English Ivy Sign

OWL HOUSE

project by dayna, mac, and robert

screech owl box

signage above rat poison

signage detail

more poison, more signage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDGEEx3Y1Vw

"SF State is rethinking campus lawns by building bioswales and cutting back on watering and mowing."

http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2011/11/14/city-smells-a-rat-targets-dangerous-rodent-poisons/?tsp=1

Designing Better Wildlife Corridors

http://www.arc-competition.com/finalists.php

Information on Sidewalk Landscaping Permits

Anatomy of a Greenwash from Paul Scheer

Urban Gardens/Vertical Farming

The Vertical Farm (Project) 

Wildlife Crossings in Banff National Park, Canada

“Highway fencing in Banff National Park has reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by more than 80% and, for elk and deer alone by more than 96%.” - Parks Canada

Additional Reading:
Banff Wildlife Crossings Project: Integrating Science and Education in Restoring Population Connectivity Across Transportation Corridors

Designing Bugs that Eat Plastic

http://www.nextnature.net/2009/12/designing-the-bugs-that-eat-plastic/

Transformer Owl

http://youtu.be/gFwgblszf6s

WE HAVE TO DESTROY THE EARTH AND LIVE IN COMPUTERS!

Examined life is a documentary that features eight influential contemporary philosophers walking around New York and other metropolises and discussing the practical application of their ideas in modern culture.
This clip is definitely the best part--Slavoj Zizek discusses living in computers to avoid the destructive randomness of the earth. He says that we have moved from believing in the perfect system of religion to believing in the perfect system of nature and walks around a dump talking about how "this is ecology" and ecology should try to disconnect us from nature as much as possible because nature is harmful to us.

"nature is a big source of unimaginable catastrophes"

and he looks at porn he found in the dump.

WATCH IT BY CLICKING HERE

PET TALK: BROWN ANOLES!!!!!

Cool facts on brown anoles! Czech it out!

The lovely dewlap of the brown anole! 

Mountain Lions

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2011/10/18/MNRN1LFPE6.DTL&object=%2Fg%2Fav%2Fmovies%2F2011%2F10%2F17%2Fjasper18_1223386552001.bcv

Video cameras at Stanford's Jasper Ridge biological preserve are capturing the hidden life of mountain lions and other animals that hunt by night as expanding urban areas crowd their habitat.

Turning your yard into a natural haven beneficial to birds and other creatures.

AUDUBON AT HOME

Three Argentineans put themselves in harm's way as they try to stop a gold mining company destroying their environment

How to Stop a Multinational - Activate - Al Jazeera English

"Industrialised human society generates vast quantities of materials, many of which, lacking recovery infrastructure, end up as waste.The nature of this waste has changed dramatically over the last 30 to 40 years due to the introduction of synthetic materials such as plastics (Sheavly 2005). Human garbage, including synthetics and plastics, have inevitably found their way into the world’s oceans.This rubbish, which is present in the oceans and on beaches, is called marine debris. Astoundingly, it is now evident that marine debris is one of the world’s most pervasive pollution problems affecting the oceans(Sheavly 2005). Synthetics like plastics are the most problematic debris because they resist natural degradation processes and are a danger to wildlife.

In 1997, it was estimated that a staggering 6.4 million tons of garbage reach the marine environment every year. Estimates suggesting that there are currently over 13,000 pieces of plastic litter floating on every square kilometre of ocean have been reported by UNEP(United Nations Environment Program) (UNEP 2005).Whilst another UNEP study reporting estimates of 46,000 pieces per square mile (18,000 per square kilometre) has also been produced (UNEP 2006)...

Countless marine animals have been killed or harmed by marine debris primarily because they either become entangled in it, or, they mistake plastic debris for food and ingest it. A review of entanglement and ingestion of marine debris by marine organisms conducted in 1996, showed that these phenomena had been known to affect individuals of at least 267 species worldwide.This included 86% of all sea turtles, 44% of all seabird species, 43% of all marine mammal species and numerous fish and crustacean species. For most of the species concerned, significant numbers of individuals were affected (Laist 1997)."

- Plastic Debris in the World’s Oceans