Friday, July 30, 2010

WikiLeakgate | Need to Know | PBS

WikiLeakgate | Need to Know | PBS


Some blogs can be very powerful tool.

Day 10

What teaching strategy have you learned?

The term ethnobotany,...the concentric human approach to behavior and how it is related to plants and nature. From BRIT professor, I learned to associate nature with human behavior and patterns. We are interrelated in many aspects and the "control" of life is not entirely at the direction of humankind.


One word that describes your experience.

transcendental

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Video

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

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Day 9




We went the Master Gardeners community garden at the Tarrant County Resource Center.
Master gardeners show us the potential of growing herbs, native plants, even a backyard orchard. We prepared some seed starters for them and after learning different ways of propagation, we are able to make our own cuttings to take home. I forgot my camera today so from the wonderful herbs, like rosemary and dill, I used them in the dishes I made for dinner tonight.

Rosemary citrus infused salmon, garden salad with tomato onion vinagrette, cherry stone clams in tomato and basil wine broth and roasted pecan coffee rubbed bison filets.

BRIT's Fort Worth headquarters to reflect its conservation mission | Local News | News f...

BRIT's Fort Worth headquarters to reflect its conservation mission | Local News | News f...

Day 8



Botanical Research Institute site visit

www.BRIT.org

use of ATRIUM specimen database

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Day 7


Thomsen Foundation
Global to Local Perspective

1035 Total School Districts
650 Rural Districts
Northern portion of Cross Timbers area

Plant identification

International Call for Sustainability
eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
universal primary education
gender equality
reduce child mortality
improve maternal health
combat AIDS/HIV, malaria, etc
Insure environmental sustainability
develop a global partnership for development

Rachel Carson "Silent Spring"

Ford tractor 1926
Modern tractor John Deere 1964

Physiographic Map of Texas, 1996

HIPPOS
H-abitat, preserving space with greatest diversity within confines of space
I-nvasive species
P-opulation
P-ollution
O-ver harvesting
S-oil