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		<title>Nature Stewardship Through Art &amp; Science with John Muir Laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A steward of the environment, especially California&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=16560&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss Program Succeeds at Making Students More Aware of Local Plants &amp; Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Loveable&#8221; Mammals and &#8220;Lifeless&#8221; Plants: How Children&#8217;s Interest in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=15183&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>User-friendly Identification Tools for Plants &amp; Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=14393&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connect with the Ocean in Natural Quiet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=11826&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Language of Flowers at The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of The Hunt Institute FLORA&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=11835&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eradicating Plant Blindness in the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://artplantaetoday.com/2011/01/28/eradicating-plant-blindness-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year we took a look at plant blindness &#8212; 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=11638&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club Trails Added to &#8220;Nature Near You&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for new trails to explore? Try the Sierra Club&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=10529&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Identify Trees By Their Leaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World&#8217;s Great Trees Coombes, Allen J. 2010. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226139739 If you have a recurring daydream about having a labeled leaf collection composed of perfect leaves that never wilt, dry, and get crunchy, stop dreaming. You can now take one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=10285&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Plant Parts When You Can’t Find the Words</title>
		<link>http://artplantaetoday.com/2010/10/18/cambridge-illustrated-glossary-plant-identification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&amp;blog=1347663&amp;post=10221&amp;subd=artplantaetoday&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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