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Eco Bluff Your Way to Greenism
Paul Sochaczewski (in this book writing as Paul Wachtel) and Jeffrey A. McNeely
Green is the world’s trendiest color. Everybody wants to be seen as caring about the environment, but few people have the time or energy needed to get past rudimentary exclamations about the greenhouse effect or the loss of tropical forests. Eco-Bluff Your Way to Greenism provides quick and painless eco-credibility, providing essential advice on such things as how to deal with people who prefer elephants to human beings, how to establish your street-cred by explaining the PR coup of Chief Seattle (Seathl to you), how to stir up a party by roaring like an eco-guerilla, how to mount a spirited defense of the Mount Graham red squirrel. And next time your golf buddy complains about his slice, you can assure him that a lousy swing is still preferable to the life of the ai, a small South American beetle, which lives – never mind, read the book.
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“My Kid’s Gonna Be a Star”
In Zimbabwe, as in New Jersey, all fathers live their dreams though their kids HARARE, Zimbabwe On the parched fairways of the Wingate Park Golf Club in Harare, Zimbabwe, Lewis Muridzo takes a break from his afternoon of lessons and does what fathers everywhere do. He brags about his son. Tall, articulate and immaculately dressed, […]
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10 November — Opening of COP 30 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Ah, yet another international gathering to discuss progress in addressing the problem of climate change. This year it will be held in Belém, Brazil, and the participants will also focus on nature conservation in the country, including the vast Amazon region. I’ve been following Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace for some 50 years, including a […]
Intro to a speculative biography of Ali
My speculative biography of Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace’s assistant, was honored as the Best Historical Book of 2024 by the United States Peace Corps Writers. Here’s an excerpt from the book’s introduction. Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird Intro to a speculative biography of Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace’s assistant in the Malay Archipelago […]
Alfred Russel Wallace and Things That Go Bump in the Night
Alfred Russel Wallace is best known for his scientific achievements — collecting and documenting hundreds of new species of “natural productions,” major insights into biogeography, island endemism, and cultural anthropology, and notably, his development of a theory of evolution by natural selection independently of and prior to that of Charles Darwin. But Wallace was also […]