Wandering Nature is devoted to discovering nature’s wonderful, strange, and fascinating organisms and ecosystems. Because these ecosystems are in exotic and wild locations, it’s also about the adventures, joys, and challenges of travel abroad. The project is made possible by a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which provides funding to recent college graduates to pursue a year of independent, non-academic study abroad.
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Portrait of a Sustainability Project
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Sunseed Desert Project is a small sustainable community in the south of Spain.
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Modern Harmony with Nature: Sustainability
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In this episode: Four short stories about sustainability. Katie Tackman on banana circles, Chris Canaday on urine-diverting dry toilets and solar disinfection of water, and Frederique Cebron on his family’s five-year journey to find people developing techniques for sustainable living.
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Traditional Harmony with Nature: the Waorani
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Chris Canaday of the Omaere Ethnobotanical Park discusses how the Waorani (an indigenous group of people who live in the Amazon of Ecuador) use the rainforest as a renewable resource.
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The slate-throated whitestart is a bird that lives in the cloud forest and uses an interesting trick to find food. We also discuss the unique manner of drinking beer in Ecuador.
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