9:25 am in animals, birds, conservation, endangered species, Science & Technology, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
All photos by Jaymi Heimbuch
Friend and fellow photographer
Rebecca Jackrel knows the quickest way to my heart -- invite me out into the field with a camera to photograph, well, pretty much any living thing. She invited me along for a trip with
Caitlin Robinson-Nilsen of the
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) as she checked on Western Snowy Plover nests for newly hatched chicks to band....
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3:16 am in artists, arts, bees, birds, Cattle, crafts, Culture & Celebrity, Design & Architecture, designers, exhibits, materials, rivers, science, Science & Technology, spain by TreeHugger
Photo Credit: Gerard Moliné
When I entered the
Gallery Art & Design in Poblenou, Barcelona, it was the odd smell I noticed first. Very faint, but it reminded me of something far away. Large pieces of art are scattered around the big white gallery space, made up of thick earthy colours and rough textures. I wasn't sure what exactly I was looking at until
Gerard Moliné himself told me the story of how, when he was 7 years old in his village in the Catalan country side, he placed
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3:32 am in 100 mile diet, agriculture, awards, birds, Design & Architecture, eggs, food, Food & Health, food miles, local food, organic agriculture, spain by TreeHugger
Image Credit: Lluís Serra Pla
In and around Barcelona
slow food and local delicatessen have become quite the thing lately. Projects like the slow food
restaurant Fastvínic or
the happy pig farm Finca del Saüc are popping up like mushrooms. Via the blog
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5:45 am in birds, eco-travel, new york city by TreeHugger
Naturalist Gabriel Willow leading a NYC Audubon Sunset Ecocruise photo courtesy of
Marija Filipovic
The wildlife living in the
East River between NYC's bridges is often overlooked. Most people don't realize that New York is an
archipelago of islands and that ...
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2:51 pm in animals, birds, cities, Travel & Nature, urban life by TreeHugger
Pigeons in Rouen, France. Photo: Frédéric Bisson / Creative Commons.
On a boat trip up the
Bosphorus last weekend, our crew of urban-dwellers practically capsized the ship by racing to one side to catch a glimpse of
dolphins bobbing through the waves. The fleeting moment was all the more me...
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Image via Youtube screenshot
A few months ago we wrote about a mechanical seagull that rivals the real thing in how lifelike it looks on the wing. Well, turns out it can fool even members of the species it is mimicking. The robotic seagull was tested out at TEDGlobal and it attracted a flock of real gulls. Read on and watch a video of the birds....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Young participants in the "Everyone fights fires" campaign act out good fire-prevention practices. Photo: Elena Kim/Live Planet.
Winters are tough, to say the least, in 
