Bumbire Island – Part II

Bumbire Island sits on the northern tip of a sliver of an archipelago in southwest Lake Victoria, in Tanzania, East Africa. Nature on and around Bumbire is gorgeous—but the hardscrabble fishing camps scattered along its shores—and those of nearby rocky islets—are a different story.

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Warm Wet Planet: Seventh Transmission … Diversity

Earth is home to an astonishingly diverse array of creatures — as the voices in this captured transmission recount — but the planet appears to be in the midst of a huge crash.

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Bumbire Island – Part I, Arriving

Bumbire Island sits on the northern tip of a sliver of an archipelago in southwest Lake Victoria, Tanzania, East Africa. The islands are gorgeous—and strangely reminiscent of Newfoundland or similar maritime landscapes. But the hardscrabble fishing camps scattered across Bumbire and neighboring rocky islets are a different story.

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Warm Wet Planet: Sixth Transmission … Slaughter

A former senior justice official of Earth’s most powerful nation vents his rage at the war machine his country has become.

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Warm Wet Planet: Fifth Transmission … Money

Human beings love money, as this fifth captured transmission testifies.

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Warm Wet Planet: Fourth Transmission … Change

Death and taxes are two things Earthlings say they can always count on. They face another cold truth – less predictable, but all-encompassing – each and every day, till they die … nothing ever stays the same; everything on their little planet is constantly changing.

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Warm Wet Planet: Third Transmission … Life

In this third captured transmission from a planet in crisis, voices describe how life evolved here.

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Foxy Lady: The Book

Foxy Lady is a must-read for anyone curious to peer into the quirky littoral activities of some of the shady visitors to their little port. This is a tale that reinforces the popular belief that Darwin is probably less Australia’s front door and more its Asian cat flap.

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Warm Wet Planet: Second Transmission … Earth

Earth is a dynamic planet — continually twisting and turning — as this fragmentary recording testifies.

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Warm Wet Planet: First Transmission … Home

First in a series of fragmentary voice transmissions from a planet in crisis. Earthlings speak about the place they call home.

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Bottom Line

Melaku Worede

An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.

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