How might we humans aid in nature’s rehabilitation after tragedy? A really neat article in Popular Science by Meera Subramanian gives us 5 accounts of nature and humans tag-teaming restoration.
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What the latest statement from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is telling us about the political and ecological climate.
Civilization is yet again at a crossroads. Change: either for better or worse.
Every year, scientists and other scholars from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists gather to discuss the current status of the world with a particular interest in world-ending activities. These officials determine whether or not the hands of the Doomsday Clock, which symbolizes how close were are to the apocalypse, should be moved closer or further from midnight. And midnight in this context is Doomsday.
This year’s statement from the Bulletin is crystal clear: we are 100 seconds from midnight.
Why? And, what should we do about…
Rome was saved by the geese and your crop might be saved by the ducks!
Farming can be tough. Let’s say you are a farmer and your crop is being badly infested by squishy snails and/or ravaged by hungry grasshoppers. Not your lucky growing season, huh?
You just can’t get rid of the little pests eating up all your crop. What should you do? Before you reach for the car keys to run to the first farm supplier to grab liters of slug pellet or locusticide (yes, there are pesticides just for locusts in case you need them), wait. Have you tried ducks?
Yes, you read that right. Ducks — the quacking cure-all for pest…
The Ecofeminist Project Explains Zine
The Ecofeminist Project Explains Zine
Becoming mindful of what we eat can transform our world.
The journey into conscious eating begins when we pay close attention to the foods we eat. How we eat and how often we eat is secondary. Before we can concentrate on the process, such as eating slowly and mindfully, we have to be fully aware of what’s on our plate, how it got there, and the impact it has on the environment.
Our exposure to information has allowed us to become more consciously aware of major issues like climate change. …
Compassion loves company
When I first wanted to become vegan, I was alone.
No one I knew shared this goal. The very people who taught me to admire animals did not share my interspecies grief. They would nurse an injured wild bird back to health in a heartbeat, yet be unmoved to hear of a chicken’s slaughter. The emotion was all mine, by myself.
Don’t get me wrong. As a preteen plant-eater, I depended on my alliances with non-vegetarians. My mom was the one who “let” me go veg because she cooked and was in charge of her children’s health. When it came…
How seaweeds could become a key factor in sustainability.
For those of you who never had the experience of walking along the beach when the sea washes on the shoreline tons of dead seaweed, I can tell the smell is not the best. Unless you have some weird fetish for stinky stuff, you would probably try to make your way as fast as possible through the swarm of overly excited flies feeding on the carpet of rotting plants (yes, seaweeds are actually plants) laying underneath your feet.
Stop where you are! Pick up some of that green slime and take it home! You are walking away from a gold…
It’s confusing, and we could explain it better using an analogy from moral philosophy.
Climate change has brought out the worst in us. You either accept the science or you are a bigot, a climate change denier, or a conspiracy theorist. Many activists will shout to the stars that you just have to look at the data! There’s allegedly SO MUCH OF IT! We often hate on people who are not convinced — and do so to an astonishing degree.
Here’s the deal: I accept the science. I believe that climate change is occurring at an unprecedented rate and humans are the major driver of such change. But to be honest, I have never…
