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The Conscious Earth: Gorillas of Rwanda
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Environmental news and travel blog. Sunday, December 02, 2007. Many thanks to all of my readers for bearing with a lengthy delay in posts since I left for Africa. It's been a few weeks of merciless, ass jarring travel that ultimately led to the portion of my current travels that had most captured my imagination - Rwanda. The gorillas, they are OUT! They have visited the village! From start to finish the day was inspiring and I would have gladly paid twice the price to support their continued protection.
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The Conscious Earth: My Rights, Your Responsibility
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Environmental news and travel blog. Tuesday, September 09, 2008. My Rights, Your Responsibility. I’m home now in Vancouver, with the daunting task of summing up and integrating a journey that covered four continents and more than eight months of my life. It can leave a person wondering how to bring that much home, or what home even means. In the case of Rwanda. In rapidly developing India, they are celebrating their initiation into the world's nuclear fraternity. On the grounds that it may threaten Sino-...
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The Conscious Earth: 8 Months of Photo Highlights
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Environmental news and travel blog. Thursday, September 18, 2008. 8 Months of Photo Highlights. Thanks to all my readers for hanging in while I get my feet back on the ground here at home. Many new developments are coming soon, but in the mean time, please enjoy these photo highlights of 8 months of travel. Thanks to everyone for following along. Posted by Kori Brus. Welcome back to Vancouver Odiyya. What a journey it must have been. I enjoyed following along and enjoyed the slide show too.
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The Conscious Earth: Leech Trekking in Periyar
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Environmental news and travel blog. Friday, March 28, 2008. Leech Trekking in Periyar. Yes, that's a picture of a dead fish floating in a pond. And with the exception of a troop of monkeys, that was all the wildlife available during a full day safari in Periyar National Park, India. The differences between here and Africa were profound. The Lonely Planet guidebook (which now borders on useless thanks to some key format changes, I'm switching to Footprint. We turned back then and there having seen no more...
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The Conscious Earth: Non-Cooperation and the Olympic Games
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Environmental news and travel blog. Friday, May 30, 2008. Non-Cooperation and the Olympic Games. The present era is rampant with the five forms of degeneration, in particular the red ideology (.). Was kidnapped by the Chinese government mere days after being recognized as the 11th Panchen Lama. Of Tibet (i.e. the 'son' and second most important leader in Tibetan culture). Nobody has seen him, nor his parents, since. Since China's invasion in 1949, an estimated 1.2 million people have lost their lives...
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The Conscious Earth: Rwanda from Genocide to Recovery
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Environmental news and travel blog. Thursday, December 13, 2007. Rwanda from Genocide to Recovery. We're told that the genocide was the culmination of tribal conflicts between warring Hutus and Tutsis that stretch back far beyond European colonization. In reality, this is a bald faced lie designed to protect the conscience of the developed world while stopping us from understanding the true nature of the killings, and the integral role of the west in bringing them about. This changed in 1932 when the Bel...
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The Conscious Earth: An Accidental Trip to Thailand
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Environmental news and travel blog. Monday, July 21, 2008. An Accidental Trip to Thailand. It was meant to be a side trip to the Philippines where a good friend is doing anthropological research in a traditional Kalinga Valley village. Unfortunately, I let myself get bluffed out by the weather and never made it. Sooooo, I tried. To go to the Philippines and all I got were these stunning photos of Thailand. Posted by Kori Brus. Maybe there is a good. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). La Paradise in Lamu.
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The Conscious Earth: La Paradise in Lamu
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Environmental news and travel blog. Tuesday, December 18, 2007. La Paradise in Lamu. I failed to mention that most of this African experience is taking place on an overland truck tour with a group of other travelers. Though the company is nice, so is stretching the legs out on your own. So taking advantage of a week long break at the end of stage one, I booked airline tickets to Lamu - small island off the coast of Kenya. But that was the only thing to complain about for the next week. The food is picked...
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The Conscious Earth: The Dark Side of Recycling
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Environmental news and travel blog. Thursday, November 13, 2008. The Dark Side of Recycling. The following is a disturbing profile. Of the state of the computer recycling business in the United States, and where the electronics end up. The situation in Guiyu is actually pre-capitalist. It's mercantile. It reverts back to a time when people lived where they worked, lived at their shop. Open, uncontrolled burning of plastics. These are among the most toxic compounds known on earth.". Watch CBS Videos Online.
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The Conscious Earth: Nelson Mandela and District Six
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Environmental news and travel blog. Wednesday, February 20, 2008. Nelson Mandela and District Six. February 11th marked the 18th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's long walk to freedom. I missed the opportunity to make a commemorative post on that event, but hopefully I can make up for it by sharing an equally important, though less known, story of apartheid - the story of District Six. I visited the area after a brief tour of the excellent District Six Museum. District Six slide show below. Labels: travel ...
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