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 ==== Hiking: Surfaces, Contact, and Encounters ==== ==== Hiking: Surfaces, Contact, and Encounters ====
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 +By Ron Broglio
  
  
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 –Alphonso Lingis, The Imperative</blockquote> –Alphonso Lingis, The Imperative</blockquote>
  
-–Ron Broglio 
  
  
 ==== Natural History Lesson: Cairns ==== ==== Natural History Lesson: Cairns ====
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 +By Ron Broglio
  
 <blockquote>We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive luster to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity. <blockquote>We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive luster to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity.
 –Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. In Praise of Shadows –Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. In Praise of Shadows
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-{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34206276373/in/album-72157681429258454/}}</blockquote>+{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34206276373/in/album-72157681429258454/}}
  
  
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 Placed there at some point in the past for passers-by to witness (in their ‘now’) and holding forth into a future, the cairn is a technology of social signaling. Cairns are antennae between their ecological surrounds and the social. Or they are beacons of transmission and reception linked across space and time. They are born of geological time, stand currently within a human present, and then will tumble again into a geological time beyond the human. The grouping of rocks is more-than-human technology as the more interesting cairns call attention to the rocks themselves as an animate geological presence.  Placed there at some point in the past for passers-by to witness (in their ‘now’) and holding forth into a future, the cairn is a technology of social signaling. Cairns are antennae between their ecological surrounds and the social. Or they are beacons of transmission and reception linked across space and time. They are born of geological time, stand currently within a human present, and then will tumble again into a geological time beyond the human. The grouping of rocks is more-than-human technology as the more interesting cairns call attention to the rocks themselves as an animate geological presence. 
  
-–Ron Broglio 
  
 <blockquote>Here’s how direct-air carbon capture works: Giant turbines pull in huge quantities of air, hoovering up molecules of carbon dioxide so we can store it somewhere that’s NOT the atmosphere. The Icelandic pilot program can remove an estimated 50 metric tons of CO2 from the air in a year. It pumps the collected gas deep into the island’s volcanic bedrock, where it reacts with basalt and essentially turns into limestone. Voilà! No massive reservoirs to manage for millennia — just a lot of rock. <blockquote>Here’s how direct-air carbon capture works: Giant turbines pull in huge quantities of air, hoovering up molecules of carbon dioxide so we can store it somewhere that’s NOT the atmosphere. The Icelandic pilot program can remove an estimated 50 metric tons of CO2 from the air in a year. It pumps the collected gas deep into the island’s volcanic bedrock, where it reacts with basalt and essentially turns into limestone. Voilà! No massive reservoirs to manage for millennia — just a lot of rock.
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-Dust and Shadow Reader Vol. 1 
  
-[[fieldnotes 1]]\\ +Dust and Shadow [[reader_1|Reader Vol. 1]]. Previous: [[objects and cairns]]. Next: [[designing bridges]]. 
-[[alternative awareness]]\\ + 
-[[ways of listening]]\\ +References: [[bibliography]] 
-[[objects and cairns]]\\ +
-[[designing bridges]]\\ +
-[[walking exercises]]\\ +
-[[recipes]]\\ +
-[[fieldnotes 2]]\\ +
-[[bibliography]]\\+
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