A rising tide lifts these homes

Darcy Hitchcock

Amsterdam is flat as a pancake and roughly at sea level. So as climate change raises sea level, people in The Netherlands have chosen to work with nature, not against it.

Marjan de Blok became an unlikely leader, with no engineering or architectural background. She just knew she needed a change from her hectic life. She spearheaded a community named Schoonschip, a floating neighborhood built around an abandoned industrial area.

Schoonschip, home to about 150 residents that includes some 40 kids, is made up of 46 households located on 30 arks. Half are floating semidetached homes, shared by two families. One has three generations of the same family.

De Blok wanted to green their lifestyle as well as the buildings.

Looking to make Schoonschip something different, she had all residents sign a manifesto committing them to constructing, insulating and finishing their homes with eco-friendly materials such as straw, burlap and…

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¡La Naturaleza es la única Joya verdadera! – ¡Una sugerencia de regalo inolvidable para el día de San Valentín!

Barbara Crane Navarro

Canoa en territorio indígena, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

«Oro Caníbal … Nuestros mayores no sabían sobre el dinero … El dinero no nos protege … no crea nuestra alegría. Para los blancos, es diferente. Estos blancos son comedores de tierra cubiertos de humos epidémicos. Creen que son todopoderosos, pero sus mentes están llenas de oscuridad. »

  • portavoz y chamán Yanomami Davi Kopenawa
«Este anillo Cartier tan especial » – montaje fotográfico: serie «Pas de Cartier» – Barbara Crane Navarro – con anillo Cartier«LOVE » goteando sangre simbólica, anuncio de Cartier, destrucción de la minería de oro foto: João Laet

«Hemos agraviado, corrompido y arruinado … Somos culpables, hemos traicionado … Hemos robado, hemos calumniado … Hemos pervertido y engañado … Nos hemos equivocado … Nos hemos cortado” lejos de la verdad, y la realidad existe para entretenernos. Nos escondemos detrás de distracciones y juguetes. »

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Chile: 40 proyectos mineros cercan 16 parques y reservas nacionales — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina — Barbara Crane Navarro

ESPECIAL MINERÍA #NaturalezaAcorralada 12/01/2022 Los proyectos mineros se ubican al interior, en los límites o en zonas próximas a las áreas protegidas. En Chile, los decretos que crean los parques y reservas no contemplan una zona de amortiguamiento en torno a ellos por lo que, en ciertos casos, hasta ocho proyectos mineros se ubican alrededor… Chile: […]

Chile: 40 proyectos mineros cercan 16 parques y reservas nacionales — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina — Barbara Crane Navarro

Rich nations could see ‘double climate dividend’ by switching to plant-based foods (Carbon Brief) — Uma (in)certa antropologia — Barbara Crane Navarro

carbonbrief.org Ayesha Tandon 10.01.2022 | 4:00pm Adopting a more plant-based diet could give rich countries a “double climate dividend” of lower emissions and more land for capturing carbon, a new study says. Animal-based foods have higher carbon and land footprints than their plant-based alternatives, and are most commonly consumed in high-income countries. The study, published […] […]

Rich nations could see ‘double climate dividend’ by switching to plant-based foods (Carbon Brief) — Uma (in)certa antropologia — Barbara Crane Navarro

Parashat BeShalach, and Bully Culture

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This week’s Torah portion, is “Parashat Beshalach / פָּרָשַׁתבְּשַׁלַּח Parashat Beshalach is the 16th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion:Exodus 13:17-17:16

This week, traditional congregations (and maybe a few Masorti/Conservative Movement folks) will read the entire portion, and I forget which year of the Trienniel cycle the Reform and most of the Conservative/Masorti movements are in, so they might not get to that part this year. But everyone will be reminded of the cowardly attacks by Amalek on the stragglers of the Children of Israel.

How do you build a culture where people would all be ashamed of themselves, as a certain giant I met in Bath ought to have been, for not “picking on someone your own size,” as we used to say. Although frankly, picking on anyone for any reason, bigger than you…

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¡La Naturaleza es la única Joya verdadera! – ¡Una sugerencia de regalo inolvidable para el día de San Valentín! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Canoa en territorio indígena, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela « Oro Caníbal … Nuestros mayores no sabían sobre el dinero … El dinero no nos protege … no crea nuestra alegría. Para los blancos, es diferente. Estos blancos son comedores de tierra cubiertos de humos epidémicos. Creen que son todopoderosos, pero sus mentes están llenas de oscuridad.…
— Read on barbara-navarro.com/2022/01/15/la-naturaleza-es-la-unica-joya-verdadera-una-sugerencia-de-regalo-inolvidable-para-el-dia-de-san-valentin/