Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
Climate change affects us all and it threatens more than the environment. It threatens to cause famine, flooding, war, and millions of refugees. Given the urgency of the issue of climate change and the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, we think the blogosphere has the unique opportunity to mobilize millions of people around expressing support for finding a sustainable solution to the climate crisis.
Moose and Calf
Would it be the Boundary Waters if we didn’t see a moose? Although this post isn’t strictly fiber related, you all know that the Boundary Waters (the whole package) is a lodestone of inspiration for me.
The above photo is from an extraordinary trip in which we saw thirteen moose. There is concern, however, that rising temperatures are adversely affecting Minnesota’s moose population. I am a firm believer in research and so I was happy to report our lone moose from our latest trip to the Moose in Minnesota research project at the University of Minnesota.
You can read the entire Moose Advisory Committee report to the Minnesota DNR, but their conclusion states:
While climate change is a long-term threat to the persistence of moose in Minnesota, we do not know the rate and extent of change over the next 50 years. Under worst-case scenarios the threat would be serious. However, the MAC believes that moose are likely to persist in MN for the foreseeable future, at least in the NE. The substantial cultural and ecological significance of moose should prompt a major effort to retain the species among Minnesota fauna.
I couldn’t agree more.
For a more directly fiber-related Blog Action Day post, please visit Leonie Hartley-Hoover’s Omnium Gatherum for a great article on textile waste and what we can do about it.
