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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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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

invisiblepeople.tv — "This is the model," Derrick Soo told me one cold but sunny, fresh-after-the storm February morning. We were standing in front of the 77th Avenue Rangers homeless encampment in East Oakland, California. "This is the silent model for a homeless camp that they are not talking about," he said of Oakland's first self-governed, city-sanctioned homeless camp.
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Moon Colombia

Moon Colombia

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 othe...
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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

Paste Magazine — Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's "Chernobyl" and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.
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Infinite Perception: The Role of Psychedelics in Global Transformation

Infinite Perception: The Role of Psychedelics in Global Transformation

collectiveinkbooks.com — Infinite Perception: The Power of Psychedelics for Global Transformation is an anthology of voices from the front line of the Psychedelic R...
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Earth Island Journal - The City Is a Garden

Earth Island Journal - The City Is a Garden

Earth Island Journal — "Everyone of us is from the earth. Therefore we all need to be in touch with the earth, interact with the plants that give us food and life. This awakens something within us," she says when asked why urban agriculture is so important right now.
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Vice - How Coca Leaf Became Colombia's New Superfood

Vice - How Coca Leaf Became Colombia's New Superfood

VICE — At the Embajada de la Coca, the green leaf is being restored to its rightful place as a powerful medicinal plant and super-nutrient that should be revered instead of reviled.
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Matador Travel - A look inside Cartagena's Embassy of Salsa Music, a must-visit for any music lover

Matador Travel - A look inside Cartagena's Embassy of Salsa Music, a must-visit for any music lover

Matador Network — Anyone who hass seen a "Best Bars" list for Cartagena, Colombia, has likely noticed that Donde Fidel always figures prominently. The "Embassy of Salsa" in Cartagena is nothing less than a landmark in its own right. It's an iconic old-school salsa joint that draws everyone from visiting tourists to international music stars who gather for a fun-filled fiesta that usually includes dancing with strangers.
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Yahoo News - California Cannabis Farmers Look To Mimic The Region-Specific Labels Wine Makers Use

Yahoo News - California Cannabis Farmers Look To Mimic The Region-Specific Labels Wine Makers Use

Yahoo Finance — Some California cannabis farmers are looking to borrow the wine industry's practice of verifying products by origin. In the United States and internationally, wine that's grown only within certain legally and geographically defined regions, called an appellation of origin or a viticultural area, can earn the right to claim heritage from that area.
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High Times - Inside Colombia's Booming Cannabis Edibles Scene

High Times - Inside Colombia's Booming Cannabis Edibles Scene

hightimes.com — Colombia is also home to the best quality bud south of the border, which might contribute to the happiness index as well! In fact, the country used to be the U.S.'s biggest supplier of uplifting sativa strains back in the 1960s and '70s, before Mexico took over and coca leaf became Colombia's new illicit cash crop. Colombia has several prime, long-established growing areas, including the Sierra Nevada region in the north, the heavily indigenous Huila and Cauca departments in the south and the salsa music-addicted city of Cali near the Pacific Coast.
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Lonely Planet - How to see 2 of Colombia's National Parks in 4 days

Lonely Planet - How to see 2 of Colombia's National Parks in 4 days

Lonely Planet — From the beauty of the beaches of Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona to the peaks of Parque Nacional Natural Los Nevados, Colombia's 59 protected natural areas...
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ReadCultured - De-Colonizing Plant Medicines and Street Art with Chor Boogie

ReadCultured - De-Colonizing Plant Medicines and Street Art with Chor Boogie

readcultured.com — A shorter version of this interview was originally published on Chor Boogie (@chorboogie on Instagram) is an internationally recognized and widely awarded aerosol artist whose work has appeared everywhere from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to the Berlin Wall in Germany, the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles to the Smithsonian in Washington DC.
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Paste Magazine - Checklist: Humboldt County, California

Paste Magazine - Checklist: Humboldt County, California

Paste Magazine — Isolated behind the "Redwood Curtain" more than five hours north of San Francisco, Humboldt County, California is a pristine paradise that is still off the beaten path, even for Northern Californians. A land of superlatives-from the tallest trees in the world to the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the continental U.S.-Humboldt was recently ranked one of the most naturally beautiful counties in America. The area also has a quirky side; it is home to the gentle giant known as Bigfoot and grows copious amounts of the highest-quality marijuana on earth.
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Earth Island Journal - Indigenous People Are on Frontlines of Colombian Uprising

Earth Island Journal - Indigenous People Are on Frontlines of Colombian Uprising

Earth Island Journal — "We don't want mining in our territories, we don't want multi-national corporations in our territories and we need previa consulta (prior consultation) to be respected, it's a fundamental right that is constantly being abused," adds Fernando Piaguaje, a member of the Siona nation in his late 20s who I meet at the Mesa Amazonica, a roundtable discussion between the government and Indigenous organizations held in late May in Mocoa, the capital of the Putumayo department, in response to the roadblock.
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Age of Awareness - Pissing Into the Inferno

Age of Awareness - Pissing Into the Inferno

Medium — To Stop the Destruction of the Amazon, We Need Real Systemic Change As a freelance journalist that's been covering the Amazon for years, the best thing about this horror show of fire and destruction that's been playing out over the last couple of months is to see the world finally paying attention to the fate of the greatest eco-system on earth.
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Paste Magazine - Can the World's Love for Gabriel Garcia Marquez Save Colombia's Magdalena River?

Paste Magazine - Can the World's Love for Gabriel Garcia Marquez Save Colombia's Magdalena River?

Paste Magazine — As the last bell tolls for the Magdalena River, which has gone dry at critical points along its estuary due to deforestation, a Colombian crowdfunding campaign hopes to pull off a feat of magic realism that taps into the power of love to save the day.
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Parabola Magazine -THE ETERNAL LAW: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modern Physics and Ultimate Reality

Parabola Magazine -THE ETERNAL LAW: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modern Physics and Ultimate Reality

Parabola Magazine — The Eternal Law: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modern Physics and Ultimate Reality John Spencer. Param Media ( www.parammedia.com), 2012. PP. 344. $34.95. Paper $24.95 Reviewed by Ocean Malandra The most significant scientific progress occurs when we discover an underlying mathematical law that unites or supersedes previously discovered laws, explaining all that the previous laws explained and even more.
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Mongabay - Restoring Mexico's 'Garden of Eden' is a process of deep regeneration

Mongabay - Restoring Mexico's 'Garden of Eden' is a process of deep regeneration

Mongabay — As it sets, the sun lights up the waters of Lake Catemaco before disappearing behind the shoulder of a rainforest-covered volcano in Mexico's Los Tuxtlas region. The waterfront is filled with tourists enjoying the final rays of the day. Many of them might have come here to visit the "sorcerers" who perform cleansings and healings [...]
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VICE - This Grassroots Group Is Feeding Home-Cooked Meals to the Homeless in Las Vegas

VICE - This Grassroots Group Is Feeding Home-Cooked Meals to the Homeless in Las Vegas

VICE — Siloh Moses was living on the streets of Las Vegas just 18 months ago. Since then, he founded ServingHopeLV, a grassroots organization that brings home-cooked meals to the homeless.
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The Apieron Blog - How Camus' "The Plague" Predicted the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Apieron Blog - How Camus' "The Plague" Predicted the Covid-19 Pandemic

theapeiron.co.uk — "The Plague" is probably the most philosophical dive into the meaning of pandemic diseases ever written. Camus was a philosopher before anything else. His most popular novels were really just ways to...
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7x7 Magazine - These 6 Classic North Beach Cafes Will Transport You to Italy

7x7 Magazine - These 6 Classic North Beach Cafes Will Transport You to Italy

7x7 — Quality never goes out of style. That's why the Italian cafes of North Beach are oases of authenticity, tradition, and culture in a city that reinvents itself faster than the time it takes to download the latest app. Take a break from the rat race and slip into the old world charm and pace of the ci...
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SF Travel - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Living Legacy in San Francisco and the Bay Area

SF Travel - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Living Legacy in San Francisco and the Bay Area

San Francisco Travel Association — Visit these places in San Francisco and across the Bay Area to get in touch with the historic impact of Dr. King.
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Alternet - Indigenous Healer Faces Prison After Receiving Cactus in Mail

Alternet - Indigenous Healer Faces Prison After Receiving Cactus in Mail

AlterNet — After six years in the Amazon, Jungle Svonni returned to Sweden only to face charges for possession of a plant that is legal in his country.
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In the Neighborhood: Usaquén, a Colombian Gem

In the Neighborhood: Usaquén, a Colombian Gem

preferredtravelmag.com — Step into the elegance of Bogotá's enchanting neighborhood of Usaquén. From Latin America's largest artisan market to rooftop rum tastings, colonial charm meets cosmopolitan flair. Sip, shop, and stroll your way through a weekend of culture, cuisine, and curated experiences.
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