"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."—Carl Sagan

Pour yourself a nice cup of tea (or whatever) and enjoy this tour of the cosmos from the American Museum of Natural History.

See also the New York Times interview with the new Executive Director at Greenpeace.

You are now in for a tremendous treat. My friend Andrew recently hooked me up with the website of the extraordinary photographer Eric Tourne...

Just a reminder of what's at stake.

We've gone from bitterly upset about the new (and unsurprising) report that America's birds are in deep peril (thanks to our collec...

This just in from Huffpo : French film legend-turned-activist Brigitte Bardot took a swipe at Sarah Palin on Tuesday, saying the US vice pre...

Meet Will Allen , founder of the Milwaukee-based organization, Growing Power. Here's the kind of person America needs more of. Indeed, ...

There are no unsacred places; There are only sacred places And desecrated places. —Wendell Berry, from "How To Be a Poet" One o...

Two inexplicable habits have take hold this summer: the adoption of a mason jar as my favorite drinking glass and a tendency, weather permit...

Someone should sponsor a study of the beneficial health effects of looking at bluebirds. Something primal—an ancient, latent spark inside th...

An example of what Gary Snyder might call "the larger sanity": A man with vertigo scales the 52-story New York Times building with...

Global Swarming Honeybees turns 1 year old today. Thanks much for your visits, your comments, your support. Feel free to share article ideas...

Eco-wisdom from the mouths of babes—Severn Suzuki speaks truth to power at the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment and Development. Thanks...

She has for years, and here's the latest —a cool new workbook on making art and hot-linking to the Muse: What It Is .

What goes on in an individual's mind when confronted with a butterfly, a snake, a bat, a wolf, a pigeon, or a bee? Natalie Angier has an...

Spring has definitely arrived in Upstate NY USDA Zone 4. There aren't enough exclamation points in all of human history to adequately pu...