Eating meat is definitely more energetically expensive than not eating meat because of what is required to support each trophic chain. Environmentally it is better to eat on a lower trophic chain and be an herbivore (vegan). Let me know if you want an explanation of trophic energetics as an argument for vegetarianism. This post […]
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Flowers
One of the many things that Costa Rica is known for is it’s biodiversity. Fauna and flora. I am going to take advantage of that fact and use flowers local to my wedding location… so local that they will be cut from the grounds of the bungalows we will be staying at as well as […]
Paper Trial
I did a paper trial run tonight. We are making paper for our invites from our paper that needs to be shredded (old pay stubs, credit card offers, etc.) It will be grow-a-note paper that guests can put in the ground to hopefully get flowers with in the spring. On Sunday we are going to […]
dance.dance.dance.dance.dance
We are taking a community education Beginning Ballroom class at Miami Dade Community College. As of now we can rhumba, cha-cha, and swing. The best thing about this class has been training ourselves to lead and follow on the dancefloor. Last night was the end of part one of the class and we had to […]
Blog Action Day
Today over 15,000 bloggers are working to have 12.5 million readers view some words about the environment. Read more about it here. Here is my effort to you. First you should know that I have a background in ecology and have worked with environmental research in the western U. S., Central America, and South America. […]
Congratulations Al!
Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize with United Nations Panel on Climate Change. Let’s talk a moment about “An Inconvenient Truth” and Al’s crazy Tennessee home. He is not a scientist conducting long-term research… instead he is working on the intersection of science and reaching the public which is a very hard intersection. Most […]
