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✉️ letter #80 To compare the Golestan Palace to Versailles is to downplay the specific wonder it engenders. In the Mirror Hall (Talar-e Ayeneh), thousands of small, intricately designed mirrors line the walls and ceiling, reflecting each other to create a heavenly interplay of light and color. It is a mesmerizing
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Tugwell’s proposed Master Plan was a masterpiece of "Big Urbanism, where neighborhoods functioned as self-sustaining “small cities," commutes were short, and public park space would nearly triple in area.
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The Academy Awards aired last Sunday, and by one specific metric, it was the most climate-aware ceremony in history. I won’t blame you for not having noticed.
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If we’re still trying to shove ourselves through physical doors, and our machines are actively shutting digital ones, how do we break this loop?
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Haiti’s struggle is is the continuation of a centuries-long fight for true sovereignty, not just an environmental crisis.
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Amidst the hand-painted foliage motifs and tropical blue-sky background of the jacket and puffer skirt is a striking red horse. It is riderless. The IOC deemed the rider too "political" for the slopes.
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I’m not one to believe in horoscope-based superstitions, but something in the air truly does feel different this winter.
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It often feels like we’ve been shouting so much our throats are getting hoarse. We balk at the thought of another post, another meeting, or another protest. Yet, staying quiet consumes us with guilt. We spiral into depression.
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Or as some stranger on the bus today put it, “I was thinking New York winters were getting kind of wussy, but I guess not!”
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This year, I’m glad I get the choice to focus on something somewhat more hopeful and vastly more interesting instead: Indigenous voices in international climate change!
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I put together this breakdown of some intriguing concepts front-and-center for Indigenous activists and leaders at the world’s most important (and never quite effective enough) climate conference. I guess that’s why I still bother keeping a website after all these years!
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Being doubtful of a young upstart with few inroads into the system is a fair critique! I worry about it myself!