Last weekend, the Belmont community planted a mini-forest on the high school grounds, using the Miyawaki method.   Akira Miyawaki was a botanist who developed this method in the 1970s. The primeval forests, which feature a diverse range of species growing around Japanese shrines and temples and have been left to grow for centuries, inspired him to create a self-sufficient, multi-layered forest ecosystem— a mini-forest- by planting native trees and shrubs densely in degraded a

Peyto Lake I went camping in the Canadian Rockies during the second week of August. Andriann was our guide for a group of seven; at...

Iceland has been on my list of countries to visit. I gifted my son and his wife a honeymoon in Iceland, but somehow, I never got to it...

The Royal Bengal Tiger Valmik Thager, the "Tiger Man", conservationist, died yesterday. India is home to two-thirds of the world's...

Gupta Ghat I took the morning train from Sawai Madhopur Station to New Delhi and then flew to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.   At the Gupta...

In February and March, I spent 25 days traveling in northern India, visiting several cities, starting in New Delhi. I was in India for...

Aurora Borealis in Fairbanks, Alaska There are so many wars in this world and it is disheartening that we as human beings are still not...

The autumnal equinox marks the end of summer and the beginning of autumn.   During the pandemic, our lives were filled with uncertainties...

In March, I was in Japan doing a 13-day tour starting in Tokyo down to Matsuyama and back up to Tokyo passing Kyoto twice, Hanami was not...