November 25th, 2012 | Blog, Environment, bacteria, communication, environment, forest, fungus, legacy, micro-organisms, mother, network, neural, old-growth, tree
Prof. Suzanne Simard (UBC) talks about Mother trees. The largest tree in an area is the mother tree who communicates with all the other trees in the area (even ones of different species) via it’s root systems and the micro-organisms (fungus, bacteria etc) that helps to provide nutrients for the trees. These trees have massive networks and cooperation abilities – sharing of nutrients and information with each other.
April 9th, 2012
Have any of you read The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird? I am sure many of you have and will appreciate this article. I am one of those people who, I have to confess, generally gets along better with plants than people, perhaps it is because I prefer to listen to th ...
February 3rd, 2012
Hopefully we'll get some screenings here in Canada too! "In Transition 2.0 is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You'll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food eve ...
November 17th, 2011
I finally managed to stop by Occupy Vancouver the other day and even though the weather is terrible and cold, it still feels like a community down there. I haven't been able to spend as much time as I had hoped, but I really love knowing that there is a village in the heart of the city that I live i ...
May 19th, 2011
I have been using Flattr for a little while now, but since my last site update, many of you may have been wondering what the extra little flattr button is on the top of all of my posts. Flattr is a brilliant way for creative bloggers to share money with blogs they appreciate. If you really love a r ...
