One interesting approach to stopping the encroachment of the Sahara desert is to plant a tree belt across northern Africa: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10344622
The best part: my home is north of that line. Better get planting.
11 April 2011
The Great Green Wall
By Maddy
This entry was posted on Monday, April 11th, 2011 at 12:17 and posted in HE and EE in Ndioum, Life, Seeds Shoots Leaves. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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The contents of this blog are ours personally and do not reflect any position of the US government or the Peace Corps. The purpose of this blog is to keep in touch with our loved ones back home.
Our address:
PCV Madeline Tiee or Paul Levy
Corps de la Paix
B.P. 6 Ndioum
Senegal, WEST AFRICAPaul's e-mail: lhabitude@gmail.com
Maddy's e-mail: mtiee413@gmail.com
Skype: Maddy.et.Paul
Cell Maddy: 221.77.116.93.24
Cell Paul: 221.77.116.94.62Maddy's photo blog:
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More Photos Books read as of now in Senegal
Paul:
Green Hills of Africa--Ernest Hemmingway
Exile and the Kingdom--Camus
Ishmael--Daniel Quinn
Hot, Flat, and Crowded--Thomas Friedman
The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup--ed. Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey (pretentious title but good essays--Dave Eggers nails the US on soccer)
On Writing--Stephen King
The Stranger--Camus, again
When you are Engulfed in Flames--David Sedaris (is it weird that he makes me miss the US, characters and all?).
The Waste Land and Other Writings--T.S. EliotMaddy:
Bean Trees--Barbara Kingsolver
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter--Sue Monk Kidd
Mountains Beyond Mountains--Tracy Kidder
Ishmael--Daniel Quinn
The End of Poverty--Jeffrey Sachs
Secret Life of Bees--Sue Monk Kidd
Love in the Time of Cholera--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Unaccustomed Earth--Jhumpa Lahiri
When you are Engulfed in Flames--David Sedaris
The Good Earth--Pearl S. Buck
In Defense of Food--Michael Pollan
The Memory Keeper's Daughter--Kim Edwards
Infidel--Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Half the Sky--Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Pigs in Heaven--Barbara Kingsolver
Botany of Desire--Michael Pollan
Caged Virgin--Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reading Lolita in Tehran--Azar Nafisi
Siddhartha--Hermann Hesse
Daisy Miller--Henry James
Vagina Monologues--Eve Ensler
And Then There were None--Agatha Christie
The Fountainhead--Ayn Rand
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close--Jonathan Safran Foer
Exile and the Kingdom--Camus
Naked--David Sedaris
Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe--Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio
Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa--Katherine A DettwylerCategory Cloud
Maddy
Paul
April 12th, 2011 at 22:35
Everybody, Happy Birthday to Maddy on the13th!
XOXO,
Linnea (Grandma)
April 28th, 2011 at 22:24
Thanks grandma for the wishes and card! We can’t wait to see you soon! Love