Food for Thought
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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Walt Whitman
Category Archives: Biodiversity
Pollen-nation
No, I’m not talking about hay fever. This just in: National Pollinator Week is coming up (21-27 June), and I just ran across this great website that offers free downloadable guides to improving habitat for these essential animals in your … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Education, Sustainability
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Nature is hiring
[Editor's note: Following is Paul Hawken's recent commencement speech to the graduating class of the University of Portland. It is so inspiring, so filled with poetry and wisdom, and so dead on the mark that I feel compelled to reproduce … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Education, Natural Patriots, Science, Sustainability
Tagged heroes, restoration, soul
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Timberneck Biodiversity Restoration Project: 2nd spring
Dear me. First lightning bugs of the season out in the last few days and I haven’t even reported on this spring’s new incarnation of the Timberneck Biodiversity Restoration Project (translation for uninitiated: yardwork. Only more fun.). Well, it hasn’t … Continue reading
Bracing for a sea change
I was kindly invited by Ava at the Reef Tank blog to contribute a post to a series they are featuring on climate change and its particular connections to marine ecosystems. I took the opportunity to organize some of my … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Oceans, Science, Sustainability
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The search for intelligent life
[Just returned from two weeks in the Land Down Under. After a workshop in Sydney, we flew to New Zealand and the family spent a week in Gisborne on North Island – Whale Rider country. Very beautiful – dramatic craggy … Continue reading
Green, leafy, and cool
Now that it is becoming increasingly clear that we are already on board for a substantial increase in global temperature in the coming century, the discussion has broadened from efforts to cut the greenhouse gases that drive the process, which … Continue reading
Carnival of the Green # 170!
It’s a thrill to host this week’s Carnival of the Green — and especially fitting as the world is beginning to turn green again here in my neck o’ the woods in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. Last … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Blogospheria, Sustainability
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New kids in town get to work
[Note: I normally don't clog the blog with big swaths of text lifted verbatim from other sources, but in this case I couldn't resist. This is a copy of one of the Policy News issues I get periodically from the … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Politics, Science, Sustainability
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Death and taxes . . . and reincarnation
Recently I got an uncharacteristic surge of organizational momentum, girded my loins, donned my battle gear, and dove into the swamp of my home office filing system. Many of you will appreciate from your own experience what a daunting task … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Books and media, Sustainability
Tagged food, recycling, restoration
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Locals only
The creeping dominance of suburbia by non-native ornamental plants is depleting the abundance and diversity of native animals too—but landscaping with native plants can help reverse the trend. Yes, we can! (OK, I am still in the grips of Obamaphoria) … Continue reading
