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Summary Report (COP21), Paris, FranceJanuary 18, 2016By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Marching Orders David Simpson and Jane Lapiner traveled to Paris from their home in Petrolia, California in Fall 2015 to attend and report on the United Nations climate summit. This is their summary report click on photos for larger images The Call A friend […]
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Dry Tropical Forest Revegetation Project Overview July, 2015 The Dry Tropical Forest Revegetation Project has the following long-term objectives: Ecosystem Restoration Protecting the Environment Bioregional Education During the past few months, significant progress has been made on all of these fronts. Thanks to the international volunteers who have assisted making this happen, and to the […]
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December 6th, 2014 – March 17th, 2015 Field Report It’s been an odd rainy season so far, drier than normal. In January it hardly rained at all, and in February it only rained towards the end of the month. Finally, now in March it’s raining a little more. As of early February, only 20% of […]
Read MoreReport #4 Winter Solstice, 2014By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Overview (Ambition Versus the Low Carbon Economy: In Lima with the UN, 2014) Photo library at bottom. Recently returned from the desert shoreline of sub-equatorial Peru where it rarely rains, we arrived back to the deep green of a North Coast rainy season wet enough […]
Read MoreReport #3 December 8th through 10th, 2014By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Commentary on some events from Days 6 through 8 of the UN climate summit. If rhetoric were effective action, the world would indeed have been saved on day seven of the 2014 UN climate change COP 20. This was officially the first day […]
Read MoreSeptember 1 – December 5, 2014 Field Report In September, with the help of volunteers Joe and Grace, an extension to the greenhouse was constructed in order to have more space for storing supplies and for working. The ramada used for storage was tripled in size. There is now much more space for storing plastic […]
Read MoreReport #2December 5, 2014By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Maybe it’s the Lima weather, extremely temperate and soft, just four degrees from the equator nearing the summer solstice here and it’s warm, yes, but pleasantly so, well below 30 degrees C at the peak of the day. Or maybe its just that the gravest threat […]
Read MoreDavid Simpson is a long-time Northern California bioregional pioneer and community leader based in the deeply rural Mattole River Valley of Humboldt County. Having written about and performed theater pieces with his partner Jane Lapiner on the subject of climate change in many places for several decades, in 2009 they went to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark […]
Read MoreJuly 30 – August 29, 2014 Field Report In August, Planet Drum hosted several educational workshops at the greenhouse with students from the Fanny de Baird School in Bahia and the Padre Jorge Paladines High School in San Vicente. The visiting students were given a brief lecture on the main features of the dry forest […]
Read MoreJune 11 – July 29, 2014 Field Report The past seven weeks have been dedicated to hosting revegetation workshops with local school students at the greenhouse. The Fanny de Baird school has 16 groups of students (averaging 40 students in each group) who are in the proper age range for participating with Planet Drum. So […]
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