sawasawako-archived:

“Don’t get me wrong: you can learn a lot on the internet. You can learn more than at any previous time in history. But ingesting information is only half of learning. The other half, the more important half, is responding to that information, thinking critically about it, about what it implies. Does it fit with your worldview? If not, why not? This is the part of learning that turns knowledge into wisdom, into action. This is the part of learning through which you create yourself, and it demands mental free time, time when you’re not consuming media of any kind, when you’re doing nothing at all. By greedily claiming every appointment on your mind’s timeline, the internet erases these vital hours from your life.”

– ‘I Think the Internet Wants to Be My Mind,’ Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions, Evan Puschak

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geopsych:

I walked by where they’re cutting down all the beautiful old black locust trees again today and saw this male bluebird sitting on a fence post nearby as if he were watching. I stood not that far from him taking pictures and he kept an eye on me but mostly sat there. Watching for insects? Watching old friends disappear? Maybe he had babies in a nest in a hole in one of them? 💙

Every time you take a tree down, fewer birds find nest sites and next year there are fewer birds than there would have been. And every year they take more trees down.

rebeccathenaturalist:

Every time I hear of someone’s dog killing a coyote, or that mule that killed a cougar, or a rooster kills a hawk, all I can think of is how an invasive, domesticated animal killed a native one just trying to survive in an ecosystem we’ve drastically changed. I say this as someone who, up until last September, had kept chickens for several years and never harmed the predators that occasionally got one.

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hope-for-the-planet:

‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles

A wildlife crossing across the 101 freeway will connect two parts of the Santa Monica mountains for animals

the Guardian

From the article:

Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on Los Angeles’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest wildlife bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil.

“This is the soul of the project,” says Beth Pratt, the regional executive director, California, at the National Wildlife Federation, who has worked on making the crossing become a reality over the last 13 years. She says she’s seen many milestones, like the 26m pounds of concrete poured to create the structure, but this one is special.

“To be able to put my hand in that soil and toss it on and know that we’ll be putting milkweed plants that will flourish for monarch butterflies, or picturing the first mountain lion paw print on that soil,” she says, fills her with hope. “It is wonderful to watch this habitat take shape.”

The plot is a native wildlife habitat that connects two parts of the Santa Monica mountain range, with the hopes of saving creatures – from the famous local mountain lions, down to frogs and insects – from being crushed by cars on one of the nation’s busiest roadways.

With nearly an acre of local plants on either side and thick vegetated sound walls 12ft high to dampen light and noise for nocturnal animals as they slip across, it’s an unprecedented feat of engineering. Imagination, too.

The project began in 2022 through a public-private partnership that brought together many organizations to cover the $92m in costs, according to Caltrans, the state transportation department. Research shows that wildlife crossings save money because it limits animal interactions with vehicles.

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