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Near Plush, Oregon: Some wacky wetlands with complex array of pluvial lake shorelines, lunettes, blowouts, dune fields, and much more water than usual. Also, a couple of hyge landslides with impressive...
Pathological Geomorphology - Images of extreme landscapes, landforms, and processes
Sudan and Ethiopia are planning dams on the Nile. These are the result of instability in Egypt, which has threatened to attack countries blocking Nile water. Chinese money and engineering mean they are unlikely to pass a benefit-cost test. Virtual water transfers unlikely to redress inequality in global water use : "Most inequality (76%) in water use is due to agricultural production and can be attributed to climate and arable land availability [physics], not social development status.
Speed blogging
Workplace resolutions about sustainability can easily dissolve in the face of uncooperative colleagues or a recalcitrant manager. Are people just being pig-headed, or is there more to it? ’35 British Standard Objections to Change’ is a list I first came across in the 1980s while preparing training materials for the Local Government Training Board. The list starts ‘Our work is different,’ and ends ‘We haven’t got money for this at present’.
Ro Randall
Nguyen Viet Nghi’s enthusiasm was infectious as he showed off a scene of remarkable renewal in what was once a disaster zone. We were in Da Loc commune, a sleepy part of Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province. It’s a place that on a single day witnessed both the fury and the protective power of nature. The community learned well from the experience, but only after they overcame the attention of some tiny animals that threatened to spoil the story.
Due South | Sustainable Markets | International Institute for Environment and Development
Me And My Big Mouth
99 Reasons Why is published today. It is the ebook with lots of endings that you may have heard about.
dovegreyreader scribbles
I hope and feel sure that classrooms still have Nature Tables. Ours was a place to deposit all those things we had found on the way to school...nothing very exciting in the grand scheme of things but treasures all the same to us...pristine conkers, or some shells from a hatched bird's egg. One poor soul had kept a bird's nest warm and watered and ended up with a house overrun with fleas that then had to be fumigated, so bird's nests were banned. My Nature Table now of the bookish variety, and thanks to all your suggestions and a few additions of mine own I am building up a wonderful selection of books I can't wait to read. Notes From Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin is now in its third year of reading so I probably do need to visit somewhere else.
In the footsteps of Joseph Rock 重走洛克路
Doing some research for my impending trip to Xining and Ragya monastery on Google Earth ... on which you can click on the photos that people have posted on Panoramio. Looking around the region of Amnye Machen I came across some amazing pictures taken by a young trekker from the US called Hannibal Taubes. He's trekked extensively in this area - and then I realised I had been in email contact with him a couple of years before his trip and he'd been asking me for advice! Looks like it should be the other way round ...
Exposing the Excretions of the Entitled Class | The Vile Plutocrat
Recently, Russian bloggers identified a manipulated photo of Jesus's left-hand-man-on-earth, Patriarch Kirill I, wearing a luxury Breguet watch that had been removed lest anyone wonder why a priest needs a $30,000 timepiece.
The Politics of Well-Being
The murdered rapper Tupac, who seems to have an uncannily busy career for a dead person, was resurrected last week at the Coachella music festival, via some nifty light / CGI special effects. Looks like Zombie Tupac will be going on tour with Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre, who also wants to re-animate murdered rapper Nate Dogg. Once they sign you, they own you forever it seems. Journalists marveled at the technology, but phantasmagoria shows are nothing new, of course, as Marina Warner's 2006 book explored. They became popular in the late 18th and early 19th century - Parisian audiences after the French Revolution would be thrillingly terrified by the ghost of the murdered Marie Antoinette looming towards them.The small business legislation SBIR /STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011 (S. 493), introduced by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), is being used as a vehicle for senators who wish to prevent regulation of greenhouse pollution from oil refineries, coal-fired power plants, heavy industry, and other major emitters. Four amendments, varying from the Upton-Inhofe legislation to prevent any and all action by the Environmental Protection Agency against climate change, to a two-year suspension of climate rules from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.), have been introduced. Votes on some combination of the amendments are expected to take place as early as Thursday afternoon. Sen.
Hill Heat
Last week saw a pitched battle outside Indonesia’s parliament building, with water cannons and tear gas deployed on 10,000 protestors. The reason? Proposals from the government to cut Continue reading Dieter Helm, centre right economist and newly appointed Chair of the Natural Capital Committee has just produced an interesting new essay (hat tip to Matthew Spencer). His approach draws a lot on the work of people like Kenneth Arrow and Partha Dasgupta who have argued for the need to measure the “assets” of the natural world (including a safe atmosphere and biodiversity).
Political Climate
William Bloom There is an elephant in the holistic healthcare room. It causes embarrassment. It triggers intellectual sneers. The most experienced of practitioners and teachers may have trouble talking about it.