Nature - The Drafting Table

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—how people are reshaping the earth. About the Books Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by Dr. David R. Montgomery is about the history of soil as a requirement

Art

Images of the Anthropocene

When I went to the AGO back in the fall 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 film on iTunes. Anthropocene was made by

Travel

Noord-Holland

After 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 the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th

Movies & TV

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 from kayaks:

Museums

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 anniversary. On Saturday, I went to three museums: Canadian Museum of Nature, National Gallery

New Brunswick

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

Travel

UNESCO Sites

Last week, I was in the town of Lunenburg, 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 would like to visit. I have a book

Movies & TV

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 and National Geographic. I have it on BluRay disc. The National Geographic website includes this description: The series features spectacular natural history footage from the

Book

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) by Terry

Book

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 last fall. They are Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin