The young Bob Dylan was a poet, an inspired one.
The prophet of the counterculture, six years older than me. In l967 I was twenty years old and in my last year of Harvard, studying poetry composition with Robert Lowell, who had inherited the mantle of greatest living poet in the great English tradition after the death of Robert Frost. I had studied ancient Greek …Read More
#89: Louis Sarno, the Ba-Benjellé of the Central African Republic, and Their Beautiful Music
This is the full text of an introduction I wrote for the new, Trinity Press edition of Louis Sarno’s memoir, Song From The Forest. It was edited down, and stuff about other Pygmy groups and their music was taken out, so I am putting the original version here.
I long to get back to Yandoumbe and …Read More
DVW is live!
My son Andre, the co-founder of DVW, and his team at Digital Media Associates, in Park City, Utah, have done a magnificent job of redesigning the site, which was hacked and we haven’t been able to put up anything on it since February. This is its third iteration, and the most beautiful and functional one …Read More
Smithsonian Magazine has published
my story about the destruction of Borneo’s rain forest, the oldest and most species-rich on earth, by the logging and palm-oil industries. Orangutans, Penan hunter-gatherers, many species that haven’t even been identified, are losing their lives and way of living.
another finding that forests are vanishing at a slower pace
The U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization says the net rate of global deforestation has slowed by more than 50% over the past 25 years. However, a Brazilian environmentalist tells me the deceleration of the deforestation of the Amazon numbers are cooked, and here’s a chronological map of the deforestation of Borneo. The devastation of the …Read More
the forests are returning in the amazon and indonesia
good news for a change : the forests are returning, deforestation is peaking, the world is getting greener, climate change is being mitigated.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/…/we-ar…/article26147272/This is true of the dediduous hardwood forest of northeastern North America, which has been coming back since the car replaced the horse as the way to get around. After 1918 the internal …Read More
Smithsonian Magazine has published our piece on the white spirit bear
September 3, 2015, Smithsonian Magazine has published my piece on the white spirit bear of British Columbia, with magnificent photographs by Melissa Groo:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rare-white-bear-key-saving-canadian-rainforest-180956330/
glitches with DVW
Hi everybody, we’ve been having a little trouble with our server, which was hacked. With great difficulty and the help of some brilliant techies in Bangalore, we managed to retrieve the Site and the original 2001-2010 version, which was redesigned by Justine Harare. But the server won’t allow me to attach a pdf to a …Read More
A new discovery in our front yard
We live a couple of hundred feet from Montreal’s magnificent 494-acre Mount Royal Park, which was laid out by Frederick Law Olsmsted, who designed New York’s Central Park. A lot of the people on our street have beautiful gardens in their front yards. Our front yard, which is thirty feet by fifteen, has two box …Read More
excellent profile in the New Yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert of Christina Figueres, and discussion of the state of the effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and what might be accomplished at the Paris climate change conference in December. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/the-weight-of-the-world?mbid=nl_081915_Daily_Text&CNDID=12625990&spMailingID=7998996&spUserID=MTA3NzY2MjAxNTQwS0&spJobID=742351359&spReportId=NzQyMzUxMzU5S0