Spectacular Photography: Presque Isle River | Porcupine Mountains Wilderness, Michigan

Photograph: Presque Isle River | Porcupine Mountains Wilderness, Michigan

Flip through this artist's site-- awesome work.

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Opinion | Goodbye first lawn, hello first garden | Seattle Times Newspaper

Opinion | Goodbye first lawn, hello first garden | Seattle Times Newspaper Great op ed piece on lawns and their enormous consumption of resources. Thanks to Ellen Goodman

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Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted

Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted

Daily Kos: Wall St. Bailout: Is A Massive Scandal About To Unfold?

Daily Kos: Wall St. Bailout: Is A Massive Scandal About To Unfold? Read and weep. Could affect Obama and not in a good way.

Bad news.


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King County wants to hear ideas of farming’s future

King County wants to hear ideas of farming’s future

Here is a great opportunity to influence the future of agriculture in King County.

Your presence is requested to make a difference in the future of farming. I want to see King County fund purchase of conservation easements across rural Snoqualmie Valley to preserve this land in perpetuity for farming.

How about you?

Hope you can make one of these events. And if you cannot-- please join me in writing your King County Council a note to ask them to prioritize protecting remaining farmland -- robust program -- not the anemic nibbles we have today.

There is a survey you can take at the bottom of the press release.

Thanks.

Timothy

Obama Suspends Bush Rule on Endangered Species - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Obama Suspends Bush Rule on Endangered Species - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com Very good news.

You say elections don't matter. Here is a full two months of elections matter a lot!

Right on President Obama.

Basta

Timothy

Daily Kos: Climate change will be much worse than you think

Daily Kos: Climate change will be much worse than you think Interesting look at best case scenario from the latest UN panel on climate crisis.

Read on ...

Seattle Great City Initiative

Seattle Great City Initiative Check it out if you are in Seattle area.

NOAA History - Art and Poetry/Art Gallery/Historic Weather Art

NOAA History - Art and Poetry/Art Gallery/Historic Weather Art/wea00001: "cloud illustration"

Beautiful old map of cloud types from the 1800's by a German artist.

Low Impact Development Video | Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) | US EPA

Low Impact Development Video | Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) | US EPA Good overview from EPA on green practices to keep water clean.

WaterBlogged.org Green Roofs - EPA Webcast Feb 18, 2009

WaterBlogged.org Green Roofs - EPA Webcast Feb 18, 2009 Good site on ecosystem services -- low impact practices we can start today to stop storm water, restore groundwater and change the way we think about urban/suburban living.

best fishes,

Timothy

Observatory - Detecting Brain Injuries in Salmon From Hydroelectric Dams - NYTimes.com

Observatory - Detecting Brain Injuries in Salmon From Hydroelectric Dams - NYTimes.com Next time you bang your head on a wall, consider life of a salmon swimming past those dams-- head injuries! Who would have thought?

Well -- it turns out the salmon that are have brain injuries give of a little protein. This has led to discoveries of similar proteins found in soldiers who get head trauma in war.

Read on...

Best fishes,

Timothy

Salmon Safe Wine Tasting at The Local Vine!

Salmon Safe Wine Tasting at The Local Vine!: "logoF.jpg"

Cornell Chronicle: Gandhi portrait made of grass

Cornell Chronicle: Gandhi portrait made of grass Wild art project: Ghandi's picture in a grass wall hanging. Whoa!

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Coming Home by Mary Oliver

Coming Home

by Mary Oliver

When we're driving, in the dark,
on the long road
to Provincetown, which lies empty
for miles, when we're weary,
when the buildings
and the scrub pines lose
their familiar look,
I imagine us rising
from the speeding car,
I imagine us seeing
everything from another place — the top
of one of the pale dunes
or the deep and nameless
fields of the sea —
and what we see is the world
that cannot cherish us
but which we cherish,
and what we see is our life
moving like that,
along the dark edges
of everything — the headlights
like lanterns
sweeping the blackness —
believing in a thousand
fragile and unprovable things,
looking out for sorrow,
slowing down for happiness,
making all the right turns
right down to the thumping
barriers to the sea,
the swirling waves,
the narrow streets, the houses,
the past, the future,
the doorway that belongs
to you and me.

"Coming Home" by Mary Oliver, from Dream Work. © The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. Reprinted with permission.