Bamboo!
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
As I continue to build my statistical model of India’s forests and potential drivers of deforestation, I can’t help but be enamored by bamboo. I need land and I need to plant.
(This bamboo comes from an old growth stand in Madagascar when I was there in 2009. The photo doesn’t do justice to the monstrous size of this thicket. The creaking in the breeze was unnerving.)
Tags: bamboo, deforestation, india, madagascar, old growth, sky through trees
Lost photo: Longing for emerald islands
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Andamans on my mind
Not sure I ever posted this shot.
Tags: aerial, andaman and nicobar, india, island, photography, plane, rainbow
Oh to see the beach
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Havelock No. 3
Dreaming of Havelock… But in a few weeks, I’ll at least be on sandy shores in Panama.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, beach, havelock, india, photography, tide flats
Back to the start
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under united states
So right, in so many ways.
That this aired in primetime during the Grammy Awards is a powerful statement. I don’t want to see corporate American brand sustainable, simple living as something of its own (hell, I’ve come late to the party). But my heart is warmed over at the thought of such ethics in the mainstream.
Tags: back to the start, coldplay, conservation, ethics, simple life, sustainability, the scientist, willie nelson
I want to hang out with fishermen
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
My people
I spend a lot of time thinking about small-scale fishermen. I do not spend enough time actually hanging out with small-scale fishermen.
Like these guys, whose boat is beached for the afternoon in the tide flats of Havelock.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, beach, fishermen, havelock, india, photography, tide flats
Lonely tree
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
I wish I could be there with her
I love this beach. I love her. I want them together.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, beach, photography, tide flats, tree
I’m writing to you, Senator #nokxl
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under united states
Senator Durbin:
This is not a form letter. You and I have shaken hands plenty; for a while we were on a first-name basis when I was a political reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. How many times did I tour the Metro East with you? How many times was I there at town hall meetings in the Collinsville City Council chambers or Edwardsville or Granite City?
Today, I am in graduate school here in D.C. studying environmental policy. I’m an activist. I was arrested for protesting in front of the White House in September. I’m a scholar. I research natural resource policy, environmental degradation and sustainable development.
I’m asking you as a professional acquaintance, as someone who listened for a long time to the political concerns of southern Illinoisans, as a worried citizen and as a registered Illinois voter (my permanent address is in Champaign) to do all you can to stop GOP factions and Big Oil special interests from resurrecting the Keystone XL pipeline.
If you and your allies in the Senate take the time to talk straight to Americans (whatever the hell Fox News thinks), they will listen. If you take a moral stand, you’ll be doing the right thing (whatever the hell the Tea Party thinks).
And if you need help that I can provide, contact me.
There’s so much more we could be doing to invigorate our economy and protect this planet. Think about green jobs in a renewable energy economy. Think solar and offshore wind and green infrastructure. Think better quality of living and public health. Think natural splendor that warms heart and soul.
But if we instead take the cheap (actually more costly) and dirty (yes, really, really dirty) way of burning tar sands, we become that much more path dependent on oil. That’s game over for our planet.
I’ve heard you tell me directly about how Washington needs change, how it’s beholden to special interests, how our government needs bold action.
I say to you, lead the charge.
Adam Jadhav
Tags: activism, conservation, dick durbin, energy, environment, illinois, keystone xl, oil, pipeline, politics, protest
Jangal hei
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Jangal = jungle
After net gains for several years, India’s forest cover is in decline. The full data is available now from the Forest Survey of India in its newly released State of the Forest Report 2011.
The government writes off any major backsliding, saying the reduction is due to shifting cultivation patterns in the rural northeast, plantation harvesting and Naxal rebels cutting trees. That last one is a dubious.
More likely, there are many factors at play in a complex dynamic that varies state by state. I’m in the process of designing a statistical research project looking for explanation among a number of variables, biological, economic, political and social.
The photo above comes from tropical forest in the Andaman Islands.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, conservation, deforestation, forest, india, jangal, jungle, photography, research, sky through trees, trees
What’s the name of this fish again?
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
North Indian anemonefish
Also, I believe, properly known as a Clark’s Anemonefish. Like all species, identification is difficult because people everywhere call them by different common names.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, clark's anemonefish, divemaster training, fish, india, minerva's ledge, North Indian Anemonefish, ocean, photography, scuba diving
Old joke: How do lionfish mate?
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Lionfish interrupted
Very carefully.
The logistics seem difficult with all those spines… but I might have disturbed a tender moment between two poisonous, beautiful fish.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, divemaster training, fish, india, jackson's bar, lionfish, ocean, photography, poison, scuba diving, toxic, wildlife
