Photos from photographer Joel Sartore's unbelievably ambitious Photo Ark project, a 25-year effort to document every species in captivity—especially those at risk of extinction.
"Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world." --Jane Goodall, Phd, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace Individuals can't save the world alone. But if millions of us work together to save our own patch of earth--then we really have a shot. How do we do it? With Acts of Restorative Kindness (ARK). An ARK is a restored, native ecosystem. It's a thriving patch of native plants and creatures that have been allowed and supported to re-establish in the earth's intelligent, successional process of natural restoration. Over time, this becomes a pantry and a habitat for our pollinators and wild creatures who are in desperate need of support. These ARKs will become the seeding grounds for our planet's new story. They will be sanctuaries for our shared kin--the rooted and unrooted--and safe havens for the magic and abundance of the natural world. Most importantly, the ARK-building actions are within our control and laid out here in We Are the ARK. In these inspiring pages, discover how one person's actions can effect big change in this world. Even the tiniest postage stamp patch of land matters Together we are building a patchwork quilt of life that will wrap its way around this planet.
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by J J Cohen (wow, two posts in one day! First is here) I'm relocating this short post from FB, where I realize that, even though it is public, many readers of ITM may not have easy access. I'm interested in and appreciative of any comments you'd like to pass along. I've expanded the original slightly, since the comments I've received so far have been so rich. Last Tuesday @Sarah_Peverley shared an illustration via Twitter of Noah and his family in the ark, from a 15th C manuscript now in the Bibliothèque nationale. Profound in its sheer blueness and orderly in its depiction of cataclysm, the image has frequently made the internet rounds, likely because (as Sebastian Sobecki pointed out) it was included in BNF exhibit on La Mer that is still accessible via the library website. In the course of my various ecocriticial projects I've been thinking about what it means to live intercatastrophe -- not just to dwell in between cataclysms (for medieval people, between the water of the Flood and an apocalypse of flame to come; for us, between a vanished age of ice and the fire of a global warming), but also to dwell within unfolding disaster. What does it mean to inhabit ceaseless calamity, a world without stability? This late medieval image of the aftermath of the Deluge ruminates, I think, over a similar question. Its illustrator no doubt possessed more faith than I have in providence, teleology, and justice to come, but there are details that make me hesitate before that statement as well. Noah, his family, and the animals they have chosen as intimate companions float serenely in their house, the ark ("box" in Hebrew, but usually depicted as a ship). Outside are those for whom there was no room in the floating home: humans desperate for the safety vanishing churches and cathedrals cannot offer; a cow and dog wondering why they were not partnered into inclusion; the flooded detritus of a once vibrant town. A waterwheel spins in useless motion, overwhelmed by the element it once craved. Oh yes, the dead and drowning were sinners and they deserved their watery suffocation. Genesis is clear. But why is that cradle floating so close to the ark, so like the wooden boat in material and shape, yet empty of its tiny occupant? Some birds in the picture swim indifferently, but others glide in the background, nervous perhaps at their vanishing places of rest. A grey corpse, a tree arrayed like a cadaver, and a nearly submerged rock float in the watery left corner -- devoid of life, maybe, yet somehow rather vital at the edge of their obliteration, vital in the midst of what is also perhaps their mineral, arboreal, and all too human intimation that the ark was built against what could have been a more livable, more collective, more complicated world. ----- Notes Official info on the image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 28. f. 66v (Noah’s ark). St Augustine, De civitate dei. Rouen, 3rd quarter of the 15th century. James Smith linked me to the Holkham Bible version, with Noah floating above a sea of the dead, while Tina Fitzgerald pointed me towards a depiction of the ark as box in the Bedford Hours (and in this image the drowned world is being repopulated). And one more from Sarah, this time with a crowded boat and an opaque green sea.
Not quite so sure about the "in history" part, though. Source: I Hate All Your Gods
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The Ark In Space serves as a compendium of the species of our planet in all their glory, drawing on the finest photographs available on the internet.
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A comprehensive guide to the Art Nouveau architecture in Riga, a true Mecca for culture-enthusiasts in Europe.
Wow, some incredible captures of buildings designed by the great architect Louis Kahn, photographed by Naquib Hossain. In fact Naquib has a small website dedicated to Louis Kahn which he has coined a “Visual Archive”, quite fitting for this particular series. If you’ve not seen it before I’d recommend having a browse here, it’s basically a homage to Louis Kahn and his works through a collection of photographs. Interestingly enough ...
my brother the architect (mentioned in this post) has 444 folders with 5,700 pictures on his computer sorted by name & date of rad architects, houses & buildings. i forced him to give me a copy (not…
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