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

Why Ambitious Tree Planting and Carbon Offset Projects Are Failing! — Mother Jones — Barbara Crane Navarro

This story was originally published by YaleE360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was perhaps the most spectacular failed tree planting project ever. 2,171 more words Why Ambitious Tree Planting and Carbon Offset Projects Are Failing — Mother Jones

Why Ambitious Tree Planting and Carbon Offset Projects Are Failing! — Mother Jones — Barbara Crane Navarro

Discoveries in a Familiar Place

From Behind the Pen

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Discover new sites
the places that speak and teach
lessons and knowledge.
-Kym Gordon Moore ©2022

Quite often, when you are visiting family who lives out of town, you typically spend 99.9% of the time at your relative’s home. There are home-cooked meals and endless conversations to catch up on, and oh yes, suddenly falling asleep from eating too much. 😲 Recurring visits can mean replaying the same activities. Yet, how often do you make the city or town you visit an adventure of magnificent experiences?

I visited the town where my mother is from and looked at it differently this time. I looked at it from the view of a tourist and didn’t think about how that part of the Lowcountry of South Carolina was steeped in mind-blowing history that I knew about but landmarks I never saw, like The Robert Smalls House on Prince Street…

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Review: Man’s Search for Meaning, By Viktor E. Frankl — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Here is another book that I was certain that I had reviewed earlier, but I’m happy to review again now in any case. As I completed the third draft or nearly the fourth draft, of my nonfiction work in progress, working title Do Better (now published and freely available to communities and curious people), I […]

Review: Man’s Search for Meaning, By Viktor E. Frankl — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

♫ One Tin Soldier ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

I played this song almost exactly two years ago — October 29, 2020 — right before the election that is still a source of so much conflict and controversy even now.  As I listened to it tonight, I realized just how relevant it is to our situation … not only here in the U.S., but […]

♫ One Tin Soldier ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word