A steward of the environment, especially California’s Sierra Nevada, John Muir Laws, has dedicated himself to revealing the natural world through art and science. John (Jack) Laws has been an environmental educator for 30 years. He recently collaborated with the California Native Plant Society and with English instructor, Emily Breunig, to create a wonderful curriculum [...]
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Nature Stewardship Through Art & Science with John Muir Laws
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities, natural science illustration, Reference, Sketching & Journaling, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged arts education, drawing, John Muir Laws, nature, painting, postaweek2011, sierra nevada, steward on December 1, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Swiss Program Succeeds at Making Students More Aware of Local Plants & Animals
Posted in botanical illustration, Education, Reference, Sketching & Journaling, tagged biodiversity, environmental education, postaweek2011, Switzerland, teaching & learning on September 16, 2011 | Comments Off
Animals are fun. They engage us with their movements, have big round eyes, have cuddly fur and come in intriguing shapes, sizes and colors. Plants, however, just sit there. These truths, plus other interesting facts about how people perceive organisms are discussed by Petra Lindemann-Matthies in “Loveable” Mammals and “Lifeless” Plants: How Children’s Interest in [...]
User-friendly Identification Tools for Plants & Animals
Posted in Education, general botany, Reference, tagged animals, dichotomous keys, field guides, Plants, taxonomy, teaching & learning on August 12, 2011 | Comments Off
Do you have a favorite field guide? Do you use the electronic guides available on the Web? In Electronic Field Guides and User Communities in the Ecoinformatics Revolution, researchers R.D. Stevenson, William A. Haber and Robert A. Morris review the role of field guides and electronic field guides. They also discuss the history of field [...]
Connect with the Ocean in Natural Quiet
Posted in Education, Reference, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events, tagged National Park Service, natural quiet, outdoors, postaweek2011, sound on April 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today we are very fortunate to learn from sound recordist and engineer, Dan Dugan. Dan is a member of the Nature Sounds Society and serves on their Board of Directors. The Nature Sounds Society is based in northern California. Dan and other Society members travel to natural areas to record nature’s sounds. Please welcome Dan [...]
The Language of Flowers at The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Posted in Education, Reference, Special Events, botanical art, botanical art books, Special Announcements, tagged botanical art, flowers, postaweek2011, Pittsburgh on February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Courtesy of The Hunt Institute FLORA’S LEXICON 25 March–30 June 2011 Flora’s Lexicon explores the 19th-century European and American phenomenon of The Language of Flowers, the common understanding that plants and blooms were charged with sentiment and meaning and held the potential to express emotion or to communicate privileged messages within the strict confines of [...]
Eradicating Plant Blindness in the 21st Century
Posted in Education, general botany, Reference, tagged botany, education, postaweek2011, teaching & learning on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last year we took a look at plant blindness — a phrase used to describe the observation that people are largely unaware of the plants in their surroundings. Botanical illiteracy is more than a topic botanists discuss over dinner. It is a subject with broad-reaching consequences. Dr. Gordon E. Uno of the University of Oklahoma [...]
Sierra Club Trails Added to “Nature Near You”
Posted in Education, natural science illustration, Reference, sketchbook, tagged hiking, nature, Sierra Club, trails on November 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Looking for new trails to explore? Try the Sierra Club’s directory of trails for hiking, cycling, walking, and many other outdoor activities. Trails can be searched by keyword, city, state, and zip code. Trails are sorted according to activity level (easy, moderate, strenuous), features (hiking, canoeing, etc.), and river class for those who enjoy whitewater [...]
Identifying Plant Parts When You Can’t Find the Words
Posted in botanical illustration, general botany, Reference, tagged botany, glossary, plant identification on October 18, 2010 | Comments Off
The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms Hickey, Michael and Clive King. 2002. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521794015 We know that being able to draw plant subjects as accurately as possible is critical. Most of us have at least one glossary of plant terminology in our libraries (e.g., Plant Identification Terminology – An Illustrated Glossary [...]
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