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Booby Blue: Footwear for Sex Appeal

Booby Blue: Footwear for Sex Appeal

Isabel Island, Galapagos. Even before Elvis crooned about blue suede shoes, the Galapagos boobies knew azure footwear was sexy. Since boobies are opportunistic maters, guys learn to keep up...

Plastics in Paradise

Plastics in Paradise

“When you throw something away, exactly where is away?” You may have heard of the Great Pacific gyre – that floating garbage patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But did you realize there are...

One Waterway One TampaBay

One Waterway One TampaBay

Can Art teach Science to teens? As Director at Community Stepping Stones, I got my chance to find out when a group of our young people decided to create a mural about how our daily lives impact...

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences

Many of the small things we all do unconsciously can cause unintentional, long-term damage to animal populations, particularly those that are already endangered. Just a momentary lapse can disrupt...

Marvelous, Mucky, Artistic MUD

Marvelous, Mucky, Artistic MUD

When I was a kid I loved mud. I had no idea how smart I was until I research, wrote and illustrated an article on MUD as an adult. Did you know there is more bio-diversity in a handful of healthy...

Vibrations of the Lotus

Vibrations of the Lotus

The lotus plant grows in deep mud. In the midst of muck and dirty water it finds its nutrients and eventually brings forth one of the most beautiful flowers in the world.  In many Eastern cultures...

Lord of the Galapagos

Lord of the Galapagos

There are few more impressive creatures than the docile, vegetarian, giant Galapagos land tortoises. No one knows how old these creatures grow in the wild, since no person has been living in the...

My artwork tells your stories

My artwork tells your stories

We all know and love the stories, for they are buried deep within our DNA. They are about the beauty, wonder and inspiration that is everywhere in the world around us. They tell how we have overcome...

Sigrid’s Galapagos Sketchbook

Sigrid’s Galapagos Sketchbook

I just returned from spending almost a month in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands maintaining an illustrative journal of what I saw. You can read about my adventures and see preview drawings on my...

Recognition From Obama

Recognition From Obama

So how cool is that. A bunch of young artists in a poor neighborhood do an environmental art project - they send a letter and a picture of their artwork to the President of the United States (read...