Thursday, December 6, 2018

The World Without Us: We Can Still Cause Problems Even When We’re Not Here

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I am not sure why I thought the book A World Without Us by Alan Weisman would be hopeful and cathartic.   (Spoiler: It wasn’t.)   P...
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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Final Fishy Thoughts on Paul Greenberg’s Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

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Greenberg’s book brings up some valuable and useful questions about how—or if—we can sustainably harvest fish from their natural e...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Greenberg's Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

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I stopped eating red meat circa 1992 when a woman made an impression on me with her statement that you could not be an environmenta...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

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After finishing this book last night, I returned to the beginning:   “Let’s start indoors.   Let’s start by imagining a fine Persian...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

The Song of the Dodo: What Does It Mean to Be Human?

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One of the lasting questions that Elizabeth Kolbert’s book The Sixth Extinction left me with was this: Was the evolutionary tree marke...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

The Song of the Dodo: Wallace (and Darwin) and Puzzles

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I remember a scientist saying that many of the amphibians around the world are going to go extinct and that it would be better to stop ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Conservation in the News: Some Like It Hot

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It's another exciting semester in Conservation Biology and I am helping my students find an excuse to read the newspapers with a littl...
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