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Biophilic Cities Must Also Become Communities for a Half-Earth Future – Part 2
A two-part series exploring how biophilic cities can advance the goal of Half-Earth, both within and beyond their boundaries. Part Two: Thinking Beyond a City’s Boundaries By Tim Beatley, Founder & Executive Director of Biophilic Cities; Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, University of Virginia Biophilic Cities–or cities that love nature–must (and can) begin to
Read MoreWhy We Need to Talk About Orangutans, Not Just Climate Change
This article originally appeared in the Evening Standard on August 27, 2020. By Rohan Silva The Eremocene — or the Age of Loneliness. That’s what the biologist EO Wilson calls the global disaster we’re headed for, with half of all species extinct by the end of the century as a result of habitat destruction, pollution, over-fishing and other human activities. I know we’re all sick of bad news right
Read MoreNew Book by E.O. Wilson, “Tales from the Ant World,” Called “a Rapturously Unapologetic Hymn of Praise to the Roughly One Quadrillion Ants on the Planet” by The Boston Globe
Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. “Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony,” writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s most beloved scientists, “their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg.” In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Priz
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