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1 Mile from West Park Entrance. Open floor concept living at its best!
Welcome to 'Our Climbers Cabin'!
Come in and open the 8' barn doors, grab a seat, relax and watch the sunset!
The cabin was built on 2.5 acres, approx 1 mile from the Western Gate to Joshua Tree National Park. It was built with a ton of good vibes and help from friends. It's a simple place, open concept with a large kitchen dinning area, a large bathroom and huge loft sleeping room. The kitchen offers a double sink, tons of counter space, hot pad, bar area, small refrigerator and picnic table for wonderful group meals (feel free to move it outside as well). There is Internet and Wifi as well as cell service at the property.
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About Shawn Sampson
10 friends and climbing buddies tired of sleeping on the ground or in our cars for weeks on end decided to pool every penny we had back then and buy this property. That was over 18 years ago and we all still love our little slice of heaven. Now our families get to enjoy it as well. You will enjoy the vibe the minute you walk in!
Cheers, The Partners
Shawn Sampson purchased this cabin in 1997
Why Shawn Sampson chose Joshua Tree
Even back then, the Park was getting harder and harder to get a camping spot in, so we decided to build our own. Best part back then and still today, is a hot shower at the end of the day playing in the park!
What makes this cabin unique
On any given day there is something to do and see just out the door. Great hikes around the local mountains, a walk down the road checking out local artists or just hanging out watching the day go by. It really is that easy to relax... must be the water (which by the way is great right out of the tap!)


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UFO sightings are not unusual. We will be submitting full and highly classified analysis of the video below when the intelligence agency we are working with releases it to us as promised.
It is at their request we are doing this story. First, view the video:
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In a discussion only moments ago with Ricardo Baretzky, an operational director of an intelligence agency's Asian desk tasked with coordinating multinational counter-terrorism, I received confirmation of the authenticity of this video. Baretzky made the following remarks:
We had spotted a large UFO craft in the same region some weeks ago. It was sighted 20 minutes after the uniquely unsuccessful test of a North Korean missile.
It passed analysis but was of probable terrestrial origin, 1 kilometer in circumference and, by our estimations a reconnaissance craft with a 5 man crew, capable of speeds inside the atmosphere of 16,000 mph. Outside the atmosphere? We can only guess but endlessly more advanced than rocketry.
This is a different animal entirely. The old records show it to be a horseshoe shaped reconnaissance craft of possible extraterrestrial origin. This craft could pose a real global security threat should initial analysis be confirmed.
Early records indicate that a similar craft "horseshoe" shaped UFO had been sighted during the 1950s by American military interceptor craft.
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These are among the first verified extraterrestrial craft capable of being submitted to the most advanced and classified analysis techniques. Other controversial and even iconic images, we are told, have totally failed analysis, and, in doing so, have become highly classified.
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- rworange Jan 15, 2007 04:03 AM
I tried out a local Cameroon restaurant. The owner is from Limbe, Cameroon.
The restaurant says that it has West African Cuisine. I'm not sure really what is specific to Cameroon. So, I'm going to just list the dishes and ask for feedback about what is just African in general and what is specific to that country.
One website said Portuguese explorers called the area 'Rio dos Cameroes' (River of Prawns), so I'm guessing dishes with prawns are specific to Cameroon.
Also would appreciate knowing what dishes the restaurant might be missing. It has a lot of dishes that repetively use onions, garlic tomato and African spices. The most interesting seems to be the koki, an African tamale.
They also had a hot sauce made with habeneros, garlic & ginger. Is that common?
Acara – black-eyed peas with onions, basil & African spices
Bean pie for dessert
Egusi pudding – pumpkin & onions
Egusi Soup – made with pumpkin seeds, onions, garlic, tomatoes, palm nut oil & African spices
Ewole – fresh greens sautéed with onions, garlic, tomatoes & ginger
Fufu – pounded yams ... just a general African dish, correct? Are there regional variations?
Joloffe Rice – rice with tomatoes and vegetable ... general African dish?
Koki – African corn tamale in plantain leaf
Meat Stew of chicken or turkey with ginger, garlic, onions, tomatoes & African spices
Moi Moi – black-eyed peas ... isn't this Nigerian?
Ndole – peanut sauce, garlic, onions, tomatoes and African spices
Nkule – yam porridge with onions, garlic, tomatoes & basil
Nsoke – black-eyed peas stewed with tomatoes, onions, garlic & basil
Okra stewed with tomatoes, onions, garlic & spices
Puff puff – "This sweet favorite among Cameroon children is also known as 'make me well'. Wheat flour, yeast, nutmeg, soymilk, and brown sugar". I gotta guess the soymilk is the Berkeley influence and not a Cameroon-thing.
Spicy spinach & prawns
Sule do do – fried plantains ... another dish everywhere in Africa, I think
Suya – chicken marinated in African spices and served with stew
This site had over 30 Cameroonian recipes. Don't know how true they are to the cuisine.
Here's a blog with some general info. The blogger is planning to add Cameroonian recipes.
List of some African restaurants
rworange, I always love your posts! No one else approaches chowhounding with quite the encyclopedic zeal you do. I don't have much to contribute to this topic unfortunately, except to note that in my neck of the woods (Charleston, SC), where there is still quite a bit of West African cultural influence present (known as Gullah culture), you can find both bean pie and Joloffe rice, which goes by the name of red rice here.
Thanks. I play with my food too much.
If you ever get over across the border to NC, Charlotte seems to have a few African restaurants from that link.
For some reason Cameroonian food that I've read about highlights how much African cuisine influenced Southern US cooking. Nice cross-cultural influences with those tomatoes from the 'New World'. Also the habenero, corn and tamale. I'm guessing the Portuguese were the ginger contribution.
Thanks for the post. I have lived in West Africa, and have recently traveled to Cameroon, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Mali so I can make a few comments.
In general, I don't find West African food to be particularly spicy (in Cameroon and Togo this is less true), espeically when it is made at the home (it some cases, it is downright bland). But I think the emphasis on spices is more common in a restaurant in a big city. The use of onions, however, is extremely prolific. In parts of Mali, agriculture is highly based on onions so the basis of most meals is onions plus tomatoes and meat meat when available (I once had onions 3 meals a day for a week). But, I have seen less emphasis on garlic and ginger in food preparation.
In every West African market you can find a little roundish deflated looking chile, which is used in cooking, but I am not sure if it is actually a habanero chile. They are not very spicy but are very colourful (red, orange, yellow). I do not know enough about peppers to say exactly what they are, but habernos are close enough.
Most of what you described I have eaten in some part of Africa outside of cameroon, although usually called something else. The use of pigeon or black eyed peas is very common, and was my staple when I lived in Burkina where we called them petit-pois, and the type of pea or bean changed even if the name stayed the same. I have eaten lots of pumpkin in Africa, but not as much in West Africa as I have in East Africa (e.g. Tanzania). There is a wide variety of greens consumed throughout the continent, but again this is something I have seen more in East rather than West Africa, although there are a few dishes that do use this. Okra and plantain dishes are very common throughout the region.
Each country has a dominant starch. Fufu is common in Ghana and Nigeria (I think they spell it foo foo) and it can be made of either ground yams (aka igname) or cassava. I think it is also used to refer to other types of ground starches (e.g rice or semolina). In Mali and Burkina the starch is a millet based concoction called "to" (pronouced like toe), you are lucky you guys were offered fufu and not to, as I think it taste a lot like wood chips. I avoid it at all costs.
I could be wrong, but I think Ndole is not a peanut sauce, but rather a sauce made from a rather sharp and bitter green. It is very common in cameroon where they serve it on all kinds of starches. Peanut, or rather groundnut sauces, are very common in West Africa, espeically in Ghana. It is called "sauce d'arachide" in Burkina and Mali. If it all possible, I get it with chicken or lamb, and plaintains. That is my favorite dish.
Jollof rice is VERY common. You can buy it just about anywhere on the streets and is usually a safe, cheapt and tasty bet. I think it comes from Nigeria, but I think it is named after the Jolof people from Senegal. I am not 100% sure of the roots, but I am pretty sure this group has had major influence throughout the region.
I have not seen a lot of prawns in most of West Africa, but I did try them in Cameroon. I don't know if this is an availability or an income thing, but I do not think of them as being West African. In most dishes, the name comes from the sauce, then the type of meat used, or which starch used is optional.
But thanks for this post. Where is this restaurant?
re: MaggieMuffin
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Thank you SO much for your post. This restaurant started as a food truck at a local flea market over 9 years ago. While the food options have expanded over the past decade, I'm sure over a decade ago they had to adapt to what was available ... spinach instead of African greens, habeneros rather than African peppers.
I was evesdropping and one of the owners said they personally didn't use the hot sauce. As you mentioned, the food I tried was rather bland, the use of spices in the background. I think offering the hot sauce was to accomodate local tastes, but just a theory.
Again, so MANY thanks for your post. We're kind of lucky in this area to have restaurants from different parts of Africa in the area offering little, if not comprehensive, peeks into each part of that continent.
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Where did you travel in W.Africa? I have to disagree - the food I've had was the opposite of bland. As someone with Ghanaian parents I have sampled most food from Ghana and attest to having had some of the spiciest food I've ever had - more so then Thai, Indian or Caribbean. The sauces and stews which accompany the basic semolina, cassava or fufu is usually heavily spiced with garlic, scotch bonnets and ginger. Dishes like Okra stew, groundnut soup and light soup come to mind. Goat and guinea fowl are often skewered and heavily spiced and cooked like a kebab and eaten with plantain spiced with ginger and chilli.
This relates to street food and homecooked food in Ghana and here in the U.K - where I'm from.
I also had various Nigerian dishes and some of which were very spicy - Goat meat soup. I've been told that Nigerian cuisine emplys more herbs than Ghanaian food. Senegalese and Ivorian food is also good.
Jollof rice is meant to have originated in Sierra Leone and is common across a lot of West Africa - each area has it's own version.
Which U.S city would you rate as the best for African food - diversity wise specifically?
I spent years traveling the byways of Africa, including Cameroun. But about the food I learned very little. However, here are a few things I know about Cameroun which might help you see the many varied influences on cuisine. the main conclusion is, when you talk about the food there, you must specify the region.
Cameroun is, in terms of terrain, perhaps the most varied country in Africa. In the southeast, you are in the central African rain forest. You can find pygmies there. Go to the northern tip, and I believe you are in the fringes of the southern Sahara, complete with nomadic cattle herders. Midway between the two is a hilly region composed of little tribal kingdoms whose rulers trace their ancestry back 800 years.
I believe the Spanish and Portuguese visited the area, but later on the region was ruled by Germany. After World War I, it was split between the British and French. The anglo and franco zones reunited in the late 1950s, though the most serious ethnic rivalry is between English and French zones. In the French zone, the bulk of the ocuntry, French influences predominate and French is spoken. In the English zone, English, or a colorful pidgin variation. Colorful because, for instance, instead of saying, you've got troubles but at least you're alive, they say simply "jam pass die". The main city Douala is cosmpoplitan and filled with French expats (and French restaurants)
All the above is from memory, I haven't checked Wikipedia.
One correction to your list. Ndole is actually a bitter, leafy green which i first mistook for a kind of spinach when i was in cameroon. it's usually served with shrimp (``Ndole aux crevettes''), but can be found in all sorts of dishes. interestingly, there has been medical research showing it has all sorts of healthy properties (which i can't recall).
as other posters have mentioned, there are many dishes which are common to several west african countries; although arguments can be made as to which one they originate from, it's a pointless argument, given the fluid and arbitrary national boundaries created by colonial borders. one other dish which is common in west africa which i didn't see on your list is often referred to by its name in a nigerian language (i think yoruba) ``Gari.'' Gari is cassava; the usual way it's prepared throughout west africa is it's boiled, then pounded into paste, then the paste is dried out, then pounded into powder/small bits. it can then be stored like any staple, and is usually made into a thick porridge-like substance and shaped into balls about the size of a child's fist, and topped with stews (in nigeria, often with onions, smokedfishm tomatoes and okra).
I know I'm replying long after this conversation got going, but I was just looking for some shortcut tips on making corn fufu from grits or cornmeal instead of from the whole grain. I spent two solid years in Cameroon, and learned how to cook most of the local cuisine (of the mountainous highlands, at least--the country is so geographically and tribally diverse that there are few "constants" among four or five main cultural groups that share a country the size of California). I do miss the fufu, but preparation takes the whole bloody day, and who has that kind of time?
To add to the overall discussion of Cameroon foodstuffs:
Staples are yams of all sorts, cassava, plantains, and maize (or millet/sorghum in more arid regions). One correction to previous posts: ndole is centered on a very bitter leafy green vegetable but also requires either peanut butter or a pumpkin seed-based substitute for flavoring. Beans (cranberry beans) are also common. Most everything is seasoned with some combination of garlic, ginger, and habenero, plus (and this is key) whatever oil is most available--palm in the center and south, sesame in the arid north. "Country onion" is also a common seasoning--a roasted and then ground nut-like thing about the size of a small water chestnut, with the flavor of very mild garlic with a very strong "smoky" topnote. I have yet (and I have been trying for YEARS) to find it stateside--part of the problem is I know of no translation and have also never seen it in Asian or Mexican cookery which groceries are easier to find.
Anyway...I'm glad to see discussion of Cameroon cooking on this site. Thanks for the awesome links!
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I believe that the species name for the country onion is Afrostyrax lepidophyllus. Good luck getting it in the U.S.!
What I know of African cuisine comes only from the restaurant scene in Washington, DC.
While black eyed peas, okra, MANY different types of bitter thick-leaf greens, plantains, are found throughout West Africa, many of the Cameroonian dishes you described are prepared quite differently from those in Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Cote d-Ivoire. Egusi I've had in DC is very different from the flavors I expect from Senegalese cuisine.
Cameroon got its name from the portugese word for shrimp, so I'm guessing that shrimp were at least once common there (perhaps especially at the ports where the earliest European traders landed).
Black-eyed peas and rice dishes similar to Joloff rice are common all over Africa and were brought here to the United States by African slaves and are thus especially popular in the southern states where most of their ancestors are today. Joloff rice is one ancestor of 'red rice,' 'dirty rice,' and many other similar dishes. Jollof rice which is also called one pot rice or 'benachin' is related to the Wolof People who are from The Gambia, Senegal, and to a smaller degree Mauritania – from there the dish spread to other parts of Africa.
Prawns are especially popular anywhere in Africa that there is a sizable ethically Portuguese population which would include any former Portuguese colonies and well as many of the former English colonies (as English ships also brought Portuguese people for farming) like South Africa. My favourite is Mozambique Peri-Peri Prawns, which are now popular all over the Southern African countries.
As for plantains and bananas, all members of the genus Musa are indigenous to the tropical regions of ANZO (Northern Australia, and Oceania,) and South East Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc). Food anthropology studies conclude that Portuguese Franciscan Friars are mainly responsible for bringing them both to the Caribbean, Latin America and to Africa, and they have become a staple starch for Niger-Congo Africans as well as an occasional dessert or snack ingredient to non-Black Africans (English, Afrikaners, etc) peoples over the last several hundreds of years.
Some other anthropology references like Anthrosource and Jstor that you need to be in the field to read so I won't put them here because they are cost prohibitive and filled with field specific terms that really would just be a waste of your time to figure out. For the record I'm an Africanist, Anthropology major, non-profit fundraiser that works with many African charities, have been to Africa several times, and married to an African so though until I get my graduate degree (which is a good few years off) I cannot call myself 'expert' I am fairly knowledgeable beyond the norm.
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Thank you so much for your post. Now I will have Peri-Peri Prawns to look forward to some day!
What do you know about the use of seeds in African cooking? It is something that has not really transferred at all to African-American foods.
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I actually have a recipe for this Steve, if you are interested in trying it. The recipe is part of an Angolan meal, actually http://globaltableadventure.com/2010/...
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Thanks for pointing out those recipes and the website. Looks great. I will check it out further.
Many of these dishes (egusi stew, suya, jollof rice, puff puff) can be found in Nigeria as well. I recently found this website that features recipes as well as a weekly meal planner (!).
I know this post is four years old, but I assume just like me, others may happen on the post and find the information here useful. Just want to say for those who are interested in Cameroonian recipes and info about Cameroonian/West African spices, there are a couple of good websites you may want to check out:
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Just to add, belatedly. I was in Madagascar in the 90s for a month. It is a very poor country--which I'm sure influences the food and cooking. Really I just remember rice, some stewed chicken, maybe a bit of salt. On the coast simply prepared fish or lobster. I can't remember much about the greens or vegetables. All in all, it was a fairly simple (you could say bland, but I don't really want to disparage it) cuisine noticeably marked by poverty.


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I still have your moly Ben, that one that is not japanese kind
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Another reassuring factor is that the extra time will not change the fact that everybody wins, once the remaining measures are taken by the end of the year (with one possible exception, more on that later). The Great Bear Rainforest is world-renowned for its spectacular natural ecosystems, home of First Nations cultures and the inspiring story of moving from conflict to solutions for conservation and community well-being. These are reflected in the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements announced in 2006 by the B.C. government, First Nations, a group of forestry companies and a coalition of environmental groups (Sierra Club BC, Greenpeace, ForestEthics Solutions), after years of confrontation, then negotiations and a lot of good will by all parties involved. 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Implementation of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements this year will be worth celebrating because it will bring certainty for ecosystems and forestry jobs, new initiatives for community well-being, and much needed hope that solutions for a better world are possible.]]> Can We Save Clayoquot Sound? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3546808 2013-07-08T12:33:56-04:00 2013-09-07T05:12:02-04:00 Jens Wieting http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jens-wieting/ First day of logging road blockades in Clayoquot Sound, July 5, 1993 (photo: M. Cummings) Twenty years ago, on July 5, 1993 was the first day of logging road blockades to protect the ancient forests of Clayoquot Sound from being clear-cut. In the following weeks and months over 12,000 people joined the protest; more than 800 got arrested, turning it into the largest act of non-violent civil disobedience in Canadian history. The Clayoquot Summer '93 was triggered by the provincial government announcement in April 1993 that left two-thirds of the region open to industrial logging. Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Clayoquot Sound's globally rare temperate rainforests are awe-inspiring dynamic ecosystems. On an island stripped of three quarters of its productive ancient forest, Clayoquot Sound houses the largest tract of remaining old-growth forest. Some of the region's forests store more carbon per hectare than almost any other forest on earth. Today, much of Clayoquot's rainforest remains standing, but large tracts are still unprotected. The region has become known around the world as a test area for conservation and for economic activities that don't undermine the environment. Yet little progress has been made in securing legislated protection for Clayoquot's ancient forests and in advancing the title, rights and community aspirations of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations of the area. Flores Island, in the heart of Clayoquot Sound (photo: Jens Wieting) The 1995 Scientific Panel Recommendations for Clayoquot resulted in improved logging practices, but they didn't answer the question how many of the remaining intact valleys of the region should be open to logging in the first place considering how few are left on Vancouver Island. Clayoquot was designated a United Nations Biosphere Reserve in 2000. This designation, however, does not confer legal protection. A Memorandum of Understanding between First Nations and environmental groups, signed in 1999, outlines intact rainforest valleys in Clayoquot deserving protection. But this agreement does not provide a long-term solution. Attempts to log in one or the other of the remaining unprotected intact valleys have brought the region close to the risk of conflict a few times over the last several years, most seriously in 2008, when Port Alberni-based logging company Coulson obtained cut permits for blocks in the Hesquiat Point Creek intact area. Media was all over the case and the parties involved succeeded in averting a flare-up of the "war in the woods", focusing instead on exploring solutions. The Clayoquot Sound Conservation Alliance, a group of environmental organizations including Sierra Club BC is working together to seek lasting conservation solutions for Clayoquot's 74,000 hectares (148,000 acres) of unlogged rainforest valleys that are still missing protection. These valleys are within First Nations' traditional territories and any conservation designation requires their support. Solutions that can serve as a model exist, like the conservation financing mechanism applied in the Great Bear Rainforest. 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It also threatens the hope many of us have to save our planet from dangerous global warming. This is testimony presented to the Joint Review Panel on the Enbridge Northern Gateway project. The Northern Gateway pipeline is not in the interest of our province, our country or the world. In particular, this project is not in our children's interest. I am from Germany and moved to British Columbia with my wife and daughter in 2006. Our original plan was to stay for two years but we fell in love with the spectacular natural beauty of this province. No wild places like the B.C. coast remain in Germany. We knew very little about how beautiful this part of the world is and, realizing what kind of place we found ourselves in, was an often a breathtaking experience, like waking up on a different planet. Being able to look out to the ocean, sitting under giant trees that are over 1,000 years old, watching whales passing by or a bear wander along the beach is truly priceless. People around the world care deeply about this coast. Very few are lucky enough to live in areas that are still as beautiful and intact as our coast. The idea of losing the wholeness of this landscape, First Nations cultures, the salmon, bears and whales to a catastrophic tanker or pipeline accident is heartbreaking. Another aspect of Canada we didn't know much about was the brutal history of colonialism that First Nations had to endure after the arrival of Europeans to this coast. It is unimaginable that the rights of First Nations, who are overwhelmingly opposed to this project, could again be disrespected, this time losing their right to a healthy environment. For the last six years I have worked as a forest campaigner for Sierra Club BC. I am particularly passionate about the Great Bear Rainforest because I work primarily on implementing the agreements for its protection, announced in 2006. My colleagues and I are working with the B.C. government, First Nations, the forestry industry, and other environmental organizations to achieve both ecological integrity and human well-being in the region. After more than a decade of collaboration, the historic conservation agreements protecting the Great Bear Rainforest are close to realizing and ensuring a high quality of life in coastal communities, with economic activities that respect the limits of nature. Today, there are over 100 new protected areas and over $100 million in conservation funding that supports sustainable economic activities and conservation planning. The provincial government and First Nations have established a new government-to government relationship. Our collaboration is globally acknowledged as a model to save the last wild places on Earth from destruction. The Enbridge pipeline proposal is entirely incompatible with the key principle at the core of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements: To manage human activities in order to maintain low ecological risk for species like the Spirit Bear and thriving communities. Enbridge, on the other hand, is asking us to accept the risk of catastrophic tar sands oil accidents that could wipe out many of these species and destroy key economic sectors — tourism and fisheries — which employ thousands of people and generate billions of dollars. Such accidents would destroy the vision of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements, for which so many of us have worked for such a long time. But the Enbridge pipeline would also put another value at risk: hope. Hope that another kind of world is possible, and that it's not too late to stop the downward spiral of environmental degradation and particular the threat of human-caused global warming. The Joint Review Panel (JRP) has stated that it will not consider climate change. But it should connect the dots: any pipeline oil not spilled on land or sea, will be spilled as carbon pollution in the atmosphere. The emissions of 800,000 barrels of oil per day would be equivalent to the combined emissions of 76 countries or all car, truck and road transport in Canada. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology just added two new colours to its maps to indicate temperatures of up to 54 degrees Celsius. Parts of the world are already becoming increasingly uninhabitable because of fires, droughts, floods and other extreme weather events. These severe climate impacts are not science fiction. Even conservative organizations like the World Bank and PriceWaterhouseCoopers have warned that we are on a path to a catastrophic four degrees of warming this century. Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has stated that only 10 percent of humanity could survive four degrees of warming. The International Energy Agency warned in 2011 that any new fossil fuel infrastructure built over the next few years will lock the world into catastrophic global warming. We are running out of time to fight climate change and, with per capita emissions three times higher than in China, Canada is under enormous pressure to stop investing in one of the dirtiest fossil fuel reserves on the planet. Instead, we should follow other countries and invest in clean energy alternatives that generate sustainable jobs. My family and I are trying to reduce our carbon footprint. Over Christmas we took the train for a holiday in California and avoided the emissions of airplane travel. But how can we be hopeful that our actions will make a difference if the Enbridge pipeline goes ahead, enabling intensifying tar sands oil production? When we were standing on a beautiful beach, we were talking with our daughter — wondering if she would one day bring her children to this place. I had to swallow very hard and didn't feel honest when I said to her that I trusted that it would still be as beautiful, when she is our age. On our current trajectory, many beaches along the Pacific coast will be eroded by rising sea levels in coming decades, and the web of marine life will be severely disrupted by ocean acidification. Even if the JRP refrains from considering global warming, it should consider the regional importance of the Great Bear Rainforest in the context of our changing climate. More and more places on the planet are in upheaval because of global warming. In our province, millions of hectares of forests have fallen prey to the Mountain Pine Beetle. The coast of B.C. has so far shown to be relatively resilient. Many First Nations continue to live in balance with rich natural resources, as in previous millennia. The Great Bear Rainforest could be one of few places where we might be able to hold on; a place where our children will still be able to see old-growth trees, bears and wolves, salmon and whales, and the First Nations knowledge of how to live with nature, without destroying it. We simply cannot afford to lose the B.C. coast to a tarsands oil spill because, with every day of climate change and environmental degradation, we depend more and more on the few remaining intact ecosystems, and their essential environmental services, for our children's future and survival. I would like to close with a quote by Prof. David Orr: "Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up." The Joint Review Panel should listen to First Nations and the people of British Columbia, and in the interest of our province, our country and our children, recommend rejecting the proposal. ]]> Why Canada Could Still Lead the World to Climate Action tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.2317689 2012-12-18T15:56:48-05:00 2013-02-17T05:12:01-05:00 Jens Wieting http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jens-wieting/ Seeing the world heading towards global warming Armageddon is particularly painful to watch from Canada. With each mega-drought, record ice melt or super storm, our federal government appears to be more determined to obstruct climate progress, both domestically and abroad. International efforts to fight climate change seem to slow down at the same rate as emissions and climate impacts worsen. Few people are shocked anymore that Canada ranked 58th out of 61 countries in the Climate Change Performance Index 2013, released by the Climate Action Network during the climate summit in Doha, ahead of only Kazakhstan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The index measures current emissions levels, emissions trends, energy efficiency, efforts at renewable energy, and government climate policy. This month, Canada became the only country to formally exit the Kyoto protocol, the world's only international binding climate agreement. According to environmental organizations reporting from Doha, Canada stood for strong inaction throughout its remaining time at the Kyoto-table. The speaking points of the Canadian government are now so illogical that it's easy to see through to the true motivation: putting oil companies' profits above all other interests. When a government touts itself as an upcoming energy superpower with an eye on its fossil fuel reserves while simultaneously claiming that its emissions are miniscule and irrelevant in the fight against global warming, something doesn't add up. Canada is not only an influential and significant country in terms of both energy and climate policy. In fact, it is hard to see any other nation on the planet with more potential for a real U-turn that could inspire global climate action. Why? Canada has by all means an unusual country profile. We are the second largest country of the world, with a relatively small population (ranking only 35) and one of the least densely populated. We have spectacular natural resources -- among the top three nations in the world when it comes to oil reserves. However, unlike many other resource rich countries like Venezuela or Iran, Canada belongs to the club of the richest countries in the world. Compared to poorer countries with fewer economic options, Canada has greater manoeuvring room to set a new course for our economy and become a superpower for energy efficiency and renewable energy, instead of a petro-state. We have a fantastic potential for renewable energy. Three coastlines, vast plains and mountain ranges offer endless opportunities for wind power, as well as solar, carefully planned hydro projects, geothermal and other forms of low-carbon energy production. Investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency means not only investing into the solutions of the future, but also creating more jobs than would be created through extraction of fossil fuels. According to a new study commissioned by Blue Green Canada, we could create over 15,000 more new jobs if the $1.3 billion tax subsidy currently given to fossil fuel companies would be invested in renewable and efficiency. A number of European countries like Germany and Denmark created hundreds of thousands of jobs in these sectors. With over 20 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, Canada is among the few nations with the highest per capita emissions (by comparison: China 6.7 tonnes). Therefore, it would be relatively easy for us to reduce significant portions of our emissions in the short term, compared to many other western countries with lower per capita emissions. The most important reason why Canada could inspire and lead to climate action is the scale of its fossil fuel resources. The math of climate scientists is clear: the world can only burn about 565 Gigatons of fossil fuel if we hope to stay below two degrees of warming. However, there are 2,795 Gigatons of emissions locked up in all the known fossil fuel reserves currently on the books of energy companies, some of which are in Canada. In light of the math, the only ethical oil, coal and gas is that which remains buried. Who is likely to show some climate leadership among those nations with the largest oil reserves, and declare that a chunk of what is available should remain under ground? Iran's Ahmadinejad? The Saudi Kings? Venezuela's Hugo Chavez? War torn Iraq? Or maybe Canada? Canada has a population of 34 million. On a per capita basis, we share more responsibility in terms of land mass, coast lines, per capita emissions and gigatons of carbon still safely locked underground than almost any other citizens on this planet. Time is running out and Canadians and our government must make up our minds which way we want to tip the balance. ]]> Why We Don't Need Carbon Cowboys tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.2105161 2012-11-12T00:00:54-05:00 2014-01-23T18:58:21-05:00 Jens Wieting http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jens-wieting/ received more international criticism this month. It was probably dangerous for marine life and likely useless to fight global warming. A plankton bloom resulting from iron fertilization can cause biological upheaval and doesn't provide with any certain long-term carbon sink effect. There are similar doubts over any lasting benefit for declining salmon populations as described by proponents. The mind-boggling part of the story is that there is no need whatsoever to dump iron into the ocean to support nature to help us in the fight against global warming, especially not along the West Coast of North America. Here, intact coastal rainforests and ocean ecosystems like eelgrass beds are our best allies in the fight against climate change and they don't need fertilizer. They just need protection. There are few places in the world that store as much carbon per hectare as the mostly intact old growth forests of the Great Bear Rainforest. On the best sites a single hectare of rainforest can store over 1,000 tonnes of carbon in vegetation and soil, much of it accumulated over thousands of years. Values almost double this are known for seagrass meadows. When coastal old-growth is clearcut, up to half of the carbon is released to the atmosphere, with only a small percentage stored in wood products over the long term. Avoided logging of old growth rainforest is one of the most immediately effective actions to reduce emissions. Contrary to a widespread misconception most old-growth stands continue to sequester carbon , on average two tonnes per hectare annually in temperate climate. It can take decades until a re-growing forest's ability to sequester carbon makes up for the ongoing annual release of carbon from each clearcut. Time we don't have because the next 10 or 20 years will be crucial for our efforts to reduce emissions and protect carbon sinks in order to avoid out-of-control global warming. The case of the controversial Haida Gwaii project is fascinating because it's another example of "creative" business minds intervening to "improve" nature's carbon services and speeding up plant growth. The pattern is similar to sketchy tree-planting projects designed to deliver carbon credits for polluters today, assuming that the trees will sequester the projected amount of carbon in future years. As in economists' circles there appears to be an obsession with the idea of growth vs. preserving something we already have. For some carbon cowboys, it makes more sense to cut down old-growth forest and replace it with young forest, assuming it will sequester more carbon, faster. But this is like giving away a safe and fully filled bank account with a decent interest rate for a start-up bank account with almost zero money and the promise of spectacular growth based on unreliable forecasts. Fortunately, in the Great Bear Rainforest, a celebrated agreement to set aside 70 per cent of the natural old growth forest is half implemented and work underway to finish the job. A 2009 study commissioned by Sierra Club BC, Greenpeace and ForestEthics Solutions found that increasing forest conservation outside of protected areas to the agreed to target will help to prevent the release of over 150 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by setting aside old growth forest and allowing second growth forest to recover to old forest. Logging will continue in the Great Bear Rainforest in ecologically appropriate areas and at sustainable rates, but carbon loss will be reduced by increased conservation and lighter touch logging. It can be further reduced if the forest industry moves towards selective logging, and eliminates wood waste and slash burning. The $2.5 million sunk into the ocean off Haida Gwaii could have gone a long way to help support the rainforest conservation efforts on the islands and in the adjacent mainland Great Bear Rainforest to ensure that millions of tonnes of carbon continue to be safely stored in trees and soil of some of the oldest and most productive ancient forests of the planet. And contrary to the carbon sink gains claimed for the geo-engineering project the avoided emissions from conserving rainforest are real and can be credibly accounted for. Rainforest protection also helps salmon populations by conserving salmon spawning and juvenile rearing habitat. Monster storm Sandy was another reminder that we are running out of time to fight global warming, reduce emissions and save our carbon sinks. We can't afford many more mistakes.]]> Can a Single B.C. Forest Change the World? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1612454 2012-06-22T11:06:39-04:00 2012-08-22T05:12:22-04:00 Jens Wieting http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jens-wieting/ Despite many disagreements, there is emerging consensus among many delegates that there is no such things as human well-being without ecological integrity. According to Kyle Gracie, research scientist and science coordinator at Global Footprint Network who participates in the Rio negotiations, "many leaders now view as crucial what is at the core of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements: to protect your environmental assets to secure the long-term wellbeing of your citizens." This is one of the reasons why over 50 scientists from nine countries have written B.C.'s Premier Christy Clark on the eve of the Rio+20 summit to remind her that it's about time to deliver on the promise, and fully implement the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. Dominick DellaSala, who initiated the letter, is the chief scientist of the Geos Institute and lead-author of the most comprehensive work on temperate and boreal rainforests. As he explains, "Scientists are eager to have a model of conservation that can be replicated around the world, and while we have hope with the Great Bear agreement, six years later it remains an unfinished job." In their letter, the scientists point out that the Great Bear Rainforest is one of the few remaining large blocks of relatively unmodified landscapes left on earth. It includes over a quarter of the coastal temperate rainforests of North America that provide habitats for spectacular wildlife like the spirit bear and wild salmon that are increasingly rare throughout the world. Currently, half of the Great Bear Rainforest remains open to logging. The recommendation from scientists that was built into the Great Bear Rainforest agreements -- to set aside 70 per cent of the natural old-growth forest -- has yet to be implemented. It is not just in British Columbia but globally that many agreements to protect the environment are not realized. Twenty years ago, in 1992, over 100 heads of state met for the first Rio Earth Summit and adopted a series of milestone agreements on sustainable development, climate and biodiversity, all based on the acknowledgement that the protection of the environment is critical to sustain humanity. Unfortunately, governments around the world failed to follow through with appropriate action. A few days ago a group of 22 scientists published an article warning that with green house gas emissions contiuning to increase, and nearly 50 per cent of all ecosystems altered by humans our planet is now moving rapidly towards an irreversible "state shift." Meanwhile, both in B.C. and worldwide, many politicians continue to argue about jobs and growth versus nature and environment, as if it wasn't possible to have economic activity without destroying the environment (it is). The difference from 1992 is that we are running out of time and can no longer afford to be in denial about the mess we are in. Governments might want to negotiate until the end of the world, nature will not. One hope is that individual countries as well as provincial, regional and local governments will continue to lead the way and inspire the rest. Our responsibility is to hold each and every one of our leaders accountable to undertake everything possible to create "the future we want." In the case of the Great Bear Rainforest agreements, the government of British Columbia has stated several times recently that they continue to support the agreements as long as all parties -- First Nations, environmental organizations and logging companies -- can agree on the next steps. But this is not enough to demonstrate that full implementation of the agreements is a priority for the province. It is entirely possible to address outstanding conservation steps, additional iniatives for higher quality of life in coastal communities and industry concerns in less than a year, but it will require clear leadership. In the words from sustainability expert Kyle Gracie, from the Earth Summit in Rio: "British Columbia has a timely and tremendous opportunity to turn this consensus into action." The time is now to make the Great Bear Rainforest a model for the world.]]>


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