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  • Rodrigo Canavas, left, director of Azoteas Verdes (Green Roofs), convinces a mechanic to let him collect used car tires from his shop in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008. The organization promotes roof garden construction throughout the city, teaching workshops, collecting used containers and preparing compost from organic waste.
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  • A Soviet-era amphibious vehicle is used to shuttle gasoline from a delivery ship to the storage tanks on land at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Soviet-era amphibious vehicles are used to shuttle gasoline from a delivery ship to the storage tanks on land at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki stands proudly as gasoline is pumped into storage tanks at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Rows of fuel drums outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Grzegorz Karasinski (l-r), Robert Zmuda, Krysztof Herman, and Lukasz Gryglicki pump gasoline delivered by amphibious vehicle to storage tanks at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Krysztof Herman (l-r), Lukasz Gryglicki, and Robert Zmuda pump gasoline delivered by amphibious vehicle to storage tanks at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki, Krysztof Herman, and Robert Zmuda operate a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle to shuttle gasoline from a delivery ship to the storage tanks on land at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Rows of fuel drums outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki, Krysztof Herman, and Robert Zmuda operate a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle to shuttle gasoline from a delivery ship to the storage tanks on land at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • A row of snowmobiles outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. Snowmobiles are the primary mode of long-distance transportation during the winter, when the ground is covered in snow and the fjords covered in sea ice. Hansbreen is visible in the distance.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki rolls a fuel drum, pushed inland by high winds during a violent storm, back towards the shore at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki rolls a fuel drum, pushed inland by high winds during a violent storm, back towards the shore at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A row of snowmobiles outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. Snowmobiles are the primary mode of long-distance transportation during the winter, when the ground is covered in snow and the fjords covered in sea ice. Hansbreen is visible in the distance.
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  • A worker pushes a cart down the aisle between the duck pens carrying buckets of grain used for force-feeding the birds at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Migratory birds, including ducks, are capable of storing large amounts of fat in their liver. Forced overeating replicates the effect, producing the enlarged, fatty livers used for Foie Gras.
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  • Plants grow from a toilet seat used as a planter outside the offices of the organization Azoteas Verdes (Green Roofs) in the Centro Cultural La Pyramide in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008. The organization promotes roof garden construction throughout the city, teaching workshops, collecting used containers and preparing compost from organic waste.
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  • A plant grows from a toilet seat used as a planter outside the offices of the organization Azoteas Verdes (Green Roofs) in the Centro Cultural La Pyramide in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008. The organization promotes roof garden construction throughout the city, teaching workshops, collecting used containers and preparing compost from organic waste.
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  • Dry leaves are used instead of paper at the Nooksack Cirque Trail register, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Women and children stay warm by a fire and process reeds used to manufacture brooms in Ban Had Dan, Laos. The clusters, wrapped with bamboo and made into brooms, are sold to neighboring Vietnam and fetch 3,000 kip ($0.37) - a cottage industry in this village. The village would only be partially inundated by proposed Dam #3 (whose construction has not yet commenced).
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  • Dry leaves are used instead of paper at the Nooksack Cirque Trail register, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Retired caterpillar track for an amphibious vehicle used for hauling large loads at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Traditional wood racks used for drying fish in Sorland, Vaeroy Island, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • A group of women are framed by a horse-drawn carriage used for tourist rides in Meknes, Morocco.
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  • A pod of scarlet annatto (Bixa orellana), used for food, clothing and facepaint dye by indigenous people in Manu National Park, Peru.
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  • Retired caterpillar tracks of an amphibious vehicle used for hauling large loads at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Antenna arrays and parabolic radar antennas at the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) facility on Breinosa, Svalbard. The technique is used to study the physics of the atmosphere and ionosphere.
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  • A helicopter flies into a remote research camp at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, used by the Extreme Ice Survey and glaciologists from USGS and University of Colorado to monitor the glacier's rapid retreat.
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  • Radar antennas at the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) facility on Breinosa, Svalbard. The technique is used to study the physics of the atmosphere and ionosphere.
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  • Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) stripped of their bark in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. The bark, easily removed by making a cut at the base and peeling upward, is traditionally used for making rope, clothing, and other soft goods. Harvesting in single strips avoids killing the tree.
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  • Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) stripped of their bark in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. The bark, easily removed by making a cut at the base and peeling upward, is traditionally used for making rope, clothing, and other soft goods. Harvesting  in single strips avoids killing the tree.
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  • Marcin Tukalski, student at the University of Silesia (right) sits down with geologist Grzegorz Gajek outside the main barracks building in Calypsobyen, Svalbard. Site of a coal mining operation erected by the British Northern Exploration Company in the early 1900s, the structures are now used as a summer field station by Polish researchers.
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  • Sheep and goats gather around a water truck used to bring water from Rum Village to the remote Bedouin encampment in Wadi Rum, Jordan. The truck has in recent years taken the place of natural springs, many of which have gone dry.
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  • Water cascades over rocks at the outlet of a lake in an alpine basin used as a base camp for climbs of Glacier Peak in Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
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  • Water cascades over rocks at the outlet of a lake in an alpine basin used as a base camp for climbs of Glacier Peak in Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
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  • A white flower lies in a pool of blood at the ritual killing of a bull in Paracho, Michoacan state, Mexico on August 8, 2008 during the annual Feria Internacional de la Guitarra. The bull was slaughtered and used to stock the town's meat locker while butchers served beef stew to the public to conclude the parade held by the town's market vendors.
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  • Green tomatillos (Physalis philadelphica), a variety of tomato used in many Latin American salsas, are piled on a wooden table at a home in Santa Catarina Lachatao, part of the Pueblos Mancomunados, a network of Zapotec villages in the Sierra Norte Mountains of Oaxaca state, Mexico.
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  • Shad O'Neel, a glaciologist with USGS, stands out in a storm at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, collecting precise GPS control points used to calculate the orientation of time lapse cameras.
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  • A tent glows at twilight in an alpine basin used as base camp for climbs of Glacier Peak in Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
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  • A worker uses a special machine to force-feed ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York. Migratory birds, including ducks, are capable of storing large amounts of fat in their liver. Forced overeating replicates the effect, producing the enlarged, fatty livers used for Foie Gras.
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  • Men, their faces covered in blood, butcher a bull in Paracho, Michoacan state, Mexico on August 8, 2008 during the annual Feria Internacional de la Guitarra. The bull was slaughtered and used to stock the town's meat locker while butchers served beef stew to the public to conclude the parade held by the town's market vendors.
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  • Coworkers at SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development, socialize during their break on the expansive roof garden of the government building in Mexico City on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
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  • Flowers grow from plastic cups in the expansive roof garden of the government building of SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development in Mexico City, Mexico on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
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  • Rodrigo Canavas, director of Azoteas Verdes (Green Roofs), poses with his demo garden on the roof of the Centro Cultural La Pyramide in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008. His organization promotes roof garden construction throughout the city, teaching workshops, collecting used containers and preparing compost from organic waste.
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  • An experimental model aircraft is used for research in the Kirsten Wind Tunnel at the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington.
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  • The Inca agricultural terraces of Moray, Urubamba Valley, Peru on September 22, 2005. The site is believed to have been used for experimental agriculture, self irrigating and recessed for artificially warmer and wetter conditions.
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  • Boys climb up stairs inside the Inca agricultural terraces of Moray, Urubamba Valley, Peru on September 22, 2005. The site is believed to have been used for experimental agriculture, self irrigating and recessed for artificially warmer and wetter conditions.
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  • A local guide splits open a pod of scarlet annatto seeds (Bixa orellana), used for food, clothing and facepaint dye by indigenous people in Manu National Park, Peru on September 9, 2005.
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  • A man adjusts the (boat) propeller on a micro hydro turbine in the flow of the Nam Ou River at Ban Sop Kha, Laos. The turbines are used by villages all along the river to generate electricity, at least during the dry season when the water level is low enough to mount them to the river bed.
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  • Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) harvested for bark in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. The bark, easily removed by making a cut at the base and peeling upward, is traditionally used for making rope, clothing, and other soft goods. Harvesting in single strips avoids killing the tree.
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  • A knife, mallet, and hatchet on a cutting board, used to butcher a wild boar killed by hunters in Barnave, Drôme valley, France.
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  • Men stand outside the main barracks building at Calypsobyen, Svalbard, site of a coal mining operation erected by the British Northern Exploration Company in the early 1900s. Polish researchers have used the site for field operations every summer since 1986.
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  • A raft, used by guides and ecotourism companies to explore an oxbow lake in Manu National Park Reserve Zone, Peru, prepares to dock at the pier.
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  • Detail of wooden parts used in separating the copper ore as it traveled through the mill building in Kennecott, Alaska, site of the historic Kennecott Copper Mine.
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  • People stand in close to watch the slaughter of a bull in Paracho, Michoacan state, Mexico on August 8, 2008 during the annual Feria Internacional de la Guitarra. The bull was slaughtered and used to stock the town's meat locker while butchers served beef stew to the public to conclude the parade held by the town's market vendors.
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  • People stand in close to watch the slaughter of a bull in Paracho, Michoacan state, Mexico on August 8, 2008 during the annual Feria Internacional de la Guitarra. The bull was slaughtered and used to stock the town's meat locker while butchers served beef stew to the public to conclude the parade held by the town's market vendors.
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  • Detail of the Incan experimental agricultural terraces of Moray, Urubamba Valley, Peru. The site is believed to have been used for experimental agriculture, self irrigating and recessed for artificially warmer and wetter conditions.
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  • Students walk to class after a snowstorm on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colorado. The brick bridge spans a frozen pond, an artificial lake used as a reservoir for campus irrigation.
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  • A Kumiai indian man picks through colorful plastic beads used in jewelry in the indigenous village of San Antonio Necua, Baja California Norte, Mexico. His pendant, believed to provide protection, is made of tightly woven pine needles, a basket weaving technique traditional to the Kumiai people.
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  • Fans circulate the air in the large hangar where the ducks, held in pens, are force-fed meals by workers a few times daily at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Migratory birds, including ducks, are capable of storing large amounts of fat in their liver. Forced overeating replicates the effect, producing the enlarged, fatty livers used for Foie Gras.
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  • A woman dances in a pool of blood at the ritual killing of a bull in Paracho, Michoacan state, Mexico on August 8, 2008 during the annual Feria Internacional de la Guitarra. The bull was slaughtered and used to stock the town's meat locker while butchers served beef stew to the public to conclude the parade held by the town's market vendors.
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  • A girl covers her friend's face with blood at the ritual killing of a bull in Paracho, Michoacan state, Mexico on August 8, 2008 during the annual Feria Internacional de la Guitarra. The bull was slaughtered and used to stock the town's meat locker while butchers served beef stew to the public to conclude the parade held by the town's market vendors.
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  • A yellow tree fungus growing in trees outside the famous Zapotec weaving village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico is used as a natural dye on July 30, 2008.
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  • A waterfall flows down a series of natural terraced pools at the Mayan ruins of Palenque, Chiapas state, Mexico. The falls are known as the Queens' Bath, after the belief that the Mayan royalty used the pools for bathing.
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  • Flowers grow from plastic cups in the expansive roof garden of the government building of SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development in Mexico City, Mexico on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
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  • Employees at SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development, Araceli Maya and Mayta Landa (l-r), work among the flower pots on the expansive roof garden of the government building on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
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  • Rodrigo Canavas, director of Azoteas Verdes (Green Roofs), poses with his demo garden on the roof of the Centro Cultural La Pyramide in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008. His organization promotes roof garden construction throughout the city, teaching workshops, collecting used containers and preparing compost from organic waste.
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  • A group of schoolchildren walk along the rim of the Inca agricultural terraces of Moray, Urubamba Valley, Peru on September 22, 2005. The site is believed to have been used for experimental agriculture, self irrigating and recessed for artificially warmer and wetter conditions.
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  • Water cascades down over rocks at the outlet of a lake in an alpine basin used as base camp for climbs of Glacier Peak in Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
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  • Hiker Doug Faust crosses over a cascade at the outlet of a lake in an alpine basin used as base camp for climbs of Glacier Peak in Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
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  • Alberto Favela, right, garden coordinator at SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development, inspects the health of lettuce seedlings in the expansive roof garden of the government building in Mexico City, Mexico on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
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  • A low angled sun strikes the bright white tombs of the Jewish Cemetary in the old mellah, or Jewish quarter, in Fes, Morocco on October 31, 2007. The small cavities are used to hold candles.
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  • Electrical engineer Jacek Renkas scrubs rust from the hull of a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle still in use at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A young boy, sitting on the ground near a donkey, mends his lasso at Rancho Santa Teresa, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 30, 2009. As in the other ranches high in the Sierra de San Francisco, the primary occupation is herding goats for cheese and meat, so boys learn at a young age how to use a lasso.
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  • Paddles rest against Hawaiian-Alaskan Chief Frank Nelson's ornately decorated family canoe at Stommish Beach on the Lummi Indian Reservation, Washington on July 30, 2007.  A crew paddled the canoe all the way from the North end of Vancouver Island to visit the Lummi Nation, hosts of the 2007 Canoe Journey. When in use, the orientation of the paddles reflects the intentions of the crew - the black sides symbolize peace, while the red sides symbolize war. Dancing, singing and "potlatching" followed for a week until the canoes left for their return voyage on August 5.
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  • Rafal Flieger walks past as electrical engineer Jacek Renkas scrubs rust from the hull of a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle still in use at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A man climbs out of a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle in use at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Circular agricultural fields using center pivot irrigation dusted with snow in southern Colorado.
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  • Men gather a yellow tree fungus they use to dye wool a bright yellow in trees outside the famous Zapotec weaving village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca state, Mexico on July 30, 2008.
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  • Fields of maguey (agave) cactus, for the production of Mezcal, grow outside the village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca state, Mexico on July 27, 2008. The Zapotec town is famous for carpet weaving, the better artists producing very high quality work using natural dyes and drawing from both traditional and contemporary designs. The Sierra Norte Mountains are visible in the distance.
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  • A woman gestures shush for others to be quiet in recognition of struggles in the queer community on national Day of Silence, April 17, 2007 on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. The youth-run effort uses silence to protest the actual silencing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.
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  • Acoustics specialist Krysztof Herman (helping out with glacier field work) navigates the crevassed surface of Samarinbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard using his (polar bear) rifle as a probe.
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  • Parmenter Welty uses his fingers as he eats a delicious sockeye salmon filet at a campground on the Copper River near Chitina, Alaska.
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  • Climber Grace Marx uses her ice axe to ascend a rocky step on a high ridge winter traverse in the South Picket Range, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • A worker holds the large blade which he uses to file down the rough side of yellow dyed sheep skins at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco, on October 31, 2007.
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  • Climber Brian Doehle points out a route up Glacier Peak to Doug Faust using his trekking pole. The pair stands silhouetted on the ridge above Whitechuck Glacier in Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
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  • Eduardo Leon, a Mexican immigrant from Puebla now living in Swan Lake, stands in a passageway holding out the blade he uses to cut out the duck livers at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 12, 2008.
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  • A wool rug in process on a loom at the Chavez family workshop in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca state, Mexico on July 29, 2008. The Zapotec town is famous for carpet weaving, the better artists producing high quality work using natural dyes and drawing from both traditional and contemporary designs.
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  • Beatrice Bautista checks on the progress of dyeing wool at her home in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca state, Mexico on July 28, 2008. The Zapotec town is famous for carpet weaving, the better artists producing high quality work using natural dyes and drawing from both traditional and contemporary designs.
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  • Gaspar Bautista Chavez weaves a wool carpet on a mechanical loom in his family's workshop in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca state, Mexico on July 28, 2008. The Zapotec town is famous for carpet weaving, the better artists producing very high quality work using natural dyes and drawing from both traditional and contemporary designs.
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