Update from the Amazon

Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you know that I am currently in the xixuau-xiparina nature reserve, near the Columbian/Venezuelan border in Brazil. And I'm going to try really, really hard to write something more substantial about this a little later, but if I don't, that's where I am if they decide to feed my body to the caimen or something. And I would hope that would turn into an international incident, with demonstrations at WWU, a recalling of US ambassadors to Brazil, etc.

P.S. they have a solar-powered satellite internet connection here, and I'm hoping to make a small film about the solar project, and hoping more that when the WWU provisional contract with PSE to purchase green tags expires, we can modify our existing, poorly-planned program to channel money into rural developing world projects (I say poorly planned laying blame at my own feet, as an SRE member who helped make the whole thing happen and then we realized later it was a bit crap. See my entry on the additionality problem of green tags and why the WWU program kind of does nothing for the environment in the end. Oops, our bad ("our" being me and the rest of SRE)).

More soon, I hope. Chao