Category: Environment/Nature

Summer reading list

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summer-reading-list

The FT’s Weekend Edition this past Saturday had its annual compendium of summer reading, put together by its editors. It’s always fun to go through these sorts of list to see if […]

Setting sails

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Antigua, Ymerbukta, Alaska, animals, Antigua, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, autumn, climate change, coal, Esmarkbreen, glacier, gratitude, hiking, ice, jigsaw, Longyearbyen, mine number 2, mines, mining, Norway, Oslo, perimeter, photography, puzzle, Recherchebreen, Recherchefjorden, Roads, scale, scree, slopes, snow, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, tall ship, talus, The Arctic Circle, travel, walkabout, water, west, winter, words, world, Ymerbukta

2 October – Ymerbukta We left port yesterday afternoon with the motor but put up the sails quickly and fairly flew across the fjord. We helped with the sails – a token […]

We need a better language for nature

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MacFarlane-Underland

Unsolicited Book Reviews: Horizon, by Barry Lopez; Underland, by Robert Macfarlane There are any number of ways to begin this review. I could discuss how our language of “Nature” is fundamentally exploitative–that […]

The Divine Arctic Comedy, Heaven

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Alaska, Barry Lopez, Kongsfjorden, animals, Antigua, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, autumn, climate change, coal, Esmarkbreen, glacier, gratitude, hiking, ice, jigsaw, Longyearbyen, mine number 2, mines, mining, Norway, Oslo, perimeter, photography, puzzle, Recherchebreen, Recherchefjorden, Roads, scale, scree, slopes, snow, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, tall ship, talus, The Arctic Circle, travel, walkabout, water, west, winter, words, world, Ymerbukta

Heaven           Air                   Future   Sublimate. Dissipate. Eliminate. Obviate.   Retreat – Sublimate, v.: to pass directly from the solid state to the vapor state; archaic: to improve or refine, as in […]

The Divine Arctic Comedy, Purgatory

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Alaska, Barry Lopez, animals, Antigua, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, autumn, climate change, coal, Esmarkbreen, glacier, gratitude, hiking, ice, jigsaw, Longyearbyen, mine number 2, mines, mining, Norway, Oslo, perimeter, photography, puzzle, Recherchebreen, Recherchefjorden, Roads, scale, scree, slopes, snow, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, tall ship, talus, The Arctic Circle, travel, walkabout, water, west, winter, words, world, Ymerbukta

Purgatory        Ice       Present   Millennial. Annual. Tangible. Visible.     Advance – Water became ice. Masses of ice ranged from the north across oceans, continents, and islands; tongues extended from mountain tops […]