Posts by: Bonnie

Interview: Louis Helbig

By On 4 May, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Environmental activism, Interviews

We featured Canadian photographer, Louis Helbig a few weeks ago on our Friday Connect series. We were impressed when we discovered his photographs while reading about the environmental problems associated with the Alberta Tar Sands oil extraction industry.

Mr. Helbig agreed to answer a few questions about […]

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Friday Connect: Berlin Gardens

By On 20 April, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Friday connect, Growing, Public space

This week’s link love is all about city gardens. We understand that some people might have city garden fatigue, at least hearing about them, and we encourage you to do more than read about them and to get involved with – or better, help start – a garden where you live.  We love […]

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City Bee Habitat

By On 19 April, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Environmental activism, Growing, Habitat, Homesteading

Worldwide, industrial agricultural uses the European honey bee to pollinate crops. Starting in 2006, there was a notable decline in honey bee populations, commonly referred to as “colony collapse disorder.” Researchers speculate that this may be due to stress or disease from the overuse of honey bees for pollinating crops.

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Habitat Update: Birds in Berlin

By On 17 April, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space

Earlier during our stay in Berlin, we made a post about a giant vine growing on a building across the street from where we are living. The vine is home to a flock of birds. We have since identified the vine as a type of English Ivy. We haven’t figured out the birds, […]

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Two exhibitions: Biopolis & Animism

By On 10 April, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Exhibitions

Last week we saw two great exhibitions dealing with the relationship between culture and nature: Animismus at Haus der Kulturen der Velt and Biopolis:Wild Berlin at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Biopolis: Wild Berlin purports to “merge the notion of biodiversity and metropolis” focusing on wildlife […]

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The Garden of Exile

By On 2 April, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Arts and culture

This is the Garden of Exile.

It stands outside the Jewish Museum Berlin. The garden represents the experience of European Jewish exiles, driven from their home during World War II.  Standing in between the rows of forty-nine concrete container columns is a claustrophobic, disorienting experience, where you […]

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Habitat Decline in the City & Country

By On 30 March, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space

A recent article in the Guardian discusses the decline in starling populations in England. According to the article, starlings migrate every year from Scandinavia to meet and mate in the English countryside, but because of the impact of factory farming on insect populations, starlings are disappearing at an alarming rate. The […]

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Friday Connect: Dirt

By On 16 March, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Dirt, Friday connect

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. –Wendell Berry

Looking at soil, the basis of plant life, and much of our food system is an important part of thinking ecologically. Today’s link post points to some soil based projects that we have come across.

Denmark has 68 […]

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Seed starts + simple kitchen reuse

By On 11 March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Homesteading, Kitchen

It’s March and spring is slowly coming around. The start of spring means preparing seedlings for the coming growing season. We may have an outdoor garden this year (crossing our fingers) and in the hopes of that we are starting seeds in our kitchen window.

We always have a surplus of 1 liter […]

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Friday Connect: Bees!

By On 9 March, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Friday connect

This Friday’s link love focuses on bees. We’ve found several bee related items around the web, a few of them local to Copenhagen.

Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary, friend and artist Juan Willam Chavez’s proposal for an urban bee sanctuary on a large lot in the city of St. Louis. The lot was formerly home […]

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