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In the Paper ForestFrancesca Schmidt

Francesca Schmidt — Thu, 25 May 2023 07:00:42 +0000

Cheap paper is all around us. It’s flushed down toilets, taken away in cups, wrapped around online orders, photocopied, printed and discarded. Paper may be a renewable resource, but it has to be grown somewhere. For the European market, this somewhere tends to be Portugal, which produces about 50% of Europe’s paper. Portugal’s paper [...]

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Read: Voice of the Living Forest: Interview with Indigenous Resistance Leader José Gualinga

beth — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:09:42 +0000

José Gualinga is a leader of the Native People of Sarayaku, an indigenous Kichwa group with 1400 inhabitants living in a remote part of Ecuador’s southern Amazon. Known for their defence of the rights of nature and indigenous peoples, the Sarayaku call themselves the People of Noon, referring to an ancient prophecy of their ancestors [...]

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Read: Tear Gas or Tea? A Very English ArrestBeth Pitts

toby — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:40:53 +0000

As I lay in the middle of the road outside Downing Street, surrounded by police, awaiting my imminent arrest, I looked up at a cloudless blue sky. It felt like a sign that the rain had finally stopped and, as I enjoyed the sun on my face, one of London’s famous parakeets flew overhead. [...]

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