As much as I am in love with Brendon, him & Sarah are the greatest couple. I want what they have. :)
The Amazon rainforest faces obvious threats—climate change, deforestation, mining—but what’s even worse than the large-scale mines operated by large, often foreign, corporations is the illegal, smaller-scale mining that has been going on in the region.
Illegal gold mining has been on the rise, at times with deadly costs, particularly since the price of gold has climbed to $1600 or more an ounce (up from $250 about a decade ago), spilling tons of mercury and ravaging the rainforest everywhere gold exists, including in protected areas
Amazon Gold
Amazon Aid Foundation cofounder Sarah duPont is doing everything she can to stop the practice and to save the Amazon. The foundation has a film coming out—Amazon Gold, set to premiere in Missoula, Montana on May 6—that follows war journalists Donovan Webster and Ron Haviv, as well as biologist Enrique Ortiz, “as they explore how illegal gold mining has devastated the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Their journey reflects on the loss of biodiversity by deforestation of the rainforest.”Artists for the Amazon
But this is a large issue that can’t be solved with just a film, however much awareness it raises. DuPont and Amazon Aid—which has a mission of bringing together science, art, multimedia and education to protect the Amazon rainforest—have also been in talks with jewelry companies to clean up their supply chains and make sure they’re not supporting this illegal mining. And they’ve been getting artists from Sissy Spacek to last year’s Grammy sensation Esperanza Spalding on board with Artists for the Amazon, using their platforms to drive attention to the threats facing the rainforest and efforts to protect it.DuPont said she’s been traveling to the Amazon for 13 years, getting to know some of the best scientists focused on the biodiversity and climate patterns in the area and learning how climate change is already affecting local habitats, as well as how the Amazon influences the world’s weather patterns. She has gathered a wealth of knowledge that needs to be shared, spread, and acted upon—today. As duPont said in a recent phone conversation: “how are we going to protect it if we don’t understand what’s at stake?”
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Tom Hiddleston’s impersonations of Owen Wilson, Chris Evans and Samuel L. Jackson
I loved this part. These three gifs show how much Jared is in love with the music he creates. How it is so much a part of him that when he revisits it, he cannot help but move. He wants perfection. He strives for perfection. He doesn’t accept anything less than the best of himself, and that comes out through his music. He shares the deepest part of his soul with us, his family. He lays it all out there on the table for everyone to see, everyone to criticize, everyone to love or hate. No matter if the thought of bearing his soul for everyone to poke at scares the shit out of him, he does it anyway, because it’s what he knows how to do. All he knows how to do is love and express himself. He is the most beautiful soul I have ever witnessed on this planet.
Just my thoughts.
