Milk of happiness
One obstacle to switching to locally produced food is the cost. People on low incomes cannot afford to give up the savings of…
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Connecting to the planet: Chris Earley discusses the Galapagos
Chris Earley is interpretive biologist and education coordinator at University of Guelph Arboretum. He has written four field guides to birds of North…
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Speed River Project update
Yesterday Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) Guelph hosted a meeting to discuss its Speed River Project. Guest speaker Dr. Karen Morrison discussed…
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Making beauty in the city
The air feels cold like late winter, but the light is early spring: more intense, direct and engaged, having shaken it’s winter detachment….
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Reconciling science and spirituality
Where lies the intersection between science and spirituality? As a former evangelical Christian who one day realized he no longer believed in God,…
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Tree bark gallery
[slickr-flickr id=”12687067@N00″ type=”gallery” tag=”treezone2″] This winter I got in the habit of feeling tree bark. One weekend on a stroll through cedar woods…
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Consciousness and eyesight
Addressing Why did consciousness evolve? Malcolm MacIver at Science Not Fiction theorizes it arose as animals left the sea and adapted to terrestrial…
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Climate change and the stages of grief
Today as I watched footage of the tsunami sweeping away cars, houses, lives and entire towns, a wave of sadness washed over me….
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Fern frost gallery
[slickr-flickr id=”12687067@N00″ type=”gallery” tag=”fernfrost”] It’s too bad we have to worry about energy efficiency. As new windows replace old ones in our homes,…
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Urban conservation
Here are two stories about people working to protect wildlife in urban setting (with apologies for the advertisements attached to these BBC news…
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