Category: Environment
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Happy “Fucking” New Years!
Farewell 2020! Last year, I reflected on the decade where I was fortunate enough to make 30 plus trips around the sun. One year into the new decade, and I’m looking at the BIG 4-0! If I’m lucky to see 2023! Unfortunately, three hundred thousand plus of my fellow U.S. citizens have perished due to…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
American Sociopath We have a toxic masculinity crisis in America. We have a gun crisis in America. We have a white supremacy problem in America. #MassShootings #thisisamerica #PoliceBrutailty ‘We Feel Safe’: Americans Keep Visiting Mexico Despite Pandemic Risks “We aren’t invincible. Sure you can get infected, but the risk here is much less than in other places,”…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Franklin Chang Diaz
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to physicists, Adjunct Professor in Physics and Astronomy…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Covid: Nations impose UK travel bans over new variant Top health officials said that there was no evidence the new variant was more deadly, or would react differently to vaccines, but it was proving to be up to 70% more transmissible. #COVID19 #unitedkingdom #Europe UN Warns New Wave of Locust Swarms Threatens Food Security of Millions in…
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The Week in Stories Around Globe
China’s reforestation efforts significantly impact global carbon emission reduction The study also finds the world is getting greener overall, and China alone accounts for 25 percent of the global net increase in leaf area although the country holds only 6.6 percent of the global vegetated area. As a country that once suffered severe desertification, China’s…
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Melancholy for Radicals
The Diagnosis The year 2020 has been one for the history books in countless ways. It’s also been a year where billions of humans have had to spend their lives on lockdown or sheltered in place due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. A pandemic that has brought the world to its knees. The virus has already…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Kendrick Sampson
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the actor, activist, and founder of co-founder…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Nigeria seeks to halt looting amid fury over ‘food warehouses’ Home to more than 200 million people, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the continent’s top oil exporter. But according to the National Bureau of Statistics, almost 83 million people, or 40 percent of the population, live below its poverty line of 137,430 naira ($381.75) a…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Brendan Parker
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the urban farmer, Stony Brook University grad,…
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Final Reflection: Racial Experience and Political Practice
Guest article by Professor Michael Thomas. In my previous article for this blog, I argue that one response to our ongoing crises is to push back by slowing down and slowing down interrupting the ongoing process for the increasing intensity of work, widening inequality, and the gutting of our institutions through capitalist managerial strategies. The…
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