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Chasing Ice, the documentary

5/21/2013

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Chasing Ice is a must-see film by James Balog documenting real time consequences of our current way of living. Incredibly powerful example of the passion of one person to use his artistic vision to share what is happening to the Earth. No question what we are doing to the planet's climate stability...to the air we breathe, the ecosystems we all are inextricably connected to. Go to Chasing Ice and Extreme Ice Survey to learn much more...get the film and share it!
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Glacial Melt © Paola Berthoin, 2004
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S.O.S. © Paola Berthoin, 2007
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Hop to it... for me!
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Bees, Carmel River Steelhead and Ecology of Awareness

5/20/2013

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Walking down the road
coming to this buckeye tree
full bloom
beautiful symmetry
sweetness of scent
fine tuning my vision
sun lighting up each stamen
each glorious stamen
there attracting the bee
bees that help keep us fed
bees that help show us the way--
if we pay attention.

Click here to read an article about the significance of the decline of honey bees. And click here to read how native bees and other indigenous pollinators depend on native habitat to help support pollination of crops and indigenous plants. Losing native pollinators and native plants have a domino effect on all that depend on these crucial links in the food chain...for birds, butterflies, bats, moths, bees, mammals...including humans.

Last week David Orr, author of Hope is an Imperative and the Nature of Design, among many other books all about what sustainability really means, was in Monterey giving talks to various groups. In 2003, I took an Ecological Design course at Schumacher College in England with David Orr and John Todd. It was exciting to talk with him ten years later and give him a copy of Passion for Place. The core of his message is the concept he has been and is putting into effect on a  community scale and wider area...creating projects that respond to the many facets of remaking how we live on this earth. He calls it Full Spectrum Sustainability that brings together agriculture/forestry, renewable energy and efficiency, policy and law, education, communication, economic revitalization, marketing, community mobilization,  and banking. These elements are all brought together through leadership and coordination.  

David also spoke about the importance the arts  and celebration play in this remaking. Passion for Place puts forth this same message through the Watershed Arts spiral..a way of connecting to where we live through the arts and how that leads to taking action on behalf of the natural world. Watershed Arts brings the arts front and center in our llves, thus supporting creative change in how we live in support of the natural world. 


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Carmel River at the Little League Field area, May 9, 2013. Still enjoying the flow of the river in this drought year but it will be drying up as the year continues. As it stands right now baby steelhead (fry) are dying in the drying up river further down stream. And from a recent email from the CRSA/Pelican Network: Requested by NOAA, six adult steelhead that came up the river in early May needed to be rescued due to drying up pools. (Two fish had already died.) They were acclimatized to the salt water and were released to the ocean by the CRSA volunteers on Sunday, May 19. Those pools are now dry.
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Carmel River Steelhead fry
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Baby Flycatchers growing and fledging the nest!

5/8/2013

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Mother Flycatcher, May 2, 2013 Waiting to fly up to her babies.
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May 6, 2013
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Came home to find the nest empty and then saw these two on the wire. Waiting for morning and gathering courage to go out. May 7, 2013
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Two babies getting ready to fly out. May 8, 2013
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One gathering courage to fly out. May 8, 2013
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This is the one directly above that has now flown out...
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Second baby waiting to go out. April 8, 2013
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Second bird out, May 8, 2013
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    Author
    Paola Berthoin is the designer/creator/publisher of  Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed. Her focus is inspiring and educating people about the natural world through the arts. She is available to design your book, create (illustrate and write) interpretive materials for your watershed community, consult for healthy gardens, paint a commissioned painting of your favorite place in the Carmel River Watershed and beyond!


    When we allow wildness, our own spirit, to flourish within, we can also respect and allow nature’s spirit, the wild outside, to exist.
             - Paola Fiorelle Berthoin
                                                                                                                                                               

    Blog photographs, land art, and text © Paola Berthoin, unless otherwise noted. 
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    Photograph © Marie Butcher

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