Art display at wetlands to deliver eco-lessons The Friends were thrilled to have local artist Deb Ris at our annual Earth Day event (more photos here). We were struck by the fact that a similar art installation was displaying simultaneously on the other side of the world.  Via China Post: TAIPEI, Taiwan — Five landscape […]

Deb Ris Art 3 photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban It’s an axiom of chaos theory that the flutter of a butterfly’s wing in Brazil can conceivably trigger a hurricane over Hispanola. In short, a metaphor for how deeply all of nature (humans, too) is intertwined. The Friends annual Earth Day cleanup, which took place on […]

This April 24, from 9:30 to 12:30, the Friends are holding our INTERNATIONAL Earth Day Action Extravaganza, featuring (ta da!) volunteers like YOU, along with Riaz Simjee, of the Lenasia Muslim School in South Africa, and Franklin Calleja, a director for a Malta NGO (non-government organization) called Prisms that serves young people. Our international representatives […]