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EPA: carbon dioxide is a danger to our health and welfare
By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 07, 2009 in Director's Notes
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Our Place
Our Place: Five days of reading, hiking and writing for middle and high school students.
Our Place is an inquiry-based summer-learning camp that takes students outdoors to investigate the environmental history of the Pioneer Valley. To ensure the highest quality experience, class size is limited to six students.
Educational Enhancement
Our Place is designed to enhance students’ understandings [...]
NYTs Nicholas Kristof wins this week’s Becoming a Biocitizen Award
By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 06, 2009 in Director's Notes
The premise of his op-ed: the environment is our body.
Take breast cancer. One puzzle has been that most women living in Asia have low rates of breast cancer, but ethnic Asian women born and raised in the United States don’t enjoy that benefit. At the symposium, Dr. Alisan Goldfarb, a surgeon specializing in breast cancer, [...]
Gettin’ Permacultural: the new Fedco seed catalog is here
By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 02, 2009 in Director's Notes
Yesterday I leapt from the keyboard and dashed outside to harvest the last of our red and green cabbages (a whole wheelbarrel full!). These babies handle moderate frost, but the forecast confirmed what my skin told me: winter is upon us. Hard frosts are here ’til the end of Feb.
It started snowing while I was [...]
Thinking like a biome
By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 30, 2009 in Director's Notes
Aldo Leopold wrote:
The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf’s job of trimming the herd to fit the range. He has not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers washing the future into the sea.
Explaining that it’s the job [...]
Nuclear power as the solution to our carbon emissions problem?
By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 24, 2009 in Director's Notes
Today we learn, courtesy of the Washington Post, that nuclear power is the “new” solution to humanity’s carbon emissions problem.
I post this as a reminder that technocrats always claim technology will save the world from the excesses of…um, well…technology.
That, after over 40 years of experimenting in broad daylight, no technocrat has devised a [...]
Our Omora friends
By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 18, 2009 in Director's Notes
are in the Chronicle of Higher Education!
Tracing Darwin’s Path, the field EP program I put together, is the core of this UNESCO biocultural education initiative. I miss Puerto WIlliams and the Cape Horn Archipelago!
(So why did I leave it? Because I was raised a yankee, and can only visit the rest of the [...]
Bobcats in the Nonotuck bioregion
By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 17, 2009 in Director's Notes
I read in today’s Daily Gazette that, tonight, the Mass Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is hosting an info session about new laws governing bobcat hunting at:
6:30 PM
Northampton City Council Chambers, 210 Main St.
The old laws allowed hunters to kill bobcats until a total-statewide-limit of 50 was reached. The new laws will “allow hunters to [...]
Biocitizen at Brushworks Open House on Sat. and Sun.
By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 13, 2009 in Director's Notes
I’ll be manning the table from 12-3 at Studio 355 on Sat. & Sun. Please drop by! I’d love to tell you about what Biocitizen offers, and answer any questions you have.
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”