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AM Inspiration: Villains Recast as Heroes - A Modern Aesop and Climate Change
Climate change: it's affecting flora and fauna, glaciers and hurricanes, but our fairy tales may also be turned upside-down in our warming world. Take the Aesop fable The Wind and the Sun about the two forces competing to see who could induce a traveler to take off his cloak. The Sun's victory wa...
Tags: Aesop, Climate change, Fable, Fairy tale, Myth, Parable, Story, Sun, Wind power
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Myths About Mother Earth and Why They Matter
The United Nations has just instituted an International Mother Earth Day--does it matter? Why do we need another "day," you might ask, when the planet is in crisis and we all need to be composting or protesting or finding ways to make do with less, as the occasion warrants? Rather than a useless...
Tags: Anthropology, Legend, Mother, Myth, Story, Symbol
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