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"The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era."
- National Snow and Ice Data Center, Press Release, September 16, 2008
"The unthinkable – a government buyout of much of the private sector's bad debt [...]

Last night, in theory at least, I'd hoped to be somewhere other than at home in Vancouver, nursing a bum knee, calming an upset stomach, and feeling blue about not being at a book reading a thousand miles away.
The original plan, which my fiancée Lissa bemusedly referred to as "wishful," was to be in San [...]

In my previous post, I wrote about Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, the Haida artist who illustrated the book Flight of the Hummingbird using his own Haida manga style.
As noted in that post, the hummingbird of the story tirelessly drops beads of water onto a great forest fire, presumably to little, if any, material effect. As the [...]

The recent rise in food and commodity prices is one that promises to be long term: Climate change is decreasing the ability to grow food, while the ownership of agricultural commodities by investors and large food companies continues to become more concentrated, limiting the ability to marshal food resources during times of scarcity. (Witness the [...]

Radio silence on a blog could mean a blogger is on vacation, has to meet deadlines for paying clients, is burning out and has no ideas, or is facing a difficult circumstance of some kind.
In my case, it's the latter: A dear friend had a heart attack, which prompted his friends and family to shift [...]

Earlier this week, Realistic Sanctuary blog posted the first part of a two-part interview with Miranda Loud, a pipe organist, mezzo soprano and artistic director. In 2005, Miranda founded Rialto Arts, a non-for-profit arts organization based near Boston, Massachusetts, whose slogan is "Where nature takes center stage." The animating idea behind Rialto Arts is for [...]

This week Realistic Sanctuary blog is pleased to publish an interview conducted last week with Miranda Loud, an up-and-coming mezzo soprano and artistic director. In 2005, Miranda founded Rialto Arts, a non-for-profit arts organization based near Boston, Massachusetts, whose slogan is "Where nature takes center stage." According to Miranda, the idea behind Rialto Arts is [...]

Whytecliff Park No. 2, originally uploaded by Sanjay Khanna.
(Note: This is a revised version of a post placed online originally on April 13, 2008, and then pulled off the blog for another edit. For those who read the original post, note the above photo replaces the one of grass.)
I took this photo at Whytecliff [...]

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Chinatown in NYC: A space for respite and contemplation, originally uploaded by Sanjay Khanna.
For those who read my first post on attending the American Natural History Museum’s conference, [...]

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Magnolias across the street, originally uploaded by Sanjay Khanna.
"The branches bend in the wind and rise up again, the flowers grow and fall, the forest swells like a [...]