Now a discussion on Global Warming with an author who has spent the past 20 years observing the lives of residents in greenland. This is just over an hour. If you have been following Gretel Ehrlichs writing over the years you know her perhaps from her stunning collection of essays, the solace of open spaces, about the american west, or her astonishing memoir of being struck by lightning, match to the heart. Among various awards and honors, ehrlich won the inaugural 2010 penn thorough, literary excellence in nature writing. Her journeys many places around the world are physical and philosophical. Her recent book, facing the wave, chronicles of japan a country which she has the deep relationship in the aftermath of 2011 earthquake and tsunami and meltdowns at the Fukushima Nuclear power plant. She is here to talk about green land, about Climate Change and about rotten ice. Noted today on npr, if you think today is hot, youre right. If you think this year is hot, youre right. Latest tempe
Retail also saw more hiring and manufacturing ticked up as well. White house chief economist alan krueger. I think if you look at todays report and some of the other indicators that have been coming in Unemployment Insurance claims, i. S. M. Numbers, auto sales. We see a picture of an economy thats continuing to recover. Suarez the days other big number was the Unemployment Rate, which dropped to 7. 7 . That was the lowest in four years. The main reason was that more people found work, but some 130,000 others number stopped looking for work, so they were no longer counted. Overall, the official number of unemployed now sits at just over 12 million americans. It hasnt been that low since december of 2008. Also of comes despite higher payroll taxes and despite uncertainty in the runup to those acrosstheboard federal spending cuts that kicked in, as of march first. Overall, it was the best jobs report since 2009. To help us look at developments big and small behind the numbers, we turn to
By a housing rebound. Retail also saw more hiring and manufacturing ticked up as well. White house chief economist alan krueger. I think if you look at todays report and some of the other indicators that have been coming in Unemployment Insurance claims, i. S. M. Numbers, auto sales. We see a picture of an economy thats continuing to recover. Suarez the days other big number was the Unemployment Rate, which dropped to 7. 7 . That was the lowest in four years. The main reason was that more people found work, but some 130,000 others number stopped looking for work, so they were no longer counted. Overall, the official number of unemployed now sits at just over 12 million americans. It hasnt been that low since december of 2008. Also of comes despite higher payroll taxes and despite uncertainty in the runup to those acrosstheboard federal spending cuts that kicked in, as of march first. Overall, it was the best jobs report since 2009. To help us look at developments big and small behind t
Go along. The great 17th century japanese poet said the person in mourning is a slave to sorrow. Nobody i saw in japan was a slave to sorrow. The pain was real and extremely deep, as you can imagine. The pain of losing people, not necessarily the pain of losing houses and cars and computers and bicycles, because this is a country so seismically dynamic that people all the rural people i talked to said, oh, this has talked to our family many times over the last 500 years. My great grandmother swam back to safety during the last tsunami and survived. So it wasnt an unexpected misfortune. There was an earthquake every day that i was there in all three months, at least one. So you were constantly reminded of impermanence, that you felt as if you were in a place where landscape shaped consciousness, shaped the mind, shaped how you saw the world every day. And you see this, you know, i felt it all these years. Ive been going to japan since my first visit in 1968, and its a sense that the bea
The great 17th century poet said the person in morning is a slave to sarraute. Nobody i saw in japan was a slave to sorrow. The pain was real and extremely deep, as you can imagine. Losing people not houses, cars, computers, bic ycles, this is a country so seismically dynamic all of the world people said this is happened to our family many times over 500 years. My greatgrandmother swam to safety safety during the last tsunami. It is the expected misfortune. There was an earthquake every day i was there all three months. You were constantly reminded and permanence you felt as if he were in a place where landscape shaped consciousness the mind, how you saw the world every day and i felt it all these years i have been going to japan since my first visit 1968. It is a sense of a sense of beauty that shaped by permanents the shaking islands into a sense of freshness on the flip side of pain is the incredible opendoor that keeps opening to freshness. Nobody escaped the wave up the coast 375