"Should auld acquaintance be forgot?" During this time of the year, it won’t be long before we’ll hear the harmonic lament of “Auld Lang Syne” as 2024 slips away. Time does indeed slip by. We enjoy great times with family and friends. We experience trials, joy and tribulations. But through it all, we maintain a...
Reprinted from AAWE News May/June 2024 with permission of the editor
In a relatively short period of time since the Industrial Revolutions, many countries have experienced significant internal population migrations from rural to urban (and later suburban) settings. In fact, the UN estimates that by the year 2050, a whopping...
The time for carols, holiday baking and other vestiges of traditional holiday cheer is quickly approaching. Amongst the festivities these days comes an increased awareness of climate change and our impact upon it as consumers. An organic conversation regarding Christmas trees popped up during a recent Environment Team meeting. We asked ourselves: Is it...
I recently went on safari in the Balule Nature Reserve in South Africa. This reserve was created in the 1990s by private landowners to create a larger, open system for animals to move freely. In 2004, along with other privately owned reserves, Balule was incorporated into Greater Kruger National...
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, just a few miles west of Portland, Oregon, which, in my mind, is the most beautiful place in the world. Every summer we’d head east, driving past massive waterfalls, through mountain ranges and along the majestic Columbia River Gorge to visit my grandmother. Other times there were...
Rudyard Kipling called Milford Sound, or Piopiotahi, “The Eighth Wonder of the World.” It was named by the Māoris after an extinct bird, the piopio, and means “a place for the singing thrush.”
Vivek and I flew 11,929 km to see this iconic natural phenomenon. When asked, “Is it...
