Life in prison
The most important aspect of this new Irish film, Michael Inside, is its cinematic approach to telling the story. Ireland has a long history of theatre and successful drama which…
Life in plastic
Mainstream western culture is addicted to the convenience of plastic, to single-use items, cheap electronics of limited lifespan, and excessive packaging that assures us of safety and cleanliness. In the…
Violence and wildfires
“They take advantage of that opportunity and they shoot into a crowd, no matter who they hit.” The news this past weekend emerging from my fair city, Chicago, felt like…
Saving marine life
There are many issues that confront our country, but environmental and ecological matters are perhaps the most neglected and least understood. We somehow fail to understand the intrinsic value of…
Wildfires push Californians to high-risk insurance market
There are lots of reasons people live in California's Modjeska Canyon. Nestled against the mountains and abutting the Cleveland National Forest, the area has abundant wildlife and access to nature,…
Massive wild boar cull targets swine fever
In the dead of the bone-chilling Lithuanian winter, a hunter cocks his gun and squints as he takes aim at a wild boar foraging for food 30 paces away. A…
Fire and flood: Australians cope with wild weather
The thousands of volunteers out fighting the forest fires raging across parts of Australia's New South Wales state were thanked by Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday as the work…
Life is sweet for beekeepers in Greece, but for how long?
The rosemary season has ended, but sage is in full bloom. In the fragrant hills of the Peloponnese in southern Greece, after a few sharp turns along a path, Nikos…
King in waiting
IT has taken 64 years and 44 days for him to become King Charles III. No heir apparent in history has had a longer period of training nor ascended a…
The lost city
“You have built here what you or anyone might have built anywhere else, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world.” These words of King Charles (Carlos) V…
