Bugs
2/3 wildlife has vanished since 1970 due to humans. 3 billion fewer birds in North America since 1970
40% of insect species are declining, 30% are endangered.
Thoughts
Politics
Native Americans are the strongest environmentalists. Their cultures vary hugely but always embody: Water and Land are Life. And many Native American communities concentrated on individual freedom and happiness. This surprised and shocked Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries.… Read More »Politics
The Hard-won Vote & Today
Social media feeds you with flattery, it feeds you what it sees you want: clothes and conspiracies, flashier games and violence, fear, and better iPhones. It exhausts you. Timothy Snyder said, “You’re already enough you! Expand your imagination.” Social media gives… Read More »The Hard-won Vote & Today
Planting a Meadow
Nature scatters thousands of seeds for each that grows. Animals eat them (harvester ants!), they dry up or rot becoming soil. If you want your native seeds to grow this season at your place, cover them, then water and weed.… Read More »Planting a Meadow
“Science is from the heart.”
– DR. SUZANNE SIMARD Suzanne Simard was born in British Columbia, where she teaches at the University of British Columbia. Her 2021 book, Finding the Mother Tree, Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, is a voyage – personal and scientific… Read More »“Science is from the heart.”
Bison and the Great Plains
Below is a very shortened retelling of the bison chapters of The Eternal Frontier, an Ecological History of North America and its People by Tim Flannery. George McJunkin settled in Folsom, New Mexico after being freed from slavery in 1865… Read More »Bison and the Great Plains