By Chris Lang
Yesterday, REDD-Monitor posted for the first time on Substack. I’ve been having problems with the REDD-Monitor.org website for a long, long time, and Substack seems to offer an excellent solution – allowing me to write, rather than trying work out why the website isn’t working properly.
Please come and join me on Substack:
The key issue with this website is that for several weeks new posts on REDD-Monitor have not been sent to subscribers. Obviously that’s frustrating. And it’s no longer possible for new subscribers to sign up to receive emails when I write a new post.
That’s one reason why there have been so few posts in the past few months on REDD-Monitor.org. Having built up a subscription list, I’m reluctant to write new posts that few people will know about, let alone read.
Another reason for the recent lack of posts on REDD-Monitor.org is the amount of time I’ve spent trying (unsuccessfully!) to sort this problem out.
Without going into too many details, the problem falls somewhere between the domain registrar, the hosting, the DDoS mitigation, the cloud storage, the plug-ins, and the content management system. I’m not an expert on website management and I think my time is better spent researching and writing.
And if I see this message too many more times while I’m waiting for REDD-Monitor to load, I’ll scream (I’ve seen it at least 10 times, just writing this short post):
If you have subscribed to REDD-Monitor.org, you’ll need to subscribe again. I’m sorry about the inconvenience – if I could transfer subscriptions automatically, I would. But I can no longer access the subscription list.
Subscription on Substack is free and you’ll receive an email every time a new post appears. Eventually the whole of REDD-Monitor will move to Substack.
New posts: ONE Amazon and the Shuar Federation
The first two posts on Substack are important. Last year, a company called ONE Amazon signed an Agreement with the Shuar Federation (FICSH) in Ecuador that would give them the right to extraordinary levels of surveillance over the Shuar’s territory. ONE Amazon is a tech company that wants to generate Crypto Tokens (probably based on carbon offsets) and set up something called the Internet of Forests.
In early February 2023, the Shuar Federation held an Assembly and decided to cancel the contract.
The first post looks at the implications of the Agreement for the Shuar, and the second consists of 24 questions for ONE Amazon.
So, please come and join me over on Substack:
Sorry for that trouble Chris. It is true and I can confirm that there had been problems by access to the website.