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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Inspiring Gen Z eco-warriors

Darcy Hitchcock

If you don’t think there’s much you can do to address ecological problems facing us, check out these five inspiring young people from around the world. They’re addressing everything from climate change, bees, invasive species and water conservation.

Products made from invasive water hyacinths from Lake Victoria

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/11/08/going-green-november-2022-show-spc-intl.cnn

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when the clouds are weighed down by pain

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Lê Vĩnh Tài
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

 

when the clouds are weighed down by pain

the congesting sadness

a storm

clouds stuck in your throat

you can’t breath

 

no matter how loud you shout

how much you want to disappear

you’re more choked up

dark clouds are dark clouds

in the end, once you give up

surrender

since it didn’t just rain

it would pour

each burning drop

soothing you thought, but instead

the cloud is set on smothering you to death

 

eventually

you give in to it 

breath in and out

the fear

 

all the aspects of sadness

the sombreness of the rain

the attempts to endure an undiminishing eternity

the peak of age-old talentless

delusions of perseverance

inevitably into itself

disappears

 

you now and then would survive the dark clouds

you now…

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‘Eco’ wood burners produce 450 times more pollution than gas heating – report | Air pollution | The Guardian

“Ecodesign” wood burning stoves produce 450 times more toxic air pollution than gas central heating, according to new data published in a report from Prof Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England.

Source: ‘Eco’ wood burners produce 450 times more pollution than gas heating – report | Air pollution | The Guardian

Tiny, Menacing Microclots May Explain Long COVID’s Symptoms

Early in the pandemic, doctors noticed the sickest patients had high numbers of blood clots, which caused problems and killed patients long after they left the hospital. Some long COVID researchers suspect something similar may cause puzzling symptoms of long COVID.
— Read on www.webmd.com/lung/news/20221207/microclots-may-explain-long-covid-symptoms

♫ Our House ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Every time I think of a new song, one that I haven’t played here before, I check the archives only to find that I had played it, sometimes as recently as last month, and had forgotten.  I did not play this one last month or even last year … it was back in June of […]

♫ Our House ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word