Nov 2009

Moving beyond despair: Copenhagen, trail running, and the persistance of hope

I’ve been thinking a lot about loss recently. Right now, there’s a hush of expectation globally right now around climate change. The world is preparing for what is probably the most important international climate change meeting since at least 1992. And everything seems up in the air — or, worse, like the agreement may go badly awry. Several key government players like the United States and Denmark have been reducing expectations for what might be reasonably achieved in the meeting in Copenhagen in December. And even the BBC’s news unit has announced that they plan to send a smaller number of reporters to Copenhagen.
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Video: UK Rivers on the Edge

When we think about great freshwater ecosystems globally, most people don't think about the United Kingdom. The Yangtze of China is probably closer to most visions of a great river, or perhaps from a wild perspective Lake Baikal of Russia or the Colorado river as it passes through the Grand Canyon. But there is also great beauty and wonder in small places — streams and ponds — that may lack grandeur but are no less moving or important. The chalk streams of southern England and northern France are precisely such places.
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