Interesting Links for 02-09-2012
- Inspiration from Portland’s Neighborhood Greenways | Central Seattle Greenways
Members of Central Seattle Greenways visited Portland to study their system and see what could be applied here.
(tags: urban restoration urbanism bicycles pedestrians greenways ) - 6 of the Oldest Trees in the World - Mental Floss
Old trees - some very beautiful, some as gnarly as I would have expected.
(tags: Trees science Oldest trees nature ) - Madrids Atocha Station Doubles as an Indoor Botanical Garden and Turtle Sanctuary - StumbleUpon
A train station has a tropical botanical garden in it, which includes a swamp and a turtle sanctuary.
(tags: urbanism urban restoration urban forest ) - Climate change deniers ‘are either extreme free marketeers or conspiracy theorists’ - Telegraph
Climate change deniers also tend to believe things like the moon landing was faked, the CIA killed Martin Luther King, and other conspiracy theories.
(tags: global-warming environment denialism Dogma globalwarming psychology conspiracy ) - Old Ways Help Iowa Farmer Beat Drought
Crop diversity, manure fertilizing, and other “old-fashioned” practices help this farmer stay afloat in the drought.
(tags: farming sustainable diversity ) - Judgmental Insects in Mozambique - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
Some beautiful pictures of insects from a wildlife preserve in Mozambique nearly destroyed by civil war.
(tags: macrophotography photography insects entomology Africa Mozambique E.O. Wilson biophilia conservation ) - Science demands that you stop calling this kid the ‘Marmot Whisperer’
Why the cute kid with the marmots says more about human intrusion into wilderness and habituation than anything else. Marmots are pretty far from shy.
(tags: marmots anthropomorphism intrusion habituation )
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