Langscape, the magazine of the NGO Terralingua, just extended the deadline of the call for abstracts for its spring issue. Extracts from the call (with February 7 deadline!) are copied below, but what caught my eye about this …
Category Archives: NRM/environment
Thoughts about COP21 on a warm December day
It has often happened over the years that one day in autumn, something about the temperature, the sun, the air, and sounds has my senses saying “spring.” And vice-versa – on one spring day it just feels like autumn. Not …
A Vienna bicyclist – epilogue
After 8 months of regular and sometimes intensive bicycling in and around Vienna – even through the cold months of winter – my number came up: I was hit at about 7:30 a.m. on April 28 by a car making …
2009 Linguapax Prize winner: Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira
Maori language activist, educator and author Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira of New Zealand (or Aotearoa as it is known in Maori) is the recipient of the 2009 Linguapax Prize (source, Hispanidad press agency). She has been active for 30 years …
Reflections of a Vienna bicyclist
For various reasons, I’ve been doing a lot of bicycling over the last few months in Vienna. No, not that Vienna (dream on), rather the one in Virginia, not too far from Washington, D.C. This has me thinking about …
2008 Year of the Frog
Anyone can declare a year of something and several conservation organizations have combined to declare 2008 the Year of the Frog. They’re calling attention to the importance of amphibians (apparently about half the species in the world are threatened …