Ideas from Notebook, II

Arcosanti; magazines (see “Thoughts on Museums”); terraforming with Doug Ross behind FCS middle school (probably starting next Tuesday); Baltimore museums; photo-chronicling; “upside-down tree” Bantu myth of creation; El Arbol, the “trinity tree”; acoustics of wood; electrical and water utilities; Freeman Dyson (vs. Al Gore); Julia “Butterfly” Hill; ProQuest and JStor; John Harshberger (1869-1929), who coined the word “ethnobotany”;

Two thoughts from Ethnobotany – 1. “Plants have always been more important than politics – both to human daily living and to history,” (9). 2. ” Ethnobotany can give us a glimpse of the world to come,” (10).