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Ocean Malandra

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  • Environmental Journalist , Food and Travel Writer, Freelance
California, Colombia, Peru
As seen in: Illumination, Medium, Tripadvisor, AXS, VICE, Digital Journal, The Culture Trip, Paste, Mongabay, Reason and
Covers:  Latin America, Environment, Food, Cannabis, San Francisco, Social Justice, Plant Medicines, Humboldt County
Environmental Journalist. Food/Travel Writer. Author @MoonGuides. #PlantMedicines. #Socialjustice.

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Ocean Malandra is a widely published freelance environmental journalist and travel writer that divides his time between Northern California and South America. He is the current author of the Moon Travel Guide series to Colombia, a former environmental columnist for Paste Magazine, and the editor of an upcoming anthology on psychedelic plant medicines.

He possesses academic certificates in Writing for Social Justice from UC Berkeley, Sustainable Tourism from the University of Copenhagen, Gestio…

Ocean Malandra’s Journalist Portfolio

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Mongabay - Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

Mongabay - Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

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Invisible People - Meet Oakland California's First Self-Governed, City-Sanctioned Homeless Camp

Invisible People - Meet Oakland California's First Self-Governed, City-Sanctioned Homeless Camp

"This is the model," Derrick Soo told me one cold but sunny, fresh-after-the storm February morning. We were …

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Moon Colombia

Moon Colombia

With its lush Amazon rainforest and rugged Pacific coastline, mouthwatering cuisine, and a fiesta around ever…

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Paste Magazine - How Community Mycoremediation Projects Can Clean Up Oil Spills Around the Planet

Paste Magazine - How Community Mycoremediation Projects Can Clean Up Oil Spills Around the Planet

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil …

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Infinite Perception: The Role of Psychedelics in Global Transformation

Infinite Perception: The Role of Psychedelics in Global Transformation

Infinite Perception: The Power of Psychedelics for Global Transformation is an anthology of voices from the f…

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Earth Island Journal - The City Is a Garden

Earth Island Journal - The City Is a Garden

"Everyone of us is from the earth. Therefore we all need to be in touch with the earth, interact with the pla…

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Moon Colombia

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| Hachette Book Group (HBG)
With its lush Amazon rainforest and rugged Pacific coastline, mouthwatering cuisine, and a fiesta around every corner, Colombia is a country unlike any other. Bogotá local Ocean Malandra shows you how to experience Colombia like a local.
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Indigenous Led and Spiritually Informed: A New Conservation Paradigm

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By Ocean Malandra Indigenous-led conservation is the most natural and effective way to protect precious ecosystems and mitigate the global ecological crisis. It not only safeguards traditional cultures and the territories they have managed for millennia, but it is a way to preserve and strengthen spiritual world views that offer important and resilient alternatives to current conservation and public health models.
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Towards Farmer Empowerment and Land Redistribution in Colombia

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| Earth Island Journal Verified
The South American nation’s new national development plan lays out a shift from extraction and exploitation to sustainable agriculture. IN MAY, COLOMBIA passed a new national development plan aimed at transforming the country’s economy, shifting it from a model based on extraction and exploitation to one grounded in campesino (farmer) empowerment, land redistribution, sustainable agroecological production, “bioeconomies,” and ending the failed drug war instead.
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To some degree, social media allows for people to choose what news gets more coverage - by sharing it and making it go viral.

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Contact me through oceanmalandra@gmail.com. I will get back to you as soon as possible.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Im a minimalist, meaning a cafe with strong wi fi usually does the job.
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