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On Remembrance Day, Ian Bell (fresh from a CBC appearance On The Coast ) joins Dave to read from Grandpa Mark s diaries written in the trenches in WW1 as a young Canadian. They reflect on the costs and motivations of war, importance friendship and ethereal experience of going over the top as well as discourse on the importance of personal documentation to pass forward to generations. Sit awhile for Vimy Ridge Diaries on Remembrance Day Postcard # 61 Featuring: Geoff Berner Excerpts from Maginot Line Recorded live at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC, Feb. 28, 2009 Various artists (including piper Dave Ahl) Recorded live at UBC Remembrance Day Ceremony, Nov. 11, 2009 Ian Bell reading from Grandpa Mark s diaries William Markle Pecover – Memory of Vimy Ridge William Markle Pecover – On Being Bombed in Britain Photo via CDN Veterans Affairs asks How Will you Remember? Download Canadian historical war time photo and video packs, organized by theme and era, then remix and share via social networks. More Remembrance Day White Poppies for Remembrance podcast series John Cairney reads Robert Burns on Remembrance Day podcast Remembrance Day Events in Vancouver plus Canadian Campaigns Remembrance Day posts on Ephemeral Feasthouse Ian Bell on CBC s On The Coast [note: Real Audio files] Wednesday November 11 To commemorate Remembrance Day a Vancouver man has posted excerpts from his great-grandfather s wartime journals on to his blog. Ian Bell told Stephen why it s important to him to remember. Listen to the interview. (runs 7:04) 50 years ago the Vietnam war began. When the war ended many Americans moved to BC. Woody Carmack was one of them and he attempted to help ex-soldiers deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and other problems. Listen to the interview. (runs 8:53) More Postcards Subscribe to PfGB Feed Subscribe in PfGB in iTunes Dave Olson’s Library at Uncleweed.net Twitter: @uncleweed Podcast Gear I use Koss Sterophones, M-Audio MicroTrack II, M-Audio Solo audio interface , Griffin iMic and Sony Microphone – in case you were wondering.

Visiting again with friend Kevin, Uncle Weed discusses the negative impact salmon fish farms impart on the local aquaculture. Specifically, Atlantic salmon living in pens attract hazardous sea lice, are unable to spawn, are fed with small fish imported from South America, and are dyed to appear more attractive in the supermarket. Further the politically controversial fish farms add little benefit to the local economy. Downcast podload: Salmon Swimming Free Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 7/9 16:00 Participate Your input on this topic is invited – particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc. Music Theme: Bex – Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Segue: Wm. Lenker – excerpts from Heaven Holds a Place Interludes: Grateful Dead Throwing Stones Insert: Bob and Doug McKenzie (recorded from CBC TV) thanks to @JMV Background This is Part 7 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices. Subscribe Grab the Choogle On RSS feed or subscribe Choogle On via iTunes – Choogle On by Email Gear I use Koss Sterophones, M-Audio MicroTrack II, M-Audio Solo audio interface , Griffin iMic and Sony Microphone – in case you were wondering. Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos S REALLY GOING ON? First Nations Environmental Network Escaping farmed salmon pose risks David Suzuki Foundation Endangered Salmon- Sea Lice is a Problem Clayoquot Wilderness resort Farmed Salmon Facts and Footnotes Friends of Clayoqout Sound Fish Farming The Five Fundamental Flaws of Sea Cage Fish Farming The sea cage farming of carnivorous finfish such as salmon, tuna, cod and sablefish is fundamentally flawed in five ways: the wastes produced by farming the fish that escape the diseases and parasites that occur in farms the chemicals used to treat diseased fish the problems of stock depletion and contamination of feed. Join/Contribute FOCS Tagged: audio, beverages, blockade, cannabis, clearcuts, documentary, ecology, environment, fish farming, fish farms, fishfarming, forestry, norway, podcast, rainforest dispatch series, rainforests, rants, salmon, sea lice, sound-seeing, spiels, tofino, ucluelet, uncleweed, UNESCO, weed

Montage of snippets and grooving tunes for aural funtimes ergo: KDon reporting on Longboard hockey, Fr. Unabonger hi-jacking at Mind Camp, cut thumbs from bong building, Gord Downie s Canadian Geese, neon lights, Charles Lloyd Choogle On (remix d) #81 (.mp3, 13:36) Subscribe Grab the Choogle On RSS feed or subscribe Choogle On via iTunes – Choogle On by Email Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Literature podcast – Feed – iTunes – Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed – Travelin’ man vidcast – Show – Feed – iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse – Miscellanea & spiels – Blog – Feed – Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time – Indie rock + political unditry – Blog – Feed – iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed and/or @choogleon Gear I use Koss Sterophones, M-Audio MicroTrack II, M-Audio Solo audio interface , Griffin iMic and Sony Microphone – in case you were wondering. Tagged: gord downie, longboarding, remix, renegade, skateboarding

At the headquarters of Friends of Clayoqout Sound advocacy organization, Uncle Weed talks with Kevin Bruce, a concerned citizen newly arrived in Tofino to work as the office coordinator for the FOCS. With the sound of passing cars and buses, they discuss the economics of logging, stumpage fees, value of wilderness, conundrums of interconnectedness and property lines, the memorandum of understanding, logging on First Nations land and ways to help attain the Friends goal of ending all old-growth clearcuts on public lands. Downcast podload: Friends of the Sound Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 6/9 26:24 Participate Your input on this topic is invited – particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc. Music Theme: Bex – Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker – excerpts from Heaven Holds a Place Interludes: D.O.A. Only Thing Green One Love Background This is Part 6 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices. Subscribe via RSS feed – iTunes – Email More Clayoquot Reading via Amazon Friends of Clayoqout Sound Box 489, 331 Neill St, Tofino BC V0R 2Z0 Tel 250-725-4218, Fax 250-725-2527 Email info (at) focs (dot) ca Join/Contribute FOCS Maps Interactive Map: Logging Map of Intact Clayoquot Valleys Vancouver Island Old Growth 1860 Vancouver Island Old Growth 2004 Historical Notes from FOCS 1992 Blockade at Clayoquot Arm Bridge of Kennedy Lake, 65 arrested, protesting MacMillan Bloedel s logging at edge of intact Clayoquot River valley. 1993 International campaign takes off with ad in New York Times and FOCS trip to Europe. FOCS and allied environment groups call for boycott of MacMillan Bloedel and other companies. Largest peaceful civil disobedience in Canadian history is sparked by BC government s decision to log 74% of Clayoquot Sound s ancient forest. FOCS opens Peace Camp at Black Hole . Daily blockades and arrests begin at Kennedy River Bridge. 856 arrested and 12,000 participate during Clayoquot Summer 93 . 1996 FOCS and Greenpeace takeover of Rankin Cove logging camp leads to First Nations-brokered truce between MacMillan Bloedel and environmentalists. Negotiations begin regarding protecting large intact (pristine) valleys in Clayoquot Sound from logging. 1997 FOCS begins a fish farm campaign aimed at reforming open net-cage salmon aquaculture in Clayoquot Sound and BC. 1999 FOCS helps to negotiate Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between 4 environment groups and Iisaak Forest Resources, the First Nations/MacMillan Bloedel joint venture logging company that replaced MacBlo. MOU commits Iisaak to protecting large pristine areas in its portion of Clayoquot Sound, while enviro groups agree to help market Iisaak s wood. FOCS does not sign MOU in order to maintain its independent watchdog position. Scientific Panel Biosphere Reserve Clayoquot Green Economic Opportunities Project Vol 1 (1.3 MB PDF) Clayoquot Green Economic Opportunities Project Vol 2 (3.7 MB PDF) About Clayoquot Sound from FOCS What Is Clayoquot Sound? Clayoquot Sound is a magnificent, biologically rich, mostly wilderness area on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It encompasses 350,000 hectares of land and ocean. A view of Clayoquot Sound Photo by Diego A. Garcia The land portion of Clayoquot Sound is 265,000 hectares (2,650 square kilometers or 1,000 square miles), comprising about 8% of Vancouver Island. It is covered with ancient temperate rainforest, a globally rare forest type. The remaining 85,000 hectares of Clayoquot Sound consist of ocean narrow inlets of the Pacific Ocean, into which empty rivers and lakes. Clayoquot Sound occupies a straight-line distance along the coast of 90 kilometers, between Barkley and Nootka Sounds. It reaches a maximum of 35 kilometres inland, up to the crest of snow-capped mountains. These mountains are part of the central spine of Vancouver Island and form the headwaters of the rivers that drain Clayoquot Sound. The Sound portion of the region s name indicates an indented section of coastline, with numerous inlets and islands. Clayoquot pronounced Klak-wot comes from Tla-o-qui-aht, the name of one of the First Nations tribes who live here. There are 5 communities in Clayoquot Sound: the town of Tofino and 4 First Nations reserves inhabited by Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations tribes. The total population of these 5 communities is about 3,000 (in 2005). Two well-known parks lie in Clayoquot Sound: the Long Beach Unit of Pacific Rim National Park, and the southern portion of Strathcona Provincial Park. These and other parks protect one-third of Clayoquot s land area and less than one-quarter of its productive ancient forest. Industrial activities such as logging and fish farming have occurred and continue to occur across the landscape and ocean waters of Clayoquot Sound, but most of the Sound is still wilderness intact forest and wild ocean. The spectacular scenery attracts about one million tourists to Clayoquot each year. Clayoquot Sound—A Summer of Protest by Luke Moore Reading the injunction at Clayoquot Sound protest. Photo: Luke Moore. Over the past summer, the Kennedy River Bridge entrance to logging operations on Clayoquot Sound became the site of one of the largest civil disobedience campaigns in Canadian history. The protest followed the B.C. government s decision on April 13 to allow MacMillan Bloedel to proceed with a harvesting plan that will see the eventual cutting of another 51 percent of the area s old-growth forest. The B.C. government, perhaps coincidentally, is the largest single shareholder in MacBlo. Twenty-three percent of the forest has already been harvested. Although industry refers to logging as general integrated management, and there is a lot of rhetoric about improved forestry practices, large scale forest management remains environmentally unsound. If there is any improvement, it is that the future clearcuts will be smaller. Since the government decision, a brand-new 125 hectare clearcut graces the side of a mountain visible from the Kennedy River Bridge. The forest around Clayoquot Sound is one of the largest remaining stands of old-growth forest in North America. This is an irreplaceable cradle of rainforest biodiversity, and it can only be saved if the government will reverse its decision. Peace camp established To press for that reversal, a peace camp was set up by the Friends of Clayoquot Sound (FOCS), a Tofino-based environmental group which has fought for the protection of the forests for fourteen years. The camp served as a base for protesters, who blockaded the Kennedy River Bridge until the camp was closed down Oct. 4. More Clayoquot Sound—A Summer of Protest Blockades and Civil Disobedience (1993 – 1995), Whole Systems Engagement by Ann Svendsen 93 The Struggle for Clayoquot Sound from August 1993 on WIkicommons Blocking the Logging Road15.jpg Plenary meeting in the Peace Camp. Each night, all plans and conflicts were discussed in an effective consensus-seeking process. One of the main issues on the agenda always was who was going to be arrested the next day. By Aldo de Moor The arrested taken to the police station by school bus. By Aldo de Moor The entrance to the Peace Camp , base of the protesters. By Aldo de Moor University of Victoria s A Political Space Clayoquot Project The New York Times ad which sparked the protest gathered at Univ. of Victoria Clayoquot Project Tagged: audio, beverages, blockade, cannabis, clearcuts, documentary, ecology, environment, forestry, podcast, rainforest dispatch series, rainforests, rants, sound-seeing, spiels, tofino, ucluelet, uncleweed, UNESCO, weed

After a few days of frustration and confusion, Uncle Weed sits down on the trail and digs into a variety of essays from Beloved of the Sky by Gary Snyder, Howie Wolk, and Michael Frome plus riffs on painter Emily Carr, love/hate with the commercialized Wild Pacific trail, shore pines, lighthouses, volcanic outcroppings, leaning trees, branches covered in lichen, and sub-division developments. Topics include the US Forest Service s traditional commitment to conservation and subsequent effects of policy after cozying up to industry, a plea for less waste and sustainable forestry, public expectations and costs of lost wilderness, and ponderings about whether recreation and wildlife matter. Downcast podload: Conservation and Clearcuts Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 5/9 25:24 Reading Beloved of the Sky Essays and Photographs on Clearcutting Edited by John Ellison, Broken Moon Press * Howie Wolk The Great Myth of Clearcut Forestry * Michael Frome Losing Balance: Just how Multiple is Our Multiple Use? * Gary Snyder Ancient Forests of the Far West Purchase Beloved of the Sky via Amazon Participate Your input on this topic is invited particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc. Music Theme: Bex Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker excerpts from Heaven Holds a Place Interlude: William Elliott Whitmore Lifetime Underground Background This is Part 5 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices. Subscribe via RSS feed iTunes Email More Rainforest Dispatches series Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 Gary Snyder on Amazon (beer money) Subscribe Grab the Choogle On RSS feed or subscribe Choogle On via iTunes Choogle On by Email Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach Literature podcast Feed iTunes Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed Travelin’ man vidcast Show Feed iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse – Miscellanea Blog Feed Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time Indie rock + political unditry Blog Feed iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed and/or @choogleon Gear I use Koss Sterophones, M-Audio MicroTrack II, M-Audio Solo audio interface , Griffin iMic and Sony Microphone – in case you were wondering. Tagged: audio, beverages, blockade, cannabis, clearcuts, documentary, ecology, environment, forestry, podcast, rainforest dispatch series, rainforests, rants, sound-seeing, spiels, tofino, ucluelet, uncleweed, UNESCO, weed

After recalling beach camp-outs, rainy days and salmon feasts, Uncle Weed finds out commercial water usage is banned in Tofino and closing down for the tourist operations for the busy weekend ~ thusly he sets out on the trail from Half Moon Bay to Wickaninnish Bay to discover what s up. Includes riffs and spiels about local geography, traveler accommodations like zimmers, campgrounds, resorts, park concessionaires, permits, beach access, war memorial plaques, low impact tourism, priorities, RVs, parking tickets, municipal investment, float planes, coffee shops, boat docks and surf breaks, roaming bears, and shipwrecks in Florencia Bay. Downcast podload: Tofino Dries up Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 3/9 19:44 17:27 Your input on this topic is invited particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc. Music Theme: Bex Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker excerpts from Heaven Holds a Place Interlude: William Elliott Whitmore Let the Rain Come in This is Part 3 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed Subscribe: via RSS feed iTunes Email More Rainforest Dispatches series Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 Subscribe Grab the Choogle On RSS feed or subscribe Choogle On via iTunes Choogle On by Email Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach Literature podcast Feed iTunes Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed Travelin’ man vidcast Show Feed iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse – Miscellanea Blog Feed Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time Indie rock + political unditry Blog Feed iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed and/or @choogleon Gear I use Koss stereophones, MAudio Microtrack recorder & Solo interface and Sony mic – just saying. Tagged: audio, beverages, blockade, cannabis, clearcuts, documentary, ecology, environment, forestry, podcast, rainforest dispatch series, rainforests, rants, sound-seeing, spiels, tofino, ucluelet, uncleweed, UNESCO, weed

While watching fishing boats ply the inlet, Uncle Weed checks in from Ucluelet to describe the cultural and municipal differences between neighboring villages of Tofino and Ucluelet after a thwarted drive towards Kennedy Lake bridge the scene of the blockades and examines Ucluelet s ballyhooed reaction to Tofino s shortage through the eyes of locals at the hardware store. With Tofino out of water, the news media have arrived and the tourists are kicked out, so from Whiskey Dock, UW riffs about RV rentals, housing developments, mountains ringed with roads and clearcuts, park fees, logging trucks warnings, jurisdictional confusion about UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and park concessionaires, plus a tip on a head shop in town. Downcast podload: Spieling from Whiskey Dock Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 4/9 19:28 Your input on this topic is invited particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc. Music Theme: Bex Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker excerpts from Heaven Holds a Place Interlude: William Elliott Whitmore Mutiny (on this ship) This is Part 4 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed Subscribe: via RSS feed iTunes Email More Rainforest Dispatches series Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 Subscribe Grab the Choogle On RSS feed or subscribe Choogle On via iTunes Choogle On by Email Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach Literature podcast Feed iTunes Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed Travelin’ man vidcast Show Feed iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse – Miscellanea Blog Feed Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time Indie rock + political unditry Blog Feed iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed and/or @choogleon Gear I use Koss stereophones, MAudio Microtrack recorder & Solo interface and Sony mic – just saying. Tagged: audio, beverages, blockade, cannabis, clearcuts, documentary, ecology, environment, forestry, podcast, rainforest dispatch series, rainforests, rants, sound-seeing, spiels, tofino, ucluelet, uncleweed, UNESCO, weed

Out on a trail, Uncle Weed shares a few lessons learned bearing witness to the blockade lines including thoughts about non-violence and pacifism, importance of respecting others, and the common desire for trees which the ecologists and workers unwittingly share. Plus discourse on ways to replace economic gains from industrial logging with value-added finished products and alternative sources of pulp and fiber including hemp. Downcast podload: Meditations from the Blockades Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 2/9 17:27 Your input on this topic is invited particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc. Music Theme: Bex Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker Heaven Holds a Place Interlude: Geoff Berner Light Enough to Travel This is Part 2 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed Subscribe: via RSS feed iTunes Email More Rainforest Dispatches series Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 Subscribe Grab the Choogle On RSS feed or subscribe Choogle On via iTunes Choogle On by Email Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach Literature podcast Feed iTunes Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed Travelin’ man vidcast Show Feed iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse – Miscellanea Blog Feed Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time Indie rock + political unditry Blog Feed iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed and/or @choogleon Gear I use Koss stereophones, MAudio Microtrack recorder & Solo interface and Sony mic – just saying. Tagged: audio, beverages, blockade, cannabis, clearcuts, documentary, ecology, environment, forestry, podcast, rainforest dispatch series, rainforests, rants, sound-seeing, spiels, tofino, ucluelet, uncleweed, UNESCO, weed

Introducing a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices. Throughout this 9 part series, he wanders the region and examines the tension between fishing, logging and tourism industries then adds ideas on promoting the economy while protecting the environment along with spiels on clearcuts, salmon, camping espresso, user fees and flak jackets. Downcast podload: Observations and Soliloquies about Ecology and Economy Rainforest Dispatches, an introduction 6:55 Your input on this topic is invited particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc. Music Theme: Bex Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker Heaven Holds a Place Interlude: Geoff Berner Light Enough to Travel This is Part 0 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed Subscribe: via RSS feed - iTunes - Email More Rainforest Dispatches series Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 Subscribe Grab the Choogle On RSS feed or subscribe Choogle On via iTunes Choogle On by Email Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach Literature podcast Feed iTunes Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed Travelin’ man vidcast Show Feed iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse – Miscellanea Blog Feed Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time Indie rock + political unditry Blog Feed iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed and/or @choogleon Gear I use Koss stereophones, MAudio Microtrack recorder & Solo interface and Sony mic – just saying. Tagged: art, beverages, blockade, cannabis, Clayoquot Flashback, clearcuts, documentary, ecology, environment, forestry, podcast, rainforest dispatch series, Rainforest Dispatches, rainforests, rants, sound-seeing, spiels, tofino, ucluelet, uncleweed, UNESCO, weed

Arriving at a campground between the towns of Tofino and Ucluelet, Uncle Weed sets out to explore the west coast s unique environment and offer discourse on natural resource-based and tourism-based economies starting with recollections from the noted logging protests in the early 1990s with comments about blockade logistics from early morning pick-up trucks rides to posting bail to jangling guitars. Downcast podload: Musings from Clayoquot Sound Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 1/9 25:16 Music Theme: Bex Lonesome Traveler Interlude: William Whitmore Elliott Sometimes our dreams float like anchors Seque: Wm. Lenker Guitar ramble Subscribe Via RSS feed - iTunes - Email Participate Your input on this topic is invited particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc. Background This is Part 1 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices. More Rainforest Dispatches series Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 Subscribe Grab the Choogle On RSS feed or subscribe Choogle On via iTunes Choogle On by Email Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach Literature podcast Feed iTunes Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed Travelin’ man vidcast Show Feed iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse – Miscellanea Blog Feed Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time Indie rock + political unditry Blog Feed iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed and/or @choogleon Gear I use Koss stereophones, MAudio Microtrack recorder & Solo interface and Sony mic – just saying. Tagged: audio, beverages, blockade, cannabis, clearcuts, documentary, ecology, environment, forestry, podcast, rainforest dispatch series, rainforests, rants, sound-seeing, spiels, tofino, ucluelet, uncleweed, UNESCO, weed

"With Glowing Hearts" is a documentary about a revolution, one of social change and a paradigm shift in media representation focused around Vancouver, BC and the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics. Director: Andrew Lavigne Distributed by Tubemogul.

While on a mountain ramble, Uncle Weed recounts the HempenRoad film project, a mixed media travel documentary about the commercial industrial hemp industry in Cascadia in 1996. He spiels on the origins, motivations and characters met along the way including Japanese filmmaker Eiji M and philanthro-activist Robert Lunday (RIP). Along with tales of the NorthWest tour, he reads from the Victoria segment of the production journal and the intro of the narration text beginning with Hemp is a Plant and finally discusses re-digitification of the film to share with new audiences. Load up the camera for Tales from The HempenRoad Choogle on #80 (.mp3, 29:00, 27MB) Music Chris Jacobsen Unnamed acoustic from Houseboat Chris Sullivan Desert in my Toenails from La La Land Bread Mountain Natural Fibre John Prine, Illegal Smile More Hempenroad HempenRoad Film project website Production travel Journals * Vancouver, BC * Trade Show, 1997 CIHS * Victoria, BC * Seattle, Wa * Portland, Or * Eugene, Or Reviews, Press, pictures, posters Thanks To Capn Pat + Taylor and Tylor Subscribe Grab the Choogle on feed or subscribe Choogle on via iTunes More Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach Literature podcast Feed iTunes Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed- Travelin’ man vidcast Show Feed iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse Miscellanea Blog Feed Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time OlyWa Rock and Punditry Blog Feed iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed Tagged: documentary, film, filmmaking, hempenroad, travel

From a forested pathway along the open Pacific between Tofino and Ucluelet, DaveO reads poetry from Gary Snyder s Myths + Texts and Rip Rap plus essays about Wobblies, timber-jacks, logging camp culture, and giant trees from Beloved of the Sky then the words Siddhartha the Buddha spoke upon achieving enlightenment. Strap on your boots for Forests and Oceans Without End Postcard # 60 (.mp3, 15:07, 14MB) Music William Elliott Whitmore Gravel Road (William Elliott Whitmore Wikipedia William Elliott Whitmore on MySpace) Clayoquot Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback – Choogle on #44 Clayoquot Snapshots – a set on Flickr Gary Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 Gary Snyder at Modern American Poetry (U. of Illinois) Inventory of the Gary Snyder Papers (U.C. Davis) Gear I use Koss stereophones, MAudio Microtrack recorder & Solo interface and Sony mic – just saying. More Subscribe to PfGB Feed Subscribe in PfGB in iTunes Dave Olson’s Library at Uncleweed.net Twitter: @uncleweed

Both a preview and recap of SXSW 2009 as Uncle Weed and the Quebecois Correspondent discuss the noted media conference and extravaganza featuring UW s spiel F@ck  Stats, Make Art a soliloquy for quality and integrity in creation. Along with live recordings of Geoff Berner, and The Black Angels comes a recounting a perfect day of upgrading heroes, tasty food, and Austin Psychedelic Music Fest plus more highlights including: RiP Remix Manifesto film, micro-brews at Gingerman, Bruce Sterling, and hugs with new friends. Head out to Austin, Texas for SXSW Stories from Middle Earth Choogle On #79 (.mp3, 30;14, 28MB) Musically Noted Geoff Berner, renegade accordionist- No Tobacco recorded at The Biltmore in Vancouver, BC on Feb. 28, 2009 Bev Davies Vancouver Rock Photographer The Black Angels Better off Alone recorded at SXSW 2008 Austin Psychedelic Music Fest – March 13 ~ 15 The Golden Dawn The Golden Dawn started out in the murky time and space of Austin, Texas in late 1966, along with many other wild groups now holding legendary status, but most notably with the kings of the Texas Psychedelic scene, the 13th Floor Elevators. George Kinney and Roky Erickson of the Elevators grew up together and played in high school bands with each other, and by the time of the Great Mind Expansion, the Elevators and the Dawn were in close contact. More SXSW Pitches for SXSW 2010 Hitchhiking to the Boardroom 6 tasty episodes! More Podcast Goodness Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Literature podcast – Feed – iTunes – Blog Out n’ About with Uncle Weed- Travelin’ man vidcast – Show – Feed – iTunes Ephemeral Feasthouse – Miscellanea & notes – Blog – Feed – Podcast Clubside Breakfast Time – OlyWa Rock and Punditry – Blog – Feed – iTunes Visit Uncleweed.net for more writings, podcasts, paintings and photos Follow along via Twitter @uncleweed Tagged: austin, bev davies, f@ck stats make art, fsma, geoff berner, gingerman, Psychedelic, remix, RIP, sxsw, sxsw music, sxsw08, sxsw09, sxswi, texas, the black angels

Canucks Outsider s Alive for the Playoffs video cast for Round 2 Saturday, May 2nd vs. the Chicago Black Hawks. Tune in at Hockeynw.com after 5:00PM PST for renegade punditry, trivia, interviews, and beer. Bob + Doug McKenize and Aeschylus give the announcement. Tune in Saturday after 5:00PM PST at the Canucks Outsider Live 2009 Channel Just the Prelude! - Alive for the Playoffs Round 2 announcement (audio, .mp3, 3:18, 3.3MB)

From Studio SX in Austin TX for SXSW Interactive, host Dave O laughs along with fellow festival newbs - mobile technologist Roland Tanglao, Nick Cook from NYC via Japan, and Jordan Behan of Strutta.com about panels, presentations, free beer, parties, booths, Facebook gossiping, video competition, mobile technology, grassroots revolutions, execssive Twittering, copyright conundrums, and Canadian rockers Loverboy.

A brief montage of scenes of the 1997 documentary The HempenRoad. This 83 minute multimedia production chronicles commercial hemp pioneers around the Pacific coast and explores the conumdrums and uses and industrial hemp. Produced, narrated and written by Dave Olson - see Uncleweed.net and/or Hempenroad.com.

Scenes of life at the 2002 Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam plus trips to Deventer, Madurodam, Haarlem and just strolling the streets en route to coffeeshops. Featuring Uncle Weed, Cosmo G. Spacely and Gazoo.