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The people say, “It’s time to end handouts to big oil!”
Note from Priscilla: This is my first post from the Rio Earth Summit, where I’m a guest of tcktcktck.org after winning their blogging contest earlier this spring. “The people are having their say,” Jamie Henn, communications director for 350.org, announced … Continue reading
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Tagged 350.org, Avaaz.org, climate change, fossil fuel subsidies, global warming, Rio Earth Summit, Rio+20, Twitter
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Preparing for the Rio Earth Summit
It’s official! In five days I leave for the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Yes, I won the blogging contest sponsored by tcktcktck.org, with this winning blog post. Thanks to all of you who commented on the post; the … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, global warming, indigenous traditions, People's Summit, rights of nature, Rio Earth Summit, Rio+20
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Why do the rights of nature matter?
I’m sitting in the audience at a writers’ conference a couple of years ago listening to poets talk about nature. I look forward in this session to being inspired, as I was earlier by Pattiann Rogers, who said, The Earth and … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Cormac Cullinan, democracy, ecocide, global warming, Mia Nussbaum, Pattiann Rogers, Polly Higgins, rights of nature, writing
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Emerging calypsos
So if you’re a regular reader, you know I’m a big fan of calypso orchids (something I discovered I have in common with John Muir) and every spring I go out orchid hunting. This year I got special help from a biologist who … Continue reading
A glorious–and scary–spring
We’ve had seventy-plus-degree weather since early March. It’s been glorious—day after day of stunningly beautiful weather. Every flowering tree that was ever planted in Boulder has been blooming for weeks. Flowers are so thick the air is heavy with their scent, … Continue reading