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A series of experts working on affordable internet access and other technology for development efforts spoke out against Loon, posts on Twitter that it “sucked in the air“From discussions about affordable access and derived from”more realistic approachesTowards connectivity. Google parent Alphabet shuts down Loon, its internet radiant balloon project https://t.co/yPB31X8mWs Just to be clear, I’m the kind of person who says I told you. Through Twitter. According to John Garrity, an indep...

Capitalism, Romanticism, and Nature Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature: The Enchanted Garden By: Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy Routledge, 2020 Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature is an extremely interesting book—enjoyable, informative, and intellectually stimulating. Naomi Klein says of climate change, “This changes everything.” She is right, and among the things it changes are not only current political perspectives but also our understanding of past texts. The classic example of this ...

It was the second deadliest peacetime sinking of a European ship since Titanic  Treaty declared site a marine grave and prohibited any exploration of the wreck Swedish filmmaker Henrik Evertsson, 33, says he used drone to film wreckage of the MS Estonia when his crew discovered a gaping hole in the hull of the ferry Film reveals official Swedish report admitted ferry was used by Swedish forces to smuggle Russian military technology out of Tallinn weeks before it sank The MS Estonia was some fi...

One Way or Another, Everything Changes The following is excerpted from “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein. Copyright © 2014 by Naomi Klein. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Most projections of climate change presume that future changes—greenhouse gas emissions, temperature increases and effects such as sea level rise—will happen incrementally. A given amount of emission will lead to a given amount of...

A Swedish filmmaker has revealed that he is looking forward to giving evidence next month after being arrested for filming the wreckage of doomed ferry MS Estonia. Henrik Evertsson will appear in court in Gothenberg on January 27, accused of breaching an international treaty, which declared the site a marine grave and prohibited any exploration of the wreck. But the film director, who faces a two-year jail sentence if found guilty, believes that he did not contravene the 1995 treaty, signed by ...

Voters hold prayer march at Capitol in Atlanta ahead of Tuesday’s runoffs Updated Jan 03, 2021; Shaddi Abusaid, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; (TNS) ATLANTA — Hundreds of religious voters flocked to downtown Atlanta on Saturday to pray outside the state Capitol ahead of Tuesday’s runoff elections. The Georgia Prayer March aimed “to encourage people to pray for the Georgia Senate elections” and unite Americans in “intense prayer,” according to organizers. The event, also call...

How to save the world in 6 books: top climate leaders share their 2020 reads Activist Severn Cullis-Suzuki, scientist Katharine Hayhoe and author Seth Klein, along with other climate experts and advocates, recommend the books they think offer hope for the planet. Social Sharing Jennifer Van Evra · Posted: Dec 24, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 26, 2020 Climate leaders from Severn Cullis-Suzuki to Seth Klein offer their suggestions for top climate change reads.(Simon Fraser Universi...

An impossible dream? The trouble with utopian dramas Natasha Tripney © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian When the UK entered its first lockdown in March, there was a lot of talk about using this enforced pause as a chance to reassess and maybe even remake the world. As the months took their toll, that energy waned. But with a vaccine rollout and a man for whom empathy is not an alien concept about to take up residence in the White House, it doe...

Innovative Typographic Graffiti Casts Shadows That Change All Day Although certainly and notably destructive at times, graffiti has equal power to embolden and beautify a city, rather than smear or disfigure it. Such inherently colorful work doesn’t always have to be a rushed tag for unsavory reasons. In truth, graffiti isn’t all that far off from mural work in nature or, in graffiti artist Daku’s latest piece, bounces closer to a typographic art installation. You’ll find the innovativ...

The frenetic scene inside a California hospital struggling to keep pace with the coronavirus pandemic Print article APPLE VALLEY, Calif. - The hospital spreads over a block along Happy Trails Highway, which splits this high-desert town in half as it runs low and wide down a gentle hill. All around St. Mary Medical Center is a new silence. Fat Jack’s Bar & Grill is shuttered, never to reopen. The Chamber of Commerce, featuring a rearing, life-size model of the mid-century movie-star horse...