It's kind of crazy out there. Hope you're taking some time to switch off and do other things. Like breathe!
NEWSLETTER | SEPTEMBER 2019
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** Take Time to Breathe
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Whoa, September is sure coming to a close with a bang! In just the past two weeks, this day included, we’ve had kids across the world taking to the streets in defense of our planet (and the inevitable backlash from bullheaded adults ([link removed]) ); we’ve had a grim new report about how North America has lost more than 1 in 4 birds ([link removed]) in the last 50 years; and an even more dismal IPPC report about how our rapidly warming oceans are becoming hostile to life ([link removed]) . And then there’s the big drama around Trump’s possible impeachment, which is spinning out so fast that it’s nearly impossible to keep up with the latest without getting dizzy.
So I thought that, for a change, you all might appreciate being pointed towards some stories that have nothing much to do with what’s making big headlines in the current news cycle. Despite being a journalist, I find that stepping away from the 24x7 media frenzy from time to time, and focusing on other activities, including reading longer, slower-paced articles, helps my stress levels enormously. What about you?
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Editor, Earth Island Journal
TOP STORIES ()
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** Work Mediated by the Mystery of the Wild? Yes Please!
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This meditative essay about a hunter-gatherer tribe in central India with their minimal tool and provides “a humbling perspective for those of us trying to save a damaged world with ever-evolving technologies.”
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** Technofix – A Seductive Illusion?
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The quest for hi-tech solutions to the grand ecological and existential threats of our time is all the rage these days. But this emerging canon of disruptive technology could have some unforeseen victims.
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** Drawing for Nature
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“What art do you make when it is not only human eyes watching you, when the market is not the measure?” asks artist Caroline Ross. As for her, she says she makes art “not just for the humans, but for the trees who provide materials for brushes and boxes, for the rock strata that provide my pigments.”
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** Run4Salmon
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For the fourth year in a row, the Winnemem Wintu, a small Indigenous tribe in Northern California, have been conducting a 300-mile “prayerful journey” ([link removed]) following the homeward path of the winter-run Chinook from the San Francisco Bay up to the McCloud River, which used to be the salmon’s spawning ground until their path home was blocked by the Shasta Dam. The Winnemem believe it is their sacred duty to help save this critically endangered salmon sub-species, and how they plan to do that is one amazing story where serendipity plays a big part.
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** The Kids Are All Right
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Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra’s radio interview with two young climate strike organizers, Isha Clarke of Kids Vs Apocalypse and Joe Glass of the Sunrise Movement.
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** Shooting While Black
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Not guns, but photographs. But if you have the wrong skin tone, even that can land you in trouble, as longtime wildlife photographer and filmmaker Dudley Edmonson keeps finding out.
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