There was a time in my life when I enjoyed getting mail of any kind. Packages, junk mail, bank statements, ads, and newspapers were a welcome addition to my mailbox. For me those days are numbered. I am getting tired of carrying junk mail from mailbox directly to the recycling bin.
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Have you ever come across an odd spider, insect, or plant and thought, “Hmm, what is this thing?!” Enter iNaturalist.
iNaturalist is available for Android and for Apple and is completely free to download and use.
After downloading the app you can ‘Make an Observation’ by uploading a picture of the organism in question and the iNaturalist database will give you closely matched options. If the app does not automatically find a perfect match, the community of citizen scientists can suggest species information and help identify your unknown sample. Continue reading
Last week I relayed the starfish parable. If you aren’t familiar with it follow that link, it is a very short story, but a meaningful parable.
This week I would like to link the main concept of the starfish parable to another area I find interesting, sustainability. The three big R’s:
