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Blue Mountain
A Painted Essay by Lena Moses-Schmitt
At night, just before dusk dropped its curtain, we’d drive out to the edge of Missoula, to Blue Mountain. That was our favorite place. Its trails wander through stands of trees and open meadows and wildflowers, offering up views of the city, with its dramatic background of mountains. View full essay.
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What is this reflective shield that can show us the danger without turning us to stone? What can replace paralyzing fear with a new vision of what is beautiful and possible? What can break the bonds of lies and denial? The answer, of course, is art, this magic reflective shield. Read full interview.
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Over at Terrain.org we’ve just launched a new series that fuses the interactive climate justice story maps of the Climate Alliance Mapping Project with the creative writing of students and faculty at the University of Arizona to bring oil and gas pipeline spill data to life. It’s called Spill Stories. View the five stories so far.
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I am standing on the remnant spillway of a concrete dam that spanned this gorge for nearly a century. The dam and its powerhouse are gone now, making way for the largest salmon recovery project in North America. Upstream the old reservoir basin rustles with autumn-tinged alder and willow saplings, and the newly freed river carves a channel through banks of lake-bottom sediments. Read full Letter to America.
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