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Two-Time Contributor Has New Book On The Way

by Caroline Ailanthus Janisse Ray’s new book, The Seed Underground, is due out on August 1st.  Janisse is a two-time contributor to Whole Terrain, having given us “Towards a Real Earth Day,” in Volume 14, 2005/2006 , Celebration and Ceremony, and “Revolution: Beauty and the Coming Apart of Beauty, Becoming …

Whole Terrain seeks submissions exploring Net Works theme

 As environmental practitioners, we cast nets to sample nature, to gather knowledge, to provoke action. Ornithologists use mist nets to capture birds for banding, advocates and organizers use social networks to foment governmental and public action, and vast amounts of data are gathered from different disciplines to construct climate change …

Connecting to our landscape through art: Whole Terrain interviews Erika Osborne

By Hanna Wheeler Scrawny, twisted juniper and pinon characterize environmental artist Erika Osborne‘s arid, mountain-west home. “Because there aren’t a lot of trees, you notice individuals,” she said. “They have this character to them that’s a product of the environment and the weather. I started looking at them as individuals …

Peter Davenport searches for jellyfish in Walden.

Peter Davenport was featured in the Boston Globe, Mystery blooms on Walden Pond: Scientist puzzled over tiny freshwater jellyfish (Sept. 10, 2010). As an Interpretive Ranger with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Peter paddled Walden Pond with Tony LaCasse of the New England Aquarium in search of tiny …