What would the world be like without us?
Sunday, November 11th, 2007I just finished reading a most interesting book, “The World Without Us,” by Alan Weisman and now I wonder if taking the moral high ground will mean not having offspring. Since the onset of modern medicine, industrial revolution, and the Protestant work ethic the natural world has increasingly deteriorated because of human demands for […]
Last article about the hummingbird…I promise
Monday, August 13th, 2007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VyVT1CxnQ
I just wanted to show you this video footage I got yesterday of the hummingbird feeding her little babies.
Garden Ethics
Saturday, August 11th, 2007[Show as slideshow]
Lets start with an evolutionarily postulate quoted from Wikipedia.org. “Natural selection is a process that causes heritable traits that are helpful for survival and reproduction to become more common and harmful traits to become rarer.” And a definition of ethics which according to Answers.com from the Philosophy Dictionary by Oxford Press is “The […]
Cañon sumidero, one wild ride
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Neil and I have been meaning to hit this touristy spot since we came to San Cristobal in May, and we finally made the voyage. They canyon was only made accessible in the 1970s when a dam flooded the Grajalva river and made it passable by boat. At the highest point the canyon walls are […]
New life at the New World!
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We have been stalking our little hummingbird who built a nest in our garden. One of her two eggs hatched today!
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