Nature
Promised Places
I started walking..and I can't believe how long ago..in a quest to lose weight, get back in shape. I was lucky enough to live within walking distance of a river with walking and bike paths that I had used and lived around all my life. I started my weight-loss quest with those.
By Susan Braithwaite5 years ago in Earth
No One Grows Things In The Ground Any More
Come on--no one grows things in the ground any more. Do they? An ex-girlfriend decided one year that we should grow our own tomatoes. We spent six months and two hundred dollars in order to save three bucks on salads. We didn’t break up over super-expensive tomatoes, specifically, but maybe my pigheaded resistance to amateur agriculture was one of the two hundred and fifty seven things I did that persuaded her to seek out greener pastures.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in Earth
Roots
A tree without roots is just a piece of wood, declared Marco Pierre White, a British chef. What a smart quote and from a culinary chef no less! Am I being facetious? I really hope so given that a tree without roots is surely dead first and mourned by his tree family and acquaintances who throw him an underground memorial. I was a witness to such a ceremony, watching it from a tree cavern, and this is how it sounded in my tree-focused head.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
Tree Day
Valentine’s Day? Love doesn’t need a specific day. Love is a permanent state. I love Athena every day at every moment and she knows it all the way in Greece where she stands tall like all women should, facing their often despicable men. Oh, there are good men. There is no doubt about it. But most of them have died, and rarely from old age. Some of you may already know the men I admire, so I won’t repeat their beautiful names again except for dear Nietzsche, Freud, and Charlie Chaplin. I may have named them all. I digressed, though. I wanted to raise your awareness again about trees in all their splendour and fragility, facing the most bloodthirsty predator on Earth. COVID-19 is an amateur in comparison, the new strain of half-life on the block of existence.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
Meet More Meat
I am a tree. Hath not a tree senses? Hath not a tree a trunk, branches, leaves, sizes, affections, roots; fed with similar food, hurt with similar weapons, subject to similar diseases, healed by similar means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a human is? If you prick me, do I not bleed? If you hug me, do I not love you inside? If you axe me, do I not die? And if you wrong me, what can I do? If I am like you in the rest, I will resemble you in that. If a tree could wrong a human, what would be its punishment? Death. If a human wrongs a tree, what should his sufferance be by human example? Why, death. The villainy you show me, I will not take, and it shall be harder for you now, and I will survive your instruments of my destruction. Shaketree, from The Tree of Venice
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
A Tree Story
The Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus regnans), also known as swamp gum or stringy gum, lives down under most of us on the other side of the world. Oh, there are many others who live on that continent, but this story is not about any of them—sorry—it is about the mountain ash tree. One of the words in its name is surely foreboding. The fire had gone back to hell, leaving only ash, also in the form of cinders, embers, and clinker.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
The Plants of Summer
It’s finally here… the growing season. The season when our plants rejoice and revel in the shining sun and awaken from their dormant state with renewed purpose and vigor. However, although summer can be a time of tremendous growth and plant prosperity, we need to make changes to our plant ecosystem to keep our plants healthy during the seasonal transition.
By Farmer Nick5 years ago in Earth
Types of Water Pollution? How to Avoid Water Pollution?
What is Water Pollution? Water Pollution refers to any type of contamination that can occur due to the drainage of contaminated water, either surface runoff or groundwater. What exactly is water pollution? Water pollution occurs when contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides and bacteria are introduced into the natural water system. These contaminants then interact with living organisms present in the water system, resulting in the generation of toxic byproducts.
By Dr. Yogesh Kumar 5 years ago in Earth
Carbon Neutrality 101: When Dunder Mifflin Went Carbon Neutral
Every week, there's a host of companies, cities, and countries announcing their commitment to reducing their net carbon emissions within a certain timeframe. With the threats of climate change getting more and more apparent with frequent forest fires, cyclones, changing rain patterns, and the likes, the pressure on organizations to curb their contribution to climate change is more than ever. What happens when Dunder Mifflin Scranton sit down to brainstorm on ways to go carbon neutral? If you haven’t watched The Office (the American one, to be more specific), you might wanna skip to the 4th paragraph.
By Rishi Rathi5 years ago in Earth
What happens if human beings sleep for 1000 years and then wake up
If humans ceased to exist, 3.5 million tons of garbage from Japan to California would not be collected. This means that more plastic waste will wander in the streets, forests and oceans. If we wake up 1,000 years later and still have plastic McDonald’s cups around, it’s not surprising. But this is not all bad news, because the disappearance of mankind will have great benefits for the earth and all its characteristics.
By DARRYL JAY5 years ago in Earth
