Friends of Invasivore
January 19th, 2012 at 10:08If yesterday’s SOPA and PIPA protest was a demonstration of how internet sharing could be hampered by pending legislation, let today’s entry be a celebration of the great things being shared around the web!
Here are the blogs we’ve been reading lately:
- The Bugwood Blog is housed at The University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health and is an excellent source for invasive species news and commentary.
- Another great source of invasive species news is the CABI Invasives Blog. Their host, CABI, is an inspiring not-for-profit organization applying science to some of the most important agricultural, environmental, and developmental problems of today.
- One of our very favorite blogs is Dot Earth. Blogger Andrew Revkin has plenty to say about environmental issues worldwide (including a shout-out to invasivore.org in its infancy!).
- Shorelines, a blog housed at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, also covers a wide range of environmental issues, including biological invasions.
- We often enjoy Deborah Dramby’s blog, Just Saying, which she describes as “a place for the eco-curious to accompany one another” through the latest environmental news and notes.
- Finally, a few folks who are also hard at work foraging in the environment around us include the Foraging Foodie, Green Deane at Eat the Weeds and Other Things Too, CarpBusters, and Wildman Steve Brill.
Do you have any suggestions about other blogs we should be reading?
Posted by Matthew,
in Uncategorized
February 11th, 2012 at 12:21 am
Urban squirrel cuisine is really catching on in Seattle. After this AP video ran, I found myself teaching Seattleites how to trap and cook the invasive Eastern grey squirrel. There’s far more interest here than the news media would ever be willing to let onto.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/odd-15749658/first-person-urban-forager-subsists-on-squirrel-28019094.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fodd-15749658%252Ffirst-person-urban-forager-subsists-on-squirrel-28019094.html
Keep up the great work y’all. I absolutely love this web page.
February 15th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Sorry to blab about my stuff, but I have recently started a blog on invasion biology, ethnobotany, and evolution that maybe you’d like to check out? It’s at alienplantation.com .
I’m a PhD student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, working on the evolution of invasiveness in diffuse knapweed, a plant which, unfortunately, is not fit for mammalian consumption. I do, however, eat a lot of Himalayan blackberries. And I love the site.