Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts
Monday, May 23, 2016

In praise of dandelions!

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Why would I be praising dandelions?  Aren't they the bane of every homeowner with a lawn?  Yes, if you want to maintain a total monocu...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

John Kline's attack on Obermueller over "bird breeding book" is misleading

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Minnesota Representative John Kline (R) recently ran an ad attacking his opponent, Mike Obermueller (D), accusing him of wasteful "...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Aronofsky's "Noah": A modern Jewish midrash

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WARNING:  CONTAINS SPOILERS! I missed this movie when it was in the theaters, because it came out right in the middle of cleaning for...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Refuting Rabbi Eliezer Melamed's attack on the vegetarian movement

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On Monday, May 26, 2014, the Israel National News printed an article by Rabbi Eliezer Melamed  entitled  Judaism: Vegetarianism for Moral Re...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

From Noah to Moses: an ethical evolution

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Today is the third day of Passover but, ironically, I have spent the last couple days focused more on Noah than Moses -- all because of a re...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

OY VEY! All this milkweed and NO MONARCHS!

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For the past 16 years I have been allowing Common Milkweed to naturalize on my land for the Monarchs butterflies. This is just one of severa...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Earth Day: "Interfaith Power and Light" connecting faith and ecology

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A religious ecology group called Interfaith Power and Light recently sponsored a nationwide "preach-in," focusing on global war...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

Audubon Center of the North Woods sponsors new Cub Scout Pack

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In March 2013, the Audubon Center of the North Woods  became the charter sponsoring organization for a new Cub Scout Pack, #185.   The group...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Nature knows no political parties

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There is a saying in the Talmud that "Once the sword is let loose in the land, it does not distinguish between the innocent and the gui...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Visiting my recycling center

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Today was America Recycles Day -- an event I had not heard of before, but since my local recycling center ( PHASE Recycling in Sandstone, ...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

Living with Predators on the Circle of Life

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Last Saturday there was a big ruckus down at the chicken coop.  When I went to investigate, I soon saw why:  A Red-Tailed Hawk had killed on...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Hurricane Isaac: The REAL Elephant at the RNC

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Denial isn't a river in Egypt anymore, it's a 500-mile tropical storm about to hit New Orleans.  For decades the Republicans have ...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Vote Romney-Ryan and Kill the Planet!

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I don't usually do a lot of politics on this blog, but Mitt Romney is so dismissive of clean energy initiatives, and Paul Ryan's re...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

2012 heat wave: Spring has never been so early here!

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Lately the news has been full of photos of cherry blossoms and daffodils blooming a month early in places like Washington, DC.  Here in Pine...
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