Entries for category "Live Blue Blog"
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wallacejnichols
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March 6, 2006
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At the end of a productive day of meetings with the Global Bycatch Assessment Project four of us dropped kayaks in Taylor Creek. And we paddled until sunset. It’s been since 1992 that I paddled along the barrier islands in North Carolina as a Duke graduate student. In those days…
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wallacejnichols
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Feb. 26, 2006
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I shared a perfect lunch at our friends Greg and Dominique’s place. On a cliff looking over the Pacific Ocean. A gathering of people to share local food, ideas, current work and future dreams. We chatted a lot about our town, Davenport. I learned more about growing organic strawberries on…
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wallacejnichols
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Aug. 16, 2005
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Our daughter Grayce is three years old. Yet she understands nature in a way I only came to at ten times her age. This simple observation gives me hope. Standing in the meadow, she points out the gophers and jays. We water the apricot tree, and she tells me we…
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wallacejnichols
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June 8, 2005
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The air in our lungs, the water we drink, our climate and our food supply are all gifts of the ocean, the signature feature of our blue planet. The ocean is what makes this world a shelter for us; we owe much less to the scattering of dry land we…
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wallacejnichols
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Feb. 7, 2005
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by Jan Lundberg Northern Californians Against Plasticnew report: plastics additive of great toxicity: deca-BDEPlastic as toxic trash is barely an issue with health advocates, environmentalists, and even those of us looking toward the post-petroleum world. Instead, "recycling" and future "bioplastics" distract people from keeping plastic out of their lives. As…
