During my many enjoyable years teaching vertebrate zoology at ETSU, I would always end my lecture on the evolution of the vertebrates by saying we had now entered a unique stage in the history of life on Earth – The Age of Man.  I would then go on and point out that we have long been used to referring to various Ages of -- (Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, etc.) but there has never before been a time that only ONE species was the dominant biological force on…

Soaring, graceful mountains

              touch the sky

Filled with glaciers ,

                         and morraine

And Changes

They have survived fire, and ice

Made and echoed many sounds

Since cataclysmic forces hurled them

                                              through the ground

They have known

                               Beauty

                                   …

Way to go, Warren Wilson! 

Maybe we should take a field trip to check out one of the top 18 green colleges in the US. 

We have contacts over in the Asheville area, and they're only alittle over an hour away.

Check out the Princeton Review at  http://www.princetonreview.com/green-honor-roll.aspx

(Below is most of a blog of the same title posted on May 17th, 2011 by Earle Holland in Research News at Ohio State, but I've added a slightly different ending.)

Quoting Earle:

"Among those who do science (as well as those of us who cheer from the sidelines) the loss of public interest in recent years robs the…

 interesting info from Interfaith Power & Light, for Earth Month (well, how about the month after Earth Month)? 

How about "Be Another Person of Faith for Clean Air"?

...and some sample sermons on…