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

Brazilian police target environment minister in wood smuggling probe | Reuters

Brazilian police on Wednesday targeted Environment Minister Ricardo Salles and other officials in a probe of an alleged wood smuggling ring, according to court documents, throwing a harsh spotlight on a key figure in U.S.-Brazil environmental talks.

Salles has been leading negotiations with President Joe Biden’s administration in a push to get international funding of Brazilian efforts to protect the Amazon jungle, the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

However, as minister, Salles has presided over a surge in Amazon deforestation to a 12-year high in 2020 as the government rolls back environmental enforcement.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre Moraes authorized search warrants and access to the minister’s bank and tax records as part of the police investigation into alleged corruption and contraband, according to a ruling seen by Reuters.

Source: Brazilian police target environment minister in wood smuggling probe | Reuters

Two Meetings

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Continued from the chapter “A Dry Piece of Paradise.”

Imagine a bowl with steep sides, rough and sharp in places.

Look along the bottom and see a silver stream, sparkling and singing through rocks.

A figure is clinging to the upper side, almost to the rim.

The figure is me in the setting of my blog, “A Dry Piece of Paradise”. Here is my view from that spot.

View from the rim of Nameless Canyon

Hiking along this bowl rim I came to a clearing in the juniper and Manzanita bushes, with a fire ring and pile of roughly broken wood with outstanding views on all sides. This tradition of leaving wood is a welcome intrusion of human kindness and sympathy in this wilderness. We gather wood for total strangers, people we will never meet, to potentially save them in a rainy, cold darkness.

At noon Pine Creek was two…

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, Chapter 1, part 1B: Cultural Change

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

This post continues the rough draft of  Chapter 1 of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres.  This is the next outline section, chapter 1, section IB.

I am posting the 392 words, which was meant to be 250 words, for this section along with some thoughts on the overall chapter outlining process for the book as a whole.

Again, as previously stated, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter will transition to a chapter (2-5) for each phase, showing what Phases I-IV could look like as part of a possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter One, section…

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Kraljevska fabrika soli u Ark e Senanu, Francuska – Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, France

Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, France

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Zahvaljujući svojim poznanstvima na dvoru Luja XVI, Klod Nikola Ledu imenovan je 1771. godine za upravnika solana u Franš Konteu, Loreni i Troa Evešeu. To nije bila mala odgovornost jer su rudnici soli punili državnu blagajnu i ta služba bila je jedna od najnepopularnijih u starom režimu. Ledu je rođen u Dormanu 1736. godine i studirao je arhitekturu na poznatoj privatnoj školi Žaka Fransoa Blondela u Parizu. Njegovi učitelji najviše pažnje posvećivali su tradiciji francuskog baroka, ali nisu zanemarivali ni englesku arhitekturu. Pri kraju studija Ledu je već radio za dvor kao projektant mostova. Njegov prvi potez kao upravnika bio je da posjeti Salen le Ben, selo u Juri, poznato kao “grad bijelog zlata” (cité de l’or blanc), čiji je jedini razlog postojanja bio rudnik soli. Ustanovio je da je to mjesto prilično neprijatno, neudobno i, što je još gore, da je u tom kraju šuma u velikoj…

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Espetáculos de danças, formatura e mais na coluna da Jackie —

Barbara Crane Navarro

E-mail: jackiepinheiro@gmail.com Instagram: @jackiepinheiroac Facebook: Jackie Pinheiro Espetáculos de dança virtual realizados pela Cia. Garatuja foram sucesso No seu 31º aniversário de fundação, a Cia. Garatuja de Artes Cênicas realizou a X Mostra Garatuja de Dança e III Fedaquiry – Festival de Dança do Aquiry, em parceria com o Movimento de Dança do Acre(MODA).…

Espetáculos de danças, formatura e mais na coluna da Jackie —

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¿Te estás decorando con oro? … « La selva está sangrando, lo puedo sentir en mi corazón. » | Barbara Crane Navarro

“Gold miners pour more poisoned mercury into the ground than the weight of gold they carry away. They are like the undead, covered in golden mud. » – Chieftain Raoni Metuktire

Source: ¿Te estás decorando con oro? … « La selva está sangrando, lo puedo sentir en mi corazón. » | Barbara Crane Navarro

A Change that is Drastic Will Help Us to Stop Polluting Mother Earth With Plastic

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If we spread the word about the need for environmental care and do more recycling, reusing and reducing

More jobs will be created and problems will not be the only things we are producing

We need to do more to change the mindset of our people so they will take action that is drastic

We just can’t continue polluting the environment with plastic

Micro plastics in the air we breathe and the water we drink cannot be good at all

And we should not wait until our backs are against the wall

Since there are solutions we can use, to send the plastic pollution problem away

We need to simply encourage more people to do what it takes, so we can plan for a brighter day

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Unemployment is a problem that is being faced in almost every country out there

And so many more…

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