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How to Find an Eco-Friendly Rental
By Lisa Walker, Neighborhood Sprout, Special to Lost and Found in Nature Your choice of rental is the biggest factor in your footprint. Here’s what to look for. A walkable location In a walkable neighborhood, you can shop for groceries, grab a coffee, and go out to eat without ever firing up an engine. Well-maintained…
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Contending with Global Ecological Disasters from Home
‘Flashy-bad’ news hit my inbox the other day. Our world is such that most things are either flashy-bad or trying to be in order to vie for our attention. The type of flashy-bad to which I’m referring is the type that reverberates for tens of thousands or years, or more. The most recent ‘hit’ to…
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Green Is the New Black
For the benefit of those who don’t have regular conversations with plants, I came up with a new way of speaking for the trees. Background I’m a conservation biologist. It’s a part of my job to be concerned and serious about the declining natural world to get some action to protect and enhance nature. What…
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WANTED (Desperately) In Our Cities: Under-Represented Trees
It’s time to invite some long time residents back home. The trees. The native species. The ones that are effectively absent from the most cities. Bringing them back isn’t just for the trees’ sake. Some of these trees will de-stress you, halting your cortisol production, helping you get back to true self – White Pine,…
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Aging With Awareness
By the books, I’ve passed ‘middle-age.’ Feeling confident, strong and in charge of my moments, I’d love to talk with you a bit about perceptions of aging. Many like to think they fear not of getting old(er). Many like to think they embrace aging. Many of us do, however, perhaps too often, raise our eyebrows…
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Horse History; Horse Return to Relevance
Grace, beauty, strength, and perceptive abilities are just a few of the admirable qualities that have tied us to horses for thousands of years. Even today, without horses playing much a role in our work lives (unless used for hobbies, sport, and therapy), horses still hold the key to the hearts of millions of hominids…
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A Pittance of Pigeons
Originally, a pittance was a gift or bequest to a religious community, or a small charitable gift. The word has transformed into meaning a very poor wage or allowance. Pigeons, if completely white and released at an event, are often considered a gift of heavenly persuasions. If bland-grey and commonly encountered in our cities, however,…
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Notes from Camping with 13 Year Old Girls
Age 13 is often a challenging time for a kid. It’s the transition time. Biologically, humans turn adult during this year, give or take a couple. While cell differentiation in certain body system’s are blasting away a million times a second, differentiation from one’s care givers, like a rocket separating from the mother ship in…
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Embracing the Urban Coyote
A few years ago, while traveling back to London, Ontario, I stopped in Cambridge to give my Red and White Husky a little exercise reprieve. In an isolated part of a heavily vegetated park, I briefly let her off leash. I paused a moment, then gave a peering, baffled look; we were seemingly staring into…
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Fall in Love for Nature this Autumn
Here are some tips to grow a great relationship with your yard and local ecosystem, now that summer has finally flipped off the calendar. While you and I are just proverbial drops, our landscape actions accumulate, and then fill the bucket (our local ecology) with a certain flavour – pollution or purity, resilience or climate…
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