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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…

    Ben Porchuk

    November 17, 2021
    Uncategorized
    #greenrentals
  • 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…

    Ben Porchuk

    December 1, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • 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…

    Ben Porchuk

    November 27, 2020
    Uncategorized
    #greenisthenewblack
  • 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,…

    Ben Porchuk

    April 8, 2019
    Uncategorized
    #ecologicalrecovery, #nativetrees, blackcherrytrees, hickorytrees, NativePlants, oaktrees
  • 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…

    Ben Porchuk

    February 15, 2019
    Uncategorized
    #activeandolder, #ageism, #aginglikefinewine, #agingwithawareness, #agingwithawarenessvsgettingold, #gettingbetterwithage, #middleageprowess, #mindcrispness, #olderageprowess, #youngatheart
  • 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…

    Ben Porchuk

    January 7, 2019
    Uncategorized
    #horsehealing #horsehistory #horsepower #horserelevance #horselove
  • 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,…

    Ben Porchuk

    October 19, 2018
    Uncategorized
    #animalhusbandry, #dovelove, #doves, #loveforpigeons, #pigeons, #urbanwildlife
  • 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…

    Ben Porchuk

    September 10, 2018
    Uncategorized
    #brucetrail, #campingwithgoats, #campingwithkids, #hiking, #niagaraescarpment, #unitycamp, nature, outdoors, Self Awareness, Trees
  • 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…

    Ben Porchuk

    August 16, 2018
    Uncategorized
    #coexist, #dogsonleash, #humans&coyotes coexist, #predatorcontrol, #protect wildlife, #urbancoyote, UrbanEcology
  • 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…

    Ben Porchuk

    September 19, 2017
    Uncategorized
    Autumn, biodiversity, carolinian canada, Climate Change, Conservation, Fall, Healthy Mess, in the zone gardens, nature, World Wildlife Fund
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