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1800-Year-Old Chedworth Roman Villa Wins 2013 RIBA Architecture Award #green

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The massacre of elephants has gone beyond being a problem for animal rights activists. It now concerns international institutions and governments at the highest level because it is perceived as a threat to political and economic stability in central Africa. Last month, the matter drew the attention of the African Development Bank in Marrakech, at [...]

Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" could break records this year #green

Sour fruit makes a sweet arrival in San Francisco via @funderhut

So Robert Mortensen opened the door with his wonderful photo study of one of my fave feathered friends in his last blog post gray-catbird-photo-study. Gray catbirds are special backyard friends of mine too! So clandestinely charismatic in their skulking chattering way, they have appeared reliably in the overgrown shrubs of our Upstate South Carolina home for almost 15 years now. I feel fortunate to have such a vocal neotropcial migrant as my noisy neighbor. While mockingbirds have been called the "Southern Nightingale" and brown thrashers seem to be the southern choice for many folks as their favorite mimid (especially those in Georgia who claim them as their state bird and a defunct hockey mascot), I choose Dumetella carolinensis as my copycat bird of choice! Robert provided a wonderful photo study. I thought I'd try to match some words with the bird! So here's my latest passerine inspired poetry. Dedicated to Dumatella C. Unplugged from couplets and unreasoned rhyme Thrasher and mockingbird copying it seems take way too much time Run-on notes flung into the breeze with no commas or dashes Or semi-colons offered in between The notes ever flowing rushing to see the verse done a mew is thrown in every now and again And gives the poet pause to start anew Have Fun Birding Y'all! Drew

Singapore Smog Reaches ?Hazardous? All-Time High Thanks to Fires in Indonesia #green

Cyclist’s guide to travel via @neomammalian