Categories
Tibet

TIBETAN EARTH, TIBETAN SOILS

from a small book of essays, poetry and art on the Soil and the Earth, edited by  Vandana Shiva, celebrating the International Year of Soils, 2015 ********************** That the soils of the Tibetan Plateau exist at all is remarkable. This vast island in the sky is, in planetary history, so new, so high and still […]

Categories
Tibet

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE

WILL TIBET WATER CHINA NORTH AND SOUTH? China’s completion of the two routes channelling water from the Yangtze far to the north, to water deficit northern China, sets the scene for one of the biggest decisions China will make in the coming year. The decision facing China’s leaders in 2015 is whether to now go […]