Simplified though the comparison is, it’s startling what genetics and written language have in common considering that the second is a recent human invention and the first represents the formation of life almost four billion years ago.
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Omnivorous versus Vegan Diets: A Debate. Part III, by Renee Lehnen & Kansas Stanton
I’m glad you feel as healthy on your vegan diet as I feel as an omnivore. To conclude, I think we both agree that the earth and its plants and creatures including us benefit when we eat locally, sustainably grown food that is prepared with love.
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Omnivorous versus Vegan Diets: A Debate. Part II, by Kansas Stanton & Renee Lehnen
I am all for cats eating meat! We are the primary consumers in this overpopulated world and we have a choice. Cats do not; they are obligate carnivores.
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Happy Spring Equitherm!
Celebrations Life! We celebrate life today, especially life’s growth and evolutionary diversification (and which Brock just pointed out in the previous post). Just in time for Beltane, this research combined both the evolution and sexual habits of blue whales over…
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It’s Diversity All the Way Down, by Brock Haussamen
“The most impressive aspect of the living world is its diversity. No two individuals in sexually reproducing populations are the same, nor are any two populations, species, or higher taxa [categories of organisms]. Wherever one looks in nature, one finds…
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Omnivorous versus Vegan Diets: A Debate. Part I, by Renee Lehnen & Kansas Stanton
You can process vegan food to coax out the zinc. Or you could have a couple of oysters or an egg. Let’s shift from nutrients to the big picture- humans in the biosphere.
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The May Cross-Quarter (Vernal Equitherm or Beltane) is just two weeks away!
The Vernal Equitherm (Beltane) is coming! It is the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, spring is well and truly coming and summer is around the corner. Flora is bursting to life even in…
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Neanderthals, by Kansas Stanton
This proves that our relation to Neandertals are not bound strictly by DNA, but by the shared humanity of understanding, the importance of storytelling, and ritualizing rites of passage. The more we segregate and conceit ourselves from the history of Earth’s species and where we come from, the more this is mirrored toward our human peers within our day-to-day activities, and to the shared animals of our planet.
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Happy Spring Equinox!
Happy Spring Equinox, or Ostara! Of course, our spherical planet also gives us the beautiful symmetry of the Fall Equinox (& Mabon) being celebrated now by our Southern Hemisphere friends. The moment of the Equinox is at 12:15 pm, Tuesday,…
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The Spring Equinox Approaches…
For me, the growing daylight (reinforced by the start of Daylight Savings Time) is a reminder from our Earth itself, one of those many helpful features of our seasons, to begin thinking about, and planning for, the Spring Equinox/Ostara. Another reminder – one that is rather bizarre – is the appearance of a “warm-blooded” plant that smells like a zombie!
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