Friday, May 29, 2009

ARBOLES para GAIA - Estrago Ecologico

Our neighbors, the Ojai-based RageJax Foundation has provided support for the ARBOLES para GAIA - Estrago Ecologico art exhibit opening in Managua next Friday.

Paso Pacifico is providing several thousand trees to be given out at the exhibit, and each of the artists have created designs that will be on the bags in which the seedlings are placed.

To check out the artists and their work, visit the exhibit's blog (and catalog) here.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Sea turtles get it on, and on, and on... at Deep Sea News

There should be a sign posted along beaches of the world during a certain season: “WARNING: Enter water at your own risk”. I’m not speaking of extreme undertow or heavy shore-break. Not water quality, or red tide concerns. Nor warnings against poisonous jellyfish. These are all important water safety concerns, but I am referring to something else, something almost as dangerous. I am talking about the distinctly unique experience of being in the water with green turtles during mating season.


Read more by Peter Etnoyer and Wallace J. Nichols at Deep Sea News.