comparemela.com

Latest Breaking News On - ரீட்டா பனி - Page 1 : comparemela.com

Estonia s holy forests threatened by demand for biofuels

Email This article has been revised to correct several factual errors and to provide more context concerning the operations of Graanul Invest, the leading Estonian wood pellet company. The Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Pulitzer Center provided grant support for this story. When Arvi Sepp was a boy in Soviet-ruled central Estonia, his parents would walk into the forest, carrying gifts. “They would bring the first cut of meat from a cow, the first cup of beer from a cask.” He smiles, touching his newsboy’s cap over his white hair. “The first glass of vodka from the bottle.” Walking haltingly over cobblestones, Sepp recalls how, decades earlier, his family would follow ancient footpaths to find a spring in the center of the hill that rises like an up-thrust fist from the swampy lowlands near his village of Paluküla. There, where the water bubbled up beneath a birch canopy, they laid the offering.

© 2024 Vimarsana

vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.