Nature, environment, and a little philosophy
Choose a Friday evening in any season. Work’s loose ends are tied but a busy weekend lies ahead: a family birthday; a gym class; volunteering; dinner with friends. But there’s still time for an adventure. The car is packed: two people, a tent, sleeping bags and dinner already made. Take the Eight East. In twenty …
I make a living restoring ecosystems. Here's what that's like. California has a thriving ecosystem restoration industry. People here care about their environment. That has allowed governments to strengthen environmental regulation, incorporate nature into planning, and fund restoration projects. In San Diego, I'm a project manager at a firm providing ecosystem restoration as a service. …
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Our big birding day, that is. San Diego County has more species of birds than any other county in the United States: 520 species. On Global Big Day, Eric and I set out to see as many of them as we could. We have a lot of birds because we have a lot of geography; …
Last winter, after eight rainless years, California's drought finally ended. In San Diego, it rained what felt like every week, for several months. The hills flushed green then orange with poppies, the desert bloomed, the reservoirs refilled, the rivers flowed. We learnt that there were waterfalls in the mountains. In early March, in an extraordinary …
Stars, like salt. 