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Yalokole is a town of grass-roofed huts on the edge of the Kokolopori forest, erected around a giant termite mound on which sit two wooden talking drums--still the only way to communicate long distance in central Congo. Close by, in Yalokole's mud-floor, mud-wall, tin-roof church, Tusumba is giving a speech...
Tayna wasn't the only place conservation was being creatively rethought. BCI was applying similar principles in a 1,500-sq.-mi. (4,000 sq km) area in the Kokolopori forest to the west. Here too, locals drew the boundaries of the reserve, but this time there were more agreements covering the establishment of schools, roads and medical clinics, and investment in transportation, communications, power generation, microcredit and agriculture...
...with whom she was collaborating by the time she was 16. These days Kristina's inspiration for her print designs is Finland's breathtaking natural world, along with the sense of magic and fairy tale that runs through Finnish culture. This spring, the company launched her latest work, Metsanvaki (Forest Dwellers), which draws on images of the pine, juniper and birch trees that grow near the back door of that family farm, where Kristina now lives. "The forest is very important for us," she says, explaining why Forest Dwellers is already a hit in Finland. "We pick berries. We walk...
...government is extraordinarily resilient, and these days there's not much talk about eliminating anything. But even if streamlining government is a political non-starter, streamlining the Cabinet could be relatively easy. A Secretary of the Environment could represent EPA and Interior. (You could throw in the Forest Service - currently in Agriculture - and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - inexplicably at Commerce - as well.) A Secretary of Government Services could represent HHS, HUD, the VA, Education and maybe Agriculture's nutrition programs. A Secretary of the Economy could represent the rest of Commerce, the rest of Agriculture, Labor, Energy...
...wrote me in an e-mail, “The strange thing about Derrick Jensen is that, although I think he’s extreme and totally disagree with some of what he says, hearing what he has to say still makes me want to go live in a forest someplace.” In other words, when Jensen talks about our alienation from nature and the commodification of all animal life, he taps into something that doesn’t make sense about the way many of us live our lives...