Sixth Extinction
“There is grandeur in this view of life,” concludes Charles Darwin in his opus “On the Origin of Species.” “… From so simple a beginning,...
The Constant Gardener
One of the reasons I’m slightly obsessed with botanic gardens is that the earliest impulse to create them integrated science and religion...
Watering Holes
Climate change provokes not just water rising up over our heads but emotional flooding as well. If I had heard only William Collins and...
Eyes Wide Shutdown
I hated that Kubrick movie but I love the title. It’s pretty apt for what this government paroxysm is doing to science all over the...
Flying on the Umwelt
On Wednesday Allen Fish and I talk umwelt up at Hawk Hill. Fish is the director of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory and commandante of...
The Snake, The Seeker and the Smartphone
Effective communication about the environment, check. Inspiration to address threats to Earth processes, check. Community of...
Core of the Core
Looking out over Coyote Valley, the built environment of San Jose is visible. I can see the literal outlines of “Silicon Valley”:...
If You Mow It, They Will Come
Stu Weiss and I are strolling at Edgewood Park and Preserve, a bucolic swath of greenery just south of San Francisco in San Mateo County,...
The Powers That Be
Sometimes climate change seems like a downright good idea. The global re-boot of conditions on Earth is a take-all-prisoners phenomenon. ...
Of Time and the River
We tend to think of the things of man and the things of nature as separate. The way we categorize say waterfalls, mountains, and birds...
