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Ben Cromwell grew up in Southern Illinois and spent many summers in the Ozarks of Missouri where he met his wife, Raven. He went to school in Tempe Arizona where he studied poetry with Jeannine Savard and graduated with a B.A. in English (Lit.) Shortly after graduation, Ben and Raven married and joined the Peace Corps. They spent service as education volunteers on the island of Abaiang in the Republic of Kiribati. Upon returning to the US, Ben and Raven hiked the Appalachian Trail over the course of three years, doing their longest stretch from February to July of 2008, and travelling on foot from Georgia to Pawling, NY. During that time, Ben started a Master's degree in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. ...more

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It's difficult to keep talking about climate change because it seems like it's not really going anywhere. You hear about it at first and it sounds monumental and deadly. You troll through internet sites listing all kinds of disasters and you heart races because it's the end times and you think you'd better drink that bottle of wine you've been saving for years and go skydiving and kiss that man or Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 13, 2012 09:34 • Tags: climate-change, genocide, global-warming

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