Sign up to receive daily reports about how you can enjoy, explore, and protect the planet. Mendel as a child, played by Kaarlo Isaacs. The US South has become the epicenter of a booming wood-pellet industry that has grown tenfold in the past decade. | Photo by Matt Eich. More than half the plants, according to the EIP report, "either failed to keep emissions below legal limits or failed to install required pollution controls," in violation of Clean Air Act standards. The remainder of this paper is arranged as follows. Something went wrong. In 2009, the EU set a goal of getting 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020—and EU commissioners included wood biomass in the definition of renewables. “You can leave and come back…. This is another industry that further puts our people at risk.". Section 2 discusses the use of DL for environmental remote sensing. Canopy analysis derives its usefulness from the vitality of the canopy. Home | Contact Us | Careers | En Español | Terms and Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights | Website HelpSierra Club® and "Explore, enjoy and protect the planet"® are registered trademarks of the Sierra Club. © 2020 Sierra Club.The Sierra Club Seal is a registered copyright, service mark, and trademark of the Sierra Club. The film follows Mendel (played by Tenoch Huerta), an evolutionary biologist who leaves Mexico for New York to study how the genetic engineering tool CRISPR can alter the physical characteristics of butterflies. 3. Please email webmaster@sierraclub.org. The film conveys the mundanity of lab work without downplaying its wonder. “As the director, I don't want to take a stance and say, ‘Stop destroying the butterfly forest!’" Gambis said. ", Mendel talks butterflies with his girlfriend (played by Alexia Rasmussen) in New York City. Canopy Analysis for Crop, Forest & Plant ResearchThe range of applications of canopy cover analysis is truly astounding. Enviva, the world's largest producer of wood pellets for what it calls "sustainable wood bio­energy," opened a processing facility in Hamlet. “But I feel like they're very much connected. Dissertations & Theses from 2019. Trump’s “Trillion Trees” promise—and its potential under Biden. The town of about 6,000 people in Richmond County is close to a Perdue Farms chicken-processing plant, a Duke Energy biogas facility, a Piedmont Natural Gas power plant, a Trinity Manufacturing chemical plant, and a CSX rail hub through which freight cars carrying coal ash regularly pass. 2. Please email, Ever wonder what hiking trails are the most dangerous, how to throw a vegan barbecue, or whether to use a paper towel or a hand dryer? Something went wrong. Télécharger des livres par Joe Dever Date de sortie: February 28, 2019 Éditeur: Gallimard Jeunesse Nombre de pages: 256 pages "What we're seeing with wood-pellet biomass is a continuation of injustice in environmental justice communities," said Reverend Leo Woodberry, pastor of Kingdom Living Temple in Florence, South Carolina, and the environmental justice chair of the Sierra Club's Ready for 100 campaign. The broad idea was that the unmarketable leftovers from the logging industry could be upcycled into wood pellets that could easily replace coal as a fuel source in existing power plants. Sign up to receive daily reports about how you can enjoy, explore, and protect the planet. | Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Alexis Gambis. In the film, science and spirituality are not juxtaposed but in conversation with one another. Sign up for the Green Life for updates on living well and doing good from, Published in the January/February 2021 issue of, The Truth Behind Big, Beautiful Reforestation Initiatives, Prescribed Burn Associations Are One Answer to California’s Megafires, “Son of Monarchs” Pays Homage to the Beauty of Migration, The So-Called Secret Science Rule is Kaput ... For Now, Dispatch From New River Gorge, Our Newest National Park, Biden’s First Order of Business Was the Environment, Climate Change Forces Farmers to Migrate North, Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights. Please email webmaster@sierraclub.org. Wood-pellet manufacturing emits a form of soot and dust called PM 2.5, which can pass deep into the lungs and depress lung function, worsen asthma, and cause heart attacks. “Ozone Hole” Shows That We Avoided Planetary Disaster Before, A Poet, a Nebula, and the State of California, “Son of Monarchs” Pays Homage to the Beauty of Migration, The So-Called Secret Science Rule is Kaput ... For Now, Dispatch From New River Gorge, Our Newest National Park, Biden’s First Order of Business Was the Environment, Climate Change Forces Farmers to Migrate North, Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights. Woodberry said. "At a time of pandemic when we have shut down sporting events, bars, and restaurants, there's no reason on God's green earth why we shouldn't put a moratorium on the wood-pellet industry. "At a minimum, there are hundreds of thousands of people exposed on the front lines to these pollutants," Woodberry told Sierra. What’s meant to be a two-day visit reconnects him with old friends and family as well as the trauma that drove him away from the place he once called home. But researchers and environmental groups say that biomass for electricity production is not the green-energy solution that corporations like Enviva promise. Biblioteca personale It's part of who he is. "And you want to put up more facilities that might put more people at risk?" Section 3 analyzes some popular network structures and the roles of various networks for different data processing tasks. And here, it's about Mexican scientists who actually return to Mexico and live between worlds. Please email, Ever wonder what hiking trails are the most dangerous, how to throw a vegan barbecue, or whether to use a paper towel or a hand dryer? Meanwhile, the demand for wood pellets is accelerating clearcutting in the South, where forests are being logged at four times the rate of those in the Amazon rainforest. "What's also ignored is the environmental justice angle in all this. Thanks for signing up for the Green Life email newsletter. As a Brooklyn-based immigrant who wrestles with the paradox of cultural belonging—torn between his French, Venezuelan, and American identities—he encourages the audience to think critically about who they are and where they come from. 1. The butterfly migrations of Mendel’s childhood are diminished by deforestation and mining, even as local schoolchildren memorize and reenact the passage of the monarchs from North America to Mexico and perform climate change through folklore dance (the children’s reenactment is based on a real performance that Gambis saw while in Mexico). But I want to emphasize that in the animal world, migration is cyclical, and I hope people can relate to that, and to embrace that migration is beautiful.”. Thanks for signing up for the Green Life email newsletter. "The promotion of wood products as some sort of climate solution is completely ignoring the climate science," Danna Smith, the executive director of the forest-protection advocacy nonprofit Dogwood Alliance in North Carolina, told Sierra. Woodberry is not interested in waiting for the proof, as pellet manufacturing is set for further growth. “Oftentimes, scientific pursuit and research are separated from the spiritual aspect,” Gambis said. Like what you read? Definition Extension: An example, further explanation, ... piled, or windrowed dead woody fuel, generally in the absence of a merchantable overstory. Research from the British policy institute Chatham House has concluded that the burning of wood for power emits more carbon than coal per unit of electricity produced. Christopher Ketcham is the author of This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West.  He can be reached at cketcham99@mindspring.com.”. Much of the film unfolds through flashbacks, blurring the lines between Mendel’s childhood in Michoacán and his life in New York. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, i The facilities, all of which were exporting pellets to Europe, emitted some 16,000 tons of air pollutants annually. He doesn't need to speak about it.”, Just as science is innate to Mendel, so is his hybrid identity as a Latino immigrant living in between cultures. “What you see in films about Latinos and Mexicans is very stereotypical,” Gambis said. Community groups seek to fill in the gap left by overtaxed agencies, Whoops! The film expands the definition of what it means to be an immigrant by deviating from reductive tropes of Latin American migration, like the sacrificial immigrant who risks it all for a better life. Sign up for the Green Life for updates on living well and doing good from. In 2018, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) published a review of the operations of 21 wood-pellet processing facilities in the South. Join the conversation on social media. © 2020 Sierra Club.The Sierra Club Seal is a registered copyright, service mark, and trademark of the Sierra Club. In 2019, a new industry came to town. After discovering that his grandmother has passed away, Mendel travels to Mexico to attend her funeral in Michoacán, home to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Many methods to measure canopy cover have been developed in the last 80 years to meet various objectives. Krishnan, Ankita (2019) Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder Through a Cultural Lens: Perspectives, Stigma, and Cultural Values among Asians . Whoops! Abdel-Salam, Ahmed Nabil (2018) … The town of about 6,000 people in Richmond County is close to a Perdue Farms chicken-processing plant, a Duke Energy biogas facility, a Piedmont Natural Gas power plant, a Trinity Manufacturing chemical plant, and a CSX rail hub through which freight cars carrying coal ash regularly pass. His work has been published in Civil Eats, PRX’s Living On Earth, GreenBiz, Prism and more. As those new EU energy rules have come into effect, the US South has become the epicenter of a booming wood-pellet industry that has grown tenfold in the past decade. Volunteering. I don't want the character to suddenly say, ‘Oh, I made a discovery!’ I would rather watch him work in the lab in silence. When Mendel embraces his animal spirit during an ancestral ceremony or gazes into his microscope to extract butterfly pigment, the goal of understanding the world is the same. Forests in the Southeast are being logged at four times the rate of those in the Amazon, in part to produce pellets for biomass energy. Hamlet, North Carolina, is a place ringed by polluting industries. The idea of being in a laboratory and trying to understand the building blocks of life and how things work is the utmost kind of spiritual process.”, Son of Monarchs avoids the dramatization of planetary disruption that’s common in the science fiction genre (think Snowpiercer, Annihilation, and The Martian). Sign up for daily updates from Sierra magazine. “What you see in films about Latinos and Mexicans is very stereotypical,” Gambis said. Not surprisingly, there have been several comparisons of the tools in different parts of the world. Maybe we don't know where Mendel ends up, but he floats like a butterfly. “I don't want to preach, because I feel that these conversations are so complicated.”. 2. Section 4 provides a comprehensive review of the applications of the traditional NN and DL in environmental remote sensing, including land cover … 3. Hamlet, North Carolina, is a place ringed by polluting industries. Born to a painter and a filmmaker, Gambis rebelled against a career in art. Sign up for daily updates from Sierra magazine. The manufacturing of biomass-energy wood pellets requires drying the logged material in a wood-fired process, then pressing the dried wood into pellets—and every step emits significant amounts of air pollution. Critics say that the climate-neutrality claims behind biomass depend on a carbon-accounting sleight of hand that ignores the critical time frame of decarbonizing in the next 10 to 15 years to avoid catastrophic climate warming. "It's usually about crossing the border. It's all cyclical. The film expands the definition of what it means to be an immigrant by deviating from reductive tropes of Latin American migration, like the sacrificial immigrant who risks it all for a better life. By signing up, you are opting in to receive periodic communications from the Sierra Club. According to industry projections, the sector will increase from a market valuation of $4.1 billion in 2018 to $6.8 billion by 2025. Like what you read? 1. “I was really drawn to biology from an aesthetic and narrative point of view,” Gambis told Sierra. Gambis hopes that viewers walk away from Son of Monarchs with a deeper appreciation of how we are all animals, not only within a specific ecosystem but also as creatures who are as dependent on migration as other species. Subscribe to our magazine by becoming a Sierra Club member today. “If you go to a research lab today, it's full of people from around the world that come and migrate for work reasons,” Gambis said. Most of the pellets produced there will eventually be exported to the United Kingdom and the European Union, where they will be burned as fuel in utility-scale power plants. According to the EIP study, the emissions from the facilities include fine particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds. To some, a film about a Mexican scientist’s spiritual transformation into a butterfly may seem strange. What would it take to see the planet beyond our own mythology of need? Subscribe to our magazine by becoming a Sierra Club member today. But after completing a PhD in molecular biology and genetics, he sought ways to bridge his academic research with visual storytelling. He's in Mexico, he’s in New York—there's no permanence. Suzuki, Takakuni (2019) Quantifying the Relations among Neurophysiological Responses, Dimensional Psychopathology, and Personality Traits . A quarter of the residents live at or below the federal poverty line of $26,200 a year for a family of four. "Look at Hamlet, where the people who live there, especially lower-income African Americans, already suffer from industrial pollution. ", As the international biomass industry cloaks its global carbon emissions, the manufacturing of wood pellets has inundated the rural poor in the South with localized air pollution. “I hope people understand that migration is fluid,” Gambis said. “There's this obsession with sensationalizing science where it brings you into these dystopian worlds,” Gambis said. Something went wrong. | Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Alexis Gambis. Who is responsible for the West’s wildfires? Something went wrong. Download free books in PDF format. Its purpose is to reduce unsightly fuel concentrations, or consume unwanted natural fuels to facilitate subsequent resource management or land use actions on the area. Home | Contact Us | Careers | En Español | Terms and Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights | Website HelpSierra Club® and "Explore, enjoy and protect the planet"® are registered trademarks of the Sierra Club. Aaron Mok (@aaroncmok) is an editorial fellow at Sierra Magazine. Son of Monarchs explores Mendel’s psychic transformation as he reconciles the loss of his parents, the loss of his culture, and ultimately, the loss of himself. Volatile organic compounds, when exposed to sunlight, transform into ozone, which is especially dangerous to children and the elderly. In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees. He said that there has been a rise in respiratory problems, fevers, and cancer in communities near wood-pellet processing facilities, but proof of a connection is "hard for us" because there are no epidemiological studies that tie health problems directly to the wood-pellet boom. The result is Son of Monarchs, written and directed by Gambis. The biomass-energy industry is a climate and environmental justice disaster. Read online books for free new release and bestseller Tenoch Huerta plays Mendel, a Mexican scientist studying the mysteries of butterfly pigment. There are approximately 128 species, most of which are native to Asia, with a number also appearing in Europe, northern Africa, and North America.Only one species, Acer laurinum, extends to the Southern Hemisphere. Of course, it's a certain type of migration, because there are some [migrants] that can't go back home. By signing up, you are opting in to receive periodic communications from the Sierra Club. Whoops! Since trees can be replanted, the biomass and forestry industries claimed, the carbon lost in logging and burning them would be absorbed again as the new trees grew. It is the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, awarded to a feature film focused on science and technology, and recently premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But to Alexis Gambis, it’s personal. At one Enviva facility in Virginia, plant operators went so far as to remove pollution-control equipment. All instructional videos by Phil Chenevert and Daniel (Great Plains) have been relocated to their own website called LibriVideo. According to the definition from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), agroforestry represents “land-use systems and technologies where woody perennials (trees, shrubs, palms, bamboos, etc.) Cerca nel più grande indice di testi integrali mai esistito. Whoops! David Attenborough, Why Did It Take You So Long? In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. 19 talking about this. A surreal film explores the psyche of an immigrant biologist, Sir David finally dives into the apocalypse, The PBS documentary chronicles our response to the other climate catastrophe. | Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Alexis Gambis, Although Son of Monarchs explores a range of ideas, Gambis weaves them together with subtle precision. Dissertations & Theses from 2018. “It's a different type of migration that happens in the US.” Mendel’s story is an intimate look into the emotional consequences that follow a sovereign choice, and it’s his negotiation between identity and belonging that makes this film so visceral. According to federal data, Black children are 1.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with asthma than white children and seven times more likely to die from it. Join the conversation on social media. See … The film is layered with sharp observations on science, spirituality, the environment, and migration. ", This article appeared in the January/February edition with the headline "Forests to Burn.". Acer / ˈ eɪ s ər / is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.The genus is placed in the family Sapindaceae. Trees take many decades, sometimes a century, to fully mature and store the carbon that's emitted when forests are felled and burned.