Our Future Environment

Time moves differently here.

Filed under: observations and opinions, natural landscape on June 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

Tyler Bend, a photo by cormack13

The Buffalo River holds my most treasured Arkansas memories. It is the place where I learned to navigate a canoe, eat dinner out of foil packs, explore cliffs, and connect the importance of social and natural environments. Rivers of the world speak their own languages according […]

Filed under: observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 6th, 2011 | No Comments »

In a few weeks I will be leaving this city I’ve called home for six years. I’m returning for half a year to the state of my birth- Arkansas. There I will be working as a Park Interpreter for the Arkansas State Parks in Logoly.

A park interpreter’s goal is to make your experience as a […]

Filed under: parks, education, leisure, eco-tourism, fostering identity, natural landscape on April 6th, 2011 | No Comments »

I just ordered this book, The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. It was published in an English edition in 1978 and is considered influential to various ‘back to nature’ farming and gardening movements.

Fukuoka worked as a research scientist in Japan specializing in plant pathology but he eventually left his career in pursuit of understanding ‘nature’ […]

Filed under: farm, future, natural landscape on September 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I want to make a claim that an outdoor leisure environment, whether it takes the form of a public park, a private beach, or a green backyard, is correlated with a greater degree of understanding and empathy for our natural landscape. Marcelo Bonta writes of his concern about children of minority or heterogeneous race […]

Filed under: future, fostering identity, natural landscape on June 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Read this article from the us forest service on our future leisure environments.

photo credit: Svadilfari
This article predicts “the probabilities of future events associated with natural-resource management, wildland-recreation management, environmental pollution, population-workforce-leisure, and urban environments. Though some of the predictions projected to the year 2050 may sound fantastic now, the authors think that some of […]

Filed under: future, natural landscape, environmental planning on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

This play on words, Scales of Environmental Justice, as introduced to me by Cindi Katz, points to two ways we can think about and study environmental justice.
In GIS research (and others which emphasize horizontal geography) scale can refer to the scale of analysis used in a study and the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of populations […]

Filed under: natural landscape, social justice, environmental planning on June 1st, 2008 | No Comments »

As discussed earlier, psychological ownership can exist in the absence of legal ownership and occurs in an often lengthy and iterative process involving investing the self and making personal sacrifices on behalf of a cave. When an individual’s sense of self is closely linked to the place, a desire to maintain, protect, or enhance that […]

Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 24th, 2008 | No Comments »

In caving, stewardship is an ethic that embodies cooperative planning and management of environmental resources with cave conservancies, communities, individual cavers and caving groups to actively engage in the prevention of cave damage and the promotion of conservation.
Overall, environmental stewardship research tends to focus on it as a relationship between people and objects, and less […]

Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

Commercial cave tours are mostly walk through, dramatically lit and impressive rooms meant to inform visitors of the value in caves. Although caving is not a widely commercial venture it does have a small percentage of “wild cave tours”. These type of tours cost upwards of US$50 a person and are geared towards physically fit […]

Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »