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"Horticultural Fine Art!" Sunset Magazine Order any 3 posters for $15 off each poster and enjoy Free Shipping! Special Offer for Educators Teachers, listen up! Order 3 posters and get 12 mini prints FREE! Just mention your school's name in the comments, and I'll add 12 mini prints—12" x 18" posters—with any purchase. That's a $120 retail value, absolutely free! These delightful prints are perfect gifts to help everyone learn about native plants and inspire a love for Moth
Timothy S. Colman
Aug 242 min read


Good Nature Celebrates teaching trees !
Good Nature Publishing's 30th anniversary sale save 50% on fine art flora and fauna poster field guides for your walls.
Timothy S. Colman
Nov 10, 20253 min read


Stop Old Growth Logging in Tongass
Evidence Only 1.5% of old-growth remains and there's still time to stop it. Will Pattiz and More Than Just Parks Oct 19, 2026 In a stunning move, the U.S. Forest Service is pressing ahead with plans to clearcut one of the last great surviving old-growth groves in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, despite receiving new evidence from us documenting extraordinary wildlife habitat inside it. A recent study estimated that just 1.5% of forests in the contiguous United States meet t
Timothy S. Colman
7 days ago5 min read


Beavers Teach Us About Biodiversity
Love Dash Paulson's enthusiasm for biodiversity and learning about our plant and animal cousins.
Timothy S. Colman
Oct 81 min read
Against Hoarding and Hate? WA Vote No on 645 and anti Trans Initiatives
Poverty Action endorses a NO vote on three harmful initiatives Just like last year, multi-millionaire Brian Heywood is funding three harmful initiatives that will be on Washington's ballot in November. The Statewide Poverty Action Network officially endorses a NO vote on all three initiatives. Read on to learn more about how these initiatives would harm Washingtonians: I-645 would repeal the Millionaire's Tax, leaving a huge hole in our state's budget and removing funding for
Timothy S. Colman
Oct 72 min read


Stop DRONE Delivery Seattle
murmuration photo I love but didn't take. We've lost the thread on living on this planet. Massive biodiversity die off and these giant corporations are fueling even more extinctions with this gung ho deadly capitalism. Take the collapse of insect species for instance. We're down to 26% of all insects folks. That is a literal death spiral with the capitalists in charge of your future. No bugs, no food. No food, no life. Anyone who is not calling the Mayor's office to block the
Timothy S. Colman
Oct 71 min read


The Golden Rule
Where is the golden rule today? Human beings are being sent to concentration camps here in America. And some of them organized a hunger strike yesterday. Our brothers and sisters deserve our attention today. Make a call to your Senators and Representatives - act like we live in a democracy. Send a smoke signal you see these people rounded up because of the color of their skin by the fascists. RIP Renee Good At least 73 people estimated to have joined protest against prolon
Timothy S. Colman
Oct 74 min read
Go to the Biodiversity
Instead of a university, you can go out your door every day and go to the biodiversity. Learn about plants and animals. Explore the local birds and bugs, create a list of what you find like birders do. You can complement what you are learning outside your door with magical videos like this one that teach us about otters and indirectly how to grow a stewardship society.
Timothy S. Colman
Oct 11 min read


Treemendous BLT Plant Strong recipe
I eat mostly plants for 5 years now. Climate scientists say that fossil fuels and eating meat are two of the big polluters that are causing our extinction as a species. Here is a great recipe I'm cooking up for lunch to go plant strong good heart health and good for our kids and grandkids survival. Also benefits cows and all our plants and animal cousins. These kind of sandwiches are so good for us in all directions, I hope you try one soon! How Do I Make a Really Good Meat
Timothy S. Colman
Oct 12 min read


House of Cards
House of Cards I have been haunted by a woman I met in Vermont a week ago. We met by coincidence. I was looking for a quiet place to write in my journal and she had a table next to mine in a coffee shop @ at a local co-op. We started talking about writing. She said she was working on a job application. I said I coached people move through thresholds in their life: new work, vision of the future, holding space for people to explore. Deep listening. She said she wanted the new
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 273 min read


Mary Oliver on being an artist
Upstream -- an excerpt from Mary Oliver In creative work-- creative work of all kinds-- those who are the world's working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward. Which is something altogether different from the ordinary. Such work does not refute the ordinary. It is, simply, something else. Its labor requires a different outlook-- a different set of priorities. Certainly there is within each of us a self that is neither a child , nor a servant of the
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 211 min read


Abolish billionaires & Invest in our Grandkids future
Read this blog post to understand why we should abolish billionaires. Thank you Daniel! We hear the words million, billion, and trillion quite a bit. And we know that a million is a lot, a billion is a whole lot more, and trillion is even more than that. But here's a good way to see how big the difference actually is. How long is a million seconds? First, let me ask you a question: How long do you think a million seconds is? In terms of days, weeks, years, decades, or what
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 202 min read


NW Native Conifers poster on PBS national news
Loved getting a text from a tree elf last night that sent me a screenshot of this story on economics happening today. Look at the great background art behind the economist!
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 171 min read


STOP AI NOW!!!
Screenshot from STOP AI https://www.stopai.info/
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 141 min read


Life Is A Spiritual Journey
Manzanita, Oregon Coast A Spiritual Journey by Wendell Berry And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home.
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 131 min read


Seattle: Trees Are Sentient
Only 34 countries in the world (out of 195) legally define domestic animals as sentient beings. This makes it an extraordinary act of forward thinking for any body of government to recognize trees as sentient, conferring on them individual legal rights. That’s exactly what the city council of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, a small municipality Quebec did on June 9th of this year. Read the rest of this beautiful selfless determination story here
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 101 min read


Treemendous Cooler Cities
Treemendous! Seattle can do this, every city should. We have to stop burning fossil fuels, zero out eating animal corpses and learn to restore our ecosystems. We can do it and create a wonderful future. Hey Mayor Wilson and Seattle Greens, What if the best cooling technology in a city isn't a machine? by Yoann Berno It's a tree. 🌳 Medellín, Colombia, offers a powerful example of what happens when cities treat nature as infrastructure. Through its Green Corridors initiativ
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 102 min read


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Sep 80 min read


Sonnet a poem by Robert Pinsky
Sonnet Afternoon sun on her back, calm irregular slap of water against a dock. Thin pines clamber over the hill’s top nothing to remember, Only the same lake that keeps making the same sounds under her cheek and flashing the same color. No one to say her name, no need, no one to praise her, only the lake’s voice—over and over, to keep it before her. –Robert Pinsky from The Want Bone (1990)
Timothy S. Colman
Sep 71 min read
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