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This Month in the Earth Year: April
The last bits of snow have disappeared from the piles we plowed this winter and the daffodils have poked up through the defrosting topsoil, so it’s relatively easy to get a sense of time passing in...
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From the Being Blog
This piece is cross-posted on Krista Tippett’s Being blog Plugged In to the Outer Cape by Jill Schneiderman, guest contributor Sand dunes at Wellfleet. (photo: Joshua Bousel/Flickr, cc by-nc-sa 2.0)...
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Turtle Liberation in the Anthropocene
This piece is cross-posted on Shambhala SunSpace. Earth Dharma: Turtle Liberation! In some Buddhist traditions, liberating captive animals is an act of compassion, a way to “make merit” for long life....
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Ecological Buddhism
This piece is cross-posted at Shambhala SunSpace. Earth Dharma: “Awake in the Anthropocene” The Indus and the Karakoram highway in N. Pakistan By Jill S. Schneiderman Because of the extended time...
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After Earth Day, Active Hope
This piece is cross-posted on Shambhala Sunspace and truthout.org With its numbered teachings, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy (2012), a new book by Joanna Macy and Chris...
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Time Travel at Ausable Chasm
Today I traveled back to a time 500 million years ago. At Ausable Chasm I descended 150 feet through layer upon layer of sandstone. Carved by glacial meltwater a mere few thousand years ago, the...
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Fossil Rock Anthem
For those of you who like your science set to music here’s the latest from “science populariser” Tom McFadden who is on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Centre for Science Communication at the University...
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Senator Rubio: Between Rock of Ages and a Hard Place
Here is my unpublished Letter to the Editor of the New York Times in reference to NIcholas Wade’s piece on Senator Marco Rubio’s statement “I’m not a scientist.” To the Science Times editor: I was...
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Once an ocean, now one of the driest, most desolate places on earth
Vassar freshman Aaron Jones probably wasn’t the first visitor to Death Valley to observe it looks a lot like the surface of Mars. But the future earth science major says if he hadn’t seen it for...
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The Elachistocene Epoch of the Chthulugene Period of the Ecozoic Era
Era: Eremozoic or Ecozoic (after E.O. Wilson or Thomas Berry) Period: Chthulugene (after Donna Haraway) Epoch: Elachistocene (Schneiderman 2014) If one accepts the idea that there is indeed...
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