have lived on this land with wildlife as their neighbors, not their enemies, until recently. Jonathan S. Adams and Thomas O. McShane story on how Western conservation has helped sabotage the precarious balance between wildlife and Africans. They break with customary conservation, which saves animals at the cost of people, and cut through our mythic images of an unadorned, pristine jungle to initiate a portrait of the real and complex land. The authors debunk the aura of some famous wildlife specialists,...

266 pages	Vegetation-Climate Interaction, How Plants Make the Global Environment Creator: Jonathan Adams \| Gardening - 2009-09-03 This regulations offers a readable and accessible account of the way in which the world's plant life partly controls its own circumstances. Publisher: Springer Verlag
About this book This register offers a readable and accessible account of the way in which the world's plant life partly controls its own conditions. Starting from the broad patterns in vegetation which have classically been seen as a passive response to climate, the authors physique up from the local scale - with microclimates produced by plants - to the regional and global scale. The influence of plants (both on soil and in the ocean) in making clouds, haze and rain are considered, along with plant effects on the composition of greenhouse gases in the Terra's atmosphere. Broad global feedbacks that either stabilize or destabilize the earth's environment will be explored, in the environment of environmental change in the recent geological past, and in the near future. Common contentions and misconceptions about the r of vegetation or forest removal in the spread of deserts will also be considered.