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BOOKS / Mike Roselle and Jeffrey St. Clair : Two From the Green Hard Core
Mike Roselle and Jeffrey St. Clair:Green activism from the front lines By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / January 24, 2010 [Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action by Mike Roselle. Published by … Continue reading
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Honeybees Are Remarkable for Lots of Reasons
Honey bee nectaring on button willow.Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Department of Entomology.Let’s Hear It for the BeesBy Leon Kreitzman / April 28, 2009 Gardeners know that plants open and close their flowers at set times during the … Continue reading
Larry Piltz : Intimate Resurrection
Intimate Resurrection I rise from your grave looking for youseven weeks after your passingseven weeks after you were pluckedfrom your cold reposeswaddled in linen and longingpressed tenderly to my cleft breastcarried slowly through the doorsof your life one last timeand … Continue reading
POETRY / Alyce Guynn : Cardinal in Pyracantha
Cardinal, detail from quilt / Wolven CyberArts Cardinal in Pyracantha A wind chime plays softly the melody of memory soaked in winter sun Bright the contrast between then and now like the cardinal in my pyracantha bush The breeze behind … Continue reading
IMAGE / The Great Blue Hope
Photo by Stephanie Chernikowski / The Rag Blog. I was born by the river in a little tentOh and just like the river I’ve been running ever sinceIt’s been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna … Continue reading
POETRY / Larry Piltz : Life is Catching
upright and examining rocksfor size, shape, and adaptability of soulto be set in place where they may belongwhen a soft crisp autumn noise abovelifts my attention expectantly upwardin time to catch the last engraved imageof a falling drought-year pin oak … Continue reading
Worst Offender : eBay Bans Ivory Sales
‘eBay auctions account for nearly two-thirds of the global trade in endangered species.’By Casey Miner / October 24, 2008 eBay announced this week that it would ban all sales of elephant ivory on its site after the International Fund for … Continue reading
Ike: Oil Contamination in the Gulf, Too
At least 500,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Ike assaulted the U.S. Gulf Coast. The environmental damage is only now starting to emerge, weeks after the storm. Here, oil coats the waters off … Continue reading
Ike Destroyed 45,000 Homes and the First Amendment
Hurricane Ike damage. Photo: Matt Slocum/Associated PressIke: The Silent StormBy Teresa Van Deusen / October 3, 2008 The evacuees from Hurricane Gustav had just returned home September 5th when Hurricane Ike began to head for the Gulf of Mexico. National … Continue reading
Why Do We Get It Wrong All the Time Now?
New Orleans residents gathered at an evacuation pick-up station in the Seventh Ward prior to Gustav’s landfall. Photo: Richard Perry/The New York Times‘Never Again,’ AgainSeptember 20, 2008 Hurricane Gustav gave the state of Louisiana a test for which it had … Continue reading
Gustav: Two Million People May Be Displaced
Waiting for the busAnother Journey Begins … Waiting in New OrleansBy Bill Quigley / August 30, 2008 In the blazing midday sun, hot and thirsty little children walk around bags of diapers and soft suitcases piled outside a locked community … Continue reading
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Sotten Treeshrew On Non-Stop Bender
Furry critters thrive on fermented nectar… By Jennifer Viegas / July 28, 2008 Even the most ardent beer fans would have trouble subsisting on their favorite brew day in and out, but scientists have just discovered that the pentailed treeshrew … Continue reading
