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Category Archives: Environment
Good News for Elephants!
CNN reported yesterday that Hong Kong, the world’s largest retail market for ivory, will phase out ivory sales over the next eighteen months and impose severe penalties on those engaging in smuggling and trading of endangered species. Certainly this is … Continue reading
Lexington, KY: Reflections on My Old Kentucky Home
I count myself fortunate to live near Lexington, KY. Its assets are many; its liabilities, few. I like its small town feel—no row housing here; no factories puffing their toxins into the air. Though ranked 61 among American cities, currently … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged best cities, Bluegrass, city parks, environment, Ky City Park Alliance, Lexington, parks
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Don’t Be a Phoul: When Neighbors Cut Down Trees
My daughter has been complaining in her recent emails about a family on her street in Bellevue, WA. They’ve cut down two lovely Douglas fir trees, the kind that startle Easterners like me not used to arboreal skyscrapers, many of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Lifestyle, Reflections
Tagged Bellevue, Boston, cities plant trees, douglas fir, New York, planting trees, trees, WA
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On Visiting Bloedel Reserve
If you have a garden and a library you have everthing you need.–Cicero I’ve been doing a lot of walking in the Seattle area these past several days, while visiting my daughter and family. As a gardener back home in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged Bainbridge Island, Bloedel Reserve, Edith Nesbit, Garden, garden poetry, gardens, Seattle
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Why We Mourn a Lion’s Death
In the aftermath of Cecil’s killing. you may have seen the op piece to the NYT by Goodwell Nzou, a Zimbabwe graduate student at Wake Forest University. Supposedly, he provides contextual balance, giving us the other side of the story, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Reflections
Tagged Cecil the lion, Dr. Walter Palmer, Hwange National Park, Robert Mugabe, trophy hunting, Zimbabwe
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Reflections on the Supreme Court’s EPA Rebuff
This has been a busy time for America’s highest court, with gargantuan issues–gay marriage, Obama Care, and approval of a controversial capital punishment drug, cases decided by razor thin majorities. No less important, perhaps the most impacting of all, is … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged ecology, environment, EPA, Kagan, ocean, Science Journal, Supreme Court
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BEE Alert
Recently I posted about the plight of butterflies, especially that aerial tiger, the monarch butterfly. I mentioned that I’m trying to certify our backyard as a way station. But while I’m at it, bees also play a vital role in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged bees, environment, gardens, gmo's, honey bees, nature, neonics, pollination, pollinators
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Same Sun Here
Dear River, I cannot tell from your name if you are a boy or girl so I will write to you like you are a human being. The above comes from a book I’ve been reading for middle grade children, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged authors, books, Kentucky, mountain top removal, Neela Vaswani, Silas House, Tlhe Same Slun Here, writers
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Monarch Butterflies: Beleaguered Friends
Spring is for tidying and trying out new ideas. This spring I’m bent on turning the back yard into a pollinator’s paradise and bird sanctuary. In particular, I want to get it certified as a waystation for my beleaguered garden … Continue reading
And Then There Were None: Mountain Gorillas in Imminent Danger
“ In this central African park. Desperate refugees crowd park boundaries. Charcoal producers strip forests. Then, last summer [2007], someone killed seven of these magnificent creatures in cold blood. (National Geographic) Yet another species, this time one of … Continue reading
