When I was seven I met one of my childhood heroes, Dr Seuss, who was kind enough to come all the way to New Zealand to sign my copy of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I gave him a picture of a monster. Of all his wonderful books, The Lorax was his…

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The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on our planet, and one of the most intelligent and sensitive. In 1984 I visited the Greenpeace office in Adelaide, Australia, and they told me that blue whales are most likely already biologically extinct, because their were so few of them left that they couldn’t easily find…

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I attended this performance expecting an amazing Chinese cultural extravaganza, with a sprinkling of political messaging  about the persecution of the Falun Dafa (aka Falun Gong) religion in China. After all, this program is sponsored by Falun Dafa. I came away feeling that I’d just witnessed an overhyped, entertaining, colorful, charming, naive, heavy handed religious…

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