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Burrowing creatures, such as prairie dogs, open millions upon millions of tubes in the soils of Earth. As Mollison notes, these “burrows of spiders, gophers, and worms are to the soil what the alveoli of our lungs are to our body.” As the moon passes overhead the underground aquifers rise and fall and Earth breathes out moisture-laden air. This
... See moreStephen Harrod Buhner • The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
European Bioneers conference in the Netherlands, I had the good fortune to meet Dennis Martinez, a native American elder who has been instrumental in establishing the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network’ (IPRN). Dennis is widely recognized for creating a bridge between ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ (TEK) and Western science. His passion
... See moreDaniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
WOW! Just found out that even though McKenna was the first person to publish a hypothesis on The Stoned Ape theory, someone else was casually excited about in the 1970s … FRANCIS CRICK, the guy who discovered the DNA double helix (he’s like the polar opposite of McKenna, honored for his contribution on making sense of human genomics).
Crick never
... See moreRNA interference operates by deploying an enzyme known as “Dicer.” Dicer snips a long piece of RNA into short fragments. These little fragments can then embark on a search-and-destroy mission: they seek out a messenger RNA molecule that has matching letters, then they use a scissors-like enzyme to chop it up. The genetic information carried by that
... See moreWalter Isaacson • The Code Breaker
In opposition to the violent and competitive account of life’s emergence given by Darwinian evolution, symbiosis proposes that we are instead the product of cooperation, interaction and mutual dependence. This vision of life is profoundly ecological and relational, and it extends all the way from the sequences of our DNA to the composition of our
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
they are for their woodlands, not against progress. They are guardians, ordinary citizens compelled to speak out on behalf of the nation’s natural and cultural heritage in the absence of the political will to do so. The ongoing case around Smithy Wood has been framed as an issue of small-scale
Julian Hoffman • Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
That, Losos said, leads to the idea of an entire way of life without species. What if there were no hard boundaries between one animal and another, just “a smear of variation”?