LEARN ABOUT CREATURES
(IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS)
this project is called LOCAL BIOLOGY (until we think of something better)
Projects
Project on hold until at least mid-2010
Well, I'm not exactly sure what happened, but we abandoned this project for a good 6 months. I don't think the project is abandoned forever. Basically, I had a conceptual breakdown and realized that the approach didn't align with my actual goals. My actual goals are undetermined...so I had to stop putting energy into this project and take a step back.
But I will leave this site up for reference of the idea... (chach, 11/01/2009)
We actually do things outside
We learn about things that live near us.
We share how we learn about nature through this website.
We invent activities to help us learn about wild things near home.
We volunteer for conservation projects and blog about it.
We make field guides for our own neighborhoods.
We learn about all kinds of life.
We focus on improving our own perception of nature - listening, observing and being patient.
Ultimately, we believe in understanding the planet we’re trying to save - and sharing what we learn with others who are also new.
Disclaimer
We don't know all the birds.
When we make 'data,' it is noisy and totally not useful to 'science' (and we're fine with this.)
We don't pretend to know all taxonomic names for everything.
We don’t care about competing with birders to make a really long birding life-list...we just want to find bird babies.
© 2009 Local Biology, a social business
A social business is owned by the people who directly benefit, and need its existence. We all benefit from the earth, and knowing about the earth, therefore, the earth owns Local Biology and we are simply noticing her, and how she created us.
It is by being a social business today that we can reach out to all people who want to understand the world they live in - the science, the spirit, the changing planet. We can reach around walls built by schools and other educational institutions, television, media, science, religion, language and country.
We know that we love and care about our Earth and in this we unite as this 'social business,' the business being that we are all working together to bring this knowledge together on this website and to other real projects in our towns — working with our own communities and, especially, friends.
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Based on a work at www.localbiology.org.
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