It might seem an odd choice to talk about burials when Spring, with its promise of new life and abundance, is just around the corner. But death is a part of the cycle of life in Nature. Fallen trees form both food and habitat for other organisms in the forest. Even in our gardens, nutrient-rich …
I’ve mentioned in prior issues that I plan to begin shifting our grass-filled yard to native plantings over the next few years. Already, plans are on my mental drawing board, though I don’t know exactly which plants I’ll choose for those first two sites, yet. But perhaps we should review what, exactly, “going native” in …
The shift from outdoor activities to indoor ones can reduce our awareness of the impact we have on the environment around us. Out of sight, out of mind, so to speak. The fact is that many of our actions during the winter months can contribute to climate issues, whether large or small scale. Here are …
Last time, we talked about circularity, which is one way you can reduce your personal or family impact on the environment. But there are many products we use on a daily or weekly basis that can’t be cycled back into the production chain so easily. The next best thing is to lower the waste produced …
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A few issues/posts back, I talked about plastic—that ubiquitous substance on which our societies have become dependent, and for which there is no green disposal method. If we can’t burn our plastic trash, if it won’t decompose in a landfill (not within a reasonable timeframe, and maybe not even then), if the result of so …
Like the coral reefs we talked about last time, rainforests are one of the world’s most delicate ecosystems. Found on all the world’s continents except Antarctica, rainforests come in two forms: temperate, found in cooler climes, and tropical, those clustered around or near the equator between latitudes of 23.5°N and 23.5°S. The tropical Amazon, by …
A coral reef environment plays a huge role in Entheóphage, so it makes sense to touch on them here, as well as the role they play in Earth’s ecosystems and global diversity. But reefs do far more than support marine animals. They also provide food, nutrient, and medicinal sources for over a billion humans, protect delicate …
I subscribe to the Broiler Room, a newsletter from Bad Manners (https://www.badmanners.com) about “food, pop culture, and everything that makes a meal.” Usually, their content is about—what else?—food. I highly recommend it, though I will warn that they use some … colorful … language. But recently their entire newsletter talked about plastics. No one yet knows …
