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White Paper: A Phased Introduction of Earth Species for Terraforming a New World for Human Habitability

Posted on November 16, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Terraforming—transforming an extraterrestrial environment into one capable of supporting human life—requires more than altering atmosphere and temperature. It necessitates a carefully staged ecological construction project. Each stage introduces specific species (microbial, plant, fungal, invertebrate, and eventually vertebrate) that … Continue reading →

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Book Revie: Planta Sapiens

Posted on May 1, 2024 by nathanalbright

Planta Sapiens: The New Science Of Plant Intelligence, by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence How are we to deal with the idea–much less the evidence–that plants exhibit a sort of intelligence that, though highly different than our own, is in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Science Is Beautiful: Botanical Life Under The Microscope

Posted on April 27, 2024 by nathanalbright

Science Is Beautiful: Botanical Life Under The Microscope, by Colin Salter In some ways, a book like this almost manages to write itself. Indeed, the writing in this book is pretty limited, as most of the effort in this book … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Nowhere Left To Go

Posted on April 11, 2024 by nathanalbright

Nowhere Left To Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species To The Ends Of The Earth, by Benjamin Von Brackel A book as melodramatic as this one deserves a soundtrack with the (almost) title track being Melissa Ethridge’s “Nowhere To … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Urban Jungle

Posted on April 10, 2024 by nathanalbright

Urban Jungle: The History And Future Of Nature In The City, by Ben Wilson While cities and the creation around them have often been viewed in antagonistic terms, the best examples of cities in history as well as in the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Secret Life Of The City

Posted on April 7, 2024 by nathanalbright

Secret Life Of The City: How Nature Thrives In The Urban Wild, by Hanna Bjorgaas I remember reading a book originally in Norwegian about geography and finding it faintly ridiculous that the author found Norwegian cartography so notable on the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Lost Language Of Plants

Posted on April 1, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Lost Language Of Plants: The Ecological Importance Of Plant Medications To Life On Earth, by Stephen Harrod Buhner This is a book that should be so much better than it is. There is a lot of good that could … Continue reading →

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Book Review: What A Plant Knows

Posted on March 6, 2024 by nathanalbright

What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide To The Senses, by Daniel Chamovitz It is testament to the wide gulf between scientists and ordinary people that the sense best known to anecdotal evidence, that plants can hear and respond to … Continue reading →

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A Tale Of Two Trees

Posted on February 25, 2023 by nathanalbright

Those who read this blog may assume that they know which trees I am talking about, but they are mistaken in this case, as there is a story I have in mind that is of a different origin entirely. Recently … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Creating Rain Gardens

Posted on April 30, 2021 by nathanalbright

Creating Rain Gardens: Capturing The Rain For Your Own Water-Efficient Garden, by Cleo Woefle-Erskine and Apryl Uncapher It appears that quite a few books seek to answer the question of how one goes about making rain gardens, or where one … Continue reading →

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