Change starts small
One key to successful new habits is, “Start small.” Begin with a step so easy you can’t not take it. My goal for…
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The challenge of snow
We do not get a lot of severe weather here in Guelph, Ontario. The occasional modest tornado touches down somewhere not far away….
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Winter in High Park
High Park provides a remarkable enclave of natural habitat within the city of Toronto. It holds fascination at any season. In winter the…
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Daily salad is a healthy pleasure
I am pleased to report success in establishing a daily salad habit. I started once a week in early January and kept adding…
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Nature’s most extravagant lovers
Few lovers woo as extravagantly as birds-of-paradise. Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s birds-of-paradise project delves deeper into the lives of these birds. Here is…
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Should we trust physicists?
A recent discussion on LinkeIn asks, Should speculation pass as scientific evidence? Artist and professor Manual Morales points to experiments at the Large…
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February brings poetry
February is the month in which I feel naturally most inclined to write poetry. I noticed this pattern in early years. The output…
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Dark ecology and a narcissistic society
Dark ecology: searching for truth in a post-green world, in the current issue of Orion, reads like a dark mirror. I glimpse my…
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Grace of a white pine monoculture
Eastern white pine plantations are ubiquitous in Southern Ontario. We have one behind our house. The photo shows another one near Guelph. I…
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Beginners’ vermicomposting
This blog’s second-ever most popular post appeared a year ago, on Feb. 1, 2012. In honour of the 32nd Annual Guelph Organic Conference…
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