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Plants live beyond Extinction in new Kew Gallery of Botanical Art

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments

BBC NEWS | UK | Kew to open botanical art gallery - Annotated

London’s Kew Gardens is to open the world’s first gallery dedicated to botanical art works - some of which have never been seen by the public.

Kew has a vast collection of more than 200,000 art works.
Some of the illustrations of extinct […]

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Tags: Enlightening · Art · Museums · Sustainability · Europe · Plants

Remarkable NY Times Article about Archery, Climate Change, Gandhi, the Hudson Valley, and Opera

March 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Applying Gandhi’s Ideas to Climate Change - New York Times Annotated
Our Towns

Susan Stava for The New York Times
Alison Broda practicing Zen archery at the Garrison Institute on Friday. It is a discipline combining intention and action, focus and carry-through.
By PETER APPLEBOME
Published: March 30, 2008
GARRISON, N.Y.
 
The idea of the Zen archery is to combine […]

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Tags: Enlightening · Art · New York NY · Climate Change · The New York Times · Hudson Valley Attractions

EOL Documents All Living Things In or Around Landscape and more

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Encyclopedia of Life Annotated

Create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike.
Transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating virtually all known data about every living species.
Engage a wide audience of schoolchildren, educators, citizen scientists, academics and those who are […]

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Tags: Wildlife · Environment · Enlightening · World · Nature · Plants

Vision of Mannahatta (Manhattan) Lost

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Ecologist Maps Manhattan of 400 Years Ago : TreeHugger Annotated
 

 
hear Dr. Eric Sanderson speak about the Mannahatta Project-
 
he told us that Landscape of New York City 400 years ago would have rivaled that of Yellowstone or Yosemite today.
Manhattan, or what the Lenape Indians called Mannahatta, was more biologically diverse than either of those two […]

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Tags: History · Environment · Wildlife · Enlightening · New York NY

It’s Spring– Plants are in Motion: See a Morning Glory’s Nutation

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

These sites have plants in motion.
http://plantsinmotion.
Digg - Twining Motion Of Vines: amazing stop-motion photography
 

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Tags: Video · Enlightening · Plants · Images