30-Day Guide to a Smaller Carbon Footprint
Melting icebergs, rise in sea level, threatened animal species, increase in severe storms are just a few effects of global warming. Some believe climate change is a natural part of the planet’s life,...
View ArticleSea Turtles of Florida’s Canaveral National Seashore
I was in awe of hearing that more than 100 turtles crossed an active runway at New York’s J.F.K airport recently. These diamondback terrapins that inhabit the surrounding brackish wetlands delayed air...
View ArticleOff the Beaten Path in Costa Rica: Exploring Manuel Antonio and Rainmaker...
MANUEL ANTONIO NATIONAL PARK The first Jeff Corwin Experience DVD I bought was about Costa Rica. I had seen the show so many times that I’d say the lines even before him. “It’s time to go from a...
View ArticleAndros, Bahamas: Unexplored Paradise
“I don’t see any bonefish!” I said, standing on a flatboat in the middle of shallow aqua green waters of Fresh Creek in Andros, the largest island in the Bahamas 30 miles west of Nassau. I walked to...
View ArticleSaving Elephants in India: Dr. Tammie Matson
It is not uncommon for newspapers in India to report elephant and other wild animal encounters in towns and villages. These creatures are losing their habitat and finding nowhere to go but the human...
View ArticleProud Spirit Dogs: A Photo Essay
There are plenty of people who tirelessly work to save unwanted and abused animals. I recently got an opportunity to spend time with two of them. Melanie Sue Bowles and Jim Bowles, founders of the...
View ArticleSaving Elephants in India: Dr. Tammie Matson
It is not uncommon for newspapers in India to report elephant and other wild animal encounters in towns and villages. These creatures are losing their habitat and finding nowhere to go but the human...
View ArticleGive the Gift of Hope to Wildlife this Valentine’s Day
“The animal kingdom is in critical condition. The affliction isn’t a disease, but rather a crisis of endangerment that threatens to wipe out many of the world’s animal species forever. Ironically, the...
View ArticleSaving Horses for 20 Years: Melanie Sue Bowles, Founder of the Proud Spirit...
(Melanie Sue Bowles, Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, Arkansas) HBO’s new racing drama Luck ceased production after the third horse died on the set. The young thoroughbred was euthanized after it hurt...
View ArticleBook Review: I am Not a Plastic Bag by Rachel Hope Allison
Have you ever thought twice about tossing that plastic bottle in the garbage? Or that handbag you threw in the trash because you got bored with it? Well, they don’t disappear into thin air. They...
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