Speak Softly and Carry a Big Environment
…nearly three years for my environmental consciousness to ascend to this level. Why that long I now wonder. Disclosure: after growing up in Northern California, and having been a link…
…nearly three years for my environmental consciousness to ascend to this level. Why that long I now wonder. Disclosure: after growing up in Northern California, and having been a link…
…In Chiapas, however, GCF is advocating a “forest carbon trading” approach, which would link Chiapas to California’s carbon market, preserving rainforests in Mexico to offset industrial emissions in the U.S….
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-future-of-carbon-trading-in-chiapas/
…any links established between the Bangladesh government and the makers of the film, monetarily or otherwise? Muhammad Yunus: We have not seen that. Guernica: Do you think microfinance threatened entrenched…
…chain-link fencing around it because she hasn’t had the time to put up a wooden fence. When the kids first started playing back there, the neighbor’s dogs went wild. The…
…soil dry. They have built these proud roads like a network, a hand that reaches out to touch the limits of the forest. They have stretched them year by year,…
…however, their efforts have either fallen short or been negated by a cascade of pro-war views expressed by pundits, analysts, and editorial writers at their own newspapers or broadcast/cable networks….
…missed me too much—she is gone, again. I cannot see her anywhere, not within the chain-link enclosure nor on the sidewalk outside it. The only hint is the chain-link gate…
…end the ill treatment of asylum seekers. Luca Belgiorno-Nettis chose to leave the Biennale, not his relation to Transfield. (I say this knowing the complex business networks that might not…
https://www.guernicamag.com/rachel-friedman-in-their-own-words/
…he helped found was beginning to crumble. His widow lived there until her death. The cameras, the chain link fences, the detailed history of attacks on Afrikaans farmers prominently displayed…
https://www.guernicamag.com/claire-nielsen-apartheids-final-outpost/
…Think of this as basic math for Americans. (All figures cited below are linked to their sources. If a figure has no link, just click on the nearest previous link.)…
A year-long poetry project comes to an end. Obama changes his mind about military commissions. Capitalism is to blame for the crash of ’08. An interview with the…
This isn’t helping, I can tell— out of the shower and onto this pill. Somebody guessed just what life was like then made a pill for it. I’m not mad…
The author Amitav Ghosh discusses the link between anthropology and writing, The New Yorker’s edit of his essay on the Iraq war, and John Updike’s worst book. Many novelists start…
…likely bring forth Sea, Sky, indeed a veritable (invraisemblable) Library of Oz! Nonetheless, dear niece, my Ozian? Ozite? Ozic? dismay has left me neither deaf nor blind to possibilities latent…
…constipation, cough, debility, dropsy, dysentery, earache, fever, gingivitis, gonorrhea, jaundice, nausea, scabies, scurvy, sore throat, swelling, syphilis, toothache, tuberculosis, tumors, typhoid, venereal diseases, and wounds. Is what draws me the…
…Arabic phrase al-‘arab jarab, or “the Arabs are scabies.” But that was then. That was until the Tunisian revolution, which has now reached the center of the Arab world. Egypt’s…
…and a pharmacy. Jordanian doctors and nurses, working with a smaller number of expat medics, saw, on average, two hundred people a day. * * * Photograph courtesy of Marcel…
…herbalist Samuel Thomson, in the nineteenth century, used a mixture of brandy, cayenne, and myrrh to “remove pain, prevent mortification, and promote a natural heat.” Look at it this way:…
https://www.guernicamag.com/myrrh-in-the-time-of-the-anthropocene/
…given away all his goods to the neighbors. That supply’s long gone by now. No wonder, when you see the chain pharmacy with the shattered windows or the supermarket, you…
…war over information privacy. What’s at stake is the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, and whether it should be free from corporate interference. While some assert that in the Internet…