I am perhaps a bit more amused by the post title than I am anything else, but I love this kind of blogging. Pseudo-academic, ephemeral, fast, and enough left over …
Getting along with a single solar panel: the eco-friendly operation of KATH (Nepal) and the blessed place of Godavari (via )
Some of the friendliest botanists you will ever meet and some of my favorite Global Plants Initiative partners. I come from a very non-scientific background (unless you count information science), …
Plant videos and >500,000 views: personal>ephemeral
Why do I consider this to be one of my greatest professional achievements? This page of videos from various botanical organizations throughout the world taken on inexpensive (and now obsolete) …
Plants as Persons: The Moral Standing of Plants (via )
I like these efforts to instill a moral philosophy in aspects of the natural world that have traditionally been neglected, or at the very least to understand that these are …

Plants and the bizarre career path of a former English teacher
I should come clean and say what might be already obvious. I have no background in botany. I wouldn’t know a lily from an orchid, a weed from grass, an …