Category / Uncategorized / aesthetics / Director's Notes / ecology / Director's Notes / ecology / Director's Notes / endosymbiosis / Director's Notes / evolution / Director's Notes / imagination / locavore / permaculture / Director's Notes / religion / Director's Notes / sustainability / Director's Notes / time / Director's Notes / beauty / Director's Notes / biome / Director's Notes / biotic mandala / Director's Notes / citizenship
-
![]()
American Eels
We’ll try. As waters warm, what our northern neighbors plan should be considered. From the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment: **1. Focus on hydropower dams that are being relicensed, especially those near the coast Hydropower dams are relicensed for 30-50 years, so in our lifetimes, we may get one chance to allow…
-
![]()
Jesse Carmichael, Director of Biocitizen LA
Biocitizen is opening a new school in Echo Park, LA under the direction of Jesse Carmichael! Jesse brings a wealth of valuable experience, a humming dynamo of energy, and a deep love of community to our institution. In her presentation to the executive board, she said: “After the recent election, I made a vow that I…
-
![]()
Biocitizen Now Voyagers team with the Fundacion Punta de Lobos and the City of Pichilemu!
On December 29 and 30th Now Voyagers will team with the Fundacion Punta de Lobos and the Municipalidid Pichilemu for a day of public field environmental philosophy education and fundraising—out on the Punta! Punta de Lobos means “Sea Lion Point,” and it’s really beautiful. Click on the pic for more images— Punta de Lobos is also one of…
-
![]()
Now Voyager 2017: Tuition and Logistics
Flights We will leave the USA on the evening of December 27, 2016 and return the USA on the morning of January 7. You are responsible for your airfare, but Biocitizen will coordinate your flight so we arrive and leave Santiago’s Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International airport as a group. At the moment, flights cost…
-
![]()
Our Place Summer School 2017
Our Place Summer School is designed to “unplug” your child by bringing them into direct contact with the creatures, geologies, hydrologies and infrastructures of the Nonotuck biome and the Westfield River watershed. For five six-hour days, we roam our place—the valley and the hilltowns—investigating our natural and cultural history with all of our senses, and…
-
![]()
Wings: Our Place Summercamp for 6-10 year olds
If you’ve never seen a butterfly or dragonfly spread its wings for the first time, you’ll amazed to see how sensitive those first unfurling moments are. And if you have seen it, you know that moment happens only once in a lifetime; for as soon as they can, they fly away on those wings. Biocitizen’s…
-
![]()
Now Voyager: From Pacific to Andes—A Field Environmental Philosophy Learning-Adventure in Chile
Now Voyager Tuition and Logistics From December 27, 2016 to January 6, 2017, Now Voyager takes college students (& 18+ year olds) on an ecstatic journey through South-Central Chile, following the path of water from the Pacific Ocean in Pichilemu across the Central Range, the agricultural Central Valley, and onto the high Andean peaks of…
