A friend recently told me a rather sad story and asked if I could help. This story is about Lucy, a female Asian elephant that started her life in the wild in Sri Lanka. Captured as a baby and shipped half-way round the world to end up in the freezing climes of Canada on permanent display at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, owned and operated by the City of Edmonton.
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, there is a lot of pressure on North Americans to show their ‘love’ by participating in a consumer purchasing f...
Sour crop and impacted crop, also known as crop binding, although relatively uncommon in chickens, is still something you need to watch out for in your flo...
An octopus using a coconut as a tool, monkeys recognizing their friends in photographs, a shark performing an impromptu caesarean at a New Zealand aquarium...
With increasing media reports of enormous protests and even coverage of a few riots in Copenhagen, it seems now is perhaps the time to get more intimately ...
With more rain and increasing incidents of cold weather, it is time to think about preparing your backyard flock for the winter. Unfortunately, we are too ...
Today is Blog Action Day and I can’t help but wonder if blogging and sending out a few emphatic tweets and e-mails is enough to accomplish the monumental tas...
The blogosphere is currently abuzz with reports of an unusual looking animal that washed up on a riverbank in Cerro Azul, Panama. The creature, looking lik...
I was recently in a supermarket with a girlfriend and she glanced over at a harassed family of four with a shopping cart teeming with meat and other carbon...
Wild inspiring permaculture gardens, elegant rammed earth homes, straw bale construction and even a 100 Mile House with the majority of the materials sourced...
I have been having some morbid eco thoughts of late. Various green friends and family members and even many colleagues have been expressing fatigue with th...
