Six national parks, 11 national reserves, 26 conservation priority sites, 16 wetlands and 32 private protected areas are set to be decimated, all in the name of energy. That amounts to roughly 6,000 hectares or 60 square kilometers of land. That’s bigger than the Vatican City, Monaco and Bermuda combined. The Chileans have fought against […]
27
May
$7 billion hydroelectricpower plant approved in Chile against local and activist wishes
18
Nov
Danny McBride, James Franco and Natalie Portman get their fantasy on
What’s there not to like about Danny McBride? If you go by Halloween costumes as some sort of scalable meter of cultural significance, then Kenny Powers is the biggest thing to hit the world since a certain group of Chileans decided to hang out underground for a couple months. In Your Highness McBride teams up […]
4
Nov
Shark Cages, Guided Meditation, Chilean Miners and Me
The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I, vol II, vol III, vol IV, vol V, vol VI, vol VII, vol. VIII vol IX and vol X) Let me start by stating the obvious: Bureaucracy can suck it. I mean, back in March when I was first laid off the mighty EDD and powers that be told me (via […]
