LEARN ABOUT CREATURES
(IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS)
this project is called LOCAL BIOLOGY (until we think of something better)
Coffee Shop Phenology
This Spring, we will be bringing Local Biology to our local and beloved Coffee Shops (just a handful of coffee shops, just the ones that we, personally, attend regularly.)
We will be providing both you, and ourselves, with the materials necessary to get more observations & understanding about wild things in our own neighborhoods.
It's pretty simple -- and if you want to do it to, let us know. We hope to have this project go in 5-10 coffee shops next year.
Parts
1. Tiny Field Guides. Basically, you come up with 6 things people can look for. It might take you a while to think these up.
2. Little poster for coffee shop. Post it notes, pens. Share link to localbiology.org. Explain that people can share things they have noticed in their neighborhood...(examples...such as an owl sighting, an invasive bee spotted, an invasion of mushrooms)
3. Collecting hand printed observations made in coffeeshops and digitizing them through our 'add an observation' tool.
Stay tuned!
© 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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