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I YAM WHAT I YAM This is going to be fun. OK, full disclosure: For years I have always hated my dentures which I experience as both uncomfor...

LATEST AMAZON NEWS I'm not really able to do blogger-type surfing and aggregating from the boonies in the forest but here are some links...

PIRATE LULA? When Gilberto Gil was Brazilian Minister of Culture he liked to call the free software movement a "peer-acy" as a way...

SÃO JOÃO AT FORTALEZA We had an absolutely marvelous festival of Saint John at Fortaleza. The festivals of St John are thought to be an esp...

THE HOLY ASK (A purely personal mental and visual journey.) It is said that spiritual growth begins with asking and that everyone receives a...

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES WITH A RESCUE FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION photo by David Cross YUP! The stuggle begun nearly 30 years ago by activi...

The International Biochar Initiative has a brand new website . Why should you check it out? Biochar is an ancient-future soil technology, cr...

Big REDD Right now, there’s more money to be made cutting tropical forests down than leaving them standing. Environmental policymakers are t...

SOME SERIOUS PROGRESS According to Mongabay "Marfrig, the world's fourth largest beef trader, will no longer buy cattle raised in ...

HOPEFUL SIGNS AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Mr Sun and Hope Mountain in Takilma, Oregon (photo by Kelpie Wilson) There's some promising news to...

ANOTHER URGENT ALERT We've been following Brazil's moves toward creating legal titles for the huge amount of Amazon land that is now...

MORE GOOD NEWS FROM AMAZÔNIA I'm back in Rio Branco, Acre where development can take on some interesting twists like the for-walking-on...

WE DON'T NEED NO MORE TROUBLE AMEN

DAY EIGHT IN IRAN For the latest tweet-by-tweet and great photos, GO HERE .