Reconciliation Ecology

Homegrown subversive plots to feed the hungry and save the world!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:07:00 +0000

It is passing strange to think that growing your own food in your own garden can be considered a subversive act! How did we come to this state, especially in the developed world, but also many cities...

Hamsadhwani: an inner dialogue contemplating humanity's swansong on earth

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:24:00 +0000

Anirban Mahapatra (aka Bhalomanush, a good man I have come to know on Twitter) recently (well, a month ago) shared with me a thought-provoking essay he had written contemplating some of the...

To a new year full of life and colour!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:47:00 +0000

via flickr.com Posted via email from a leaf warbler's gleanings

Exploring the world of birds and biodiversity with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:22:00 +0000

As a thank you to its supports, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shares this video montage filled with wonderful sequences of birds from their archives. Enjoy: via m.youtube.com Posted via email ...

How easily, mindlessly, have we learned to kill 800 year old living beings...

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:03:00 +0000

via youtube.com ... and this time even in the name of green energy! Only fools would object to such wanton destruction in the name of sustainable climate friendly energy projects, we are told. Be...

Using deep-sea bioluminescent bacteria to illuminate pollution in estuarine waters

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:05:00 +0000

via nytimes.com Promising tale of a new approach developed by Dr. Edith Widder to detect and monitor pollution in estuaries and marine ecosystems. Also illustrates how basic science - in this case,...

Will the world's leaders finally "Get It Done" after Anjali Appadurai's mic-check at the UN Climate Change Conference?

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:42:00 +0000

via youtube.com Powerful call to act from the young woman which ought to shame the world's leaders into doing what they must, for her and future generations. But, we all know, don't we? Most of the...

You want proof humans are weirding the global climate? How about rock-hard proof?

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:11:00 +0000

via sfgate.com Posted via email from a leaf warbler's gleanings

Because forgetting is another kind of extinction...

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:00:00 +0000

via youtube.com Another documentary to look out for... Once, flocks of over 1 billion passenger pigeons darkened the skies for days. By 1900, a 14-year-old boy shot the last one. How did this...

The Crisis of Civilization: a fun, uplifting preview of the end of the world?!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:05:00 +0000

via Ceasefire The Crisis of Civilization, due to premiere [in London] tomorrow, is a documentary film that is remarkably pleasant to watch considering its subject mattert: the looming destruction...

Cast a vote to help a student blogger win the 2011 Blogging Scholarship

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:45:00 +0000

I've been a bit remiss in noting this year's blogging scholarship, which awards $10,000 to a student blogger to help support her/him in college. As readers may recall, last year we helped Nerdy...

Frans de Waal: Morality without Religion

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:05:00 +0000

via youtube.com Posted via email from Darwin's Bulldogs

gaon chodab nahi: an anthem for the global #occupy movements

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:01:00 +0000

There have been other occupations. There have been other #occupy movements. Occupation has for long been the name of the game for the colonists. Occupying far corners of the planet. Monopolizing...

George Schaller on reconciliation ecology as a way to save big cats

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:20:00 +0000

via ngm.nationalgeographic.com OK, he doesn't quite use the phrase "reconciliation ecology", but this is exactly the approach George Schaller describes as the only solution to saving the world's...

Red Knot | a tiny bird whose migration boggles the mind

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:48:00 +0000

A flock of Red Knots at Mispillion Harbor, Delaware. Credit: Gregory Breese/USFWS, via flickr.com Via Ecolog-L, I just came across this episode of the One Species at a Time podcast from the...

Happy birthday, Marie Curie!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:25:00 +0000

Marie Curie's 144th birthday! via google.com Meanwhile, here's another reminder, for women wanting to follow in Marie's path: via xkcd.com Things have changed some since Curie's...

Autumn is a time of murmurations that grow from the fluttering of solitary wings...

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:06:00 +0000

via vimeo.com Hat-tip: Arvind Says. Posted via email from a leaf warbler's gleanings

Halloween 2011: The Curse of Thomas Malthus!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:58:00 +0000

Tonight, October 31, 2011, is Halloween, a night when children (of all ages it seems) dress up in scary costumes and go tricking people and/or collecting sweet treats. At least those celebrating this...

Don't let other people tell you that women can't do science

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:23:00 +0000

October 21, 2011 | 1:56 | Public Domain The Presidential Early Career Scientists and Engineer Honorees share their advice to young women interested in getting involved in Science, Engineering,...

How do we get our global economy off the endless "growth" express and on to a human-scale path of plenitude?

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:35:00 +0000

An image I found and shared on Facebook this week, featuring a quote from the Dalai Lama, seems to have hit a nerve among my circle of friends there: I'm not surprised, given the kinds of...

Baba Brinkman's "DNA": a nice twist on what we all share... and on rap music videos!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:57:00 +0000

via youtube.com Posted via email from a leaf warbler's gleanings

Don't Drink the Water... for this too is California

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:52:00 +0000

via fresnobee.com This is not a scenario from some generic developing third world banana republic where environmental regulation is lax and the government/economy is weak and there is simply no...

What a bummer if we create a better world for nothing!

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:21:00 +0000

That would be a bummer, wouldn't it?! A real bummer... (As seen spreading on Facebook) Posted via email from a leaf warbler's gleanings

How to make a dent in the universe before you die...

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:32:00 +0000

via youtube.com "Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." - he said, while speaking of his own first brush...

Let this not be a eulogy for our pale blue dot...

noreply@blogger.com (Madhusudan Katti) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:35:00 +0000

via youtube.com ... even though it is a eulogy for several environmentalists who laid their lives down in defending our home, Earth. This is a non-commercial attempt to highlight the fact that...