President Evo Morales signed into law in 2017 that stripped protection from the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory, known as TIPNIS for its Spanish initials, opening it to highway construction and other development.
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Composer John Adams: September 11th Souls Eternally Transmigrating
Years after the World Trade Center attacks of September 11th, 2001, John Adams’s “On the Transmigration of Souls” is more poignant than ever.
Alan Kirby: Technology and Consumer Fanaticism Killed Postmodernism
Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. Sophisticated technology, globalized market economics, consumer fanaticism, fatalistic anxiety, and conformism have created a new paradigm he calls pseudo-modernism.
To Erzulie of the Seductive Summoning Sea
Here we follow poet Lenelle N. Moise’s surreal submergence into her mother’s passion for water, the sea, vodoun. Imagery, juxtapositions, fluidity, they haunt this reverie, influenced by unseen forces, diaspora and the Haitian sea goddess Erzulie.
Yellowstone Druids: The Last Valley of the Wolves?
After centuries of fear and superstition, research has given the wolf a new image as a social creature with an indispensible role in ecosystems. Unfortunately, wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains have been removed from the endangered species list. The Druid Pack of Yellowstone National Park symbolizes the rise and fall of this much maligned predator.
Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Flooded
The makeshift flood berm holding floodwaters from Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant north of Omaha, NE collapsed, the plant now operating on emergency off-site power as workers try to restore electricity to the flooded containment buildings and electrical transformers.
The (un)Quiet Revolution: Permaculture (Documentary)
The documentary, ‘Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution’ investigates communal-self-reliance and economic-environmental sustainability through permanent (agri)culture or permaculture.