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Chris White’s Bio. World

Through the lens of Biology, a search for the balance between the Natural and Modern World
A Guide to the Art of Time Banking –  a Labor-Time Based Bartering System

A Guide to the Art of Time Banking – a Labor-Time Based Bartering System

The art of time banking is that in realizing our most precious thing in this life is time and with this, that each of our time is therefore worth that ultimately equal amount. Thus, time banking at its essence is an agreement based on your word for an hour of your...

How CoVid-19 lays bare the fragility of an unsustainable economy

How CoVid-19 lays bare the fragility of an unsustainable economy

In a time for reflection, with most of us spending the majority of our time walking, thinking, reading, we observe people coping with difficult situations from losing their jobs, experiencing social isolation, protesting in anger, and grieving loses in isolation....

The value of a time bank

The value of a time bank

This summer I stumbled across an interesting phenomenon while working on my ongoing effort at Poncha Pass. The idea has always been to build an education center revolving around sustainability, collaboration, and wellness. Earlier this summer, I realized the time to...

Going to war with the climate crisis

Going to war with the climate crisis

Houston, we have a problem. As reports become increasingly dire by the week with headlines stating we have less than 5 years left to make significant reductions in carbon emissions before run away warming begins to take place or that 1 million species face extinction,...

Are you a dreamer?

Are you a dreamer?

I found myself talking to a friend the other day and the topic of dreaming came up. When it does, people have two responses. Either they dream or they choose to ignore the concept for its chaotic and cryptic nature stating, “No, I do not dream.” What I find...

Finding the spark to conservancy – A photo a day for 10 weeks

Finding the spark to conservancy – A photo a day for 10 weeks

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. In an effort to shed some light on the ying and yang of life, show what motivates one to push away societal comfort for greater ecosystem preservation, I’ll share a picture a day for 10 weeks. Mostly biology, some places, and experiences, the project is aimed at inspiring the motivation within others. You can read about that intention here and follow the photo story on Instagram ‘chrisbioworld’ beginning tomorrow.

The Struggle

The Struggle

I was once told that my undertaking would be a struggle and in that, perhaps best to take a different path. Cambridge English Dictionary defines struggle as: 1. to experience difficulty and make a very great effort in order to do something: 2. to move somewhere with...

Finding meaningful purpose in mission defines success

Finding meaningful purpose in mission defines success

"Whatever it is you do, focus on planet & people and if done with passion, it will succeed." This week I met with the county to present my building proposal. I sat in front of 12 people and explained our collective need for sustainable education, for the...

Let’s talk Carbon: The Paris Agreement, Sinking Carbon, & our 1st test next Monday June 11th

Let’s talk Carbon: The Paris Agreement, Sinking Carbon, & our 1st test next Monday June 11th

At this point, you probably know about climate change or at least the generalities of the science that correlates rising CO2 with increased global temperatures and increased intensities in natural weather phenomenons. If you are familiar with that, you may also know...

Part 4 of 4: Ditch heavy Infrastructure: Lightweight roller coasters for mass transit in cities

This series regarding transit arose from a perspective of living from time to time in a city that is choking on itself and its inability to move people effectively across a densely packed city. Lima is only one major city of so many in the world that is desperately...

Part 3 of 4: A transport revolution spawned in the desert sands of Arica Chile

Crossing the border from Perú in the late afternoon sun, the bus makes its way down the coast to the border town of Arica Chile. This arid port town, we hope might be the sight of our first commercial wave energy system, but that is another story. The town of Arica...

Part 2 of 4: Paint it Red!

Part 2 of 4: Paint it Red!

In my first post on the transportation series, I discussed how public transit in large cities had the capacity to define more than how people moved; how transport can influence neighborhoods and the individual’s ability to navigate the economic ladder, achieve a...

The story you missed this week – India lays groundwork for world peace

The story you missed this week – India lays groundwork for world peace

This past week, a news item briefly made headlines as it flew by and was quickly drowned out by the explosions and death of a world gripped in a 24 news cycle that feeds off fear and the associated terror that comes with it. I imagine if terrorism was not covered the...

The thing about travel

The thing about travel is, well you just keep traveling. Trees blow by from the viewpoint behind foggy glass, I move into new places and call them home but only for a few months, and friendships as cherished letters to stranded islanders, are put to sea in hopes of...

Times gone by

I lie on my back in the garden, assorted rocks and sand below, typical of the New Mexico I know. The fire casts shadows on my pen. The wind makes the light flicker from orange to black, and then back again. White lights spattered against the broken sky and an empty...

…worth a thousand words

I find that my stories and thoughts often revolve around sustainability, peace, and growth; things people can do on their own and efforts our communities can strive for in the aim of not only preservation, but enhancement of the natural worlds health as well as our...

New Mexico and the road

New Mexico… you leave and it silently sits there in the back of your mind. The dust particles float low after the midday wind sweeps across the Jemez Mountains and up the valley towards Santa Fe. The specks splinter the light as the sun moves towards the horizon...

Into the lion’s den

A few months back I was invited to go lionfish hunting. Over the course of my time in Curacao, I’ve grown to appreciate the hunt of these creatures. As many know, lionfish are invasive to the Caribbean since the 1990s and pose a significant risk to local ecosystems....

Inherently good

Sitting at the airport café, I watch the sun bathe the small runway of the Flamingo airport in Bonaire. I drink the warm stale coffee while cold air conditioning hums in the background. A few small planes land, the airport fire department drives up and down the...

Plastic makes it possible (Part 2) -Our ever growing dependance and a solution on the horizon

In 2012, I wrote about plastic and how it has found its way into our everyday life and the difficulty associated with avoiding the use of it.  Plastic continues to be a fundamental factor in regards to pollution and as we increase production in both volume and...

A morning swim

7am and the alarm sounds. After slapping the snooze button, I lie in a state between sleep and the quietness of morning. In half an hour, the construction crews will arrive and continue the very constant and steady expansion of the Carmabi research station, but for...

52 posts in 52 weeks- The Sunday Experience

2014 is going to be a busy year. It seems like with each passing year there is more going on. That is probably due to the fact that our world is becoming increasingly populated and connected, allowing people to share more than ever before, technology increasingly...

Waiting for a train

The platform is quiet. The soft orange lights bathe the concrete in a hue, bound to last throughout the night. Trains move slowly across the yard, sliding into place where they will briefly sit at rest before tomorrow comes sending them once again, racing about. It is...

A Plastic Rant

  After a long week of work, I walked into a store the other day to purchase some beer for the weekend. I looked at the different types and brands and exchanged hellos with the clerk. My eyes settled on something a little different, corona bottles wrapped in a...

ECOWaves- A reason for a Green Revolution

ECOWaves is a project-based company designed to locate and assist sustainable projects around the world realize profit and growth whilst educating the greater community. By creating a network of specialists, projects, and a platform where information and resource can be shared, we will help to facilitate the modern world’s move into a sustainable future. I hope you can join me by becoming part of this exciting social network and help shape our future together. You can find us here at ECOWaves.

Free Public Education

we handed around intertidal organisms including star fish, urchins and crabs, carefully teaching them the different parts and habitats of each of the animals as well as how to show the animals respect. This would be an example of teaching at its finest. But is there another type of teaching, one that we don’t see before our very own eyes on a daily basis?

The Scientific Gap

A scientist busily writes a scientific paper, the deadline looms a week away. It was only these last few summers that grant money came in to conduct this research. With just enough money to scrape by, endless hours, far beyond that of a regular job are spent crunching data, statistics, finding sources, and putting it together. The effort has turned into obsession, from an original scientific question with large real time implications; the effort has boiled down to finishing the study…publishing a scientific piece of literature. After which, more funding will be needed to stay afloat; find a new study someone else may pay the scientist to do. The phrase “publish or perish” rings in the back of the mind. This is the reality of often strapped for cash scientists and it presents a major problem to the development of science, the interpretation, and the implementation of new scientific knowledge.

A Introduction into Biological Photo-Identification and the Power it holds

Photo Identification of biological feasible populations allows for the unique ability to truly understand not only population estimates, but also what the population is inherently doing. This may include family structure, habitat range, feeding behavior and numerous other answers to a host of questions any conservationist, developer, private and or government entity may hold.

What it is to feel alive

This does not apply to everyone in the world for the world is filled with many people from many countries, but there are cases in which I believe this to be true I woke at 5:30 to eat breakfast and put oil into the gas tanks for another long day of field work off the...