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Heal Yourself To Heal The World
Every change of season is a reminder of the endless ebb and flow of our lives and to always expect the unexpected. This fall started with drastic changes around the world. Major flooding in SouthEast Asia affected over eight million … Continue reading
Looking For A House So I Can Be A TreeHouse Customer
I need to buy a house. I need to buy a house to outfit with all the environmentally-friendly products from the new TreeHouse store in Dallas at 8021 Walnut Hill Lane. Bring your truck, it’s worth a visit. No matter … Continue reading
iNaturalist Nature Challenge And Snakes
Update: Final iNaturalist numbers – Dallas was #1 for the most observations in the country with 23,957 observations! A snake is such a silly thing to be petrified of. Snakes should be respected like every other living creature, but they … Continue reading
What are you up to for Earth Month?
April is Earth month! It’s time to welcome in spring and let the abundance of life serve as a reminder that without clean air and water we would not have spring flowers, green trees and birds singing. Beyond the obvious … Continue reading
You need to know about CRISPR
CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. It’s a genome editing technique that has turned the biomedical community on it’s head. Basically, CRISPR is a group of molecules that can edit DNA and unlike other gene-editing methods it’s … Continue reading
Environmentalists Must Bridge The Science Knowledge Gap
Amidst the recent strange political environment, the job of an environmentalist has become increasingly arduous. In the first few weeks of the fall semester teaching Environmental Biology at Mountain View College, I’ve noticed an increase in political questions lending themselves … Continue reading
2017 Resolutions
I waited a few weeks for this resolution blog. This is about the time we all start thinking about dropping every resolution we made, even the ones we vowed to never give up. But, let me remind you, in the … Continue reading
Dallas Bike Culture Is Slowly Moving Forward
Have you tried running errands on your bike in Dallas? I’ve recently made it a point to get back on the bike for short trips around town, and to exercise my energetic puppy. Using my bike for transportation gets me … Continue reading
Happy New Year 2017
Hey readers! Things got a bit out of control the last few months and of course the first thing to go, is your own work. Well, I keep making a promise to myself that I won’t do that in the … Continue reading