Ahh, the smell of the sea again. Sunday took me back to the same stretch of beach where, six years ago, I first wrote about bladderwrack and its curious air bubbles. Same tide line, same sand, same seaweed washed up in dark, glistening clumps. I found myself crouching over another cluster almost without thinking —ContinueContinue reading “Beachcombing Bladderwrack, Revisited: What’s Changed on the Shore?”
Category Archives: Environment
Fire Doesn’t End the Story — It Turns the Page
Picture a landscape after a wildfire has passed through. Blackened trunks. Grey ash where undergrowth used to be. Smoke still hanging low over the hills. Most of us look at that scene and see an ending. Nature disagrees. This is what wildfires can teach children about patience, timing, and turning crisis into opportunity — threeContinueContinue reading “Fire Doesn’t End the Story — It Turns the Page”
What a River Can Teach You (If You’re Willing to Sit Still)
Stand beside a river for a few minutes and something shifts. This is what rivers can teach children about resilience, generosity, and complexity – three ideas at the heart of biomimicry. What you’ll learn: How rivers solve problems by adapting, not forcing Why complexity (not simplicity) is often the smartest design How a river’s generosityContinueContinue reading “What a River Can Teach You (If You’re Willing to Sit Still)”
Why do we need Biodiversity?
“Is this the biggest tree in the park. . . the forest. . . or the whole world? We may hear kids being impressed by trees, plants and animals, and that is great. But we can also support kids to notice and be impressed by the variety of different types of trees, plants, and animalsContinueContinue reading “Why do we need Biodiversity?”