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Brooklyn landscape photographer Carolyn Monastra recently completed an adventure-filled ride down the Amazon River in February as she continued her travels to record the effects of climate change. I first wrote last fall about her project The Witness Tree, which will continue to take Carolyn around the world this year to document sites affected by [...]
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My Ditmas Park neighbor and friend Carolyn Monastra is a landscape photographer on a mission. She’s just returned from photographing the disappearing glaciers in Glacier National Park in Montana and reports that of the 150 original glaciers, only 25 remain – and those are expected to be gone by 2030 at the latest. That’s only [...]
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Back in 1966, it was just the dream of one of my folk singing heroes, Pete Seeger. As I sailed in early July with friends from the Flatbush Food Coop on the sloop Clearwater http://www.clearwater.org/about, we listened to the story of Seeger’s determination to save the polluted Hudson River and enact national legislation. He started [...]
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‘Grown in Detroit,’ an award-winning documentary made by Dutch filmmakers Mascha and Manfred Poppenk, sees promise in the abandoned lots in my hometown, where others see only devastation. The documentary chronicles an environmental miracle and unfolds a lesson for everyone about failure and renewal and why we should never give up hope. The city has [...]
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