Tag: climate change
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Rise to Save Our Coast
The Rise for Climate event was on this Saturday, September 8. You may have seen some of the news reports about it over the weekend but if you didn’t, Rise for Climate saw hundreds of cities and towns around the world join together to hold peaceful protests and rallies calling on the world’s leaders to…
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The Elephant Graveyard
Image: Elephant Skeleton ~ Mike Richardson When I close my eyes I dream of deepest Africa The Motherland Our ancestral home Where the orange sun rises Over the plantation lands And the hot winds blow Across the Serengeti plains Deep in the wilderness Vultures hover over an elephant graveyard Swooping to pick at the flesh…
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Is beauty dying?
One of my favourite novels is George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides. It’s one of the most beautiful, haunting novels I’ve ever read and it holds up amazingly well when you think it was published in 1949. Earth Abides is a post apocalyptic novel but it’s really more than that. It’s a lament for civilisation; human…
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5 ways you can help the environment
Today is Blog Action Day, a day encouraging bloggers to unite about the environment. Thousands of bloggers are taking up the challenge, including Lifehacker and Treehugger, writing about the environment in a way that suits their blogs. I’ve been torn between a couple of topics, so I thought I’d cheat a bit and do a…