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A collection of 11 posts

Beavers

I didn't have any posts in August and September due to the volume of travel I had for work. Now I'm trying to ease back into writing here with a few shorter posts I have planned to round out the year, but I also have several

Sand and Soil

This post contains reviews of a couple of books I've read recently. They relate to a similar theme as the previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/images-of-the-anthropocene/]—how people are reshaping the earth. About the Books Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520272903/dirt]

Images of the Anthropocene

When I went to the AGO back in the fall [https://danbscott.ghost.io/aga-and-ago/] I mentioned that there was an upcoming exhibit I wanted to see called "Anthropocene". I didn't make it back to the gallery while it was on, so I watched the accompanying

Noord-Holland

After Denmark [https://danbscott.ghost.io/five-days-in-denmark/], I travelled to the Netherlands, where I spent some time around Amsterdam and Rotterdam. In this post I'll share about what I did in the Amsterdam area; I plan to feature the Rotterdam area in my next post. Amsterdam flourished during

Documentary Notes

Over the holidays I watched some documentaries on Netflix. I thought I'd share some of the things I found interesting for my first post of 2018. To start with, here are a couple of great clips from some BBC nature documentaries: Human Planet showed a traditional narwhal hunt

Ottawa Museum Crawl

At the end of last week, I had a business meeting in the Ottawa area. I decided to stay for the weekend since it was a good opportunity to visit our nation's capital during Canada's 150th [https://danbscott.ghost.io/150th/] anniversary. On Saturday, I went

Fresh Canvas

This weekend I went to a couple of art exhibits and I decided to share a bit about them below. On Saturday, I went to Saint John for the day. I got lunch at the City Market, wandered around Uptown for a while, visited the New Brunswick Museum, and went

UNESCO Sites

Last week, I was in the town of Lunenburg [http://www.explorelunenburg.ca/town-map.html], Nova Scotia. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so I thought it would be a good time to make a list of UNESCO sites that I've been to, and others that I

A New Wild

This post is a review of Earth: A New Wild, a nature documentary series. Earth: A New Wild is a five-episode series produced by PBS [http://www.pbs.org/earth-a-new-wild/home/] and National Geographic [http://nationalgeographic.org/education/earth-new-wild/]. I have it on BluRay disc. The National Geographic website includes

Free Market Environmentalism

As mentioned at the top of my previous post, this post is a book review. It's quite a lengthy post so it took a while to find time to write it; I hope it was worth the wait. Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation (abbreviated FME below)

Mushrooms and Mosses

This is sort of two posts in one—reviews of a couple of books I got when I was in the Pacific Northwest [https://danbscott.ghost.io/seattle-trip-2015/] last fall. They are Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural