Conor embraced his right to enjoy nature a couple of times today (so far) with fun walking and running in his “back yard” Fredericton’s North Riverfront Trail. He also took time to throw some rocks into the St. John River along the way and check out the neighbors, the Osprey
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350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
It’s all about love, after all.
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Good City is an Environmentally Friendly One
The urban environment can benefit from more, well, environment. More research is coming out that proves something that many urbanites already know: where there is green there is more peace. Cities with good access to nature and have more trees spread throughout the urban space are better places to live.
Continue reading350 or bust: The Anatomy Of The Earth Brought To Life
What a wonderful world! On TED Talk Tuesday, we get a glimpse of the amazing world that cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg brings to life. He describes his greatest satisfaction as creating works that have a positive effect on the future of Earth: “I hope my films inspire and open people’s hearts
Continue readingThings Are Good: Doctors Prescribing Nature
Doctor Robert Zarr prescribes walking in parks to his patients. Regular readers already know that the exposure to nature is beneficial in multiple ways for our physical and mental health. Doctors have also taken note of this and realize that prescribing walks and exposure to nature can reduce obesity rates
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Do They Do It?
For the sheer joy of it, I suspect: To know and respect nature is to know and respect ourselves. All is connected. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Are You A Birdbrain?
Watch this video to the end, and you will realize the question is not intended as an insult: Recommend this Post
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Help Save The Monarch Butterfly: Plant Some Milkweed
A slightly different post today on the weekend. I’ve always loved Monarch Butterflies. When I was a kid, we picked milkweed with monarch caterpillars on them, put them into an old fish tank aquarium, kept supplying them with fresh milkweed and then made sure we hung sticks or metal rods
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Putting A Face On Minimum-Wage Poverty
Last evening I watched a fascinating documentary on PBS’ Nature* about the black crested macaque, a monkey that is endemic to rainforests in Indonesia, which includes the island of Sulawesi. The monkeys are a badly endangered species whose numbers have dropped 90% over the last 25 years thanks to hunters
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten
H/t Catherin Bradbury ‘God save thee, ancient Mariner!From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bowI shot the ALBATROSS. -excerpted from The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Coleridge In what may seem like a very long time ago but is, by historical standards, really but
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Even “the wastes” of nature are never wasted, and never a waste. Time spent among chandeliers and caviar may be a waste; time spent chasing money or seeking status may be a waste; devoting one’s precious, short life to the accumulation of material things may be a waste; but it
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
I had the privilege of hearing several of the Council of Indigenous Grandmothers speak last weekend:
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Hummingbirds are amazing – baby ones even more so!
Continue readingLeDaro: Beauty of the Nature
Sometimes I try to forget the troubles of the world and enjoy nature on my long hikes. Here are some pictures I put together in a video format and added some music for calming effect. I did not take these pictures but they convey the beauty of the nature quite well. Some
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This beautiful video is set to the words theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988). * * The Sagan Series is an educational project working in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population. Created by @ReidGower http://twitter.com/reidgower
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Reminder Of Our Place
As our Cuban friends’ visit continues, we are trying to give them a sampling of life in Canada. Yesterday we went to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto; the first exhibition hall we entered there was the one devoted to Canada’s aboriginal peoples, where we came upon a work by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: As We go Into The Weekend …
With thanks to Karen, I am reposting a poem that she left in the comment section of an earlier post. Karen writes, On Facebook I follow the goings on of a bear sanctuary in Ontario, and this morning they posted the following with a peaceful photo of two bears sitting
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