Ecology
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Was that you on TV?
Yes. I’m the one with the big hair, the helmet and the engraved hunk of plastic. Watch it here. I was accepting the hunk of plastic on behalf of the Otesha Project, where I now work. More on that later.
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Environment geeks unite!
I have just returned to Ottawa from Madison, Wisconsin by way of Toronto, Buffalo , Chicago and Milwaukee to present another version of my research on hope and faith in environmentalism at the first meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) as well as to a group of keeners at the Madison…
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Baha’i Geeks and Environmentalists Unite!
In the past 48 hours, I have traveled by bike, hybrid car, regular car, greyhound, subway, train, taxi and foot to get from Tatamagouche, through Amherst, Sackville, Fredericton, Montreal, Ottawa, Montreal (again) and New York City to arrive in Washington, D.C. and attend, speak, blog and mingle at the joint 33rd Annual Association for Baha’i…
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Merry GIS Day!
Yes, it’s that time of the year again, people. Right in the middle of Geography Awareness Week geographers the world over are gathering with their professors and students to ring in what is for us Diwali, Songrkran and Naw Ruz all rolled up into one. This GIS Day (Geographical Information Systems), I will be learning…
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The Low Carbon Diet Calculator, ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Meat
The great thing about studying ecology is that in every class and lecture everything we look at is relevant and important to our daily lives. I know the anthropologists, sociologists and maybe even the engineers will say the same thing, but I have the bias that ecologists and geographers are the ones that are looking…
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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad Photos Posted
Within a few weeks from my arrival to the university that was to become my home for the past six months, I began to get a handle on it and realize that it is really just a small village populated by the usual things like laborers, goats, cows, fields and temples, only with more scientists.…
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Ugar Photos Posted
In December I spent a day in a town further North in Karnataka that sold its soul to the sugar industry – sort of like how Macau has to gambling or Ottawa to government. One can assume Ugar was chosen for its name’s similarity to the name of the product in question. I went there…
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Poop 101
A couple posts ago as I told you about about the research I am doing on a waste water stream in Hubli, Karnataka, and we started to think about the idea of pee-pee and poo-poo as an important resource rather than something not to be thought on or digust, um, discussed. Pursuant to this research,…
Samuel Benoit 