Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Climate change, Deforestation, Desertification, Film review, Food, Food, Gardening, Health, Livestock, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Living, Wildlife on Sep 8th, 2010
I was asked to write a review of “Dirt! The Movie,” a documentary about our worldwide destruction of soil versus our absolute dependence on soil for our survival. The movie is an inspiring blend of interviews with scientists, farmers, and activists, as well as footage from around the world of the traditional uses and modern [...]
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Readers – I just received an email from Cindy Cullen at the Culinary Arts College, asking if I would post a link to their article How Food Affects Your Brain: 10 Facts We Now Know.” Some interesting information in the post, so I’m passing it along. I need to add a couple of things, though, [...]
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Photo by scientist Indraneil Das of newly-discovered frog species A new pea-sized frog species has been discovered on Borneo! Scientists from the University of Malaysia Sarawak found the tiny frogs living in and around tubular carnivorous plants called pitcher plants. The tadpoles grow in the water inside the plants. Although the water contains enzymes that [...]
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Posted in Animal welfare / animal rights, Asia, Borneo, Deforestation, Eco-travel, Ecosystems, Endangered species, Human behavior, Overconsumption, Rain forest, Resources, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Sustainable Living, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat, Wildlife survival on Aug 23rd, 2010
This post now on Google News and on the syndicated BasilandSpice.com Pet trade threatens orangutan survival “Having a pet orangutan is a status symbol,” I was told by my Indonesian friend Ria, who lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital. Doesn’t matter if the animal lives in a small, dirty cage behind the house, which [...]
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Posted in Animal welfare / animal rights, Asia, Birds, Borneo, Deforestation, Eco-travel, Endangered species, Indonesia, Rain forest, Sumatra, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat, Wildlife survival on Aug 16th, 2010
This post now live on Google News and on the syndicated site BasilandSpice. On my Asian quest to see wild and semi-wild orangutans, I wasn’t sure I’d find a single one of the red apes roaming free in a forest. Orangutans used to be widespread in Southeast Asia, but now survive only on the islands [...]
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Posted in Asia, Bali, Borneo, Deforestation, Eco-travel, Ecosystems, Endangered species, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, Malaysia, Rain forest, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat, Wildlife survival on Aug 3rd, 2010
Text and all photos by Sally Kneidel, PhD This post also on the syndicated site BasilandSpice. I’ve wanted to visit Indonesia for years – it has more tropical rain forest than almost any other country. Only Brazil has more. Indonesia is a nation of more than 13,000 islands, including Borneo, Bali, Sumatra, and Java. Although [...]
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Posted in Wildlife on Jul 12th, 2010
This post written by Sadie Kneidel In a small office in San Francisco, a team of authors, scholars, professors, and staff are focused on an Asian nation most Americans can’t even pinpoint on a map. Burma. Before this it was Sudan. And before that, New Orleans. In every case, a non-profit organization called Voice of [...]
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Posted in Wildlife on Jun 24th, 2010
This post written by Sadie Kneidel Might the Gulf have its own way of wrapping up the BP oil spill? According to the Huffington Post, geologists speculate that this man-made disaster could result in a natural catastrophe far worse than what we’ve seen so far. Until now, the methane gas leaking from BP’s damaged oil [...]
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Posted in Wildlife on May 29th, 2010
Photos and text by Sally Kneidel, PhD This is the fifth and last post about a birdwatching and hiking trip to Puerto Rico in March of 2010. In search of a great beach…and tropical nature After we left the town of Jayuya in the central mountains of Puerto Rico, we drove to El Bosque Estatal [...]
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by Ken Kneidel, PhD We’re discovering a lot of money, not a lot of oil The oil under the Gulf is not being extracted to extend our ability to live in an oil-driven economy, nor to provide energy independence from the Middle East. BP is drilling in the Gulf solely because the corporation can make [...]
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