Archive for the 'environment' Category

Green photographic papers

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Quite often when you read about new inkjet papers, most of the discussion is centered around characteristics such as DMax, gamut, archivalness, optical brighteners, feel, weight, durability, etc, etc.   It is disappointing that you don’t read a lot about sustainability.   Afterall, it seems to be one of the key environmental buzzwords of the time.  “Recycled” […]

Wildlife news

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

I stumbled across a couple of pretty good wildlife news blogs recently. They both seem to have very informative posts. If you are like me, you already have a lot of feeds you are subscribed to, but these two are worth considering adding a couple more!
Wild Again
From their about page: “Named after […]

Bearing with our impacts

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Yes Tim and Penny, not only did you immortalize your love in the bark of this very nice birch, but now you are immortalized in my blog as well. Ok, your relationship probably didn’t last. And not to pick on Tim and Penny specifically, but how about “MD + JP”, “Sue + […]

Eye of the Swamp

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation… Swamps were generally seen as useless and even dangerous…
These are a couple of definitions I pulled off the web regarding the word ’swamp.’ I have often wondered about the negative associations […]

Songs of Insects

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I heard a fantastic story on my NPR podcast today, an interview with the authors of a new book on the songs of insects, Wil Hershberger and Lang Elliott. You can hear it here. As they mention in the story, there is an abundance of information about bird song, even frog songs, […]