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Pacific Standard

Pacific Standard tells stories about society’s biggest problems, both established and emerging, and the people attempting to solve them. www.pubservice.com/mmc/subnew.aspx?PC=MM
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Happy holidays! Our gift to you? A sneak preview of our Jan/Feb homelessness issue, out 12/30. Want to get your hands on a copy? Subscribe by following the link in our bio, or find it at a bookstore near you. Design by @itstaylorle #design #art #socialjustice #homeless #magazine
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“It’s hard staying home all day doing kid stuff and house stuff. LuLaRoe makes me feel like it’s keeping that working side of my brain alive.” ------- You've probably seen it all over your Facebook newsfeed: Clothing company LuLaRoe advertises fashionable, comfortable outfits, and promises salespeople a fun way to make extra money. But is it empowerment, or an anti-feminist throwback? Read our investigation by following the link in our bio. ------- #lularoe #lula #fashion #longreads #feminism ------- Art by @itstaylorlee
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Want the story behind this photo? In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. #photography #art #cowboy #inthepicture Photo by @dustin_franz
"While people across the country were busy celebrating the 100th anniversary of the national parks this year, our national mammal was being demonized, brutalized, and effectively caged in what amounts to a Yellowstone National Zoo. If this is the sum of respect for our nation’s great symbols, then I say killing wild bison is no different than burning an American flag." Once, 30 to 60 million bison freely roamed the country. Now just 4,900 remain. Read Christopher Ketcham's "The Buffalo's Burden" by clicking the link in our bio. Photo by Michelle McCarron. #Wildlife #NationalParks #Photography #AnimalRights #Animals
© @yuri.kozyrev / @noorimages. Polina, 8 is a member of the commune of 51 families, age from 1 to 91 years, settled along the bank of Ob river, 115 kilometres North of Novosibirsk. About 100,000 Russian families follow the Anastasia movement, based on the ideas of spiritual books by Vladimir Megre. New communities of homesteaders have sprung up across some of the most remote sections of Russia in the past decade, including Siberia, attracting thousands of Russians in search of a simple, self-sufficient and environmentally friendly lifestyle free from state control and big city corruption. The movement began about a decade ago, and increased several times over in recent years. Some participants think they have found solutions, others feel disappointed and disillusioned. Hi everyone! This is @noorimages, taking over @PacificStand instagram feed. In the frame of COP22, this week we share a selection of photos from the project ‘Climate Change by NOOR’. https://psmag.com/tagged/cop22
© @kadirvanlohuizen / @noorimages. Gaza water scarcity. A Bedouin boy lives next to the Gaza river in Al Zahra. The river is an open sewage and a direct health for the people living around it. The Gaza river is heavily polluted and basically is an open sewage. The river lacks water because upstream on the Israeli side, water is used for irrigation. After two Intifadas and a blockade that has lasted for more than two years now, the 1.7 million people of Gaza feel abandoned. There is a lack of everything, and everyone struggles. Despite all the media coverage, however, one critical aspect of the Gazans struggles to survive has been overlooked: water. If nothing changes, Gaza will have no safe drinking water. Already today, only 5% of Gaza’s groundwater meets the WHO standards and is drinkable, according to the UN report, “Gaza 2020: A Liveable Place?” People have to buy ‘safe’ water from tank trucks that come to the neighborhoods. The water is not safe anymore, because the aqua fare (the groundwater mirror) is lowering, consequently the seawater is entering the groundwater reserves, which means the nitrate in the water is reaching dangerous levels. Fishermen are nowadays only allowed to fish only as far as three miles from the coast, due to the blockade. Only further from the coast the sea is not contaminated with sewage anymore Hi everyone! This is @noorimages, taking over @PacificStand instagram feed. In the frame of COP22, this week we share a selection of photos from the project ‘Climate Change by NOOR’. https://psmag.com/tagged/cop22
© @stanleygreene / @noorimages. Holding the sun in your hands, Nairobi, Kibera Kenya, 2010. Wycliffe Samde -23year, uses his lamp to buy milk at night when there is no electricity at night in Kibera. He says it is very hard to walk around at night, because people will try to kill you for your shoes. He also feels Kerosene is unhealthy and thinks it causes cancer, “the solar lamps are clean and I can see clearly in the dark” Solar power lamps are practical argument for Solution of climate change and can give a positive reason both economically and environmentally potential of solar power in out of reach areas where electricity is expensive and impractical to come by to poor communities Hi everyone! This is @noorimages, taking over @PacificStand instagram feed. In the frame of COP22, this week we share a selection of photos from the project ‘Climate Change by NOOR’. https://psmag.com/tagged/cop22
© @jonlowenstein / @noorimages. Oil Sands operations in the Tar Sands region. The Oil Sands or Tar Sands region in Alberta, Canada is now one of the largest producers of petroleum in the world. The Athabasca Oil Sands (also known colloquially as the Athabasca Tar Sands although there is no actual tar) are large deposits of bitumen, or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada - roughly centered around the boomtown of Fort McMurray. These oil sands, hosted in the McMurray Formation, consist of a mixture of crude bitumen (a semi-solid form of crude oil), silica sand, clay minerals, and water. The Athabasca deposit is the largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world and the largest of three major oil sands deposits in Alberta, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits. Together, these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi) of sparsely populated boreal forest and muskeg (peat bogs) and contain about 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum. Hi everyone! This is @noorimages, taking over @PacificStand instagram feed. In the frame of COP22, this week we share a selection of photos from the project ‘Climate Change by NOOR’. https://psmag.com/tagged/cop22
© @alixfazzina / @noorimages. Sustainable Forest in Eastern Congo, 2010. As spots of rain start to fall, a teenage boy secures a plastic sheet as he covers a stand of eco briquettes that have been left out to dry outside his home. Located on the edge of Virunga National Park, the village of Kibumba currently has eighty-two families working full time as part of a scheme by the ICCN (L'Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature) to produce an alternative to charcoal in a bid to stop the destruction of the rainforests. With the population of North Kivu reliant on wood for fuel, the emerging local industry produces the briquettes made of compressed paper, sawdust and coffee husks, for a population that would otherwise turn to illegally exploited timber. Currently in use by local schools, NGOs, health facilities, prisons and peacekeeping troops, in just three years close to 30% of families in villages where the programme operates are now using the cost saving briquettes that help to cut climate change. Hi everyone! This is @noorimages, taking over @PacificStand instagram feed. In the frame of COP22, this week we share a selection of photos from the project ‘Climate Change by NOOR’. https://psmag.com/tagged/cop22
© @yuri.kozyrev / @noorimages. Krabash, Chelyabiskaya region, Russia, 2009. One of the most polluted cities in the world, Karabash in the Chelyabinskaya region of the southern Ural Mountains in Russia, is burdened with the dirty legacy of copper mining, chemical and heavy metal emissions and radiation leaks. The smokestack of the Karabash Copper Smelting Works has been spewing 180 tons of sulfur dioxide and metal particulates into the air a year for almost a century. Closed in 1990 when Soviet officials proclaimed it an "environmental disaster zone," the plant was reopened eight years later because the region needed jobs. Black heaps of industrial waste tower 45 feet high around homes and apartments. Recently, the new owner of the smelter, the Russian Copper Company, has modernised the plant and installed filters to greatly reduce plant emissions. But for the residents of Karabash, the contamination of the past remains ever present. Hi everyone! This is @noorimages, taking over @PacificStand instagram feed. In the frame of COP22, this week we share a selection of photos from the project ‘Climate Change by NOOR’. https://psmag.com/tagged/cop22
© @francesco_zizola / @noorimages. Usina Salgado, Pernambuco, Brazil. October 2010. A cluster of shacks inhabited by seasonal sugar cane workers. Started as a way to reduce oil dependence in a decade threatened by the first oil crisis and its resulting oil shortages, after 35 years the commercial production of sugar cane ethanol fuel has brought Brazil to the forefront of the battle against climate change. Hi everyone! This is @noorimages, taking over @PacificStand instagram feed. In the frame of COP22, this week we share a selection of photos from the project ‘Climate Change by NOOR’. https://psmag.com/tagged/cop22
© @nina_berman / @noorimages. Partying Till the Last Drop. A dried up Lake Meade with relics of its past - a fish cleaning station no longer functioning, a pier to nowhere, and a sign station alerting visitors to safe swimming practices. Las Vegas is a metropolis of two million residents built in the driest desert of North America. Lake Mead is the main water resource of Las Vegas and millions of people across the Southwest. The water level has recently reached its lowest point and is steadily dropping. Scientists predict the lake will disappear completely by 2021. Hi everyone! This is @noorimages, taking over @PacificStand instagram feed. In the frame of COP22, this week we share a selection of photos from the project ‘Climate Change by NOOR’. https://psmag.com/tagged/cop22
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