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“Walter Scott and the Matter of Landscape: Ecologies of Violence” in The Bottle Imp Issue 16, 2014.
Essex University’s MA in Wild Writing: Literature and the Environment
Talk at Casper, Wyoming.
Talk at UW, Casper.
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Jewel Bugs
I found these beautiful metallic jewel bugs (Scutifora pedicellata) while out walking. A nice find on a day when there was a lot to see.
Ocean beach walking: exploring ecologies between Harmers Haven and Cutlers Beach, Bass Coast, Australia.
I respectfully acknowledge the Yallock-Bulluk people of the Bunurong nation who are the traditional custodians of the Country in which I walked and am writing about here. I pay my respects to their elders past and present, knowing the stories … Continue reading
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Tagged australia, Bass Coast, beach, birds, coastal ecologies, dunes, endangered species, flora, marsupials, molluscs, nature, shorelines, travel
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Sharing Andrew MacAllister’s ‘Looking at the West’ blogpost on phone towers in the landscape – click link below. I have the privilege of going to Brigham Young University tomorrow for a conference and workshop.
via Brigham City cell towers
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New Film on Climate Change in the Caribbean: 1.5 Stay Alive
Originally posted on Repeating Islands:
The aim of international climate change policy is to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. But scientists believe that a temperature rise of just 1.5 degrees could lead to irreversible damage to ecosystems and…
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U. of Puerto Rico Is Closed as Hurricane Maria Wreaks Destruction
Originally posted on Repeating Islands:
A report by Samuel Hoisington for the Chronicle of Higher Education. The University of Puerto Rico’s 11 campuses and central office are closed in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria. “The whole island…
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Snow Story
I have to share a video (see below for YouTube link): please watch billy barr’s deeply moving short story of snow. It’s a Gothic tale of a man living in a cabin in the woods, in winter – all those … Continue reading
More Ice Thoughts: After the Polls, What’s Next for the Poles?
Sharing this article, “Amid higher global temperatures, sea ice at record lows at poles,” by Brandon Miller, CNN meteorologist (19 November 2016) http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/18/world/sea-ice-arctic-antarctic-lows/index.html
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Plants and Antibiotics: some thoughts on reading the NY Times article “Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis?”
PLANTS AND ANTIBIOTICS Rabbitbrush. (My photograph) The article below about the antiseptic and antibiotic properties of plants is from the New York Times Magazine. I decided to post it because, as you know from my writing, I’m deeply interested in … Continue reading
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Seeing beyond the Sandhill Cranes: a trip from Eastern Wyoming into Nebraska.
A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place . . . . The cranes stand, as it were, upon the sodden pages of their own history. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). On … Continue reading
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Wild flower meadow at Abbotsford. More soon. . .
Walking Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford estate this afternoon with ranger Philip Munro. Wild flowers and grasses in profusion. Blogpost to follow soon. . .
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Susan Oliver, writing from . . . 