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December 31, 2022
Canada's First Nations Are Conserving Land on an Unprecedented Scale
Not only are First Nations and the Inuit working closely with Western scientists to inventory and study their lands, but they have also made striking progress setting aside vast tracts of land and ocean.
ED STRUZIK
Dec 31, 2022 YES! Magazine
In yet another unusually warm subarctic day last August, members of the Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation in the Northwest Territories of Canada held a fire-feeding ceremony, drummed, raised their eagle-emblazoned flag, and prepared a celebratory feast for themselves and a group of scientists 30 miles south of where they live in Fort Simpson.
By the close of festivities, Laurier University's 23-year-old Scotty Creek Research Station, which is monitoring the varied impacts of climate change and permafrost thaw, had become the first Indigenous-led research station in Canada.
The event marked another milestone in a remarkable effort by Indigenous people across Northern Canada to address the impacts of climate change, which is contributing to the burning of carbon-rich peatlands, precipitous declines in caribou populations, increased levels of mercury in fish, and the spread of novel pathogens and invasive species.
"Climate change is not going to wait for us to find a way of adapting and mitigating," said Gladys Norwegian before I visited Scotty Creek last summer. Norwegian was once grand chief of the Dehcho Dene, which includes the Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation of Fort Simpson, as well as several other Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories' Mackenzie Valley.
It's happening now," Norwegian said. "We need to work as leaders and partners with scientists to see what is coming. We also need to get our own act together."
Not only are First Nations and the Inuit working closely with Western scientists to inventory and study their lands, but they have also made striking progress setting aside vast tracts of land and ocean, a decades-long push that has recently gained momentum and now amounts to tens of millions of acres. Conservationists say the scale of these efforts is unprecedented.
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Canada's First Nations Are Conserving Land on an Unprecedented Scale
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/indigenous-protected-and-conserved-areas-canadaCanada's First Nations Are Conserving Land on an Unprecedented Scale
Not only are First Nations and the Inuit working closely with Western scientists to inventory and study their lands, but they have also made striking progress setting aside vast tracts of land and ocean.
ED STRUZIK
Dec 31, 2022 YES! Magazine
In yet another unusually warm subarctic day last August, members of the Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation in the Northwest Territories of Canada held a fire-feeding ceremony, drummed, raised their eagle-emblazoned flag, and prepared a celebratory feast for themselves and a group of scientists 30 miles south of where they live in Fort Simpson.
By the close of festivities, Laurier University's 23-year-old Scotty Creek Research Station, which is monitoring the varied impacts of climate change and permafrost thaw, had become the first Indigenous-led research station in Canada.
The event marked another milestone in a remarkable effort by Indigenous people across Northern Canada to address the impacts of climate change, which is contributing to the burning of carbon-rich peatlands, precipitous declines in caribou populations, increased levels of mercury in fish, and the spread of novel pathogens and invasive species.
"Climate change is not going to wait for us to find a way of adapting and mitigating," said Gladys Norwegian before I visited Scotty Creek last summer. Norwegian was once grand chief of the Dehcho Dene, which includes the Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation of Fort Simpson, as well as several other Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories' Mackenzie Valley.
It's happening now," Norwegian said. "We need to work as leaders and partners with scientists to see what is coming. We also need to get our own act together."
Not only are First Nations and the Inuit working closely with Western scientists to inventory and study their lands, but they have also made striking progress setting aside vast tracts of land and ocean, a decades-long push that has recently gained momentum and now amounts to tens of millions of acres. Conservationists say the scale of these efforts is unprecedented.
…more…
December 30, 2022
Dougie MacLean - Auld Lang Syne
Dougie MacLean - Auld Lang Syne
(Your favorite version?)
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December 29, 2022
Raffi Cavoukian: from children’s troubadour to climate campaigner
…
It helps to have principles by which to live so that you’re not pushed off by every wind that blows,” he said. “The job of children isn’t to learn how to use screens or technology. It’s to interact with the three dimensional world.
“Their job is to learn the rhythms of a slow summer, to learn about the wonders of a butterfly, and the making of pasta sauce. It’s to learn the wonders of peeling an orange or an apple. These are real things.”
…more…
(Baby Beluga is my song. What’s yours?)
Raffi Cavoukian: from children's troubadour to climate campaigner
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/29/raffi-cavoukian-from-childrens-troubadour-to-climate-campaignerRaffi Cavoukian: from children’s troubadour to climate campaigner
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It helps to have principles by which to live so that you’re not pushed off by every wind that blows,” he said. “The job of children isn’t to learn how to use screens or technology. It’s to interact with the three dimensional world.
“Their job is to learn the rhythms of a slow summer, to learn about the wonders of a butterfly, and the making of pasta sauce. It’s to learn the wonders of peeling an orange or an apple. These are real things.”
…more…
(Baby Beluga is my song. What’s yours?)
December 27, 2022
'Toxic masculinity' may be caused by an actual, infectious, brain-altering parasite
Image of Mark Sumner, author
by Mark Sumnerfor Daily Kos
Daily Kos Staff
Monday, Dec. 26, 2022 at 8:00:09am PST
When you look around America these days, it’s hard to feel like there hasn’t been some kind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers event. So many people seem not just anxious, but genuinely militant in their desire to bend back the arc of history. So many seem to be willing to work against their own best interests only because it brings other people pain.
People have looked for explanations, from prolonged exposure to Fox News to frustration over the slow decline of rural America, to a whole swath of isms: racism, sexism, etc. Watching people frothing at a Donald Trump rally, or beating police on the steps of the Capitol, or carrying an assault rifle to the grocery store, or screaming at their local school board, it all seems so … irrational. And, has long been noted, no amount of facts or reasoning seems to work in getting someone back once they have boarded the Q-train or decided that vaccines are the work of interstellar lizard tpeople.
But what if the problem behind these seemingly irrational actions isn’t just caused by listening to AM radio and feeling resentful about that girl who turn you down in high school? What if it’s a disease caused by a genuine brain-eating parasite?
In November, Communications Biology included a paper from researchers looking at the behavior of grey wolves in Yellowstone National Park. They identified a series of “risk-taking” behaviors in these wolves, including leaving their pack, fighting to achieve dominance in the pack, and approaching people or cars. These behaviors all came with the risk of increased death, either at the teeth of other wolves or from the vehicles and guns of humans in and around the park.
What they found was simply amazing.
…more…
(As long as we’re speculating, consider mad cow disease which was hushed up by the beef industry.)
'Toxic masculinity' may be caused by an actual, infectious, brain-altering parasite
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/26/2140309/--Toxic-masculinity-may-be-caused-by-an-actual-infectious-brain-altering-parasite?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email'Toxic masculinity' may be caused by an actual, infectious, brain-altering parasite
Image of Mark Sumner, author
by Mark Sumnerfor Daily Kos
Daily Kos Staff
Monday, Dec. 26, 2022 at 8:00:09am PST
When you look around America these days, it’s hard to feel like there hasn’t been some kind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers event. So many people seem not just anxious, but genuinely militant in their desire to bend back the arc of history. So many seem to be willing to work against their own best interests only because it brings other people pain.
People have looked for explanations, from prolonged exposure to Fox News to frustration over the slow decline of rural America, to a whole swath of isms: racism, sexism, etc. Watching people frothing at a Donald Trump rally, or beating police on the steps of the Capitol, or carrying an assault rifle to the grocery store, or screaming at their local school board, it all seems so … irrational. And, has long been noted, no amount of facts or reasoning seems to work in getting someone back once they have boarded the Q-train or decided that vaccines are the work of interstellar lizard tpeople.
But what if the problem behind these seemingly irrational actions isn’t just caused by listening to AM radio and feeling resentful about that girl who turn you down in high school? What if it’s a disease caused by a genuine brain-eating parasite?
In November, Communications Biology included a paper from researchers looking at the behavior of grey wolves in Yellowstone National Park. They identified a series of “risk-taking” behaviors in these wolves, including leaving their pack, fighting to achieve dominance in the pack, and approaching people or cars. These behaviors all came with the risk of increased death, either at the teeth of other wolves or from the vehicles and guns of humans in and around the park.
What they found was simply amazing.
…more…
(As long as we’re speculating, consider mad cow disease which was hushed up by the beef industry.)
December 27, 2022
Barbershop becomes blizzard shelter: 'People told me I saved their life'
Mark Sommer
Come one, come all.
That has been C&C Cutz barbershop owner Craig Elston's message since Friday morning, when he opened his shop at 707 Fillmore Ave. to those seeking shelter from the arctic weather conditions.
Elston, 37, was himself stranded after going into the shop to clean hair-cutting equipment. He thought he would "knock out a few haircuts," only to realize when he finished that weather conditions made it unsafe to leave.
People started coming in to the barbershop for shelter, and by that evening, 40 people stayed overnight divided between the two large rooms, with some sleeping in the reclined barber chairs, on the floor or in other chairs. Nearly 30 stayed Saturday night.
"It was crazy, man," Elston said. "People told me I saved their life, that in another three minutes they felt like they were going to die from the freezing cold. Some peoples' fingers were purple."
…more…
Barbershop becomes blizzard shelter: 'People told me I saved their life'
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/barbershop-becomes-blizzard-shelter-people-told-me-i-saved-their-life/article_21411c20-8551-11ed-ab33-e36c65fbd817.htmlBarbershop becomes blizzard shelter: 'People told me I saved their life'
Mark Sommer
Come one, come all.
That has been C&C Cutz barbershop owner Craig Elston's message since Friday morning, when he opened his shop at 707 Fillmore Ave. to those seeking shelter from the arctic weather conditions.
Elston, 37, was himself stranded after going into the shop to clean hair-cutting equipment. He thought he would "knock out a few haircuts," only to realize when he finished that weather conditions made it unsafe to leave.
People started coming in to the barbershop for shelter, and by that evening, 40 people stayed overnight divided between the two large rooms, with some sleeping in the reclined barber chairs, on the floor or in other chairs. Nearly 30 stayed Saturday night.
"It was crazy, man," Elston said. "People told me I saved their life, that in another three minutes they felt like they were going to die from the freezing cold. Some peoples' fingers were purple."
…more…
December 27, 2022
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8807092-place-on-the-last-day-of-the-world-i-would
Place"
On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree
what for
not the fruit
the tree that bears the fruit
is not the one that was planted
I want the tree that stands
in the earth for the first time
with the sun already
going down
and the water
touching its roots
in the earth full of the dead
and the clouds passing
one by one
over its leaves
W.S. Merwin, Rain in the Trees
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/poet-w-s-merwin-found-paradise-planting-palm-trees
How poet W.S. Merwin found paradise by planting palm trees
In the late 1970s, the renowned poet W.S. Merwin bought three acres of an old pineapple plantation in Hawaii -- a “paradise lost,” where little would grow due to deforestation and chemicals leftover in the soil. Little by little, he and his wife began planting trees, and the garden grew into a whole forest of palms from seeds collected around the world. Jeffrey Brown visits Merwin’s garden in Maui.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › w-s-merwin
W. S. Merwin | Poetry Foundation
Merwin is a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and two-time U.S. poet laureate (1999-2000, 2010-2011). Merwin was once asked what social role a poet plays—if any—in America. He commented: "I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world
(Look for the Obama poet laureate/Hawaii connection.)
(Apologies for outdated funding request in film teaser. Only/best link I could find.)
W. S. Merwin: Even though the whole world is burning
W.S. Merwin Documentary Teaser | EVEN THOUGH THE WHOLE WORLD IS BURNING
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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8807092-place-on-the-last-day-of-the-world-i-would
Place"
On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree
what for
not the fruit
the tree that bears the fruit
is not the one that was planted
I want the tree that stands
in the earth for the first time
with the sun already
going down
and the water
touching its roots
in the earth full of the dead
and the clouds passing
one by one
over its leaves
W.S. Merwin, Rain in the Trees
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/poet-w-s-merwin-found-paradise-planting-palm-trees
How poet W.S. Merwin found paradise by planting palm trees
In the late 1970s, the renowned poet W.S. Merwin bought three acres of an old pineapple plantation in Hawaii -- a “paradise lost,” where little would grow due to deforestation and chemicals leftover in the soil. Little by little, he and his wife began planting trees, and the garden grew into a whole forest of palms from seeds collected around the world. Jeffrey Brown visits Merwin’s garden in Maui.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › w-s-merwin
W. S. Merwin | Poetry Foundation
Merwin is a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and two-time U.S. poet laureate (1999-2000, 2010-2011). Merwin was once asked what social role a poet plays—if any—in America. He commented: "I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world
(Look for the Obama poet laureate/Hawaii connection.)
(Apologies for outdated funding request in film teaser. Only/best link I could find.)
December 24, 2022
https://www.sho.com › titles › 3503692 › the-one-and-only-dick-gregory
The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) | SHOWTIME
The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) | SHOWTIME The One and Only Dick Gregory Rated TVMA • 113 minutes Feature-length documentary examining activist, pop-culture icon and thought leader Dick Gregory, whose work as a self-described 'agitator' shaped a generation demanding justice.
(If your heart needs recharging.)
The one and only Dick Gregory
The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) Official Trailer | SHOWTIME Documentary Film
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https://www.sho.com › titles › 3503692 › the-one-and-only-dick-gregory
The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) | SHOWTIME
The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) | SHOWTIME The One and Only Dick Gregory Rated TVMA • 113 minutes Feature-length documentary examining activist, pop-culture icon and thought leader Dick Gregory, whose work as a self-described 'agitator' shaped a generation demanding justice.
(If your heart needs recharging.)
December 23, 2022
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December 22, 2022
Washington AG sues pharmacy chains over opioids
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday that his office is suing Kroger, Albertsons and Rite Aid, arguing their pharmacy chains failed to act as the “final barrier” against opioid over-prescription.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court, is the latest effort by Ferguson and other attorneys general throughout the U.S. to hold businesses responsible for their part in allowing prescription opioids to proliferate, The Seattle Times reported.
More than 12,000 Washingtonians died of an opioid overdose between 2006 and 2021, according to the lawsuit.
“During the opioid crisis over the last decade, these companies ignored federal regulations, put profits over safety, and knowingly oversupplied opioids in our state,” Ferguson said at a news conference in Seattle.
…more…
Washington AG sues pharmacy chains over opioids
https://apnews.com/article/health-lawsuits-washington-olympia-opioids-a723bcfeb1cf709ebf5377d9c016c306Washington AG sues pharmacy chains over opioids
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday that his office is suing Kroger, Albertsons and Rite Aid, arguing their pharmacy chains failed to act as the “final barrier” against opioid over-prescription.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court, is the latest effort by Ferguson and other attorneys general throughout the U.S. to hold businesses responsible for their part in allowing prescription opioids to proliferate, The Seattle Times reported.
More than 12,000 Washingtonians died of an opioid overdose between 2006 and 2021, according to the lawsuit.
“During the opioid crisis over the last decade, these companies ignored federal regulations, put profits over safety, and knowingly oversupplied opioids in our state,” Ferguson said at a news conference in Seattle.
…more…
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