Photographs and text by Jan Smith On the road from Santo Domingo to Samaná there is stretch with many miles of oil palm plantations on each side of the highway. Within this corridor there is a smaller section, itself quite large, of nothing but dead oil palms. When they grow beyond a certain
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PostArctica: Samana — Palm Plantations of Death
Photographs and text by Jan Smith On the road from Santo Domingo to Samaná there is stretch with many miles of oil palm plantations on each side of the highway. Within this corridor there is a smaller section, itself quite large, of nothing but dead oil palms. When they grow beyond a certain
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A few from over the weekend in Verdun.
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A few from over the weekend in Verdun.
Continue readingPostArctica: The Thing About
The thing about right wing believers they love a good fight good and evil black and white the extremities heroes and villains sinners and saints But when it comes to ordinary people and ordinary stories and all kinds of talk about what’s good and what’s right They get lost in
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The thing about right wing believers they love a good fight good and evil black and white the extremities heroes and villains sinners and saints But when it comes to ordinary people and ordinary stories and all kinds of talk about what’s good and what’s right They get lost in
Continue readingPostArctica: And the Flooding Accelerates…
Originally posted on Global Climate Change : As we approach summer in the northern hemisphere, torrential rains are happening with increasing frequency. One thing we can say with confidence, the water cycle (or hydrologic cycle ) is intensifying due to climate change. The Balkans, as everyone is aware, have experienced
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Originally posted on Global Climate Change : As we approach summer in the northern hemisphere, torrential rains are happening with increasing frequency. One thing we can say with confidence, the water cycle (or hydrologic cycle ) is intensifying due to climate change. The Balkans, as everyone is aware, have experienced
Continue readingPostArctica: Citizen’s Party Growing In Spain – Podemos (We Can)
“It’s citizens doing politics. If the citizens don’t get involved in politics, others will. And that opens the door to them robbing you of democracy, your rights and your wallet.” Pablo Iglesias, Podemos Podemos hopes to cement rise of citizen politics in Spain after election success
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“It’s citizens doing politics. If the citizens don’t get involved in politics, others will. And that opens the door to them robbing you of democracy, your rights and your wallet.” Pablo Iglesias, Podemos Podemos hopes to cement rise of citizen politics in Spain after election success
Continue readingPostArctica: Like an iceberg, 1999 cont., “Robins in the Arctic”
neath: Climate change begins at the Arctic Originally posted on A date with Siku girl: Like an iceberg, 1999 cont.: “Robins in the Arctic” Here’s a story that crops up everywhere after I write it in 1999: it’s about birds that shouldn’t be found on Baffin Island. Like brain surgery
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neath: Climate change begins at the Arctic Originally posted on A date with Siku girl: Like an iceberg, 1999 cont.: “Robins in the Arctic” Here’s a story that crops up everywhere after I write it in 1999: it’s about birds that shouldn’t be found on Baffin Island. Like brain surgery
Continue readingPostArctica: Construction On Gordon Avenue, Verdun
After being a vacant lot for 6 or 7 years condos are finally being built at the old CKVL location and also at the former parking lot across the street. Inevitable, perhaps, but two of the biggest obstacles in preserving worthy heritage properties, and CKVL was an Art Deco building
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After being a vacant lot for 6 or 7 years condos are finally being built at the old CKVL location and also at the former parking lot across the street. Inevitable, perhaps, but two of the biggest obstacles in preserving worthy heritage properties, and CKVL was an Art Deco building
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My generation from Verdun grew up With Fathers who worked in factories and Mothers who, if they worked were in retail or service low paying respectable jobs. To do better was a challenge in many, many ways these were awesome people of incredibly principled standards but fun loving people they
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My generation from Verdun grew up With Fathers who worked in factories and Mothers who, if they worked were in retail or service low paying respectable jobs. To do better was a challenge in many, many ways these were awesome people of incredibly principled standards but fun loving people they
Continue readingPostArctica: Like an iceberg, 1997, “Qaggiq”
Originally posted on A date with Siku girl: Like an iceberg, 1997: “Qaggiq” The sun still remains below the horizon in January, 1997, when I first arrive in Igloolik. (PHOTO BY JANE GEORGE) The long polar night is not yet over in Igloolik when I decide to visit this eastern
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Originally posted on A date with Siku girl: Like an iceberg, 1997: “Qaggiq” The sun still remains below the horizon in January, 1997, when I first arrive in Igloolik. (PHOTO BY JANE GEORGE) The long polar night is not yet over in Igloolik when I decide to visit this eastern
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