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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 Introduction In the western United States, water law developed around two main principles: (l) the goal of full beneficial use of water, and (2) the need to afford vested water right holders certainty as to their rights. At the time western water codes developed, these goals were seemingly in harmony—rewarding those who needed the water and invested in infrastructure for water use with rights that were enforceable against subsequent appropriators. Over the...

Robert Macfarlane was interviewed on Desert Island Discs (BBC/PA) Nature writer Robert Macfarlane has said primary schools should be twinned with farms. The Old Ways author told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that the UK is “getting so much wrong” with its relationship with nature. However he said he thinks people are “slowly” beginning to see how that relationship should change. “I would love to see every primary school in this country twinned with a farm,” he told the program...

Nigerian rapper and music producer Moses Ikape popularly known as Khalee Ali stamped his name in the music industry after he released his debut full-length album, Old Ways, in 2019. He went on to follow it up with “King Move” and a series of successful collaborations. “Best Way”, the track he made with Wunda, with […]

Some traditions are worth defending, but only so long as they advance a defensible goal.

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The Clearing (Courtesy of Cunning Folk Films) "The sky split in two." Those words stuck with Stephanie Trainer. She was reading an issue of National Geographic when she came across an article about the Tunguska Event: On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion wiped out almost a thousand square miles of forest in the deepest heart of Russia, an event that has still never been explained to this day. She vaguely remembered it as the backdrop to an episode of The X-Files, but the article opened up a...

“Lockdown brought a sense of madness”: a conversation between Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane Folk musician and actor Johnny Flynn speaks to his friend, the nature writer Robert Macfarlane, about lockdown, the natural world and their new album. The Dig,  Emma), walked along the River Lea in east London with his friend, the bestselling nature writer and academic Robert Macfarlane ( Underland,  The Old Ways). The water was clearer than the last time Macfarlane was here, he said, and th...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   SOUTH NEWFANE — Tasked with coming up with a policy proposal for a graduate school class, Juliette Carr originally thought her idea might be too simple. She wanted the Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants and Children benefits to be redeemable at farmers markets in Vermont just like those associated with Electronic Benefit Transfer cards. “That’s problematic because WIC is much more broadly available,â€...

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It is expected that 40% of workers will work remotely in the future. Get ready for some dramatic change in a key part of the economy — commercial office space. The implications are significant. Today, Westminster and Weybosset streets in Providence’s “financial district” are now nearly void of pedestrians and auto traffic. A new national survey of 5,000 employed adults across the U.S. found that 40% of workers expect to have some form of continued remote work flexibility post-pandemic. ...