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  • An Agouti Eating Pulp of the Dipteryx panamanensis Seed Coat

    An Agouti Eating Pulp of the Dipteryx panamanensis Seed Coat

    April 14, 2018 at 2:27 pm / Ecological Documentaries, Natural history, NatureDocumentaries.org, Short Observations, Video

    Agoutis are rodents exclusive to forested and wooded lands of the American tropics. Their habitats include rainforests and savannas. Some species have even adapted to live in cultivated fields. They are active during daytime. At night they hide in hollow tree trunks or in burrows among roots. Here in this short observation recorded at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Barro Colorado Island, Panama you can see an agouti feeding on the outer pulp of the one of the […]

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  • 7 Ways Blockchain Can Stop Climate Change & Save The Environment – WEF (2017)

    7 Ways Blockchain Can Stop Climate Change & Save The Environment – WEF (2017)

    April 13, 2018 at 3:18 pm / Global Patterns, Human Nature, Video

    This World Economic Forum video outlines many uses of blockchain technology for environmental protection. The system created can also protect many local tibal communities vulnerable to resource extraction. From Conquistadors to robber barons to oil and gas companies natural resources of tropical regions have been unsustainably harvested and exploited. It doesn’t have to be this way. We must prevent this. Take for instance the Earth Bank of Codes initiative. This ambitious collaborative aims to assign every piece of biological data […]

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  • The Living Forest: The Amazonian Tribespeople Who Sailed Down the Seine | Guardian Docs

    The Living Forest: The Amazonian Tribespeople Who Sailed Down the Seine | Guardian Docs

    April 13, 2018 at 2:56 pm / Human Nature, Video

    The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe in the ‘living forest’, where humans, animals and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people were at the Conference of Parties Paris COP21 climate conference to project their voices to the World. From Conquistadors to robber barons to oil and gas companies natural resources of tropical regions have been unsustainably harvested and exploited. […]

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  • My Father’s Tools – Heather Condo (2017)

    My Father’s Tools – Heather Condo (2017)

    April 12, 2018 at 10:29 am / Human Nature, Video

    As a pre-pottery Human technology basketmaking and clothing has been an important part of the ancestral Human life style. The earliest archaeological evidence for weaving comes from the Eurasian Paleolithic. The earliest evidence for basketry comes from sites in Israel dated back to 23,000 years before present. Mastering use of plant fibers for weaving enabled Humans to broaden their resource utilization space including creative design of fish traps. Here in this meditative short by filmmaker Heather Condo, we see Stephen […]

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