Biocitizen Blog
Biocitizen Banter #10: A Discussion with Connecticut River Defenders
Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. What can we do to improve the vivacity of the Connecticut River?...
Bear Pool Vandalized
Bear Pool is a place beloved. It is not only beautiful but is home to a variety of endangered and threatened species. It is owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which is to say by you. What do you think about this? For many years, Biocitizen students have...
Giving Tuesday & Summer Update
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts. —Salmon Rushdie Dear Parents, Guardians,...
The Biotic Commonwealth
The Biotic Commonwealth, and how we participate in, and co-create, it: 1) We are citizens of states and nations, and have identities structured as such. > Nations are a recent social construction; the kind we are familiar with were invented around 1776, the year...
We Share the Same Body
COVID-19 presents us with a quite a challenge. May we and those we love make it through safely. And those we don’t love, may they make it through safely, too. They are us. We are them. This is a species event. Biology is founded on the principle that we share...
Biocitizen Casco July 11 – 16
July 11 – 16 Source: Biocitizen Inc., Westhampton,...
Walking with Aldo Leopold in the Place that Made Him
Kurt here. For the past few days I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of staying at the home where Aldo Leopold was born, raised and lived until he was 17. This sounds sort of unremarkable until you consider two things: first, that Leopold grew up to be a field...
Job Opening: Our Place Summer School Ass’t Director, New York City
Job Opening: Our Place Summer School Ass’t Director, New York City Status: 40 (full-time) hours a week (June 29-July 3, July 6-10, July 13-17, July 20-24, July 27-31, August 24-28, 2020); training begins January 2020 Time Frame: Review begins now, position...
Sabrina Moore’s Environmental Philosophy: on co-founding the Living Rivers School
This post is written by Sabrina Moore, who will assist Dr. Boyd Kynard in our innovative Living Rivers School, that lets middle and high school -aged students participate in conservation biology research that, when published and shared, increases public knowledge of...
WOW > Phoebe Gelbard! Off to Cape Horn with International Research Experiences for Students!
Biocitizen began in the forests of Cape Horn, when Kurt Heidinger, Francisca Massardo and Ricardo Rozzi developed Tracing Darwin’s Path, an interdisciplinary learning-adventure that immerses students in the biocultural history of that sublime portion of the...