seriesIntricate watercolor paintings – small in size, big in imagination. These tiny, detailed paintings by artist…
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How to forage your own wild mushrooms. Foraging for wild mushrooms is the ultimate in foodie fun, and each edible specie…
The Crisis Has a Gorilla
A review of The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. Our most pressing climate change challenge isn’t what yo…
The Goldberg Variations: Wildlife in Suburbia
This is not the greenest sentiment I’ve ever expressed, but the fact is, I kind of hate nature. Not all of nature, of co…
17 Living Roofs: The High Tech Future of Architecture
We’ve always thought we had roofs covered. They had to be barren, hostile places the rain and the wildlife slid fr…
The Rise of Geoengineering: Smart? Safe? Too Easy?
Though the it’s-too-late set seems to be growing, most scientists agree that when it comes to human-induced climate chan…
On Global Warming: If There Is One, He, She or It Is on Our Side
So the joke goes that there’s a guy stranded on the roof of his house. Flood waters are rising and he’s praying to God f…
Go Climb a Tree and Stay a Night or Two
I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles when phones were rotary and the coolest video game going was Atari Pong. Or mayb…