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Toxic flames next door: Persistent gas flares undercut oil industry pledges
This story is part of the Flaring Front Lines project, an investigative collaboration involvingThe ExaminationandBloomberg News. Sign up for theGreen Daily newsletter. Norma Lopez Cadena tries to keep her granddaughters indoors — out of sight from the 65-foot flare burning excess gas from more than a dozen oil wells. At night, she says, the flare rattles the house from about 500 feet away and wakes her family. When the wind shifts, it smells like burnt rubber.
Toxic Flames Next Door: Persistent Gas Flares Undercut Oil Industry Pledges
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Toxic flames next door: Persistent gas flares undercut oil industry pledges
GDP 16 hours ago Vietnam GDP set to surpass Thailand in size by 2030 thethaiger.com - Ryan Turner • 16h Vietnam GDP projections now put the country ahead of Thailand when economic size is adjusted for purchasing power and on course to overtake it in … World Economy 3 hours ago The looming crisis of world unemployment thehindu.com - Shashi Tharoor • 3h A recent World Bank forecast reveals that the global economy stands at the precipice of a silent catastrophe.
Shifting Gears | Bob Whitehouse
On this episode of Shifting Gears we return to an archival living world conversation with Bob Whitehouse recorded in 2017. For many years Bob was on the faculty at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs. He then made a course correction and moved to Boulder on the front range where he built a large vibrant biofeedback practice. Join Will Evans for Shifting Gears the first Monday of each month at 4:00 on KDNK.org
Alex Harvey of the ReMemberers,
Alex Harvey is spokesman for the ReMemberers, a ritual theater and storytelling trio comprised of Violet Southard, John de Kadt and Alex coming to Carbondale with a mythic story, The Firebird. Story telling is a form of changing time. Emotional time and event time operate very differently than clock time. When we slow down, the soul starts to wake up and can light up an entire organism.
Shifting Gears | Barbara Dills, Part 2
Barbara Dills continues to explain the relationship of the indigenous people of the Columbia River with the long-standing salmon run. She observes indigenous generosity is interwoven with the ethos of decision-making which always takes into account the impact any major decision will have on children seven generations in the future. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Shifting Gears | Barbara Dllis
One of the things Barbara Dills learned, that has been the most sustaining was from her Lakota family and then again from River People along the Columbia. “One can and kind of must hold the heavy thing right along with joy and celebration and dancing.” So what is joyous and celebratory becomes the balance to all the heaviness and that perspective helped her heal. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
“All It Takes To Define a City Is To Write Its Story”
This essay is one in a collection of 13 perspectives on Dallas culture. In D Magazine’s July issue, we gave each writer the same directive: tell us a story about your Dallas. We learned a lot. We hope you do, too. Every city is a storywritten by the people who call the city home, and I’m writing my Dallas into being every day.
Shifting Gears | Remembering Katrina Blair
Messenger from Himalayas Going Home, Nicholas Roerich On this episode of Shifting Gears, Remembering Katrina Blair, messenger and founder of the Turtle Lake Refuge in Durango. Katrina’s mission was to celebrate the connection between personal health and wildlands. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Companies are burning off more gas from oil fields , polluting the air and heating the planet
The oil industry’s practice of flaring gas from production facilities, which spews toxic emissions into nearby communities and contributes to climate change, has gotten worse, according to anew World Bank report. Looming over oil fields like giant torches, flares burn off the gas that is pulled to the surface along with oil. Despite longstanding, industry-backed efforts to reduce flaring, the World Bank found that the volume of gas flared worldwide went up last year for the third year in a row.
World view: Neame eyes Christchurch trip in October
A visit to his South Island stomping grounds has whet North Queensland prop Griffin Neame’s appetite to push for a Kiwis recall ahead of the Rugby League World Cup later this year. Reinstated to the Cowboys’ starting pack after 11 games coming off the bench, Neame didn’t have to look too far for personal positives at Christchurch’s magnificent One NZ Stadium – despite the 38-20 defeat to the Warriors.
Shifting Gears | Brook LeVan
Brook LeVan explains, “We are resonating bodies and when we allow ourselves to accept the different resonating bodies around us and move them through us harmony, balance, and purity of heart - we recharge the dynamic around us.
Shifting Gears | JJ and Desiree Hurtak Program 2
On this episode of Shifting Gears, Drs. JJ and Desiree Hurtak explain we are a network of vibratory passages that do not stop with the human anatomy. They suggest we are alive in a larger system of medicine and wisdom. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Shifting Gears | JJ and Desiree Hurtak
On this episode of Shifting Gears, Drs JJ and Desiree Hurtak, the authors of Sound explain we are humans living in a symphony of sound. We are alive in the Divine symphony – let us take time to listen. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Shifting Gears | Cheryl Page Part 2
Cheryl Page explains we were educated to look in a binary way – it is either right or wrong – we do not have room for another option. There is only on or off – but if you install a dimmer switch there is more play. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Shifting Gears | Cheryl Page
This month on Shifting Gears, a living world conversation with Cheryl Page about Aikido. The founder of Aikido awakened to the potential of transforming conflict into harmony by blending with aggressive energy and creating a collaborative relationship through redirecting the attack into a place of neutrality. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Shifting Gears | Evan Pritchard continued
In this living world conversation, Evan Pritchard explains how music is a key for him to unlocking the universe. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK.org on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Shifting Gears | Evan Pritchard
On this month's episode of Shifting Gears, host Dr. Will Evans speaks Evan Pritchard. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK.org on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Why spend millions on a mungo: The case for rugby splashing the cash on Cleary or Katoa
It was no surprise to see the online debate erupt following my ‘way too early’ Wallaby Rugby World Cup squad last week. The selection of Nathan Cleary at fly-half was especially contentious. And that’s OK, debate is healthy. But it is worth addressing some of the more common complaints and observations here. Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Reddit Email Share The first major criticism was that we need more money in grass roots rugby- why spend millions more on a ‘Mungo’?
New skipper, bolter at 12 and break the bank for one NRL star: Wallabies' RWC 2027 squad wish list
Winning a Rugby World Cup ain’t easy. As recent history has shown us, even getting out of a pool and reaching the business end of the tournament is tough. And the pressure cooker of a home tournament is furnace-like. While we all thoroughly enjoyed England’s demise at their own show back in 2015, as 2027 creeps closer there must be growing concern these Wallabies may share Stuart Lancaster’s England’s fate.
Strategy vs selections: The infuriating disconnect causing the Wallabies' slump
The implosion of the Wallabies on this Spring Tour has everything and nothing to do with depth. Afterall, depth does not exist in a vacuum of selection and tactics, nor does it apply equally across every position. When Joe Schmidt said “We don’t have massive strength in depth yet” it was an obvious attempt to pivot away from responsibility. Just as the week before was when he spoke about ‘fatigue’.
Tons of Money | Stage Whispers
Looking for light, bright, somewhat off-the-wall entertainment, some silliness in the lead-up to the silly season. If you’re in Sydney, The Guild Theatre in Rockdale has just the ticket. The 1922 West End hit Tons of Money, which ran for over 700 performances, kicked off the famous decade-long series of a dozen Aldwych farces. Those farces were played by a cast of outstanding farce actors of the day, around whose specific talents the hit series was written.
Tired doesn't cut it this week, Joe: Schmidt's baffling selections and big No.10 call cruelled the Wallabies
It’s nice to know that I wasn’t alone in thinking World Rugby achieved a crappy trifecta last week. Admittedly, the Wallabies took the ‘hold my beer’ approach and elevated crappy to the next level in a ‘Four Fold Accumulator’ against Italy, but I’ll get to that later. Following the Test in Chicago, despite winning soundly, Scott Robertson sounded disillusioned. He was quoted as saying “a lot of eyes are on us, we need to make sure it’s a spectacle.” Quite.
A crappy trifecta: Borthwick's dossier, Test windows and a farce in Chicago - World Rugby has a massive problem
World Rugby continues to be plagued by an abject failure to deal with problems of its own making. In what should have been a show piece weekend for the international game, we again saw major Test matches overshadowed by double standards, hypocrisy and red cards that defy logic. Steve Borthwick’s ‘40 Ruck Infringements’ dossier presented to the match referee was an extraordinary intervention by an England Head Coach designed to influence a game days before it had even started.
Shifting Gears | Brook LeVan Part 2
On this episode of Shifting gears, host Will Evans continues the conversation with Brook LeVan. Brook explains it is our job, and we can do it, to bring back into balance our houses, our lives, our relationships with everything, and each other. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK.org on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
Will's World: 4G or not 4G? A question for our connected times
© Lee Boswell Photography For a few traumatic hours on a recent Monday evening, pure unadulterated horror visited the Evans household. Tempers were frayed, tensions ran high, longstanding Snapchat streaks were threatened, and our numerous daughters were forced into having actual conversations with each other and their parents. Yes, our 4G service went down.
Will's World: Farming women
© Lee Boswell Photography In the latest episode of “Will is mentally and physically exhausted after an incredibly busy and stressful few months, so he picks up every illness known to man”, I currently have an eye infection. As a result, I’m squinting even more than I do whenever FW sends a photographer to take pictures of me for this column, and one eye is so red, inflamed and gunky that I resemble Quasimodo’s uglier brother.
80+ Email Marketing Angles & Strategies to Boost B2C Engagement
Email marketing remains one of the highest-ROI channels for B2C brands, but many marketers fall into the trap of sending the same promotional emails over and over. While discount-driven campaigns have their place, the most successful brands diversify their email strategy with a rich variety of angles that build relationships, drive engagement, and ultimately increase revenue. As cofounder of FlowCandy, I know this as well as the next marketer: your customers don’t want to be sold to constantly.
Call for Submissions: Best Literary Translations 2027 — Deep Vellum
Call for Submissions: Best Literary Translations 2027 Deep Vellum is accepting nominations for the fourth edition of our celebrated anthology, Best Literary Translations. We are honored to showcase literary translators’ work to make possible literary encounters from around the world for the English-language reader. The Best Literary Translations (BLT) has arisen out of a tangible public demand for inclusive and transparent cultural conversations.
Will's World: Storm's brewing and the steaks are getting higher
© Lee Boswell Photography I read a very unsettling article recently, detailing just how much the price of our weekly groceries has gone up over the past few years. As a family of six, we’re certainly feeling the pinch at the supermarket checkout. Remember before the Brexit referendum when Nigel Farage smirkingly promised voters that food would be cheaper when we left the EU? You can tell when that charlatan is lying – his lips move.
'Will 1000 pizzas be enough?': How the Reds are lighting up Italian rugby - and why other Super sides should copy them
5994 Reads The fact that few people have asked where Louis Werchon and Richie Asiata are is a mystery to me. In the days following the Australia A announcement, it was hard to find reference to either player’s exclusion from the squad. All the more fascinating given they are playing rugby just north of Venice.
Will's World: Promises, paperwork, and a positive TB test
© Lee Boswell Photography I’ve spent a lot of time on my own in a tractor cab lately, and one of the things I’ve been thinking about is balance. I’ve always tried very hard to live a balanced life, and especially since becoming a father all those years ago.
The Ultimate Guide to Customer Journey Mapping
The most successful B2C brands aren’t just selling products—they’re building lasting customer relationships. As customer acquisition costs rise and consumer expectations evolve, B2C leaders face immense pressure to deliver seamless, personalized experiences while managing fragmented data and disconnected marketing tools. Traditional CRMs fail B2C businesses due to B2B bias and siloed, channel-first approaches that can’t meet the pace of consumer demands.
Shifting Gears | Shayla Paradeis
In this Living World Story, Shayla Paradeis sings to awaken her soul. Listen to Shifting Gears on KDNK.org on the first Monday of each month at 4pm.
World Rugby's dinosaurs and old-school arrogance are failing us, and Private Equity will rip the game apart
World Rugby has for too long been dominated by dinosaurs and old school arrogance. Its lack of accountability has left it vulnerable not just to passing criticism but to an attack by Private Equity. Whether that attack is concerted or merely a probing foray, as well as the question of how much cash is behind it, may well decide the future of Rugby.
Were the Wallabies robbed again? Clearly, and this is what World Rugby must do to fix regular ref failures
World Rugby, we have a big problem. Why is it that just about every Test match this Southern Hemisphere winter has been marred by high controversy? Officiating in International Rugby is going backwards and World Rugby appears totally lost and bereft of ideas. Given very recent history, there was absolutely nothing clever at all about the officiating appointments for the first Bledisloe either.
Will's World: Past pasty experience comes back to haunt me
Someone mentioned Cornish pasties in a conversation recently, and I was instantly transported back to a particularly distressing incident in the middle of an extremely busy Euston Station. You may think it odd that a person could be traumatised by a pasty – or any other baked good, for that matter – but if you’re a regular reader of this column you’ll have realised that embarrassing mishaps do seem to follow me around.
Springboks have been caught napping - and their absence from Super Rugby looks like a key reason
Following the Ellis Park Miracle, I suggested the Springboks looked off the pace. That they may be suffering from having zero presence in Super Rugby. Many readers were eager to get behind such an argument but questioned what evidence beyond Australia’s victory in Johannesburg supported it. Was it just wishful thinking? Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Reddit Email Share On the face of it, the performance by South Africa at Eden Park did nothing to dispel the idea.
Will's World: How to succeed at the gentle art of pottering
A lazy stereotype goes that being a middle-aged man is all ear hair, haemorrhoids and grumbling about young people. While admittedly that is somewhat true, there are a few things about being part of this demographic that are more positive, and the number one of these, in my humble opinion, is the unbridled joy of pottering about. See also: ‘Driest’, ‘earliest’, ‘worst’ – mixed harvest across country Do you potter?
Will's World: In defence of Joe Stanley – and farm childhoods - Farmers Weekly
© Lee Boswell Photography You know that feeling when you see something happen, and immediately wince in sympathy? Someone banging their shin hard on a trailer hitch, perhaps. A harassed-looking parent dealing with a toddler throwing an almighty tantrum in a busy supermarket. A driver backing their new BMW into a concrete bollard (OK, I admit to mixed feelings on that one).
Wallabies expose a chink in the armour of ageing Bokke, weakened by their absence from Super Rugby
The Wallabies were the toast of rugby last weekend. And rightly so. They exposed the Springboks badly in the fortress of Ellis Park. There is nothing sweeter than seeing a South African rugby supporter eat humble pie, except perhaps beating the English at Twickenham. The Wallabies have achieved both in the last 12 months. A win at Eden Park, for the Wallabies (not the Boks) would be the ‘triple crown’. Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Reddit Email Share But I digress.
Pinch yourself, it wasn't a dream: Wallabies' comeback win was the craziest thing since Covid
It was 22-0 after as many minutes. To the Springboks. At Ellis Park. At altitude. The Wallabies rocked up at a ground they hadn’t won at since 1963, looking for all the world like the side that had played the Lions not in Sydney but in Brisbane. Were they hungover, jet lagged, just not up for it? I almost went to bed. Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Reddit Email Share Then they scored 33 unanswered points. Leading 33-22 after 66 minutes.
'Gutsy, gritty and damn near glorious': The Wallabies' watershed moment that proves the end game is winnable
Even without controversy, sport can be cruel. The defining moment of the Lions series for me was not on the field or in the TMO Box. It was Harry Wilson’s post-match interview following the stunning 2nd Test. “Yeah, it hurts. I’m so proud of this team. Written off, we came out here, put our bodies on the line. The game was there to the very end and to lose like that, it hurts.” Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Reddit Email Share These were not platitudes, there was nothing rehearsed about what he said.
Shifting Gears | Arvol Looking Horse
In this Living World conversation we revisit a conversation with Arvol Looking Horse from 2008. He cautions - if you get caught up in this fast world you lose your spirit - remember, Mother Earth is a source of life not a resource.
Will's World: Royal Welsh betrays how quickly the years turn
“I think we should split up”, said the present Mrs Evans assertively. I’d always worried it would happen one day, but I hadn’t expected it to come in quite such a public location: a particularly busy aisle at the Royal Welsh Show, sandwiched as we were between a craft tent and a stand flogging overpriced country clothing.
World Rugby response treats fans like fools - transparency is needed to help us understand the mess we're watching
4276 Reads Has a relentless, almost cult-like pursuit of player safety in the context of a contact sport compromised rugby? Not just for Aussies, not just for Brits, but for everyone from Dublin to Durban to Dunedin. The game was simpler to watch, simpler to play and undoubtedly simpler to referee 20 years ago. Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Reddit Email Share Watch all nine historic matches of the British & Irish Lions Tour live & on demand on Stan Sport.
Will's World: High hopes for harvest and hot lunches
We broke a harvest record yesterday. Not for yield, unfortunately – though early indications are that it’s going to be pretty decent this year – but for start date. We got into our winter barley on 8 July, smashing our previous record, set in 2006, by a whole day. Say what you like about this prolonged period of dry weather, and our grass is certainly in need of some rain, but at least you can get things done.
Will's World: 10 delicious confessions of a Groundswell goer
The present Mrs Evans and I have just spent two days at Groundswell. It’s my favourite farming event, by some distance, and it’ll take me some time to properly process everything I learned and experienced there. But here are my immediate thoughts, hastily gathered between the rush of jobs I’ve been catching up with back on the farm. See also: How Cornish mixed farm gains from regen stacking I have no idea what to wear there.
Shifting Gears | Deanna Jenne
On this month's episode of Shifting Gears, Will continues his conversations with Deanna Jenne’. She explains we are all intrinsically connected – when one person comes into the circle and begins to live from a place of centeredness and the heart – those qualities radiate out in spirals of exchange and affect all of those around.
Will's World: The soundtrack of my farming childhood
Make hay while the sun shines, they say. And for the past few weeks, on and off, I’ve been doing just that. What marvellous weather we’ve had for it; I hope everyone’s filled their barns with the lovely, sweet-smelling stuff. Is there a more evocative aroma in farming than freshly made hay? Sitting in my air-conditioned cab as I comfortably baled away while listening to Test Match Special, my mind began to drift back to this time in years long gone.
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