Tag archives for local ecology
What is an Eco-Village and How Can it Combat Climate Change?
What is an Eco-Village and How Can it Combat Climate Change? There are millions of ways in which one can work to combat climate change. From choosing to compost...
Beaver Achievers from Prague to Chicago
Beavers are the brilliant, buck-toothed builders of the natural world, and their ability to create dams is a powerful driving force in freshwater landscapes across the Northern Hemisphere. The...
A Synopsis of Restoration Ecology with Professor Callaway
This semester I took a restoration ecology course and had the privilege of visiting several different sites I had never heard of in the Bay Area and wanted to...
Easter Island: A Cautionary Tale
Jared Diamond, author of Twilight at Easter, specializes in ecology and geology. He recounts his own experiences at Easter Island and offers geological, ecological, and historical evidence to share...
Fleet Week: A Tragedy of the Commons
For one week every year, a series of giant ships and submarines parade into the San Francisco Bay, San Francisco’s skies crowd with dozens of zooming jets, and an...
Biodiversity in the City
Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot of people say how they’re “not big on nature” or don’t find themselves enjoying nature’s bounty as much as they’d like to. There’s...
Unravel Your Local Ecology
Just a few generations ago, people had a far more profound understanding of the ecology around them. People lived more intimately with the ecology and would therefore have to...