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Earth Knowledge
1–2 minutesHere is what I have realized: if you learn to make fire with nothing but what the forest provides, and you purify water in bowls you yourself have carved, and you spend the night warmly wrapped in a house of fallen hemlock needles, and if you find cattail roots and salmonberries for your dinner among the
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Shell Oil vs. The People of Earth
2–3 minutesWhen it comes to climate change, we already know what needs to be done. Yet we don’t do anything of consequence; we resist positive action because climate change looms over us as a great, daunting beast, too menacing to actually deal with. But maybe not. According to Naomi Klein in her book This Changes Everything, we have the
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Mount St. Helens
1–2 minutesHow can the vastness of stars be absorbed into earth? Borne upwards, torn sideways, woven into valleys? So sings the nighthawk, to whom the air holds no vastness, only the fragrance of Sitka alder, of subalpine fir, and soil drained by steady, cliffside winds. He surges down, where lupine, yarrow, and bulrush breathe through gravel, and nighthawk feels
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The Greening of Cities, The Restoration of Wilderness,
1–2 minutesI hope for a world in which the wild has been restored. Seas of open wilderness interspersed with islands of settlements. Cities, but not as we know them now. Buildings with solar panel roofs. Streets of moss, or low-growing grass, lined with raspberry bushes and flickering birch trees. Small homes; open, light, window-heavy, where blue
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