Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto, Japan. Photo by Eleonora Albasi on Unsplash.
This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This report also was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket, War and Peace and weed. Sometimes reading, sometimes just lying on her back looking up through the green, Lydick felt like she could be anywhere. Thailand, maybe, or Malaysia. It’s said that in rural parts of Japan, parents tell their children, If you feel an earthquake, run into the bamboo. Its roots will hold the earth together for you. Lydick felt that sense of protection somehow, even though she lived in Imperial County, California,
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This report was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a
Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket,