When it comes making the case for a particular way of thinking, there are a number of ways to go about it.  One might be the debate, where two sides…

Protecting nature to protect ourselves.  Sounds obvious, but ... On this road trip of life, where do we expect to end up?  If life is as they say, more a…

It seems obvious that we are a part of nature, not some separate entity independent of the earth - able to exist isolated from the components that comprise the living…

Here is a follow-up to our posts referencing Matthew Evans and his book Soil. In the US there's the Thanksgiving Season.  At this time of the year with all the…

Our second part of the John Green feature: The Anthropocene Reviewed.   Sometimes I like to image benevolent aliens visiting Earth.  In my daydreams, these aliens are galactic anthropologists, seeking to…

Travel writers are always on the lookout for subjects to write about, but very few know that Munibung Hill exists, let alone take the time to visit and write it…

Continuing to focus on authors and their books that include ideas worth sharing, here are a bunch of extracts from the latest book by John Green.  To consider these thoughts…

…We are all, for a certain while, not soil, and the best research we have on decomposition comes from body farms. The atoms that make up our bodies were once,…

Soil: the incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy,  by Matthew Evans (ABC Books, 2021), is a wonderful book that was hard to put down.  In the…

For many people animals are part of their business. In these instances animals are viewed as property to be bought and sold in the market place like any other commodity…