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Tag Archives: ecology
The Human Experiment
The Human Experiment: Two Years and 20 Minutes Inside Biosphere 2© 2006 Jane Poynter384 pages From this patch of desert in sunny Oracle, Arizona, eight Americans are beginning the trip of a lifetime. Divided into two tribes and locked into … Continue reading
Eating on Mars, Cap’n Mal, and organic gardening on steroids
Since twelve men left their mark on the Moon, humanity has wondered about the prospects of venturing further out, to the Red Planet. It’s a daunting undertaking, from the journey itself to the prospects for sustaining life on a planet … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, Firefly, food and drink, futurism, gardening, go for Mars, science
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Of galaxy and creeply-crawlies
Origins is a history of life, the universe, and everything. (Sort of). It’s an odd book, in that it begins in an expected fashion: Tyson and Goldsmith look first to the origin of matter, delving into the first seconds of … Continue reading
Pests
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains© 2022 Bethany Brookshire368 pages Humans believe in and have attempted to create, a very orderly world. There are our cities and homes, where the only animals that belong are those there for our amusement, … Continue reading
Alabama’s Amazon
Saving America’s Amazon: Our Most Biodiverse River System is Under Siege© 2020 Ben Raines200 pages The Mobile river delta is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth, but few know and still fewer appreciate this: for thousands of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, ecology, Nature, Politics-CivicInterest, science
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The Forest Unseen
In his Becoming Wild, Carl Safina remarked, “How long and rich a morning can be if you bring yourself fully to it. Come to a decent place. Bring nothing to tempt your attention away. Immerse in the timelessness of reality. … Continue reading
Quotes from the Ground Beneath Us
“Quotations to follow tonight,” I said. I didn’t expect AT&T to have another network outage, though mercifully this one wasn’t as long as the twelve days (you better believe I counted) of February. But enough telecom griping! On to the … Continue reading
Of murder and meaningful ground
A friend recently introduced me to the terms lentic and lotic, referring to stagnant and fast-moving bodies of water, respectively. My Lenten series has so far been very lentic, as I’ve been distracted by life’s goings-on. I have done a … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, climate change, ecology, mystery, Nature, science
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Cities of Gold
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado© 1992 Douglas Preston (Walter Nelson, Photographs)480 pages Sometimes, history has got to be pursued from the back of a horse. Douglas Preston wasn’t sure what took him … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, American Southwest, American West, Arizona, Douglas Preston, ecology, Native America, New Mexico, Spain, stewardship, travel
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