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Lennox Point is one of the most infamous places in the world to get out and off the rocks for a surf... Here's a step by step guide of how to (not) do it. Plus the "Walkabout Man", Benjamin Safari keeps on walking and walking and walking to Perth. www.vivecoolcity.com

The "Walkabout Man", Benjamin Safari is currently walking his way across the nation from Sydney to Perth. Vive Cool City get all the insights from this man of constant solitude. The people have have spoken... Congratulations to snowboarder Robbie Walker and skier Bine Zalohar who took out the publicly voted One Hit Wonder Downunder at Thredbo. www.vivecoolcity.com www.onehitwonderevent.com

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

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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

Alex and Jim talk about Foreign Languages. Alex (from Germany) and Jim (from the USA)talk about cultural differences and similarities between Germany and the USA. German vs USA is available on: YouTube Twitter http://twitter.com/GermanyvsUSA Flickr Facebook StudiVZ Produced by: http://www.walkaboutlanguages.com

Alex and Jim talk about the differences at Christmas in Germany and the USA. Alex (from Germany) and Jim (from the USA) talk about cultural differences and similarities between Germany and the USA.

Alex and Jim try different types of drinks that are common for Germany and the USA, respectively. Alex (from Germany) and Jim (from the USA) are talking about cultural differences and similarities between Germany and the USA. Subscribe now to our Podcast on iTunes!

I'm almost embarassed to admit it, but I'm getting pretty addicted to using screencasting software to create videos. Something about directing the audience through the web with the cursor can be a pretty powerful genre of.. of whatever you call these things. Screencasts are rarely trying to be anything more than just instructional. I think it has its place with the Squares, but its become my favorite tool for recontextualization. A place to redirect the eye to what I see on the web, in this case a trip through Evilvlog which lands me at a video here. There was a NetSquared meeting at my house the other night. Enric was there and said he only watchs vlogs on his ipod. I can't imagine doing that myself, but its nice to create content that can travel. Kairsten can watch my videos on her phone. Odd and creepy and wonderful at the same time. Anyway, CLIK for Quicktime Video