tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58176967427626851902024-03-17T04:00:34.808-07:001150 Words by Charlene BrownPictures (said to be worth 1000 words) plus 150 words – about watercolour and computer painting.Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comBlogger932125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-26963486781108742142024-03-17T04:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T04:00:00.304-07:00Surfrider Foundation Canada<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidWAjdyCksSifpaGZp-wOWQXBRr9y9bFj3M1opz38vmcDnMZwHynSszIhC03t56eYmpzWXY3_aX0I345QxFLoByqxCiNwELUysa70j8eTOjZQFSBm6AdykplhhNX_RWF9KC8ucjkjssMnB9byQys1qLlRENKArs-B6GWuO7jOj8t6LkfmQNb7PQECFzWs/s1080/blogTofino.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidWAjdyCksSifpaGZp-wOWQXBRr9y9bFj3M1opz38vmcDnMZwHynSszIhC03t56eYmpzWXY3_aX0I345QxFLoByqxCiNwELUysa70j8eTOjZQFSBm6AdykplhhNX_RWF9KC8ucjkjssMnB9byQys1qLlRENKArs-B6GWuO7jOj8t6LkfmQNb7PQECFzWs/s16000/blogTofino.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;">Vancouver Island Surf (reference used was composite of several photographs)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;">watercolour and crayon</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;">©2024 Charlene Brown</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;">Canada’s pristine coastline (at 202,000 kilometres, the longest in the world) has long been a source of wonder and inspiration, attracting adventurers and nature enthusiasts from all over the world. Among the many activities that draw people to Canada’s coasts, particularly the west coast of Vancouver Island, surfing has become a huge draw in recent years.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;">Because of the potential impact of thousands of surfers on the landscape, marine biodiversity, and indigenous cultural heritage, Surfrider Foundation Canada was formed. Their purpose is to ensure that the delicate balance between coastal recreation and conservation efforts is maintained and the oceans and beaches they love are protected.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 19.3333px;">SFC activities have expanded to include leadership in pollution prevention, coastal protection, and environmental awareness training. Current priorities include plastics reduction, environmental monitoring, coastal clean-up campaigns, as well as container spill response and debris mitigation.</span></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #111111; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 22.2333px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #111111; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 22.2333px;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div></div></div>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-23762843415563138042024-03-10T04:00:00.000-07:002024-03-10T04:00:00.178-07:00Another page for my Time Travel book<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1wt6ATwXYVuUk2Yio18wUcbGG2junvX81fF9geGnO0mj8sn44Yc92Nkj1MX-vTOpuJ7x1Zib4v-13Wjg0-lPmoNZc_kdLUjI_9VAkkMn77xpCahGJEQN7-zvaTm041mwmgGyG-gy1PNpHeHbMIX944yOHjN5P_P7RYwl0J08gyPRovjxJZoQM7BkytWY/s1080/blogBankhead2024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1wt6ATwXYVuUk2Yio18wUcbGG2junvX81fF9geGnO0mj8sn44Yc92Nkj1MX-vTOpuJ7x1Zib4v-13Wjg0-lPmoNZc_kdLUjI_9VAkkMn77xpCahGJEQN7-zvaTm041mwmgGyG-gy1PNpHeHbMIX944yOHjN5P_P7RYwl0J08gyPRovjxJZoQM7BkytWY/s16000/blogBankhead2024.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Mine shuttle
at Bankhead<br />watercolour
and crayon<br />©2024
Charlene Brown</div><p></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Bankhead, a
ghost town near Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, was a coal mining town that flourished at the
turn of the twentieth century.</span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Little
remains but some building foundations, the steps up to the Catholic church and
part of the mine train shown in this painting.</span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSGqp7MUPysE8jfhDkrve90e6LCdZRq_RCILY7OYrPPY56wnu2Lj4xJe1owgSQs32xwINaxzkC9qnM-LrkY58hw1dEeztkQRgCe_5VZTX6BBh7YWxG8k_kojvAHNY6gvINBL-UbGyTQUzbwETn4YJE4OYuubwmpoP8DJECK3NjIZCrzCKfNgPDzFoTVY/s720/blogGhosttownbankhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="720" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSGqp7MUPysE8jfhDkrve90e6LCdZRq_RCILY7OYrPPY56wnu2Lj4xJe1owgSQs32xwINaxzkC9qnM-LrkY58hw1dEeztkQRgCe_5VZTX6BBh7YWxG8k_kojvAHNY6gvINBL-UbGyTQUzbwETn4YJE4OYuubwmpoP8DJECK3NjIZCrzCKfNgPDzFoTVY/w400-h278/blogGhosttownbankhead.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US">When the
mine closed in the 1920s, most of the people and several buildings were moved
into nearby Banff and Calgary.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="BasicParagraph" style="line-height: normal;"></p><p class="BasicParagraph" style="margin-top: 9.0pt;"><br /></p><p class="BasicParagraph" style="margin-top: 9.0pt;"><br /></p><p class="BasicParagraph" style="margin-top: 9.0pt;"><br /></p><p class="BasicParagraph" style="margin-top: 9.0pt;"><br /></p><p class="BasicParagraph" style="margin-top: 9.0pt;">Bankhead, as
it was in 1910<br />computer painting<br />©2005 Charlene Brown</p><p class="BasicParagraph" style="line-height: normal;">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-35534784549307580462024-03-03T04:00:00.000-08:002024-03-03T04:00:00.160-08:00Another page for my Time Travel book<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWIEcZ16-8_qkfa-Y21EBAidimJR9SgdumF_RTrFYnDQr9jE-y7QcK8PWOrvBnhG0Pd1PcunFHD7TJ4Fn2-T9iq4Wg1kMLN-iRm7klF2VdSYyNbHQqFVnYJsK0uSOIsjlQDWPwb7MJeU336kdlFAGxIbHfxi6NZUiBK3NYD9vLQzeFiNobhjDDMQMHG8/s1135/blogKarnak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWIEcZ16-8_qkfa-Y21EBAidimJR9SgdumF_RTrFYnDQr9jE-y7QcK8PWOrvBnhG0Pd1PcunFHD7TJ4Fn2-T9iq4Wg1kMLN-iRm7klF2VdSYyNbHQqFVnYJsK0uSOIsjlQDWPwb7MJeU336kdlFAGxIbHfxi6NZUiBK3NYD9vLQzeFiNobhjDDMQMHG8/s16000/blogKarnak.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">Great Hypostyle Hall, Karnak Temple, Egypt<br /></span>watercolour and crayon<br />©2024 Charlene Brown</p><p class="MsoNormal">The Karnak Temple is located in the ancient
city of Thebes (now called Luxor) in Egypt. It
is thought to be the largest temple complex ever constructed anywhere in the
world.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Hypostyle Hall was built by Pharaoh
Seti I and his son Rameses II. The columns represent the primeval papyrus
swamp in which Atum, a self-created deity, arose from the waters of Nun at the
beginning of creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Karnak Temple was one of the many
Eqyptian archaeological sites we visited as part of the University of Victoria
travel study program in 2008. I wrote
about several of these fantastic places when I started this blog the following
year, but for some reason the only mention of Karnak was in <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2009/01/finishing-up-my-paintings-of-egypt.html" rel="nofollow">this blog post</a> and it was pretty brief.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-73576005416614167892024-02-25T04:00:00.000-08:002024-02-25T04:00:00.156-08:00Another Bucket List Painting<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3QJ2hfZL48Mi96mdwaQcTg22_nM8ljDP6W673E9wZUREDHqdEmfAshkIlVWHBdh1QuGOtjI8GW2Qx2FpX-8SFyK2aaiApeRVGHituMb3WJODdyRocv0BsAGcyciqpNlwas5n-_DQ8XMtBUwcH0d9sg7yEhnUn-0PHwpzS58ZRaMKSsRn7NkYVGE3bew/s1080/blogNew%20Zealand%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3QJ2hfZL48Mi96mdwaQcTg22_nM8ljDP6W673E9wZUREDHqdEmfAshkIlVWHBdh1QuGOtjI8GW2Qx2FpX-8SFyK2aaiApeRVGHituMb3WJODdyRocv0BsAGcyciqpNlwas5n-_DQ8XMtBUwcH0d9sg7yEhnUn-0PHwpzS58ZRaMKSsRn7NkYVGE3bew/s16000/blogNew%20Zealand%202024.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: center;">Milford Sound / Piopiotahi<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 10.5pt;">watercolour and crayon</span></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">©2024 Charlene Brown</span></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 10.5pt;">This sound, on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, is one of roughly 90 places to have been given a dual name as part a 1998 Treaty of Waitangi settlement recognizing the significance of the fiord to both Māori and non-indigenous (primarily European-descended) New Zealanders. This name consists of both the Māori and European names used together as a single name, instead of as interchangeable alternate names.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha7tyx3AehZHAenvTY9b3RaG0ocD2HBg_l_ZgpwdQFqcHdOk1_a5TcwzuJ9GEzHDyWonWFPLFP3O9BwfEytcRD41311gqAHs7QzUMWJHd6Tg6eb5sla-sg6FvY-GQPsWID8vg9xXwySJQnLRq5zHvw0BJP0dms0uETJ9zAGydpkA1jKhp0gLOKch41mec/s1000/blogNew%20Zealand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1000" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha7tyx3AehZHAenvTY9b3RaG0ocD2HBg_l_ZgpwdQFqcHdOk1_a5TcwzuJ9GEzHDyWonWFPLFP3O9BwfEytcRD41311gqAHs7QzUMWJHd6Tg6eb5sla-sg6FvY-GQPsWID8vg9xXwySJQnLRq5zHvw0BJP0dms0uETJ9zAGydpkA1jKhp0gLOKch41mec/s320/blogNew%20Zealand.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>T<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">his view includes some of the same mountains (from almost the exact opposite direction) that were in the Streetview I painted when the Virtual Paintout was in New Zealand </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #c3d9ff; color: #32527a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.3px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #c3d9ff; color: #32527a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.3px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #c3d9ff; color: #32527a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.3px;">North of Glenorchy, Otago<br /></span><span style="background-color: #c3d9ff; color: #32527a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.3px;">Watercolour, crayon and CP<br /></span><span style="background-color: #c3d9ff; color: #32527a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.3px;">©2011 Charlene Brown</span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-13875150315759896142024-02-18T04:00:00.000-08:002024-02-18T04:00:00.339-08:00 South Pacific possibilities for the Bucket List chapter of my Paint Every Mountain book <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWh-b3-23lQo9Gt-XoZezkzaOLzm-RilH9uK_fbK9k0EsEkkTLpDbObbn9C6W0bmxrm7Q-Lqg9erKZMysJgsHoOXLUMQooTy6Ua-BK8klV585Ye38-6J9G7CVqi8z_EB66qQpK_hGFO5Dv-3ylJzzgh7vESJyVx65tPw4CZ5gpEz91tINVIsDNlkoKNGw/s1080/blogBoraBora.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWh-b3-23lQo9Gt-XoZezkzaOLzm-RilH9uK_fbK9k0EsEkkTLpDbObbn9C6W0bmxrm7Q-Lqg9erKZMysJgsHoOXLUMQooTy6Ua-BK8klV585Ye38-6J9G7CVqi8z_EB66qQpK_hGFO5Dv-3ylJzzgh7vESJyVx65tPw4CZ5gpEz91tINVIsDNlkoKNGw/s16000/blogBoraBora.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;">Mount Otemanu</div><div style="text-align: center;">watercolour and crayon</div><div style="text-align: center;">©2024 Charlene Brown</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This extinct volcano,
which rises to 727 metres, is the highest peak on Bora Bora, a small
island northwest of Tahiti in French Polynesia.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to see some other mountainous islands in French Polynesia and I’ve found that most South Pacific cruises feature some combination of these and (conveniently) sail out of another Bucket List destination I'll talk about next week – New Zealand </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoiWAVBHTQPauuNiqssEGOJzILHHuqYNxYNHnW33D-jMNBR8XeG9u48r_JLQI5L7gKMUxosWyuMnzMOz4JFF51LCZI0YfzuwCo3O2PWjMwrMmAhwMowHO8l_sg6M2VJAyTBPw9TgEhyp4hyphenhyphenKaZW8GMVdI3caWj0Re5Mihxrm_r4EfZlkSamE5ETZBGCNc/s1052/blogOceanicart1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1052" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoiWAVBHTQPauuNiqssEGOJzILHHuqYNxYNHnW33D-jMNBR8XeG9u48r_JLQI5L7gKMUxosWyuMnzMOz4JFF51LCZI0YfzuwCo3O2PWjMwrMmAhwMowHO8l_sg6M2VJAyTBPw9TgEhyp4hyphenhyphenKaZW8GMVdI3caWj0Re5Mihxrm_r4EfZlkSamE5ETZBGCNc/s320/blogOceanicart1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Also on my Bucket List is Easter Island. But this turns out to be one of those ‘can’t get there from here’ spots, and is described as one of the most isolated places in the world. <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s a long way from French Polynesia and in fact belongs to Chile. So now I’m trying to figure out how to combine it with places in Chile which are also on my Bucket List<br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: right;">Moai, Easter Island</div><div style="text-align: right;">watercolour and crayon</div><div style="text-align: right;">©2016 Charlene Brown<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-56348283489314626892024-02-11T04:00:00.000-08:002024-02-16T09:43:57.926-08:00Springtime in the Rockies<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKkNraKxK828iYddK36lrZde1IIrFIvB_gN0IOyDtTFwLOs5AEx8CW8JVRsbnk0wxKGsPJVK98hXI7wpwtBeTrPDQIny1Cs6tScRwL7HGRmwWVhPxBQX158AeZ1ieKK5cp2zxJ1ATGLIyWhAfuW8HvDXdQ6j-gWJZ9jLNP7E90gykKmND3QPybrJotUQ/s1080/blogBanff%20Springs%20Golf%20Course%20springtime.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1080" height="633" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKkNraKxK828iYddK36lrZde1IIrFIvB_gN0IOyDtTFwLOs5AEx8CW8JVRsbnk0wxKGsPJVK98hXI7wpwtBeTrPDQIny1Cs6tScRwL7HGRmwWVhPxBQX158AeZ1ieKK5cp2zxJ1ATGLIyWhAfuW8HvDXdQ6j-gWJZ9jLNP7E90gykKmND3QPybrJotUQ/w640-h633/blogBanff%20Springs%20Golf%20Course%20springtime.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Early crocus in the Bow Valley</div><div style="text-align: center;">watercolour and crayon</div><div style="text-align: center;">©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Although the crocus, and dozens of other bulbs are up and shrubs
and trees are starting to blossom here in Victoria, this painting is not showing
the current conditions at the Banff Springs Golf Course.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I painted it several weeks ago in the dead of winter
simply because I needed some Springtime in the Rockies that day. In fact,
crocus don’t usually get through the snow until late April, sometimes May, in
Banff</span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-90348250403341867012024-02-04T04:00:00.001-08:002024-02-04T04:00:00.212-08:00Are we reaching a tipping point in global heating?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84__vGoTWRHayvHtuISW4XkBHjR2u8aF4fol-i98gzfzBy-GzCfqZqohOzZ0eHSIz6ytRxmODIs0MDpt9w0fn1siByyA7YfXhTFChmv64idFbiYN8AzgY7VudZY1i8tfzjDfYaHMYCQ4jnZVxSqGwBjRe7kNeOqsdtcPWGDF9Edpg0Nud09qxUZobcis/s864/blogAlberta%20fire.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84__vGoTWRHayvHtuISW4XkBHjR2u8aF4fol-i98gzfzBy-GzCfqZqohOzZ0eHSIz6ytRxmODIs0MDpt9w0fn1siByyA7YfXhTFChmv64idFbiYN8AzgY7VudZY1i8tfzjDfYaHMYCQ4jnZVxSqGwBjRe7kNeOqsdtcPWGDF9Edpg0Nud09qxUZobcis/s16000/blogAlberta%20fire.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Alberta Wildfire<br />watercolour<br />©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The National Centers for
Environmental Information in the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration provides environmental data, products, and services covering the
depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOAA Chief Scientist Dr.
Sarah Kapnick said that the findings of their 2023 climate analysis were
astounding. “Not only was 2023 the warmest year in NOAA’s 174-year climate
record — it was the warmest by far.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The impacts of climate change are happening here and now, like extreme
weather events that are becoming more frequent and more severe. There were many
extreme weather events in 2023, along with record-low sea ice coverage and
catastrophic wildfires. In Canada, 45.7 million acres burned, 2.6 times the
previous record.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the confounding
factors making forecasting the future more difficult, which I wrote about three
years ago is
<a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2021/04/confounding-factors.html" rel="nofollow">the phenomenon of tipping points</a>. These
are actions of a complex system which has become unstable.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are we reaching a tipping
point in global heating?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Read <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2021/08/decimation-doesnt-begin-to-describe.html" rel="nofollow">Decimation doesn’t begin to describe what happened in Lytton</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or have we already tipped?</p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-2976900121725458052024-01-28T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-28T04:00:00.306-08:00How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods*<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVf1VelWYIR3F0lYQFtuRXk-2nfTPwKmz1nQM-mXXELNo5bRnwo_1ZBxAD2DzQtYkmNAJWlyXF71ZoFeYE-RmXSh8siOyraTJMDfBA_DJ-o_6kVrmZLw_Zlm9BBxddEDH39O2RL4C1UkD-wTmO1nJqSTqd9k36vuxQzotdO9YqPPkHGIZGjdpBwHfD5CM/s799/Canadian%20Wildfires.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="799" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVf1VelWYIR3F0lYQFtuRXk-2nfTPwKmz1nQM-mXXELNo5bRnwo_1ZBxAD2DzQtYkmNAJWlyXF71ZoFeYE-RmXSh8siOyraTJMDfBA_DJ-o_6kVrmZLw_Zlm9BBxddEDH39O2RL4C1UkD-wTmO1nJqSTqd9k36vuxQzotdO9YqPPkHGIZGjdpBwHfD5CM/s16000/Canadian%20Wildfires.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: Calibri Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;"><b>1. Hotter, longer heatwaves: </b>The intense heatwaves that hit southern Europe and the southern US and Mexico in July 2023 would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change. And these events are no longer rare. If global warming reaches 2C above the pre-industrial period these events are expected to happen every two to five years.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">As well as happening more frequently, heatwaves are becoming longer and more intense in many places.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">This can happen as a result of heat domes, which are areas of high pressure where hot air is pushed down and trapped in place, causing temperatures to soar over large areas. One theory suggests higher temperatures in the Arctic (which has warmed more than four times faster than the global average) are causing the jet stream to slow, increasing the likelihood of heat domes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrqJxknSSxAea1Z8afLpXpt-X5J7pPz8dQZX34pnzGmyPfaNN5vHg2uLUTVhreSBBKt47_788xPTB33IURKSahiUruLxPzzqwFwBhHJYA8eoWXz5-DmKJZQBwvo03jmPpJQQUB1y1MnnzS7ATn6sfIkGRcdkbf83tleT7AEBfl_ZhWqh5gDaJpMX60gMM/s886/Heat%20dome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="886" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrqJxknSSxAea1Z8afLpXpt-X5J7pPz8dQZX34pnzGmyPfaNN5vHg2uLUTVhreSBBKt47_788xPTB33IURKSahiUruLxPzzqwFwBhHJYA8eoWXz5-DmKJZQBwvo03jmPpJQQUB1y1MnnzS7ATn6sfIkGRcdkbf83tleT7AEBfl_ZhWqh5gDaJpMX60gMM/w320-h230/Heat%20dome.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">2. Longer droughts: </b><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">Longer and more intense heatwaves can worsen droughts by drying out soil. This makes the air above warm up more quickly, leading to more intense heat. Increased demand for water from humans, especially farmers, in hot weather puts even more stress on the water supply.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">Climate change has made droughts at least 100 times more likely.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">3. More fuel for wildfires: </b><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">Climate change is making the weather conditions needed for wildfires to spread more likely. Extreme and long-lasting heat draws more and more moisture out of the ground and vegetation. These tinder-dry conditions provide fuel for fires, which can spread at an incredible speed, particularly if winds are strong.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">Rising temperatures may also increase the likelihood of lightning in the world's northernmost forests, increasing the risk of fires. Canada experienced by far its worst wildfire season on record in 2023, with around 18 million hectares (45 million acres) burned.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of the extreme "fire weather" conditions in eastern Canada that allowed the fires to spread, Extreme wildfires are projected to become more frequent and intense in future across the globe. This is due to the combined effects of shifting land use and climate change.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">4. More extreme rain: </b><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">For every 1C rise in average temperature, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more moisture. The heavy rainfall was made as much as 50 times more likely by climate change, Globally, the frequency and intensity of heavy rainfall events has increased over most land regions due to human activity. And heavy precipitation will generally become more frequent and intense with further warming,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: Calibri Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: Calibri Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;"><b>*Outline of an article by Mark Poynting and Esme Stallard, BBC News Climate & Science</b></span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202224; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-10737068422906372452024-01-27T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-27T04:00:00.264-08:00Impressionist version of Doughnut Economics in a Circular Economy<div class="separator"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOlUp1Bob2ECoEtPSXUuip1CfifnY7UL0qZbL35AhXjlznIXlnhJu__TycPiaEqgH20LVefPjdezM1KIdxn69ZCz4jSXmHcqMYdUhLd7JHT2J0YjBTrVVMIUi4knQoXk6ZJDk1J3zb4vvcRJuv5LZMUjAPWEdyWtXtSlwaHBsgTdwvmefmaGyVnhBc_b0/s1150/blogDoughnutEconomics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1150" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOlUp1Bob2ECoEtPSXUuip1CfifnY7UL0qZbL35AhXjlznIXlnhJu__TycPiaEqgH20LVefPjdezM1KIdxn69ZCz4jSXmHcqMYdUhLd7JHT2J0YjBTrVVMIUi4knQoXk6ZJDk1J3zb4vvcRJuv5LZMUjAPWEdyWtXtSlwaHBsgTdwvmefmaGyVnhBc_b0/w640-h450/blogDoughnutEconomics.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Doughnut</div><div style="text-align: center;">watercolour and crayon</div><div style="text-align: center;">©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1 style="background: white; margin: 0cm;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The circular economy represents a shift from a
'take-make-waste' linear economy to an economic system based on the reuse and
regeneration of materials or products, especially as a means of continuing
production in a sustainable or environmentally friendly way, minimizing waste.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Doughnut economics extends this transformation to
encompass a double shift – from a linear economy to a regenerative and
distributed economy that looks at sustainable development across a number of
different vectors.</span></p></h1><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Doughnut is the core concept at the heart of Doughnut Economics. And here’s a more readable explanation of it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWTRyu0uQRp2ua4PnpDsmml9sVhrY3PvbQyQK_4KOLXA5gXCwSvDRv0Fwb-QRwgnwjXZtUbLr96mDO_g1Ecu4fcSd-Qr_iI24gqq5AHFLXtvw8_75V_2ov2_hWoucIXUF3jP-ZzRR3hp2PzEMZzGIXNRtN5Mr9VGxA0W6WpZLPwC960wmH7Pt7lYW93A/s227/Doughnut%20Economics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="227" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWTRyu0uQRp2ua4PnpDsmml9sVhrY3PvbQyQK_4KOLXA5gXCwSvDRv0Fwb-QRwgnwjXZtUbLr96mDO_g1Ecu4fcSd-Qr_iI24gqq5AHFLXtvw8_75V_2ov2_hWoucIXUF3jP-ZzRR3hp2PzEMZzGIXNRtN5Mr9VGxA0W6WpZLPwC960wmH7Pt7lYW93A/w400-h391/Doughnut%20Economics.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">First published in 2012
in an Oxfam report by Kate Raworth, The Doughnut is a guide for human
prosperity in the 21st century, with the aim of meeting the needs of all people
within the means of the living planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The Doughnut
consists of two concentric rings: a social foundation, to ensure that no one is
left falling short on life’s essentials, and an ecological ceiling, to ensure
that humanity does not collectively overshoot the planetary boundaries that
protect Earth's life-supporting systems. Between these two sets of boundaries
lies a doughnut-shaped space that is both ecologically safe and socially just:
a space in which humanity can thrive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-30824480137061306562024-01-24T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-24T04:00:00.139-08:00Can tidal power replace diesel?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCD1VAmOF1CIXV3KBm4XJDAfVDraiyEkzmpCcVsi5XyWk3vOZVMnhYLz0hd5GOiH7LSf0ukUtyCEPVmT2kkdUk0RlWa63eqD2ykjVg8RecOvZeGDtnf-kU7b8YLivK1UyKj5NvjK0-o3lRteeIEJIe7dUdUjeGgZ1P6Ta-W_NWyrSnIKk6vKfpcxiBKjE/s957/blogBlind%20Channel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="957" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCD1VAmOF1CIXV3KBm4XJDAfVDraiyEkzmpCcVsi5XyWk3vOZVMnhYLz0hd5GOiH7LSf0ukUtyCEPVmT2kkdUk0RlWa63eqD2ykjVg8RecOvZeGDtnf-kU7b8YLivK1UyKj5NvjK0-o3lRteeIEJIe7dUdUjeGgZ1P6Ta-W_NWyrSnIKk6vKfpcxiBKjE/w482-h640/blogBlind%20Channel.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Blind Channel<br />watercolour and crayon<br />©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Blind Channel, on the ‘inside passage’ between Vancouver
Island and the mainland of British Columbia is scenically spectacular, and may
also be a prime location for tidal power production. Initial testing of the potential for harnessing tidal
currents at the Blind Channel off-grid tidal power demonstration project has
shown promising results.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for
Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) research on tidal turbines and other clean
energy sources like wind, solar, and low carbon hydrogen, is supported by the BC
government’s Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PRIMED is also investigating ways to avoid or surmount the
recognized problems associated with tidal energy ̶ the
high cost associated with building tidal power stations, and potentially
negative environmental effects on marine life.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-5027081727424432402024-01-21T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-21T05:08:24.256-08:00Capturing lost data (two or three hundred years) after the fact<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXR8P_dyuE858dqV4YoRan9qNXX3a4Kq3-1SQc3XHGJ0bGXcaz3NttIe2BbjZKNAPGZgk3mOvlG15yqAjS50t0JUZZIvKJqOgmrdc44C1WV0W_Yytvuda3RQLmz1q5Ld1ybDPE7SaNtTw5KLRG-LkRh-JUVQEGV-J52vfXab4HiZBwaP7i4Sypu4p1Cc/s864/blogCol%20Combatant.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXR8P_dyuE858dqV4YoRan9qNXX3a4Kq3-1SQc3XHGJ0bGXcaz3NttIe2BbjZKNAPGZgk3mOvlG15yqAjS50t0JUZZIvKJqOgmrdc44C1WV0W_Yytvuda3RQLmz1q5Ld1ybDPE7SaNtTw5KLRG-LkRh-JUVQEGV-J52vfXab4HiZBwaP7i4Sypu4p1Cc/s16000/blogCol%20Combatant.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center;">Combatant Col<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">(based on a Bastian
Fleury photo in the Globe and Mail, November 22, 2023)</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">watercolour<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Charlene Brown</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The calculations
in my last blog post were based on comprehensive high-altitude precipitation
and temperature data collected in the Swiss Alps for over 150 years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Unfortunately, with
few exceptions (eg. <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-disappearance.html" rel="nofollow">Illecillewaet Glacier</a>) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> such consistent historic data is not available in North America.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">However, early
results from research in the Combatant Col, a ‘saddle’ of snow and ice between Mt.
Waddington and Mt. Combatant in British Columbia, show it will likely be
possible to obtain useful historic climate information going back two or three
hundred years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Glaciologists drilled
down more than 200 metres from an elevation of 3000 metres, and shipped
one-metre sections of the compacted ice core by helicopter and
reefer truck to the Canadian Ice Core Laboratory at the University of Alberta.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Although the ice
in these samples is not as old as that in cores obtained on Mt. Logan in the
Yukon, coming from about 51 degrees N latitude, the Combatant data relates to
the Anthropocene climate effects in more densely populated areas.</span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-79447144968910177032024-01-17T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-17T05:41:44.473-08:00The Chilling Rise of the Zero-degree Isotherm<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePn0ezqD1YjW7HJHL5PrtRhIGiSm5_2fCP5LK6frkM95-XiRC0etUYsKPGfkb5vjyegpya2r0Dj1KbhXXP8bnJeJdu6vA57f8bJ5Y3MVrUpUHGNuLJlWEd-wIcLFZ2niGdk3hiGUkq3YYCN3mCPlPrMi-IBFiT12NRsItWhviYHKFL5C4LzfJmUE9yQc/s854/blogSwissglacier.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="854" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePn0ezqD1YjW7HJHL5PrtRhIGiSm5_2fCP5LK6frkM95-XiRC0etUYsKPGfkb5vjyegpya2r0Dj1KbhXXP8bnJeJdu6vA57f8bJ5Y3MVrUpUHGNuLJlWEd-wIcLFZ2niGdk3hiGUkq3YYCN3mCPlPrMi-IBFiT12NRsItWhviYHKFL5C4LzfJmUE9yQc/s16000/blogSwissglacier.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #595959;">Morteratsch </span>Glacier
collapse<br />watercolour<br />Charlene Brown</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Glaciers in Switzerland are shrinking more quickly every
year and have lost 10% of their ice volume in the last two years. Tongues of
glaciers such as the one pictured are collapsing and many small glaciers have
disappeared completely.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The photo on which this painting was based was
taken by Sean Gallup in May of last year, prior to the record-breaking heat wave in Europe. In
August, the zero-degree isotherm, below which ice melts, rose to record
elevations, well over 5000 metres ̶ higher
than many of the mountain peaks in Switzerland.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The main reason for this chilling development is human-induced
climate heating. By the middle of the 21st century, a further rise in the
zero-degree isotherm of a catastrophic 400 to 650 m can be expected if greenhouse gas
emissions continue to increase unchecked.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-71595222317516025332024-01-14T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-14T04:00:00.140-08:00Two birds with one stone: solving two problems with one incinerator<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17DU-AU_LZ3MQ_eUvq6zZ6xBiukbIehYhzz3FQdxZdb5RbtwCxzmWs0Rw807QbKsOZIkGv14AxpHqma9Ja_tZZK3sKWWaUvszX-VDdBwfiSmGsGzSi2ElGLLIqmF716OJeo9gDb-hsAEqMouN7FepFbJIJXytK20chMd_JjJeY91xrmFHChnPbw62ipY/s1008/RC3%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17DU-AU_LZ3MQ_eUvq6zZ6xBiukbIehYhzz3FQdxZdb5RbtwCxzmWs0Rw807QbKsOZIkGv14AxpHqma9Ja_tZZK3sKWWaUvszX-VDdBwfiSmGsGzSi2ElGLLIqmF716OJeo9gDb-hsAEqMouN7FepFbJIJXytK20chMd_JjJeY91xrmFHChnPbw62ipY/s16000/RC3%201.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Fernwärmewerk
Spittelau<br /></span>watercolour, crayon
and marker<br />©2011 Charlene Brown</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As I have mentioned
before, I am fascinated with the designs of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=hundertwasser&tbm=isch&hl=en-GB&chips=q:hundertwasser,g_1:simple:GDVNJFQtGt4%3D,online_chips:hundertwasser+landscape:qRg3mdueImE%3D&rlz=1C1VDKB_enCA1006CA1006&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjcruK6gaSDAxUoHzQIHWEXCXsQ4lYoBXoECAEQQQ&biw=1512&bih=801" rel="nofollow">Friedensreich Hundertwasser</a>, a fabulous painter whose work covers several
buildings around Vienna, such as the garbage incinerator/district heating
plant, Fernwärmewerk Spittelau, I’ve painted here. An ardent environmentalist, Hundertwasser only
agreed to undertake the incinerator commission when he was promised that the
plant would be equipped with the most modern emission-purification technology
and that 60,000 apartments would be heated, thus making Vienna's air cleaner.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have written before about
proposals which will mitigate the effects of climate change in more than one
way ─ <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2022/08/could-this-be-solution-to-two-climate.html" rel="nofollow">solar vineyards</a> and <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2022/08/another-possible-dual-solution-to.html" rel="nofollow">deciduous firebreaks</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-78973177085922307902024-01-11T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-11T06:14:16.014-08:00Differing Solutions to Climate Change Problems ̶ Achieving more useful perspectives<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGQb98iF857hqOgeiyJIYT_XUBDM77vMHllBUaMMTJ7vByW3KhimDyQv_zbPLpyUmmMd9IU0h8p-nRTPIiolo_wVy_7nXthtoJzBqx5Xf422vq_XeX7H35zJHLm6N-Lm2qgurp1LdHXgijfCqWbVNw9b0ssNhcPDeEzHUSG9BM4sEruKIsctUekaCrpo/s1080/blogBruceNuclear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGQb98iF857hqOgeiyJIYT_XUBDM77vMHllBUaMMTJ7vByW3KhimDyQv_zbPLpyUmmMd9IU0h8p-nRTPIiolo_wVy_7nXthtoJzBqx5Xf422vq_XeX7H35zJHLm6N-Lm2qgurp1LdHXgijfCqWbVNw9b0ssNhcPDeEzHUSG9BM4sEruKIsctUekaCrpo/s16000/blogBruceNuclear.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Bruce Nuclear
Generating Station*<br />watercolour, crayon
and marker<br />©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The elusive path to
net zero is having a rough ride as various stakeholders have very different
ideas about how best to achieve our climate change goals. Unfortunately, debate among federal and
provincial governments, various political parties, environmental protest groups,
industry lobbyists etc. has become belligerent. Almost everyone
is putting most of their effort into attempting to discredit other’s policies
and opinions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For example, I believe
nuclear power generation will be an essential component in the eventual
elimination of excessive carbon emissions. However, organizations such as the
Green Party, with whose objectives I generally agree, are strongly opposed to this
method of producing electricity. They
feel that nuclear reactors’ prohibitively expensive construction and generation
of huge amounts of radioactive waste outweighs the environmental benefits,
whereas proponents of nuclear power generation have confidence that technological
developments such as small modular nuclear reactors and ‘spent’ fuel
utilization will soon overcome these objections. They also point out that modular
reactors could replace horrendously problematic diesel generation of
electricity in remote areas such as the Arctic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In general, in debating
the negatives of various programs, a more useful perspective will be achieved
by finding such additional positives to the proposed solutions. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">*NB: Bruce Nuclear,
one of the largest reactors in the world, is not an example of a small modular
reactor.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another way of
achieving a more useful perspective when confronted with different solutions to
climate change problems is to consider that they might be not polarizing, but
synergistic! More progress would be
made if the various stakeholders could work cooperatively instead of attempting
to cancel each other in the battle against catastrophic climate change:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instead of:<br /><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span> </span>transitioning away from fossil fuels </span><b style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">vs</span></b><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> carbon capture<br /></span></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">we </span>should have</div><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> transitioning away from fossil fuels </span><b style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">plus</span></b><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> carbon capture</span></div></span><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wrote about this in <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2022/07/direct-air-capture-may-be-answer-but.html" rel="nofollow">a blog post a year and a half ago</a>. </p><p class="MsoNormal">This concept of differing solutions being synergistic rather
than polarizing will be a section of the series of essays and illustrations on visualization
of the Anthropocene that I am compiling. <o:p></o:p></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" /></span><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" /></span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-56280580996926313952024-01-08T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-08T04:00:00.133-08:00One year ago today<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyCfOcUpArBrkgtcxWqwSLS-dkyqgWy09SF2_mQbDxgFbGwJ_HJWEsj29JncrxbqDteTuRGjhPhC3B9zkjHd40p14uNI1lD5mxeJI6a4Q98qFZ6hKOMq4zUDnd1ZbZbLpCQa7NiCp08BB6YKrqxsYTAKZ2e978Us2HN_nDyvP5ccfJp12gCoMjUxc8VDU/s1440/blog1st%20Memorial%20Garden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="1440" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyCfOcUpArBrkgtcxWqwSLS-dkyqgWy09SF2_mQbDxgFbGwJ_HJWEsj29JncrxbqDteTuRGjhPhC3B9zkjHd40p14uNI1lD5mxeJI6a4Q98qFZ6hKOMq4zUDnd1ZbZbLpCQa7NiCp08BB6YKrqxsYTAKZ2e978Us2HN_nDyvP5ccfJp12gCoMjUxc8VDU/w640-h504/blog1st%20Memorial%20Garden.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Garden of Memories<br />watercolour<br />©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My cousin Joye, who had lived here in Victoria since
retiring in 1996, died exactly a year ago today. She wasn’t my closest
relative, but I was hers as she had no brothers or sisters and had never
married. Although she had several first cousins, I was the only one living in
Victoria, and we were close friends.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In May, I organized a gathering to remember Joye on what
would have been her 85<sup>th</sup> birthday.
The painting shows some of Joye’s friends and family scattering her
ashes under a ‘Memory Book’ in the forest on the far side of the lake in the
Garden of Memories here in Victoria.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-77283171717300062372024-01-07T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-17T17:25:52.653-08:00Retro-Shipping into the future<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP-x6RRxLZite9-Wv-PIyPKy_JQOgYkCni6TVLuYr57P2dXAiJQDNoslZeo7jHf9798UcH1Gs_yayK-MM82EYzDj3qXU_EBSdx9xzNEmYGVor8oa5X_tEJxaJB6aeBZE2glphCLBptgh9YeFsVOWoBw9WsM5DVTpQ8OoLrN8SHxuVaUyLv5qYhyhSEBPk/s864/blogFuture%20transport.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP-x6RRxLZite9-Wv-PIyPKy_JQOgYkCni6TVLuYr57P2dXAiJQDNoslZeo7jHf9798UcH1Gs_yayK-MM82EYzDj3qXU_EBSdx9xzNEmYGVor8oa5X_tEJxaJB6aeBZE2glphCLBptgh9YeFsVOWoBw9WsM5DVTpQ8OoLrN8SHxuVaUyLv5qYhyhSEBPk/s16000/blogFuture%20transport.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Low carbon transport<br />watercolour<br />©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Almost 90 years after the Hindenburg disaster ended the
golden age of airships, interest in lighter-than-air transport is reviving.
With low carbon emissions, and no requirement for expensive ground
infrastructure like airports or roads, solar electric-powered airships could be
a sustainable solution for cargo and passenger transport.</p><p class="MsoNormal">See below for earlier fantasizing on this topic.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sailing ships are another old technology that may be reborn
as the shipping industry looks to decarbonize. Hypothetically, these giant new sails
could be inflated or deflated at the push of a button, and would pivot
automatically to catch the wind.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQoqJYZHOmE9lfJuTtYvRcRxRPKjpx-Sd0FKEY5kwwLJx-1cXMV3lUG64QeVYHNw24EBOScZ4i_eu-xeEqrCWOh0imN2A7UgFHve-8EdZ9H2pjigOluwCGT7UylEMPoR0evAiE8s2GFRKNV4swmfA0aHOyowbDZzechnWL8CmDLUO_EICw9dj97WB_BAs/s1008/blogCobalt%20Lake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1008" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQoqJYZHOmE9lfJuTtYvRcRxRPKjpx-Sd0FKEY5kwwLJx-1cXMV3lUG64QeVYHNw24EBOScZ4i_eu-xeEqrCWOh0imN2A7UgFHve-8EdZ9H2pjigOluwCGT7UylEMPoR0evAiE8s2GFRKNV4swmfA0aHOyowbDZzechnWL8CmDLUO_EICw9dj97WB_BAs/s320/blogCobalt%20Lake.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Cobalt Lake (©2012 Charlene Brown): painted on the last day
of a heli-painting expedition in the Bugaboos – my best plein air painting day
ever!</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Originally built for heli-skiing, then high-elevation
heli-hiking, the whole system of lodges and helicopters in the Bugaboos is
conscientiously designed and operated to minimize the carbon footprint.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, in my book, Inventing the Future, I couldn’t
resist pointing out that fantastic plein air painting days such as this will be
even better in the future if transportation to the peaks is by electric airship! </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-22466538747928796842024-01-06T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-06T04:00:00.138-08:00The Sahara Rainforest – who knew?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYTUipR_utoWd_Caxbl8B4yOO9g9794zLznVakvtUIDfQqF5awPtFlByF05JWpGBoi9VKB5hBh00vyMhPLawK1pZNeN-KF6e7fKqj8LD740dPxMD1hmSqa5Bio7ZE73EbNwXqGfTBQuBjNxbe9kB_8pyTI3L_LzzUKYV77ISrPXMPNZk1akychBVvUjMY/s1008/blogForest%20Elephants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYTUipR_utoWd_Caxbl8B4yOO9g9794zLznVakvtUIDfQqF5awPtFlByF05JWpGBoi9VKB5hBh00vyMhPLawK1pZNeN-KF6e7fKqj8LD740dPxMD1hmSqa5Bio7ZE73EbNwXqGfTBQuBjNxbe9kB_8pyTI3L_LzzUKYV77ISrPXMPNZk1akychBVvUjMY/w286-h400/blogForest%20Elephants.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br />Forest elephants<br />watercolour<br />©2023 Charlene Brown</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Forest elephants, an endangered species, play a key role in the
survival of the African rainforest. They help sequester carbon as they prefer
to eat faster-growing, less carbon-dense types of trees, thus improving
conditions for the slower-growing, long-lived species with deep, expansive root
systems that sequester carbon most efficiently.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The elephants’ fondness for eating tree fruits, and
subsequently dispersing fruit tree seeds, also contributes significantly to
species diversification, another important factor in the viability and carbon
sequestration capacity of a forest. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3PhJczXgvEmiU1N1DzUX20bcYfA3RJ5MQkFxCMXlrg4ItMbSqHvBVgTO7ABzQWphXXKp6OkkJdZ2CYRBK9HaxwuxwN7NCEtKcO63gXDQo8HbsTAN9Qv4NN_O-N-nDQGPZul8WhOLIZ813kOETunwQ5FmnNcckEr1K3vjBMb5ct3kg5AChVUMI6aJ6Is/s1280/P1010596b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1280" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3PhJczXgvEmiU1N1DzUX20bcYfA3RJ5MQkFxCMXlrg4ItMbSqHvBVgTO7ABzQWphXXKp6OkkJdZ2CYRBK9HaxwuxwN7NCEtKcO63gXDQo8HbsTAN9Qv4NN_O-N-nDQGPZul8WhOLIZ813kOETunwQ5FmnNcckEr1K3vjBMb5ct3kg5AChVUMI6aJ6Is/w640-h427/P1010596b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: right;">Petroglyphs in Methkandouch, Libya</div><div style="text-align: right;">2006 photo by Charlene Brown</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Rock art such as that on the right, depicting forest elephants and
other jungle inhabitants, is found in abundance on the northern fringe of the
Sahara. This reflects the habitat before
climate conditions changed drastically ̶
possibly ‘tipped’ by pastoralists and
their herds about 10,000 years ago.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Last year I wrote about the <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-great-start-on-great-green-wall.html" rel="nofollow">encouraging progress being made in a project, launched in 2007</a>, to restore these conditions in the Sahara.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p> </p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-52302980991719260592024-01-03T04:00:00.000-08:002024-01-03T04:00:00.150-08:00Fifteenth Anniversary of 1150 Words by Charlene Brown! ...and The Plan for 2024 <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAh-6f16GJosPV-DYPdSWO3FZUhPHFOG6rPjR7Cn8eICQigORTAQt6VbC5_ba9iGIFo6Ca2YyKQPNWEfLC-up8grfu42jakoeisNn-bYgYLIG6PQub6UtDm8GcMpeghyphenhyphenOWI5RP_bKk25DjFp9cwDD1ztLbdK1PasPLVOKNs6yedO7nsSNpkf7v2l0R3Xk/s1080/blogLake%20Louise100wasser%20d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAh-6f16GJosPV-DYPdSWO3FZUhPHFOG6rPjR7Cn8eICQigORTAQt6VbC5_ba9iGIFo6Ca2YyKQPNWEfLC-up8grfu42jakoeisNn-bYgYLIG6PQub6UtDm8GcMpeghyphenhyphenOWI5RP_bKk25DjFp9cwDD1ztLbdK1PasPLVOKNs6yedO7nsSNpkf7v2l0R3Xk/s16000/blogLake%20Louise100wasser%20d.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Lake Louise Poppies<br />watercolour, crayon and Photoshop™<br />©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Paint
Every Mountain</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">: I will finish and publish<a name="_Hlk144806674"> a book about hiking and painting in mountains </a>all over the world. The above
painting of Lake Louise (Photoshopped ‘aprés <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=hundertwasser&tbm=isch&hl=en-GB&chips=q:hundertwasser,g_1:simple:GDVNJFQtGt4%3D,online_chips:hundertwasser+landscape:qRg3mdueImE%3D&rlz=1C1VDKB_enCA1006CA1006&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjcruK6gaSDAxUoHzQIHWEXCXsQ4lYoBXoECAEQQQ&biw=1512&bih=801" rel="nofollow">Hundertwasser</a>) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">will
be included in </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">one of the chapters on specific crayon
colours.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Creative Archaeology:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> I have continued
to build the series ‘Time Travel with a Bag of Crayons’ equipped with the</span><b style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">same</span><b style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </b><i style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">plein
air</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> painting kit I used for ‘Paint Every Mountain.’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The creative archaeology series, now in chronological order, will
include some of the photos and sketches I accumulated in past
archaeology-related travel with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the travel
study program at the University of Victoria. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Predictive Analytics</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> This has evolved into a
series of essays and illustrations of the increasingly drastic climate effects
of the Anthropocene.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-13465443810328135822023-12-31T04:00:00.000-08:002023-12-31T04:00:00.169-08:002023 Year-end Review<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2cCckp5VZinydleXLswM98e8885DuUz3j9YuGCOlfEnm17HFHg4ujuu5YAHQt61Xpv2YAIFj2u2F3y5kHJUhNAA8ls6LIbX-nDx8QNaXdqey9PO-tnw7oQal4zjlIKnXXi4_a49CYzZkywXTQoWaiaK0AF_7lKrMPYXugstdSlLyMpWQ9oPqkKilfFs/s1080/blogMaroon%20Bells.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2cCckp5VZinydleXLswM98e8885DuUz3j9YuGCOlfEnm17HFHg4ujuu5YAHQt61Xpv2YAIFj2u2F3y5kHJUhNAA8ls6LIbX-nDx8QNaXdqey9PO-tnw7oQal4zjlIKnXXi4_a49CYzZkywXTQoWaiaK0AF_7lKrMPYXugstdSlLyMpWQ9oPqkKilfFs/s16000/blogMaroon%20Bells.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Maroon Bells*<br />watercolour,
crayon and Photoshop™<br />©2023 Charlene
Brown</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In my <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2023/08/picking-up-where-i-left-off.html" rel="nofollow">August 27blog post</a>, after exactly a year of not writing anything on my blog,
I wrote, “At this point I’m going to pick up where I left off on the unfinished
projects in my 'Plan for 1150 Words in 2022' as if it had been written in
January 2023.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Here’s how that worked out:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Graphic Novel:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> I have stylized some
of my representational landscapes to use as backgrounds for the book’s
illustrations, added people and conversation ‘balloons’ to these stylized
backgrounds, and published ‘By-election in Exceptional Pass’ in mid-November.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Paint Every Mountain: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I have almost <a name="_Hlk144806674">finished a
small book about hiking and painting in mountains </a>all over the world,
working with what I have found to be the only truly portable <i>plein air</i> ‘painting’ kit, a bag of crayons. The above painting of Maroon Bells will be included
in the section of the book on specific colours.</span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Creative Archaeology:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> I have continued to build the series ‘Time
Travel with a Bag of Crayons’ equipped with the<b> </b>same<b> </b><i>plein
air</i> painting kit I used for ‘Paint Every Mountain.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The series, now in chronological order, will
include some of the photos and sketches I produced during past
archaeology-related travel with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the
University of Victoria travel study program. </span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Predictive Analytics: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I have painted several illustrations of the climate
effects of the Anthropocene. Some are straight-up
landscapes and others are interpretations/extrapolations of data relating to Greenhouse
Gas (GHG) emissions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">*Maroon Bells: According to
the U.S. Forest Service, these Colorado mountains received their distinctive
maroon coloring from the weathering of hematite. I don’t recall that they were
particularly maroon-looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact
they were kind of liver-coloured until I applied some mauve crayon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-42561471658137927582023-12-29T04:00:00.000-08:002023-12-29T04:00:00.447-08:00Two more shades of orange<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Jzt_fD7U0cp_K5OKclEqTIrVZbgFFjUc0jWTDgOisq9xKLSkY6Dj7YkkQFWq4jhA3sb5RhF2lxaKvMUp7utPL994bHsl6pc3EGZOrI5eqaSvzrBc7wlRmg8IoyC-hGKYiVddP4krAL3YLikDG6VC83PMSWpcvaNby-oGv8wtnNqoPTzFJfZehV6w-cM/s864/blogPangnirtungwinter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Jzt_fD7U0cp_K5OKclEqTIrVZbgFFjUc0jWTDgOisq9xKLSkY6Dj7YkkQFWq4jhA3sb5RhF2lxaKvMUp7utPL994bHsl6pc3EGZOrI5eqaSvzrBc7wlRmg8IoyC-hGKYiVddP4krAL3YLikDG6VC83PMSWpcvaNby-oGv8wtnNqoPTzFJfZehV6w-cM/s16000/blogPangnirtungwinter.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Midwinter afternoon in Pangnirtung<br /></span>watercolour and crayon<br />©2023 Charlene Brown</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span>Situated in the shadows of a steep-walled
fjord just south of the Arctic Circle, Pangnirtung doesn’t get a lot of sun
during the winter months. The street lights are on most of the day. (I’ve
relied on several internet photos to help me guess at the patterns and shades
of orange for this painting, as I have only seen Pangnirtung in the late summer
when it was still light most of the night).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The site is said to have been occupied
regularly by nomadic hunter-gatherers for almost 4000 years. But life in the
Arctic changed significantly in the early 1960s when Inuit were placed, often
forcibly, in permanent settlements by the Canadian government.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even though they then had access to
schools, hospitals and social services, the move was controversial. In an
attempt to ameliorate the negative effects of relocations and to create an
economic base, the government funded arts and crafts initiatives across the
Arctic. One of these was the hand-weaving cooperative where ‘Pangnirtung
tapestries’ are now produced. The Tapestry
Studio of the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts and Crafts was just getting underway at the time of my painting trip to
Pangnirtung (then still part of the Northwest Territories) in August-September
of 1990.</p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-88188500334363905772023-12-27T04:00:00.000-08:002023-12-27T04:32:48.168-08:00Crossroads of trade in the Yucatan<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQxgqujV5FIu0ADoPnV0NN1UJvDRONKDh_AHRtEK0agIeml9r6J5TMee1Rytg8luD6s4OdpFArbvp0t1MWAXpMA9GYInSDFTubUa7RKC3MLVK0WNcsPv-I41hZ_2kxi0KDhDsoU6_RDsHJMF04bhj9Ey3eBxZPQt6ua_jhECZjWPX4qb9pDjZKXLL5LM/s864/blogTulum%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="864" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQxgqujV5FIu0ADoPnV0NN1UJvDRONKDh_AHRtEK0agIeml9r6J5TMee1Rytg8luD6s4OdpFArbvp0t1MWAXpMA9GYInSDFTubUa7RKC3MLVK0WNcsPv-I41hZ_2kxi0KDhDsoU6_RDsHJMF04bhj9Ey3eBxZPQt6ua_jhECZjWPX4qb9pDjZKXLL5LM/s16000/blogTulum%202023.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">El Castillo at Tulum<br /></span>watercolour and crayon<br /><span lang="EN-US">©</span><span lang="EN-US">2023 Charlene Brown</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will include this recently completed painting in the book, ‘Time Travel with a bag of crayons’ that I am compiling.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The main pyramid-castle at Tulum, shown
here, is spectacularly situated on 12-metre cliffs looking east over the Caribbean.
One of the few Mayan sites with a fortified wall, Tulum was the only one on
the coast and thus controlled trade with South and Central America. Because of its economic importance, it was one
of the few cities that was still populated when the Spaniards arrived.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> There
are two kinds of painting trips – those involving some hiking or even climbing,
where you carry all your stuff and paint on location, and those where you stay
in one place long enough to spread out and do a ‘proper job,’ letting the paint
dry between layers and other refinements. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The hike around the entire Tulum
archaeological site can be completed in under an hour, but took my daughters
and me close to two hours because I started a crayon sketch every time I found a
shady place to sit down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are two pictures
that I completed after returning to Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggL4DE6BsNReJ4hrj4OqSYcIYOQt_yC3FyV_keqgZnOmV1uG8ge_a-a98gPX4ojHc3591hKB-t2jcTKqbEN0PYuVOWXeugpNIT_-96PVWR-tlPHvto4jcy98DRjNIJwQI_-lE36UMZd8maCXhjg8Cu5UJQ-tPyewQpA0e5v1RxVjBqsGyPypkCKnfOpIo/s1399/Tulum%20a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1399" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggL4DE6BsNReJ4hrj4OqSYcIYOQt_yC3FyV_keqgZnOmV1uG8ge_a-a98gPX4ojHc3591hKB-t2jcTKqbEN0PYuVOWXeugpNIT_-96PVWR-tlPHvto4jcy98DRjNIJwQI_-lE36UMZd8maCXhjg8Cu5UJQ-tPyewQpA0e5v1RxVjBqsGyPypkCKnfOpIo/w400-h289/Tulum%20a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">North side of El Castillo, from the base of
the cliff<br /></span>watercolour and crayon<br /><span lang="EN-US">©</span><span lang="EN-US">2010 Charlene Brown</span></p><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTq85pleHCi3Xwc6gNl8kXKZBFRBe7AknkPJCWQhwn3ZJgBEtjqmhw_9aYThMfD9x44hT5edSLkMEjyw0FmLuxxdTPULDWkxjOLZ6fDbAFfweLekH6TmoRUUxcmonYexe_Rh9wE9bHXzc2C8aOvpmhdfwqttnMPM6R9V0SaMb4_dzAiGaXyyeIRTfcgwg/s720/blogmayan1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="720" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTq85pleHCi3Xwc6gNl8kXKZBFRBe7AknkPJCWQhwn3ZJgBEtjqmhw_9aYThMfD9x44hT5edSLkMEjyw0FmLuxxdTPULDWkxjOLZ6fDbAFfweLekH6TmoRUUxcmonYexe_Rh9wE9bHXzc2C8aOvpmhdfwqttnMPM6R9V0SaMb4_dzAiGaXyyeIRTfcgwg/w400-h293/blogmayan1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">Mayan sunrise (sun
symbol copied from another building)<br /></span><span lang="EN-US">watercolour, crayon and Photoshop</span><span lang="EN-US">™<br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">©</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">2010
Charlene Brown</span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-3464611351216762722023-12-25T04:00:00.000-08:002023-12-25T04:00:00.140-08:00Hand-painted Christmas Card: Take 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEC9MY0OsHLq1so0Pa77HZhI_bosL1tfTmUe1VPH3zqAdrvm-9aTWpDZUHyzo4zvqMqpnO54u4eIy575h4zGlJZmTE9FlqROXkMmRNQ_qANYiqN4M0D_GkP0_kGrnRVcUBhN4RFFPAmaD-3QroGNyerP3xH7r-MmHWj4f1aw1b_BoZ-fZ2IAC1B14nH5E/s727/blogCanmoreChristmas%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="727" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEC9MY0OsHLq1so0Pa77HZhI_bosL1tfTmUe1VPH3zqAdrvm-9aTWpDZUHyzo4zvqMqpnO54u4eIy575h4zGlJZmTE9FlqROXkMmRNQ_qANYiqN4M0D_GkP0_kGrnRVcUBhN4RFFPAmaD-3QroGNyerP3xH7r-MmHWj4f1aw1b_BoZ-fZ2IAC1B14nH5E/s16000/blogCanmoreChristmas%201.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Christmas in
Canmore, the jpeg<br />watercolour,
crayon and computer<br />©2023 Charlene
Brown</div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On some of the
hand-painted Christmas cards I wrote about in a blog post a couple of weeks
ago, I tried the loose crayon and watercolour technique I often use for larger
paintings. These crayoned cards,
including Christmas in Canmore, were among the ‘unacceptable’ ones I mentioned
at the time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-no-proof: yes;">I think I’ve
salvaged this one by using another technique of which I am quite fond –
Photoshopping it within an inch of its life!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-no-proof: yes;">The background,
should you be wondering, includes some of the peaks on the southern flank of
Mt. Rundle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-41032421747768288052023-12-23T04:00:00.000-08:002023-12-23T17:01:34.638-08:00Another possibility for reducing food insecurity<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggM5pZpAXg-L4qPOtXE5w7EwLR_QpHuVtNCiyHRq6b-IS04cgAf0KibR8g01op-v6G-gCvtvprwoxsUp8qGpWMQorFv6DXujjpOofaIGFiph95yay3opvUfNaoFVMQYhtbtCza4TdYh_rpga-E-guvljftf3kKsvK7-iZ0PqdTZ_RAd7laZ4p9h1fBHPw/s671/blogMediterranean%20diet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="671" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggM5pZpAXg-L4qPOtXE5w7EwLR_QpHuVtNCiyHRq6b-IS04cgAf0KibR8g01op-v6G-gCvtvprwoxsUp8qGpWMQorFv6DXujjpOofaIGFiph95yay3opvUfNaoFVMQYhtbtCza4TdYh_rpga-E-guvljftf3kKsvK7-iZ0PqdTZ_RAd7laZ4p9h1fBHPw/s16000/blogMediterranean%20diet.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">The Mediterranean Diet<br /></span>watercolour, crayon and computer<br /><span lang="EN-US">©</span><span lang="EN-US">2023 Charlene Brown</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The increasingly-drastic impacts of climate
change are already showing up in very different ways ranging from floods and
rising water levels to droughts and wildfire. What is common to all these conditions is
the increased likelihood of food insecurity. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Like the ‘adventures in agriculture’ I
wrote about, the food required for a ‘Mediterranean diet’ can be produced by
more sustainable farming methods than other more meat-intensive diets, thus
mitigating food insecurity. </p><p class="MsoNormal">In addition to its more widely-known
reputation as a healthy diet for individuals, the Mediterranean diet has been
shown to have a lower environmental impact (smaller per capita carbon and water
footprints) making it healthier for the planet. </p><p>
</p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-61092953835273040202023-12-21T04:00:00.000-08:002023-12-31T06:44:18.397-08:00Tangential Adventures in Agriculture III<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XLEEcZZU4iMspusv7DdqTbX2xUcU2TMQyGEWXELTlfJFgfTHM4KbwqVjOuPQ2FVBVB07AlJdKiLxDqJgOqmMZl5KNGUsDF54PqNLWZbXNuuZ-2jSQkGFf5b98l-aJKUooaMICtLSes3lVeiMb5ZwGsDQs7PgLtEDoX2eIK-h7mfWnE4vQGh45swHruA/s1080/blogRegenerative%20Ocean%20Farming.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XLEEcZZU4iMspusv7DdqTbX2xUcU2TMQyGEWXELTlfJFgfTHM4KbwqVjOuPQ2FVBVB07AlJdKiLxDqJgOqmMZl5KNGUsDF54PqNLWZbXNuuZ-2jSQkGFf5b98l-aJKUooaMICtLSes3lVeiMb5ZwGsDQs7PgLtEDoX2eIK-h7mfWnE4vQGh45swHruA/s16000/blogRegenerative%20Ocean%20Farming.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Seaweed at Work<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">watercolour
and crayon<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">©2023
Charlene Brown</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Regenerative
ocean farming is a climate-friendly model of aquaculture where seaweeds and/or
shellfish are grown in a way that requires no freshwater, feed, or fertilizer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Seaweed and shellfish can absorb excess nutrients, and help mitigate harmful algal blooms, deoxygenated dead zones, and local ocean acidification. In addition, seaweed has been found to produce 70% more oxygen than land plants and, most importantly from the standpoint of climate change mitigation, absorbs carbon even more effectively than trees. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817696742762685190.post-1202172682302421942023-12-19T04:00:00.000-08:002023-12-19T04:00:00.252-08:00Tangential Adventures in Agriculture II<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzHqANJzePjQKl_A38fK2SmtW4wKGjyy2fFGFthA_TTstdrhuxnrI6wCWO5L0BkKU1ur94J3LmLNG_E5eS30dF6GsQnU9jLNVy8flyqJe28GP5aYg0gwujjzqTqOI4ZdGD6jVmryaG4kx7n4AU-bJ7L6ka0qR1KhNi9V9qRl3R9DnI-Cy26S4ho7C74M/s911/blogFood%20Forest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="911" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzHqANJzePjQKl_A38fK2SmtW4wKGjyy2fFGFthA_TTstdrhuxnrI6wCWO5L0BkKU1ur94J3LmLNG_E5eS30dF6GsQnU9jLNVy8flyqJe28GP5aYg0gwujjzqTqOI4ZdGD6jVmryaG4kx7n4AU-bJ7L6ka0qR1KhNi9V9qRl3R9DnI-Cy26S4ho7C74M/s16000/blogFood%20Forest.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f">
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crayon<br /><span lang="EN-US">©</span><span lang="EN-US">2023 Charlene Brown</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Wikipedia
defines a food forest, also called a forest garden, as a diverse planting of
edible plants that attempts to mimic the ecosystems and patterns found in
nature. Food forests are three-dimensional designs, with life extending in all
directions – up, down, and out.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Interestingly,
there is no mention of a fungal layer in this definition, but we’ll just assume it can be fitted
into the layer 5 defined in <b>Permaculture: A Beginners Guide by Graham
Burnett, </b>which contains this diagram:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZt0Y7cTwFg53abQb9fUApIknxTi1rbya1a48FdEMO-0YyqCAYVEjlgQqcgDPRYgNyXbS9LKEOo2IxyjmH-wlWwKMAitMmqJ7Lor1t6dzFYSp3rc9cqQ_Ff8kJlPVq6ElRBMlZ7lv-Bs8yw6NZRxCHJUF4Loq69F-Lq9O2vN6oWHD8yZFTfCjkORsJ9Ug/s600/food-forest-layers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="600" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZt0Y7cTwFg53abQb9fUApIknxTi1rbya1a48FdEMO-0YyqCAYVEjlgQqcgDPRYgNyXbS9LKEOo2IxyjmH-wlWwKMAitMmqJ7Lor1t6dzFYSp3rc9cqQ_Ff8kJlPVq6ElRBMlZ7lv-Bs8yw6NZRxCHJUF4Loq69F-Lq9O2vN6oWHD8yZFTfCjkORsJ9Ug/w640-h402/food-forest-layers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Last year, I
wrote about another climate change mitigation possibility, <a href="https://charlenebrownpainting.blogspot.com/2022/08/we-should-all-switch-from-red-meat-to.html " rel="nofollow">Agroforestry</a> <span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;">This program </span>has the double objective of </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;">food production</span> and </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;">restoration of the </span>a deforested land’s </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;">vital carbon sequestration capability.</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p><p>
</p>Charlene Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13845504349975059383noreply@blogger.com