The Lungs of the Mediterranean

Humor me: take the deepest breath you can, inhaling deep into your abdomen. And hold it as long as possible. When you finally can’t hold it any longer, exhale and take a new breath. Last October I witnessed something that dramatically changed that experience: breath. Even I, the ever-so-keen conservationist, found my eyes glaze over when I read about how the oceans support the air we breathe, discussions of things like photosynthesis and carbon-sinks. But then I saw something that drove it home in such...

Mangrove and Turtle Conservation in the Turks and Caicos Islands

The Times of the Islands magazine is out, summarizing my research from last June in the Turks and Caicos Islands: http://www.timespub.tc/2011/10/simple-truths/   Share this:FacebookDiggStumbleUponEmailReddit

Anima Mundi

At this moment BlogPulse reports that there are 154,299,718 blogs on the web, 78,025 posted in the last 24 hours. And now, one more: mine. Ahh. . . . Not only am I faced with the challenge of saying something of value amidst the chatter of those 154,299,718 blogs, but: a blog needs a name. Happily, anima mundi came to mind. The term goes back to Plato and translates from Greek (ψυχή κόσμου) as “the world soul.” C. G. Jung summed it up well when he wrote: This world is indeed a living being...