the form of birth and death the smell of some flowers are one of the happiest feelings to me, common leaves are a base of plant scents plants don’t create sounds (by themselves) trees can represent mystery with their angles and obscured spaces slow spontaneity
A couple weeks ago, I wandered the Polylepis forest in the Chimborazo Park Reserve. After a two-hour trek through the sandy trail, passing by vicuna animals and native Andean shrubs, I saw the entrance. The sight of the trees with their branches reaching out in all directions struck me.
Sure Thing It is that with which the wind blows And the snowflakes carry from the skies The mountains echo in their deep crevasses The sky possesses in her blue, graceful expanse The child has in her smile The earth in her soil The dog in my arms. It is that with which spreads the smell of rain The mist […]
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June 9, 2013 Delhi Slum Neighborhoods On our second day in Delhi, the US PIRE students learned firsthand about the social and public health implications of poor urban infrastructure. Dr. Tapan Jyoti, a Peer PIRE participant sponsored by USAID, first introduced us to the director of a local office of the Gender Resource Center. The GRC supports women’s empowerment in […]
Noah Sokol sits down with one of the co-directors of the new documentary ELEMENTAL, which screened recently at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale. They get to talking about capturing the human side of activism, and the personal toll commitment to a cause can exact.
A profusion of industrial kilns in the Kathmandu Valley is driving migration, polluting air and rivers, and posing a range of health risks, especially to children.
Kalyanee Mam, creator of the documentary “A River Changes Course,” sits down with Sage to discuss the global forces that are disrupting life in Cambodia.
Naomi Heindel reviews the opening night of the Environmental Film Festival at Yale.
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When droughts and floods force subsistence farmers to migrate, what happens to the families who stay behind? An interview with Koko Warner, a United Nations researcher on the frontlines of climate change adaptation.
The NRDC’s Senior Wildlife Advocate sits down with Sage to chat about the simple bear necessities of life.