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Sacred Land
I. DANGEROUS BOUNDARIES UNLIKE MANY IN OUR beleaguered time, I have the privilege of spending whole days outside – I don’t take this opportunity for joy lightly, and thus have paid special attention to the smaller birds. One Sunday, at 7000 feet, in a fir forest that I’m sure many would not associate with Arizona, […]
Disappearing Hardwoods
I. DISAPPEARING TROPICAL HARDWOODS LAUAN, LUAN, LAWAAN, Meranti, Seraya, Balau, Bangkirai, and Philippine mahogany. All are trade names for the plywood produced from massive tropical hardwood trees harvested legally or illegally from the rainforests of South and Southeast Asia. Their range stretches from Northern India through Indonesia (including Borneo), Malaysia and the Philippines. The wood […]
Rhodessa Jones
Rhodessa Jones is an actress, teacher, director, writer, and the founding director of the Medea Project, a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women and women living with HIV. Her published works include A Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts. She was recently invited to be a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth […]
US Border: Jailed Minors
I. A PERILOUS JOURNEY IT IS SAID THAT EL PASO, TEXAS, is the safest city in the United States. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just two miles away across the border, has the sad reputation of being the most violent city in Latin America. Between these antipodes, the lives of many people are affected by the incessant […]
London: Active Energy
I. DEMOCRATISING TECHNOLOGY “WHEN ELECTRICITY PRICES PREVENT older people from heating their homes, and the River Thames is just down the road, why aren’t we using it to power our city?” was a question posed by a member of The Geezers, a seniors’ group at an AgeUK centre in East London. I first met the […]