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Archive for August, 2011
Warao of Guyana: The Origin of the Pleiades
Posted on August 31, 2011 | No CommentsA myth from the Warao People who inhabit the rainforests of the Orinoco Delta of northeastern Venezuela and western Guyana. The term Warao means "The Boat People," referring to their intimate connection with water. Here a hunter takes on an ogress in a story of the origin of the Pleiades.
Bolivia: Indigenous Protest Can’t Stop Amazon Superhighway
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 5 CommentsPresident Evo Morales signed into law in 2017 that stripped protection from the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory, known as TIPNIS for its Spanish initials, opening it to highway construction and other development.
Composer John Adams: September 11th Souls Eternally Transmigrating
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsYears after the World Trade Center attacks of September 11th, 2001, John Adams's "On the Transmigration of Souls" is more poignant than ever.
The Atoms Family: Radiation is Everywhere!
Posted on August 19, 2011 | No CommentsEdison illuminates for elementary schoolers nuclear fission's faulty towers, "Let's Color and Do Activities with The Atoms Family!" Cancer or evacuations not included.
Finland’s Nuclear Waste: 100,000 Years of Poison Into Eternity
Posted on August 18, 2011 | 4 CommentsInto Eternity is a feature documentary film by Danish director Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the plan to construct Onkalo Waste Repository deep underground, designed to last 100,000 years, at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant.
Alan Kirby: Technology and Consumer Fanaticism Killed Postmodernism
Posted on August 16, 2011 | 2 CommentsAlan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. Sophisticated technology, globalized market economics, consumer fanaticism, fatalistic anxiety, and conformism have created a new paradigm he calls pseudo-modernism.
Fracking Study: Contamination Happens
Posted on August 11, 2011 | 6 CommentsFor years the drilling industry has insisted there has never been a proven case in which hydraulic fracturing, or natural gas fracking, has led to contamination of drinking water. Now Environmental Working Group has unearthed a 24-year-old case study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that unequivocally says such contamination has occurred.
Newhall Ranch: Feds OK Massive Flood Plain Development
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe US Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers resolved their differences and advanced one of the largest sprawling developments ever contemplated in California on 12,000 acres along the Santa Clara River in northwest Los Angeles County. Newhall Ranch would create a city for 60,000 on a six-mile stretch of the wild, open, agricultural, free-flowing river flood plain.
Yellowstone and Glacier Through Native Eyes
Posted on August 4, 2011 | 2 CommentsFor more than 12,000 years, the Intermountain West's native peoples have called the lands known as Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks "home." This program explores modern indigenous perspectives on these great wilderness areas and explores the cultural divide that separates modern times from the not-so-distant past.
