Gulf Coast Oil Spill- the oil comes ashore

On June 26, 2010 join Hands Across the Sands to protest off-shore oil drilling, at a beach near you!

USCG- Deepwater Horizon oil platform 2010

The Gulf Coast  is just now heading into what will be months and years responding to the April BP drilling platform explosion and oil leak. At his point scientists are worried that the oil will spread at least as far as the Florida Keys, another important marine ecosystem area. Oil is about to wash up in Louisiana and is effecting  New Orleans. (See New Orleans artist Michelle Levine's painting that seems to foretell this disaster, that she started last year. Bless the talented and grounded people of New Orleans!)

Now that the enormity of this oil disaster is sinking in, good people are trying to find ways to help. Chief ARVOL LOOKING HORSE (of the Lakota), 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe has asked that we join together in prayer to heal Grandmother Earth and stop this oil disaster- A Great Urgency: To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders (May 12, 2010). Amen, and let's all join in. Continue reading →

Weavings- of spider silk and more

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After 4 years a gold colored tapestry has been made out of spider silk. I've put together articles on the tapestry, information on the golden silk orb spider, and on efforts to develop man-made spider silk. One of the latest attempts to make 'spider silk' fibers is with hagfish slime! Continue reading →

OneGeology- a dynamic geological map of the world

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If you study (or hold, collect, revere, or use) rocks and soil, look at this remarkable project to provide geological mapping on a worldwide level. Continue reading →

Earth's magnetic field & animals research

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There's been a whole slew of research showing that animals can sense or use the earth's magnetic fields as an internal compass. (When do they find out humans can sometimes sense these fields also?) Keep on reading to see some of this research. Continue reading →

Nature

Nature is good (/groovy). And more! So here are items of interest from science to spirituality, plants, rocks, animals [...]