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While some park officials, hoping to compete with video games and iPods, recommend fighting electronics with electronics, Canopy Meg offers a different approach, a more direct route to our roots–or, rather, to our branches: Canopy Walkways. In this article author, Richard Louv, talks about the importance of

Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. To do this, I have to climb branch by branch and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of view, it’s reasonable that my friends say:

Article written by Dr. Lowman in the Scientific American (SA Forum): Science museums should recruit the public in confronting the planet’s toughest challenges. When I was in graduate school studying ecology during the 1980s, we all shared a conviction to make the world a better place. Oh,

Article from The Sydney Morning Herald: Unlike other botanists who plant their feet in the dirt, Dr Margaret Lowman pursues high adventure. The so-called ‘‘mother of canopy research’’ has designed walkways and hot-air balloons for the purpose, becoming a legend in the process – another of her

From Sciencedaily.com: “Collecting plant and animal specimens is essential for scientific studies and conservation and does not, as some critics of the practice have suggested, play a significant role in species extinctions.” Those are the conclusions of more than 100 biologists and biodiversity researchers who signed a

From The Journal of Music: On the previous weekend in Paris, the composer Nick Roth was putting the finishing touches to a new work for string orchestra. The culmination of a three-month residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, as well as many months of research and correspondence

“To me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” –Helen Keller As a child, I loved the natural world. Maybe it had something to do with growing up in a small town in upstate New York