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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Dr Jarrod Gilbert: The police have deemed me unfit to undertake crime research because I know criminals – National – NZ Herald News
Sitting in front of me is a 20-page document. It’s my police file. It doesn’t say much, because 17 of those pages are completely blacked out.I requested my file because I’ve been deemed by the police to be unfit to … Continue reading
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
A great tract of Earth is on fire. It looks as you might imagine hell to be. The air has turned ochre: visibility in some cities has been reduced to 30 metres. Children are being prepared for evacuation in warships; … Continue reading
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Tagged Aotearoa New Zealand, environmental disaster, evacuation, fire, hell, Indonesia, Monbiot, silence, species death, survival, The Guardian
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A Moment of Clarity – Why I’m going to Paris COP21 | IEP JELTOK
Then – the wake-up call. This summer. A conversation with a fellow radical disrupter focusing on the 2 degrees versus 1.5 degrees debate. Scientists and climate change specialists have been advocating that we need to lower our carbon emissions so … Continue reading
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Tagged 1.5 degrees, 2 degrees, atolls, climate activism, despair, drowning, Global Warming, Pacifika, Paris, resistance
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Restoring hope and innocence…
Yes. And oh such deep heartfelt thank yous.
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Tessa’s Pin Up Shoot
This is my incredible eldest granddaughter, photographed by a stunningly talented woman who has hung out with my some of my offspring for more decades than I can admit to. Tracey, the mother of my beautiful and wickedly humorous granddaughter … Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Sacredness of Public Libraries | Brain Pickings
In a 1997 speech celebrating the renovation of Portland’s Multnomah County Library, Le Guin writes: A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness. It’s everybody’s place. After an … Continue reading
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