We’re flesh and blood, resigned to our three score and ten, but rivers are the lifeblood of the earth, created long before us, to remain long after we’re gone. If there’s only one thing I could share with the 30 million people who depend upon the Colorado River, it’s this: If we have the power to wrest a river from the Delta, we also have the responsibility to restore it.
As for what I got out of the 1,450 mile trip, I have let go of my mother. But losing our river is a death I cannot abide.
By Molly Loomis From National Geographic News Editor David Braun’s Eye on the World Long regarded as a haven for migratory birds from around the world, the Arctic is increasingly playing host to a growing list of southern species never before seen in the North’s colder climes. On a recent expedition to the National Petroleum [...]
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The following comes from Greenpeace. Mr. Obama, yes we can handle a relationship based on open communication. Yes we can understand the facts of the situation if you give them to us. Yes we can handle truth instead of spin. This blog comes from John Hocevar, Greenpeace oceans campaigner. In a report released on August [...]
On one hand, it is arrogant for us to think we are the caretakers of this planet. On another hand, we are the species that has the greatest control over the management of it. And as such, we have undeniable responsibilities. I won’t begin to list those responsibilities here. That subject is too vast for [...]
We watch day after day. The images can become overwhelming, but the individual life of each creature is relevant to all of us. Oil spill specialist and conservationist, Professor Rick Steiner, from the University of Alaska, moves along the shoreline of Cat Island in the Gulf of Mexico with a camera crew from Greenpeace. They [...]
Don’t get me wrong. I fervently believe that BP should bear every single dollar cost of the clean up of the disaster they caused in the gulf. Lazy corporate governance, a rampant race for profits and mind-numbing absence of attention to any level of responsibility to BP’s position as stewards of an increasingly fragile environment [...]
Valerie C. Clark, aka the Frog Caller, grew up roaming the State Parks that surrounded her home in the suburbs of Maryland, USA. It was here where she first plunged her hand into ponds capturing her tadpoles. And when one of these tadpoles grew up, back in the 1990’s, Valerie entered her little contender in [...]
www.MomentsCount.com I am one who seeks my self outdoors. Nature is gracious in its sharing with me. And, I am appreciative. Its gentle spontaneity, capricious temperament, easy conversation and ceaseless energy offer me respite. When wandering in fields and meadows, through forests and deserts, along shorelines and foothills I know I will hear inner sounds of my own. I have learned when I am in the open spaces I can see beyond my physical world to my internal world.
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Zee Becket (3rd from left) In Gao, Sierra Leone “Zee Becket Watched a CNN Special – And Changed 14,000 Lives” September 20, 2009 In 2008 Zainab Beckett saw a special report on CNN. A small boy begged for his life before a group of soldiers. When the child turned, they shot him. They killed him. [...]
