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Sharing Andrew MacAllister’s ‘Looking at the West’ blogpost on phone towers in the landscape – click link below. I have the privilege of going to Brigham Young University tomorrow for a conference and workshop.
via Brigham City cell towers
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New Film on Climate Change in the Caribbean: 1.5 Stay Alive
Originally posted on Repeating Islands:
The aim of international climate change policy is to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. But scientists believe that a temperature rise of just 1.5 degrees could lead to irreversible damage to ecosystems and…
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U. of Puerto Rico Is Closed as Hurricane Maria Wreaks Destruction
Originally posted on Repeating Islands:
A report by Samuel Hoisington for the Chronicle of Higher Education. The University of Puerto Rico’s 11 campuses and central office are closed in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria. “The whole island…
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Snow Story
I have to share a video (see below for YouTube link): please watch billy barr’s deeply moving short story of snow. It’s a Gothic tale of a man living in a cabin in the woods, in winter – all those … Continue reading
Ice Art
“Within a few weeks these murals will be forever gone, but for those who find them, I hope they ignite a sense of urgency.” (Sean Yoro, A’o ‘Ana project website 18.01.17) Reading Georgia McCafferty’s article on artist Sean Yoro’s A’o ‘Ana (The Warning) … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, ecocriticism, ecology, environment, landscape, nature, soundscapes
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More Ice Thoughts: After the Polls, What’s Next for the Poles?
Sharing this article, “Amid higher global temperatures, sea ice at record lows at poles,” by Brandon Miller, CNN meteorologist (19 November 2016) http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/18/world/sea-ice-arctic-antarctic-lows/index.html
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Ice Thoughts: 2,
Study in Ice, Rock and Water. Southern Greenland seen from 36000 feet. Photo © Susan Oliver. Like the white ghost of a glacier the mists advance, riding over phalanxes of tamarack, sliding across bog meadows heavy with dew. A single silence … Continue reading
Plants and Antibiotics: some thoughts on reading the NY Times article “Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis?”
PLANTS AND ANTIBIOTICS Rabbitbrush. (My photograph) The article below about the antiseptic and antibiotic properties of plants is from the New York Times Magazine. I decided to post it because, as you know from my writing, I’m deeply interested in … Continue reading
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Seeing beyond the Sandhill Cranes: a trip from Eastern Wyoming into Nebraska.
A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place . . . . The cranes stand, as it were, upon the sodden pages of their own history. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). On … Continue reading
Posted in American West, Birds and Animals, Environment and walking, environmental aesthetics, land ethics, Nature writing, Nebraska, Poetry and Essays, Uncategorized, Wyoming
Tagged ecology, environment, landscape, nature, plants, Sandhill cranes, University of Essex, Vedauwoo, Wildflowers, Wyoming
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Ice thoughts
This post is concerned with visual aesthetics, so I’m not adding many words. The photos were taken over Greenland and Northern Canada. The spectacle of ice is impressive, freeze-framing a weird beauty. A language of ratios: the proportion of water … Continue reading
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