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April, 2008
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New Value to Old Forests
Television correspondent Gary Strieker provides this on-the-ground video report on research showing that in respiring, old-growth forests capture a good deal more carbon from the atmosphere than was previously known. And in a world increasingly preoccupied with slowing global warming, that's worth money -- these forests are gaining market value beyond the price of their timber.
Made for the Assignment Earth series on Yahoo News, the report is a companion piece to Sharon Levy's The Giving Trees, the cover story of OnEarth's Spring 2008 issue.
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Memory, Age, and Love Poetry: Talking with Poet Daniel Mark Epstein
Poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein recites his poem, "In Late November," and talks with Zachary Sussman about memory, age, and what it means to be a “love poet.”
In Late November
Of the butterfly-bush, whose purple flowers
The monarch and the swallowtail
Sipped in August, near my windowpane
(Such a wealth of wings and flower clusters
I could hardly see the grass, the trees)
Only stalks and branches remain,
And panicles tipped with russet berries.
Now I see everything so vividly:
The young woman on her hands and knees,
Planting the meek shrubs three years ago --
Three short years and thirteen feet below --
Told me the light was perfect here and so
The plants would thrive, just wait and see
How gracefully the flowers would bear wings.
I would see her when she was not there,
Then go blind, standing right beside her.
How could I begin to explain such things?
Soon enough the blossoms reached my sill,
A floor above her terrace flat. Too late
For her to see the wonder she had ...
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