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Loosely Knit : 16 February, 2010

February 16, 2010

A collection of loosely-knit links. Not about blackbirds. 1. blackbird Flickr CC image by Striatic (Bryan Partington) 2. Pale Blue Dot: An Alien View of Earth Twenty years ago last week, NASA’s Voyager 1 sent back this photo from four billion miles away. From NPR. “It was just a little dot, about two pixels big, [...]

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Looseleaf : 15 February, 2010

February 15, 2010

A collection of loosely-knit links. 1. The Grid, Our Cars and the Net: One Idea to Link Them All From Wired last year: Robin Chase considers the future of electricity, the future of cars and the internet three terms in a single equation, even if most of us don’t yet realize they’re on the same [...]

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City of (Lost) Streams

February 8, 2010

Where there is life, there is water. Water finds its way across a terrain. It shapes the land and connects places within a landscape. Human settlements inevitably begin around water: oceans, rivers, streams, springs, wells, aqueducts. Where there are people, the landscape changes in unique ways.  As cities grow — and as urbanization spreads — [...]

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Five ways of looking at the U.S.

February 1, 2010

Here are five maps I came across during the last few weeks. They involve high-speed passenger rail; a re-imagined map for the U.S. electoral college; landscape conservation; North American migration flyways; and wildlife “megalinkages.” The images are accompanied by minimal commentary, mainly their source info. I’ll leave it to you to make any connections. Your [...]

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On the wing with whooping cranes and Operation Migration

January 28, 2010

Last week, 20 young whooping cranes completed their first migration led by their mentors in flight, ultralight aircraft flown by pilots from Operation Migration. The 89-day, 1285-mile (km) journey started at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin and traversed seven states, until the cranes reached their destinations at the St. Marks and Chassahowitzka NWRs [...]

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What are Landscape Conservation Cooperatives?

January 16, 2010

“…climate change does not respect juridictional boundaries.” – Hector Galbraith, Director – Climate Change Initiative, Manomet Center for Conservation Studies Of course, no sooner do I post about colleges and universities collaborating at the bioregional level than I come across this exciting initiative from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: landscape conservation cooperatives. From the [...]

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Connecting Colleges by “Nature States”: public universities for the 21st Century (part 1)

January 14, 2010

“All education is environmental education.” – David W. Orr It’s time to update the mission of U.S. land-grant and state universities to align education and research with a growing understanding of ecosystems and the world’s changing environmental and social conditions. That means working together across landscapes and bioregions. We need colleges connected by nature. In [...]

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The Green Campus and Beyond: from bowl games to bioregions?

January 8, 2010

The start of winter and the new year bring many things: Christmas bird counts, whale migration along the Pacific Coast, New Year’s resolutions, and…college football bowl games (U.S. colleges, U.S. football). Ah, you say, that last one makes you…a) giddy, b) annoyed, c) like, whatever. (I get a thrill out of watching college football, but [...]

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Happy 2010! Where You At? (a bioregional quiz)

January 4, 2010

As the new year and new decade begins, I thought I’d post a version of the bioregional quiz. It’s a thought-provoking set of questions worth revisiting periodically. I recall first encountering the quiz in The Whole Earth Catalog during the late 1980s. The questions were intriguing for a city kid. All these years later, I [...]

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Copenhagen and Istanbul: The tale of the White Stork

December 17, 2009

Another perspective on Copenhagen and Istanbul (see my last post on the city summits)… A white stork launches itself from its rooftop nest in Copenhagen as cold weather pushes in from the north. Ready to head south, the stork looks for the updraft of the first thermal to ride on its journey towards the Mediterranean. [...]

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