Food for Thought
“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Ode to the endangered . . . house sparrow(?)
The BBC reports that a new list of British species in need of protection includes . . . house sparrows. The news comes from the UK’s new Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP), the result of more than two years of research by more … Continue reading
So I’ve been thinkin’ . . .
. . . and it appears that I’ve actually been caught at it by – hot damn! — two separate people. Kevin Z, fellow in the distinguished company of marine biologists, and keeper of invertebrates at The Other 95%, fingered me with … Continue reading
Posted in Blogospheria, Education
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the ethanol binge: a hangover already
In case there were any remaining doubt, a new scientific analysis has confirmed that a headlong rush into biofuel production would be a very bad idea. The public anxiety about gas prices, dependence on foreign oil, and global warming has … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sustainability
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Congress: Leave no child inside!
Most of us of a certain age have fond memories of coming home from school and spending hours playing outside, hunting for frogs or lightning bugs or whatever, holding down the secret fort in the bushes, inventing games out of … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Education, Politics, Sustainability
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Vive la difference
The dust has now settled from our hypnotic two weeks in France (and it is in fact rapidly receding into memory, alas), some impressions of which I promised to report. In addition to sleeping late, the pleasure of unhurriedly reading … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
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A REAL Science rock star
In this age of hyperbole (where, as Bill Maher has noted, every random coincidence of two things happening at the same time is breathlessly referred to as a “perfect storm”), we hear a lot about “rock stars” of science. Big charismatic … Continue reading
Posted in et cetera
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Born again
Sometimes the drumbeat of bad news about the environment becomes so numbing that you just feel like plugging your ears and whistling. So my day brightened when I read a recent story in the New York Times about the rebirth of … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
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Man, do we have big feet
Guessing how many species there are — or were before the human steamroller got cranked up — on this unique planet has become something of a parlor game for biodiversity scientists. The truth is that we don’t have a very … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Sustainability
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Richard Louv, Natural Patriot
During my idyllic vacation two weeks ago, I pulled out a book that had been sitting on my table for some time: Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods. Based on the somewhat off-puttingly pedantic subtitle (“Saving our Children from … Continue reading
Posted in Biophilia, Books and media, Education, Natural Patriots, Sustainability
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Carnival of the Blue III
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and all the ships at Sea: The 3rd monthly installment of the Carnival of the Blue is now online, hosted by Rick Macpherson at Malaria, bedbugs, sea lice and sunsets. Your one-stop shopping site … Continue reading
Posted in Blogospheria, Oceans
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