Food for Thought
“You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.”
Jane Goodall
Category Archives: Biophilia
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
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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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
We have met the enemy . . . and they is us
Why is the world in the trouble that it’s in? We could cite a long litany of reasons, but ultimately it boils down to the large and increasing number of people on earth, and our large and increasing appetites, broadly … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Science, Sustainability
Tagged population, research
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Handle with care
[This recent editorial in the journal Nature captures one of our central challenges as a global society so well that I quote the article here in full. The article refers specifically to a forest in Poland that is among the … Continue reading
Arise patriots: Leave no child inside!
Alright, all you people who have been fondly recalling your idyllic childhoods lying in old fields, catching lightning bugs, plunging into the swimming hole, and chucking rotten apples at each other in the old orchard, and lamenting that kids nowadays … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Education, Politics, Sustainability
Tagged health, kids
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Friday poetry: Your Catfish Friend
[Editor's note: Shortly before we left California in 1994 and headed east to settle on Timberneck Creek in Tidewater, Virginia, where we remain to this day, I happened across the writer Richard Brautigan. He was from California, evidently, at least … Continue reading
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The blue and the green
Carnivals, that is. The latest incarnations are now online. Blue at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Notes blog. And, on a related note, oceanophiles may also enjoy checking out Rick MacPherson’s links to various marine-themed blogs he likes here . … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Blogospheria, Oceans, Science, Sustainability
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Timberneck Biodiversity Restoration Project: update
How time flies. The fresh new breezes of spring were beginning to blow — three whole months ago — when I painted the shed door green and started the herbaceous phase (as opposed to the woody phase, which has proceeded … Continue reading
Friday poetry: Cold Mountain
[Editor's note: A millennium before Charles Frazier, before Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, there was the original "Cold Mountain", a modest group of poems thought to have been authored by the mysterious hermit Han-shan, who scribbled them on rocks and … Continue reading
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