Touching things in nature

I was near the Schoorlse Duinen last weekend with a beach moment on Saturday (despite my Anakin feelings about sand). Jellyfish were washed up on the beach and I poked one on the bell (the bells don’t sting - Finding Nemo). I also picked up and inspected a few hermit crabs that were getting pushed around by the waves, then put them back into the waves to be pushed around some more.

One thing I learnt about nature in the past few years is that you can touch most things without harming it or yourself. I’ve been touching and stroking and poking and feeling a bunch more stuff. It’s a good time!

I also finally figured out how pine cones work and found (and ate) a couple pine nuts. I’ve been nibbling on more random things recently. A rose petal here, a dandelion leaf there. We’ve bred a lot of the “adult flavours” out of our crops I think. So far the pine nuts and a mulberry have been my favourite finds. Singular mulberry because I wasn’t tall enough to reach any others.

Closed tabs

I’m a bit of a tab hoarder. Ever so often I go and close a bunch of them. Here is a collection of closed tabs from today.

Organisations and Projects

• https://blog.more4nature.eu/
• Reimagined futures ReImagined Futures is a systems change consultancy dedicated to enabling systemic impact and bioregional transformation through deep collaboration.
• Go Green Routes Its multidisciplinary consortium of 40 organisations is pairing participatory approaches and citizen science with Big Data analyses and digital innovation to co-create “Urban Well-being Labs” in six “Cultivating Cities”: Burgas (Bulgaria), Lahti (Finland), Limerick (Ireland), Tallinn (Estonia), Umeå (Sweden) and Versailles (France).

To Read

• The life of Leaf Book by Steven Vogel. This Steven worked on biomechanics. I found him through googling the function of lobed leaves > heat dissipation and perhaps to allow light to pass through to lower branches.
• Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory Book by a different Steven Vogel. This Steven worked on environmental philosophy.
• Thinking like a Mall; Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature. Another book by the second Steven. “what environment should we inhabit, and what practices should we engage in to help build it?”
• Stadsbomen a piece out of the vakblad Bomen from Wageningen University
• Scientias Added to my rss feed

To Watch

• Fidel Castro Youtube search results. I don’t know much about him! Didn’t watch any of the videos but did read his Encyclopedia Britannica page.
• Social-Ecological Systems a playlist of videos
• 【循環經濟】玻璃面板回收的華麗變身│太陽能板、電腦、電視面板報廢怎麼處理？
• 哪吒之魔童降世 Movie brother and mum recommended