syrinx

The bee's knees

or mealy blue sage photo ruined by pesky insect... check out those baggy pollen sacs...and that wing action...you can almost hear the buzz on the internet...better text or twitter it or put it on second life or upload a flv to youtube so i can see it on an iphone so people will know it actually exists

tags: ecology wildflower insect symbiosis pollination technobabble

I don't know if anyone has heard of this amazing community effort, but I stumbled onto the website a few weeks ago...
http://www.anewpark.ca/index.php

tags: ecology sustainable park community

Belu, a British company, has a product that will make so-called tree huggers very happy. One of the problems with consuming bottled water is the overwhelming production of empty water bottles. Well, Belu has solved this problem by putting their water in biodegradable bottles. These bottles are made from... corn! The Belu bottles — instead of sticking around for millions of years — "can be commercially composted back to soil in just twelve weeks". And to top it all off, Belu contributes 100% of its net profits to clean water projects. Amazing. Now, if only we could get them to distribute this product in North America. Being a so-called tree hugger, that would me very happy.

tags: biodegradable environment ecology