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 […]
An Inconvenient Move
Thursday, November 8th, 2007I just started reading the dreadfully interesting painfully detailed book, “The World Without Us,” by Alan Wiesman. The book is fairly straight forward…it’s about what would happen to the world if humans all disappeared today and nature had her chance to reclaim. As I delved deeper into the mysteries of the post rapture earth I […]
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 […]
Penguins are the cool-kids of the animal kingdom?
Sunday, July 15th, 2007Penguins have been the subject of many books and films as of late such as Happy Feet and Surf’s Up, March of the Penguins, and a parody film entitled Farce of the Penguins. What is the allure of these wobbly, feathered creatures?
This is a traditional woolen doll with an Antarctic twist […]
