MAKING THE POLITICAL SAUSAGE: ORGANIZING FOR POLITICAL SUCCESS With thanks to Cousin Sarah for her home made sausage photo “What’s needed now is research on tactics and strategies The Citizen Scientist in Winter Are you concerned with our environment but are not a political joiner? Do you love nature and want to learn It Is 2034, and Trump is Still President! "And was Jerusalem builded here, among these dark Satanic Mills," queried poet William Blake in dismay at the destruction that Socrates and Me When I was getting ready for college, I expected that everyone would be sitting around under the trees discussing Plato. Is Age “Just a Number” A Gerontologist was helping me register at the Gerontological Association Convention in Boston. "I'm 81," I remarked. "Don't you know," Wild Speculations and Ruptured Paradigms Last summer I wrote an essay about whether climate warming will cause the extinction of the human species, so when I came across an Red Bees, Blue Bees Red Bees Henry David Thoreau felt that he would become “the laughing stock of the scientific community” if he tried On the Joy of Natural Curiosity You would think that when I am at my river cottage in Northern Michigan I would sit back, close my eyes, and relax. I have Climate Change and the Conundrum of Human Survival I have discovered that many creatures have already adapted to climate warming - I just read about a bird population in an Endless forms most beautiful…. At the very end of On the Origin of Species, after a lifetime of nature observation and discovery, Charles Darwin What About Those Whitefish? WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHITEFISH? Review of Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. W.W. Norton: New York, Why Is that Seagull Hanging Out with the Pelicans? I had a break on Florida's Sanibel Island from our Michigan snow, sleet, and polar cold early this April . The Polar Bear Conundrum It is spring again, and I am slinging my binoculars around my neck to look for warbler “fall outs," when The Hare, the House Finch and the Tardigrade In my recent blog about furry little Pitas and their trouble coping with rising temperatures, I wondered whether they might develop thinner coats in time to Nature Rising? My old friend Helen Klebesadel created this vision of "Nature Rising" in watercolor. "In this painting," she explains, "the flying crow Overheated Pikas and Leaping Lizards There is no question that global warming and habitat degradation have led to the decline of natural abundance, and that A Wren in Winter After Christmas's Baroque extravagance of gold and red and tinsel and splendid carols and Messiahs are over, the simplicity of Michigan's deep Our Darkest Hour Now the dark is upon us. The late afternoons are suddenly devoid of light, plunging our spirits into an ancient human fear that Has Anyone Ever Died For Lack of Gossip? I often asked myself this question when my soul shuddered down the mute corridors of my academic department, where a heavy silence always Hope in a Time of Climate Armageddon Dear Blog subscribers: This is my Press Release for The Battle For the Black Fen with a slightly different emphasis « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next »
