http://www.metafilter.com/tags/stewardship Posts tagged with 'stewardship' at MetaFilter. Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:51:17 -0800 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:51:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/52799/urban%2Djungle <a href="http://terravideos.blogspot.com/2006/06/episode-221-where-wild-parrots-are.html">the new urban jungle</a> . . . is a growing movement led by cities like <a href="http://www.natureinthecity.org/">San Francisco</a>, <a href="http://gowildnyc.org/">New York</a>, and <a href="http://www.leidenuniv.nl/cml/sem/projects/urbannat_UK.html">Leiden</a> to restore active and vibrant natural systems in urban areas. Far from the eden-like depictions of nature of yesteryear, i.e. <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/delightc.jpg">the garden of earthly delights</a> (nonetheless, still attracting some dynamic <a href="http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/ecology.html">new christian converts</a>), the movement has morphed into today's backyard and grassroots environmental movement which is more and more a picture of hybridity, compromise, mixed-use, and ultimately, taking nature out of the walled islands of zoos, aquaria, national parks and other thick-walled institutions and offering a different kind of everyday <a href="http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj12/kutner1.html">"unmediated"</a> community experience with the new <a href="http://www.defenders.org/pubs/nsi08.html"> urban wilderness</a>. <b> </b> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Terravideos.m4v?d=120">VIDEO LINK</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52799 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:51:17 -0800 activism aquaria birds change climate community documentary environment environmental gas global grassroots green local nature oil parrots politics renew stewardship terra warming wildlife zoos huckhound http://www.metafilter.com/33666/what%2Dkind%2Dof%2Dplanet%2Dwill%2Dwe%2Dleave%2Dfuture%2Dgenerations <a href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/122/4824994.html">what kind of planet will we leave future generations</a> <br>as the human race gets "richer? and if those future generations will look back fondly <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3793849.stm">at our stewardship</a> or <a href="http://www.environment2004.org/global_warming.php">with disdain</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.33666 Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:37:44 -0800 ecology environment stewardship specialk420