"Easter Island" reminder

Letters From Readers
Energy Central, CO - Nov 1, 2007
I can only remind people of 'Easter Island', that little island situated in the South Pacific where an experiment in human survival occurred in the 19th ...

Dramatic dance scenes depict Rapanui survivors

Scientific dance mash up
Sacramento News & Review, CA - Nov 1, 2007
The dramatic scenes with actors tell a story—by turns humorous and apocalyptic—about a man and woman who appear to be the only survivors on Easter Island, ...

Rapa Nui's "Last Tree"

THE CULTURE ARTIST: The Last Tree
HNN Huntingtonnews.net, USA - Oct 29, 2007
By Chuck Hall
When Polynesian settlers arrived at Easter Island, they found a tropical paradise waiting for them. Archaeological evidence shows that when ...

Ecosystems and Economics forum/Rapa Nui

Veteran ABC News Science Correspondent Ned Potter moderates panel ...
E-Wire (press release), TX - Oct 24, 2007
The lessons from history are daunting: From Babylonia to Easter Island, thriving civilizations fell as they destroyed the natural environments that ...

Winterson's Stone Gods

Blue is not the only colour
Scotsman, United Kingdom - Oct 12, 2007
The second story begins in the late 18th century, with young seaman Billy left stranded on Easter Island after Captain Cook's ship sails off without him. ...

Connection between deteriorating resource base and population decline on ancient Rapanui

THE NATURE OF THE NEW WORLD
The Baltimore Chronicle, MD - Oct 2, 2007
For example, as the environmental resource base of Easter Island in the South Pacific deteriorated, its population declined from a peak of 20000 several ...

Learning from Rapa Nui's past

Learning from the past
Cleantech, CA - Sep 30, 2007
During the later centuries of the Mayan civilization, a new society was evolving on faraway Easter Island, some 166 square kilometers of land in the South ...

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

Review: The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Sep 29, 2007
... and an interlude from the fictional diaries of a shipwrecked member of Captain Cook's Easter Island crew, there are a few pages of what feels like ...

Jared Diamond's "eeriest case study" is Rapa Nui

Time to walk away
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - September 28, 2007
His eeriest case study is Easter Island, a once-thriving society that is now treeless and desolate, its huge stone statues a testament to the fact that it ...

Keynote speaker at Kauai sustainability summit drew from Rapanui experience

Kaua‘i represented at sustainability summit
Lihue Garden Island, HI - September 28, 2007
Drawing from his personal work with the Hopi Indians and Rapanui people of Easter Island, Tamminen explained it is up to the state culture to either work ...

Section of new book, The Stone Gods, deals with Rapa Nui eco destruction

The Stone Gods
Metro, UK - Sep 27, 2007
The second section deals with the destruction of the ecosystem on Easter Island; the final part depicts a horrific, marginal world inhabited by the toxic ...

Provocative review of Collapse by Jared Diamond

Book review provokes thought among Rotarians
Sulphur Southwest Daily News, LA - Sep 26, 2007
Finchum said Collapse covers several famous failed civilizations including Easter Island and Greenland and Iceland. Overall, Collapse shows the correlation ...

New Book: "The Stone Gods" by Jeanette Winterson

Head cases
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Sep 21, 2007
I felt this particularly in the Easter Island section, the central part and hinge-point of the book. The history of that island and its people, ...

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson (Hamish Hamilton, £16.99)
Daily Mail, UK - Sep 24, 2007
... islander on Easter Island (hence the novel's title); the second involving a company operative and a prototype robot in post-apocalyptic London. ...

Rapa Nui in Science Magazine

Full Text
Science Magazine (subscription) - September 21, 2007
Easter Island is famous for many reasons: its remoteness, its total deforestation, its hundreds of giant stone statues, their destruction by the carvers' own descendants, the violent transformation of its Polynesian society, and as a metaphor for our ...

"Collapse" not just in "isolated" Rapa Nui

Of Capitalism, Crisis, Conversion & Collapse:
Transnational Institute, Netherlands - Sep 11, 2007
That is where we are now worldwide, not just in isolated places like Easter Island or Greenland. Our global financial, corporate and political elites are all busy grabbing what they can today and too bad about tomorrow - look at anything from the oil ...

"Ignored nature, cut down all the trees, built 50 ton rock monuments and died"

Se;ected Growth Fallacies: Part 17--Next Added 100 Million Americans
OpEdNews, PA - Sep 4, 2007
On tiny Easter Island, humans ignored nature, cut down all the trees, built 50 ton rock monuments and died of overpopulation via starvation.

US East Coast canoe trip inspired by what happened to Rapa Nui

From Miami to Maine, spreading the word about the oceans
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Aug 27, 2007
But she got a wake-up call in late 2005 when she read about what happened to Easter Island long ago. This tiny island in the South Pacific was almost completely deforested by the 18th century.

Rapa Nui's environmental problems to happen in Hawai'i?

Island Breath: Ancient Polynesia, future Kaua‘i
Lihue Garden Island, HI - Aug 26, 2007
Longer journeys would be needed to reach the distant Polynesian corners of Easter Island and Hawai‘i. It would take a lot of motivation to embark on such an ...

Collapse by Jared Diamond reviewed

Book review
Moneyweb, South Africa - Aug 24, 2007
FELICITY DUNCAN: Multiple historical examples - Easter Island is a classic example. FELICITY DUNCAN: Yes, those giant statues and no trees. ...

Rapa Nui "classic example" of environmental collapse

The world is the wrong size
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Aug 21, 2007
... to preserve their environment: the classic example here is Easter Island, whose population shrank by about 90% even before the Europeans arrived. ...