On the personhood of plants

…and our relationship with them

Dragon SCALEs: Printable, Flexible, Cheap Solar Glitter

Glitter gets everywhere — whether one thinks…

Among Fish Skeletons and Bear Droppings

Kamchatka, the peninsula on the eastern Russian coast, offers one of the most fascinating…

Seeking the Swallow-Tailed Gull

It started in the birder email list I subscribe to.

Think & Act Local & Global

Earthfulness

‘Mindfulness’ is a term that has become popular as a description of focused attention, awareness, and consciousness of the present…

I Believe in Water

We kill, in the name of God. Murder infidels, in the name of Peace. How can Love accept such hatred? You can explain it any way you like but it seems irrational to me. If God is Love, why would He condone specific hatreds? ‘You must all believe in the supremacy of _________.’ It’s never going…