Great Apes 2020

Posted by admin on Mar 2, 2015

monday 02 march, 2015 — Riding the project roller-coaster

Portland, OR — You would think after 30 plus years of working freelance (no, in this case that is not code for I don’t have a job) I would have figured out that projects, especially big gnarly ones like Great Apes 2020 are a roller-coaster — and one in every manner imaginable: economic, logistic and especially emotional. The past couple weeks have definitely been a microcosm of the whole...

Posted by admin on Jan 15, 2015

Diary #134 – New GA2020 Website Coming Soon… to a digital device near you

Portland, OR — I’m certain there is a better way to do this, but paper and pen and camera (often now iPhone 6 plus) are my communication tools of choice — even when the final product is a digital web world. Thanks to enthusiastic help from web designer Kate, my initial rudimentary web-thoughts fermented in very traditional form. I struggle with Google Maps and digital clocks in the same way....

Posted by admin on Jan 6, 2015

Diary #133 – Juggling in the Jungle

Portland, OR — Have you ever tried to juggle green balls in the jungle? An eight-year-old asked me that once in complete and utter earnestness. Why? Because that’s what eight-year-olds do. I remember saying to him, “I think it would be kinda hard.” “But,” he replied, “you could do it, right?” It’s only Tuesday January 6th, the heartbeat of the New Year has...

Posted by admin on Dec 10, 2014

Diary #132 – 52% Hurts Everyday

Portland, OR — Every morning I wake and rise, stop the bleeding, then I focus on loving the world all over agin, and go back to work. “I remembered that when I read the news that the world has lost 52% of its vertebrate wildlife over the past 40 years(2). It’s a figure from which I’m still reeling. To love the natural world is to suffer a series of griefs, each compounding the last. It is to...

Posted by admin on Dec 9, 2014

Diary #128 – 2015 Global Conservation Prize

Philadelphia, PA USA — In deciding to rebrand—change the name—of the great ape project to Great Apes 2020 I considered a number of things, primary among those was the that this project was far from over and the reality was 2020, the end of this decade, was the deadline from the start, even if I hadn’t fully wrapped my head around the idea of an eight-year project. But affirmation came...

Posted by admin on Nov 7, 2014

Virunga: The Movie PREMIERS TONIGHT on Netflix

Virunga: The Movie PREMIERS TONIGHT on Netflix Who will be watching Virunga: The Movie on Netflix tonight? #Virunga has received such outstanding reviews and I am extremely proud of everyone associated with the film — BRILLIANT WORK! — and of course the real heroes at Virunga National Park! http://www.netflix.com/… See More Virunga – Official Trailer Virunga is the...

Posted by admin on Nov 7, 2014

Diary #127 – Ecology of Disease

Seattle, WA – Disease outbreak, especially infectious disease, is largely an environmental issue. According to EcoHealth Alliance, whose researchers and scientists are solely focused on the ecology of disease eruption, or spillover. Seventy-five percent of emerging infectious diseases that affect humans are zoonotic — they originate in wild animals, livestock or environmental...