Just Dropped! Indigenous People, Guardians of Biodiversity: New Explorer’s Way Video Podcast with Beto Borges
Most of us don’t go through our day thinking, “My life is connected to Indigenous rights.” But it is. The […]
Indigenous People Deserve Human Rights 💪 💚 🌿 🌍
Too often, Indigenous peoples are spoken about only as symbols: the Hollywood version of the noble savage in harmony with
Cancelled Plans for World Domination? 🦸 💚 🌿 🌍
In this clip, Dennis McKenna jokes that Psychedelics cancelled his plans for world domination: because they showed him just how
If Mango & Ginger Had A Baby? 🥭 + 🫚 = 👶
Mango Ginger (Curcuma amada) is type of ginger with pale-yellow flowers and an underground rhizome which closely resemble common ginger
Biodiversity over Carbon Markets? 🌿 📈
Beto Borges looks beyond carbon and asks us to rethink how we value nature itself. He explains why he believes
Mind over Maitake 🧠 🍄🟫
Maitake (aka.Hen of The Woods; Grifola frondosa) is an edible polypore mushroom characterized by its distinctive fan-shaped, overlapping gray-brown caps
Discovery Spotlight: The Ghost Palm of Borneo 🌴 👻
Recently, botanists described Plectocomiopsis hantu, a rare and unusual palm from the forests of Borneo. This newly named climbing palm
Cranberry Common Adulterants-
This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention
Some mentors never really stop teaching 🎓 💚 🌿
Reconnected with two of my favorite Cal Poly California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo professors: Dave Keeling (inorganic chemistry) and
Invasion on Indigenous Lands!‼️ 🌿
Indigenous territories across the Amazon are not just rich in biodiversity and traditional knowledge, ➡️ they’re also on the front