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Hula Hoop ecology

Hula Hoop Girl from FreePhoto.net stock photo

Ecology is simply the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment. It can often feel too overwhelming to study if you are not trained as a scientist. How do you keep track of all those interactions? To get a simple overview of […]

Wangari Maathai

It all began for Dr. Maathai from a memory of a stream near her house where she played and got water. As her life continued Dr. Maathai noticed that destruction of the local environment and its ecology were linked to poverty. In fact, she was one of the first to state this observation publicly. But […]

Overcoming fear

I had to admire a grandfather who was out at a local birding site I was visiting today.

Poppy was there with his young, 6ish granddaughter, to look at the birds and see the sights.

As you enter the site there is a big sign advising people that they are in alligator territory and telling […]

Public Lands Day

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It’s National Public Lands Day here in the US. I hope that you will get out and celebrate by taking part in one of the many activities available.

An use the interactive map here to find something in your state.

In addition to that […]

Autumnal Equinox

Berries by Simon Howden @ FreePhoto.net

Today, at 9:04 in the morning the sun hit autumnal equinox, one of two days where, in a brief moment, the center of the sun crosses the plane of the equator. For those of you south of the equator you are having the vernal equinox and of […]

Connecting to nature is not about scale

“What mattered to my father (Edward Kennedy) was not the scale of an accomplishment, but that we did our share to make the world better,” Kara Kennedy.

Kara Kennedy died today. I know this because of an NPR headline that I saw my iGoogle page. Were it not for that fact I would […]

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Open request to those people who are following me. I am trying to set up an email subscription to this blog using the g-lock double opt in for wordpress. So far I have not been able to get the widget to work. For those of you who are trying to subscribe and have not heard […]

Staying connected to nature when the weather is awful

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This has been a tough year for weather. Here in Texas we are experiencing the worst drought in the state’s history. In the coastal bend of Texas the temperatures have routinely been in the high 90’s and in other places of the state the temperatures have […]