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Media energy is starting to heat up for Earth Day 2007, promoting a 'Live Earth' concert on July 7th that has participants and music spanning 7 continents. It's billed as 'The Concert for a Climate in Crisis'. Here's a website introducing the idea through a video featuring Al Gore and Cameron Diaz, which points out that this is the first issue in the history of the world that effects each and every one of us...
In January 2007 Sun magazine (www.thesunmagazine.org) published an interview of "Help at Any Cost" author Maia Szalavitz on "The Myth of Tough Love" that exposes the abuses in the teen recovery "industry", including that in the "wilderness-survival" therapy businesses. I think this is an issue that may concern those of us interested in wilderness therapies in general.
In the current March issue of Sun, many people wrote in telling of their painful experiences. For example: "My own tough-love experience was in a wilderness-survival program. I was a 13-year-old ward of the state, recently removed from an abusive home. The program's 'let's be mean to teens in the woods' philosophy...only reinforced the distrust and anger I felt...Luckily I loved the isolation and being in the wilderness."
Continue reading "Wilderness Therapies for Troubled Teens Abusive?" »
I received an email this morning from Suzanne Stryk, an extraordinary artist I wrote about here back when some of her work was exhibited in what might be my favorite magazine, Orion.
Apparently my comments inspired her to create a website that is a 'gallery without walls' and I'm very pleased to have had anything to do with this work of beauty. Here's a taste, to motivate an exploration of her site for yourself:
My friend Peter Russell, who is not only an intellectual giant but the source of many fascinating stories about the natural world, has done it again: check out his latest blog post for his recent experience swimming with whales, including a webcam that picks up whalesongs in Maui.
greeningspirit.ca
Old logs bump and grind,
Tossed by turning tide,
Unstuck from silted sand,
Ebb seaward from the land.
Warm wind and salt scour
Pebbled beach where thin
Shelled things scurry when sea
Fingers search the intertidal hour.
Creeks spring lush through
Greening glades, spill onto
Tide flats oozing mud which then
This Turning brings to life - again.
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photos by Robyn Worcester,
Stanley Park Ecology Society
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