In the heart of the Amazon rainforest is the Tapajos River basin, home to the Munduruku people. This indigenous tribe has around 11,000 members, and is a source of inspiration for their fortitude in standing up to hydroelectric dam construction and illegal mining. Because there’s gold under the surface of the Amazon soil, unscrupulous operators […]
As the Poughkeepsie Journal reports, they take environmental awareness seriously in New York’s Hudson River Valley. After all, it was here that engaged citizen action took shape in the form of the sloop Clearwater, the brainchild of folk master Pete Seeger. So when the Beacon Sloop Club (which handles many of the events associated with […]
I remember reading that a natural ecosystem that had taken thousands of years to develop can be destroyed in ten minutes by a guy driving a bulldozer. That seems true enough; horrifying and depressing, but true. All evolution’s gradual work, building a wonderfully complex interdependent structure — turned into undifferentiated rubble in less time than […]