Monthly Archives: July 2023
La basura que nos alimenta y el virus de la indiferencia
No me importa nada que política o políticos estén, realmente es una verguenza que no se tomen medidas sobre el medioambiente y la contaminación en muchos sitios de la Argentina y el mundo. El planeta ya no aguanta más nuestra indiferencia.
La ley que habilita la incineración estuvo prohibida durante 47 años. Ecologistas, vecinos y cooperativas de recolectores cuestionan la norma por su impacto ambiental.
Ahora, después de 5 años de esta nota en DW, parece que la contaminación, la basura y la quema se ha normalizado en Argentina. En varias calles de Buenos Aires se practica la quema de residuos con total normalidad mientras la crisis climática avanza, las enfermedades aumentan y la falta de conciencia sigue mutando como un virus más.
La incineración de basura en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires es INCONSTITUCIONAL
- OCTUBRE 4, 2019
- CONTAMINACIÓN, JUSTICIA AMBIENTAL Y DERECHOS
A raíz del amparo colectivo presentado…
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POETRY, PASTRIES, & PIES PODCAST: How TheraPoetry Helped Me to Heal

I was asked to address the motivation behind my chapter, TheraPoetry: The Healing Voice of Poems from my book, “We Are Poetry: Lessons I Didn’t Learn in a Textbook.” As noted in my book, I’m sharing this disclaimer that what I discuss here today is not by any means a substitute for a professional diagnosis or medical treatment. I am not a medical or mental health professional, nor do I pretend to be. This is a process that worked for me at the time I needed help navigating through my grief.
TheraPoetry, a term I coined in 2003 after the death of my mother gave me a voice when I couldn’t verbally express my pain from such an unexpected loss. I guess you could say poetry became my coping mechanism, a balm, and a lifesaver as I suffered my loss in silence. Perhaps this evolved from the influence…
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Flash Forest replants diverse species with drones
What do you do when you have millions of acres of burned forest, some of it inaccessible? In Canada, they’re sending in the drones. Flash Forest plants a diverse suite of seeds, what they call ‘recipes,’ shooting them into the ground from 130 feet or more. Five pods per second!

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Byspring of 2022, the company refined its drone and software tech and partnered with federal and provincial governments, private landowners, forestry companies and First Nations communities to plant 150,000 trees on land they each own or manage. The company had fleets of three drones each planting 1,500 to 1,600 pods across…
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Becoming Whole
We were born whole into families who were positioned to benefit from our gifts. Instead of allowing us to come into our own they decided to reprogram us into caricatures of themselves. Those decisions whether whether based on fear or spite impoverishes the family.
We were born whole into families who were positioned to benefit from our gifts. Instead of allowing us to come into our own they decided to reprogram us into caricatures of themselves. Those decisions whether whether based on fear or spite impoverishes the family.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2023
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