Jeri Parrent

In Review: Reclaiming the Yangtze

2 May, 2012 | Jeri Parrent

Waking the Green Tiger, directed by Gary Marcuse, Canada: Heaven and Earth, 2011, 78 minutes.
Reviewed by Jeri Parrent

In the southwestern province of Yunnan, the headwaters of China’s three major rivers glide side by side, carving deep, beautiful gorges through the country’s most culturally and biologically diverse regions. The Salween, Mekong and Yangtze rivers are also the subjects of dozens of proposed dams. The largest is the Tiger Leaping Gorge Dam on the upper Yangtze. Second in scale only to the infamous Three Gorges Dam, Tiger Leaping is poised to displace hundreds of thousands of farmers and permanently flood hundreds of kilometers of farmland. ...

Published in: Art & Media 38.3

In Review: Good Carbon

13 April, 2011 | Jeri Parrent

The Biochar Debate: Charcoal's Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build Soil Fertility, James Bruges, White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010, 128 pages.

Most humans are familiar with char- coal, having depended upon these inky fists of carbon as a primary source of fuel, or as fodder for grilling favou- rite foods during summer celebrations. Biochar, however, seems much more exotic, novel and environmentally sound than its cousin.

Charcoal is produced when organic material, usually wood, is heated at high temperatures in the absence of oxygen. …

Published in: EcoBooks 37.3

In Brief: Aliens Help Endangered American Chestnuts

21 October, 2010 | Jeri Parrent
 PRIZED FOR ITS wood and edible nuts, the American chestnut tree once towered prominently over Lake Erie’s northern shore. Decades after its virtual disappearance from the hardwood forests of Eastern North America, the endangered tree is being reintroduced to Ontario’s Carolinian forests. ...
Published in: Biodiversity 36.6
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