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2010 Bioregional Education: Photos – May

By Ramon Cedeño Loor / May 26, 2010 / 0 Comments

Bioregional Education Photographs May 2010

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Planet Drum celebrates Earth Day.

By Clay Plager-Unger / April 30, 2010 / 0 Comments

April 19-30, 2010 The past two weeks have been full of rain. The kinds of rain that last all night, lightly drizzling, and occasionally coming down hard. It feels kind of like February back in the usual rainy season. We’ve been focusing our efforts on the greenhouse, but dabbling in other areas as well. Some […]

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Work has meant 8 -11 volunteers swinging machetes or digging seedbeds.

By Clay Plager-Unger / April 16, 2010 / 0 Comments

March 29-April 16, 2010 Volunteer help has been excellent during the past three weeks, but unfortunately it is about to drop off considerably. Right now there’s a group of five from Minnesota, Sam from the state of Washington, a couple from England, and Suzie from Australia. Recently, work has meant eight to eleven volunteers swinging […]

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Bahia Ecociudad is a model, Planet Drum receives revegetation awards.

By Clay Plager-Unger / March 25, 2010 / 0 Comments

Feb. 23-Mar. 25, 2010 The big news of the month is that Planet Drum has changed houses, so the office and living space for the volunteers is now in a new location (304 Calle Riofrío). Since it’s only a block and a half away from our former apartment, it’s not that different, but it feels […]

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A painted stake for every tree planted.

By Clay Plager-Unger / February 23, 2010 / 0 Comments

Feb.1-23, 2010 Welcome to the heart of the rainy season. There’s been precipitation during multiple nights of the week for the past month. Sometimes it comes down quite hard (nothing extreme yet, fortunately) and other times it lightly sprinkles throughout the course of the night. A light rain that lasts for a long time is […]

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Planting begins, and plastic bottle recycling projects.

By Clay Plager-Unger / January 29, 2010 / 0 Comments

Jan.16-29, 2010 Although not in full swing yet, the rainy season is here and it’s been drizzling frequently and raining on occasion, enough for the trees (and weeds) to burst with growth. Also, there have been some new additions to the volunteer work force and we’ve got quite a team now. There’s Jake and Ashley […]

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Welcome new Field Foreman Orlando.

By Clay Plager-Unger / January 15, 2010 / 0 Comments

Dec. 30, 2009-Jan.15, 2010 We’ve been getting holes, trails and sites ready in preparation for the oncoming rainy season, which officially began over the weekend of January 9-10th. As mentioned in the previous report, three revegetation sites had been completed and a fourth is about two-thirds ready for planting. 1,000 holes have been dug at […]

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Copenhagen (COP 15) 2009
Report #6, Copenhagen-Gone But Not Forgotten

By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner / January 11, 2010 / 0 Comments

Report #6January 11, 2010By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Copenhagen-Gone But Not Forgotten This is a long, somewhat tortured essay on experiences and perspective gleaned by an amateur in both climate science and journalism in Copenhagen. If it does not subtract from the crucial ongoing dialogue, I will be relieved, If it adds even one […]

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We’ll be spending our days chopping trails and digging holes.

By Clay Plager-Unger / December 29, 2009 / 0 Comments

Dec.12-29, 2009 Rains! Well, just about. It’s been drizzling and lightly raining on a somewhat consistent basis, mostly at the night, during the past couple weeks. Although it hasn’t rained enough to make the office/apartment roof leak (which doesn’t take all that much), there’s been enough to cause plants in the greenhouse to begin budding […]

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Copenhagen (COP 15) 2009
Report #5, Copenhagen and the Nature of Power

By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner / December 17, 2009 / 0 Comments

Report #5 December 17, 2009By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Copenhagen and the Nature of Power To readers. Please forgive the tardiness of this essay. I think you will find it still quite relevant even though the COP 15 has been declared officially over as of about 3 PM today when UNFCC Director, Ivo De […]

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