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…
Nature
Nature and its beauty
Enough of Politicians Enjoy the beauty of nature. JAPANESE TEA GARDEN ✿ GOLDEN GATE PARK ✿ SAN FRANCISCO
Saturday The Movies
Great video from a BBC documentary:
Flowers, a bird and reflection.
Beautiful picture. I had it with politics. Might as well enjoy and appreciate the beauty of nature.
Geniuses Among Us: There Is A Way Humans Can Live Gracefully On This Planet
What if we humans looked to nature, and considered how nature solves design problems before we build or design? For TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, Janine Benyus discusses biomimicry in…
New Report Connects Dots Between Political Inaction & Growing Cost Of Climate Change
This is a reposting from The Earth Story’s Facebook page: “The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. “ –Flip Wilson A new…
A Glimpse Of Our Future (Warning: Not For The Faint Of Heart)
More footage from Chasing Ice, an astonishing clip of the largest iceberg calving ever recorded. Arctic sea ice levels this summer hit a record low; according to the U.S. National…
Nature in One Cubic Foot
A portrait photographer has been travelling the world with a one cubic foot frame and cataloguing what’s in the area the cube covers. He has captured the value of biodiversity…
Holiday Movie Monday
So, the last weekend of summer is upon us loyal readers! I hope that you are currently enjoying the last day of the last long weekend, of this wonderful summer…
Skinny Dipping: Therapy For A World Careening Towards Climate Chaos
I’ve just returned from an invigorating five day wilderness canoe trip in Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. The Park is part of an bi-provincial bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage…
Built to NOT Last – Movie Monday
So, most of us have been there at some point, standing at an Ikea asking ourselves “do I need yet another Billy bookcase?” We know it will be of the…
Woodland Caribou Park 2012
My family and I, along with some good friends, are spending the week in Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather! Here are some pictures from…
What Purpose Do We Serve?
Although I have written on this topic before, I think it merits a return visit, given the environmental disasters currently engulfing the world. Were it within my power, I would…
Hot Enough For Ya!? – Climate Change – Movie Monday
So, I’ve been having a really good time doing all these ranty Movie Mondays…trying to get people riled up and make us all think a little. Today’s movie is no…
Love and Memory at the Lake
My husband Jim and I met and married ‘up at the lake’ as we call our summer place in the Quebec Laurentians. Jim’s parents met and married at the lake…
Meet The University Of Ottawa’s Ecojustice Clinic
From William Amos, director of the clinic: “A lot of ecojustice cases end up being David vs. Goliath battles; and that’s simply because the clients we serve in small communities…
Nature’s Environment Is Man
Facing an unprecedented environmental crisis a world summit like no other was called. “We have to do something, we can’t let our environment just die.” A member of the Dirt…